“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 session was held in our back room. Just before it began Jane admitted, again, to a slight nervousness at the projected clairvoyant experiments involving Dr. Instream. She began speaking while sitting down and with her eyes closed. Her voice was quiet, in contrast to last night’s noisy unscheduled session. Her pace was slow, with many pauses. It was another hot and humid night.)

(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.

(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.

(Since it was close to 10 PM, the hour suggested by Dr. Instream for clairvoyant contact with Seth, Jane told me she felt some nervousness, as she had the first time this experiment had been tried in the 189th session.

(Break at 10:26. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes had remained closed, her voice quiet with many pauses. She opened the test envelope.

(The reference to a waterfall puzzled us. Jane then noted that we live on Water St. This may be the connection with this impression, along with Jane’s memory of our old camping place. The money order has no connection with camping that I know of. It lay in my drawer, and was not next to or near any other photographs, for instance.

(I regard the test as quite good at this stage, especially the reference to me via initials, and the note, something two times, and a landscape of a landscape. Jane as usual was disappointed.

(End at 10:48. Jane was dissociated as usual.

(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.