“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

SESSION 193

(Lorraine Shafer witnessed tonight’s session. We hadn’t seen her for several weeks. Lorraine now told us that she too had been in York Beach, ME, during the same week that Dr. Instream had been there. Dr. Instream had stayed overnight in York Beach on Monday, August 23; Lorraine had visited the town on Saturday afternoon, August 28.

(It will be remembered that our 2nd envelope test, held during the 180th session, was held on August 23, and that it featured a photograph of Jane at York Beach. Now checking our records, we saw that an unscheduled session was held on August 28. Can this be coincidence?

(The Gallaghers witnessed the unscheduled session, the 182nd. Lorraine knows them superficially, having witnessed a few sessions with them. We find no reference to either Lorraine or York Beach in the 182nd session. It happens that this session was reconstructed from memory; since it was unscheduled I had not been prepared to take formal notes. Jane and I did our best, recalling it.

(For the 10th envelope test I used a label from a bottle of Ballantine Ale. See the tracing on page 289. Jane and I met the Gallaghers accidentally at a dancing establishment last Saturday evening. I absent-mindedly peeled the label from a bottle as we sat talking in the darkened room, then decided on the spur of the moment to use it for a test. I wondered if friendly impressions might attach themselves to the label. I took care to slip the wet label in a coat pocket when neither Jane or the Gallaghers were looking, and as it developed Jane had no idea of the test object for the session.

(Our encountering the Gallaghers last Saturday evening led to the strange unscheduled 192nd session, incidentally. In that session Bill Gallagher asked Seth about the possibility of locating artifacts in the waters of Seneca Lake. Describing the location of a certain cove, and underwater cave, Seth used as a starting point a gasoline station and the letters M, A, and C. Seth told us these could be part of the name Mack, or were involved with a Mack truck; he was not sure.

(The session was held in our large front room. Jane spoke while sitting down and with her eyes closed. Her voice was a bit stronger than usual, her pace faster. Much of the time she sat leaning forward with her head down somewhat. Her glasses were on when she began speaking, actually at 8:58, but she soon removed them.)

(Up until now, although the session was being held in our front room, none of us had given a thought to traffic noise. It is interesting to note that when Jane resumed with the Dr. Instream material, we immediately became conscious of the traffic noise. I was of course aware of my own irritation; Jane concurred at the end of the session.

(Break at 10:20. Jane was dissociated as usual, she said. She now said the traffic bothered her also. She was not nervous in giving the data on Dr. Instream, or on our own test object. Suffice it to note here that this was Jane’s third test before witnesses. An analysis of the test follows the end of the session.

We will now end our session, since we have indeed kept you busy of late.

—since we have had difficulties in that direction. I will indeed therefore close our session out of due regard, although I could indeed continue it indefinitely; and am sometimes tempted to do so. My heartiest wishes to you both.

(Tracing of the black and white photograph used in the 11th envelope test, September 29,1965, in the 194th session.)