“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The session was held in our back room, and was a quiet one. Jane began speaking while sitting down and with her eyes closed. Her voice was average. Her pace was slow at the beginning but soon picked up speed. She began speaking at 9:01.)

Now, give us a moment and we will see if we can find our Dr. Instream.

(See the tracing of the test photo on page 295. Jane felt the test data contained but few correct impressions. She said the color purple could apply to the brick facing depicted in the photograph. Jane remembered this quite well even though the photo was taken some years ago. Our dog sits before the Bronx, NY, house of Jane’s aunt; Jane said she well remembers the peculiar blue and red cast of the bricks. I saw the house once some years ago but have no conscious memory of the brick color.

(The photo does have verticals in it, and the dog’s form can be seen as cone shaped. Our dog was certainly of personal concern to us, the test object is a photograph, my initials are not directly connected with it as far as being visible, and as far as we know there is no wallet connection with the photo, etc. Thus most of the rest of the data appear as opposite or reverse impressions.

We will shortly end our session.

Now in regard to our own test this evening: Ruburt, at this stage, should not work on our own test results as he has been doing. He has been concentrating too much on grading our tests.

He has worked at this several hours daily. This is not his job, and it will work against our results. His job is to remain as spontaneous as possible. His work in attempting to tabulize the test results thus far, will only hamper our results. He should be in no way connected with that endeavor.

I will have more to say concerning this sort of thing briefly at our next session.

(See the 9th, 15th, 17th, 69th and 80th sessions for material on our York Beach experiences. I believe that above Seth refers to the first three named sessions. These deal with events involving Jane and me at York Beach in August of 1963, preceding the beginning of these sessions by several months.

(“Why has our cat Willy been sick so often lately?”)

I suggest that you hold this question until our next session, as Ruburt is tired this evening because of his concentration upon the work which I have mentioned. There is nothing serious here, or I would discuss it this evening in any case, since you asked. I will answer specifically at our next session.

(We were relieved to learn our cat’s trouble was not serious. Willy had been sick rather often during the past weeks. We were puzzled by this, since according to Seth the owners of a pet contribute much to the pet’s health through use of their own psychic energy. Since we were so fond of Willy, we had thought we were contributing adequately before the sick spell.)