“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(It will be remembered that in the unscheduled 184th session Seth said that Cosmopolitan Magazine would be interested in an excerpt from Jane’s ESP book, but that nothing would happen right away. Jane sent them a chapter on dreams, with suggestions for reworking it into an article. The material was returned today with a plain rejection slip. Seth had stated that Cosmo would return the material, but with a letter expressing interest.

(See page 277 for a tracing of the money order used in tonight’s 9th envelope test. This was returned to me a few days ago; I had written a paper company requesting samples. They sent the samples but returned the 25¢ money order. On the spur of the moment today I decided to use it for the test, and enclosed it in the usual double envelopes. I also enclosed the money order itself between two pieces of thin Bristol, to make it difficult for Jane to unwittingly pick up anything by feeling the shape of the object within the envelopes.

The field that connects the personality to this kind of pseudoimage is actually formed by extensions of psychic energy. Imagine it, the field, if you will, as a thin but sturdy thread that connects the pseudoimage with the original image. There are some limitations here then as to range. These are not basic limitations, but have to do with the individual’s ability to so extend himself. Many dreams involve such roamings on the part of the personality while it is within this sort of pseudoimage.

(Break at 9:22. Jane was dissociated as usual for a first delivery. Her eyes remained closed, her voice quiet. Her pace had picked up considerably. The heat hadn’t bothered her, but as soon as break arrived she became aware of it.

The Jane ego stands further aside. There is an emotional rapport that also carries Ruburt along when my spirits or moods then also sweep him along; and again the Jane ego is content to stand aside. My emotional makeup comes to the foreground at times, of course. Energy is used for such demonstrations, so that it may seem that the material takes second place. But the practice is to the overall advantage of the material.

(Break at 9:55. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes had remained closed, her voice quiet. Her pace had picked up speed. She had some idea of what she had been saying, but didn’t think she had been speaking for any length of time.

Dr. Instream is now, or has been immediately preceding this hour, or will be immediately following this hour, in a meeting with many people. (Pause.) In a fairly large room, with one speaker, and then others for briefer periods of time. A brick building, the meeting not on the ground floor. (Pause.) His seat three to five seats from an aisle, nearly but not quite in the center of a row of seats.

This could be however a theater or theater building, but if so it is not (pause) on exact street level.

(The large numeral TWO is stamped in red on the money order, as the upper limit of its worth. Since it is for 25¢, there is ample room there for “something two times, in duplicate, or as twins.” Two people involved could be Jane and me; she purchased it, filled it out and mailed it for me, along with a note to the paper company that I wrote. “It’s a duplicate [mentioned in test] of a money order,” Jane wrote later. The paper company is located in New York City. Both of us have been to New York City, and felt that it contained too many people for comfort. The money order has no border. Multiplicity of design, a very general appellation, could refer to the many numbers on the money order I suppose. Jane wrote my name on the order, but it does not bear my handwriting on either side.

(Now Jane opened her eyes and looked at me. But they did not stay open for more than a sentence or two.)

I could indeed speak longer, but I will not keep you. I regret causing you any embarrassment, Joseph, despite my humorous remarks to the contrary, and I bid you a fond good evening.

(The reference to a kitchen extension concerns our efforts to get our landlord to enlarge our very small kitchen. The house is having a new roof put on now, and the man doing the job is going to speak to our landlord about the kitchen project when the roof is finished. We had about given up on the kitchen idea for this year, but now our hopes rise again. Jane has been focusing on our landlord, whom we like very much incidentally, each day, concerning the kitchen. It will be interesting to see the results.

(Blanche Price is an old friend of Jane’s, living in Baltimore. The two women have not met often in recent years; Blanche was Jane’s instructor in French at Skidmore College, in Saratoga Springs, NY. Last year while visiting in France Blanche suffered a rather severe stroke, but seems to have emerged without permanent paralysis. We would say she is in her mid-or-late fifties. A few days ago Jane received a copy of a book of poetry of Blanche’s that has just been published. Blanche knows about Seth, but little about the material itself.