“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Last week we received Dr. Instream’s letter of September 13, in which he wrote that he would like to try straight clairvoyant communication with Seth on Monday and Wednesday nights at 10 PM. Dr. Instream also noted that on the evening of August 23,1965 he and his wife stopped overnight at York Beach, ME, while traveling. It will be remembered that Jane’s second envelope test was held on the night of August 23, in the 180th session, and that the test photo featured Jane on the waterfront at York Beach. I took the picture in the summer of 1964.

(The double test envelope for the 8th test contained a page from an old novel of Jane’s entitled The Adult Time. She wrote this seven or eight years ago, and it was never published. The page is not numbered. I rummaged through her files and pulled out a page at random. I folded it in quarters and sealed it up.

(It was a very hot and humid night but we held the session in our small back room. We opened the windows however. Jane said she felt a little nervous, embarking on the clairvoyant tests with Dr. Instream. She also felt anticipatory. She began speaking while sitting down and with her eyes closed. Her voice was quiet. She used many pauses.)

(Jane now told me she thought the “two people” referred to by Seth in the 2nd envelope test in the 180th session, were Dr. Instream and his wife Judy. See page 209. At the time, I had assumed that the two people referred to were Jane and me, since she was in the picture I took. We now know, of course, that Dr. Instream and his wife were in York Beach on the night of the 180th session.

The man and woman referred to in the test experiment of August two- three, were the Instreams. We had some difficulty here; and yet also, considering the fact that these tests were new, some success.

Ruburt, or Jane Butts , in this case was the emotional connection. The test itself involved however a particular photograph that was of Jane Butts at York Beach, and in which the Instreams did not appear. I was not able to make the distinction clear to Ruburt, for it was definitely not a photograph of the Instreams.

However, on the date the test was given the Instreams were at York Beach. Therefore, the two people came through clearly; and specifically I did not say that you and Ruburt, or Jane Butts, were the two people involved. Hardly an exceptional performance, however evocative enough for a start.

Do you have a test for me?

(I gave Jane the test envelope at 10:21. Again she paused briefly, her eyes still closed. She held the test envelope in her left hand.)

(I was still somewhat puzzled by the answer, but did not press for elaboration for fear of distracting Jane. I had barely looked at the page of test script when I prepared the double envelopes this afternoon.)

(See the copy of the test item on page 266. It is an excerpt from one of Jane’s early unpublished novels. It can be seen that once again Seth, or Jane, delivered a variety of impressions that can apply easily enough. The script deals with two people. The word “fall” appears once, and is implied in the simile “totter.”

(There could be strong verticals, depending on how Jane held the envelope; I do not remember. There are of course separations and many designs. Jane said the station wagon mentioned could be an item of value. Necessary precautions refers to steps the couple take upon learning the imminent arrival of the girl’s father, although these are not outlined on the page of test script, but on both preceding and succeeding pages.

(During break I asked Jane to discuss why I picked the particular photograph of York Beach to use in the test for August 23. At the time I made up the envelope the Instreams were already on their way to York Beach; I wondered what lines of communication had been open.

Ruburt is indeed being very cautious. But he is learning to open up more in these tests, to let more information through. The opening up of the channels is the important thing. Oftentimes information will come through in a rather indiscriminate fashion, and a spontaneous (underline spontaneous) choice of available information is important. A variety of impressions may be received, many valid, but not closely connected enough for your purposes. So it is in the area of distinctions that we must work.

The material on our own test this evening came through as a literal translation of concepts in the script.

(End at 10:49. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes remained closed, her voice quiet. Seth’s comment on this evening’s test came through because Jane and I had been speculating about such a translation of the script at last break.)