“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Today Jane was quite upset because she still hasn’t received a letter from her publisher, Frederick Fell, even though Mr. Fell reassured her about the ESP book when she telephoned him last Monday, October 5, the day of the 195th session. In that session Seth also offered reassurance to Jane.

(For the test this evening I chose a page from my notepad. Jane and I have been trying to think of a good title for her book dealing with Seth and the material, since she has begun work on it. See the tracing on page 322. The page is on white paper, and the writing on the tracing is done with the same pen I used to make the original notes. I sealed the folded page in the usual double envelopes, also inserting two pieces of Bristol board for stiffeners. It’s our 13th envelope test.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(Again, see sessions 120-127, in Volume 3, for material on the electromagnetic field and related subjects.)

I suggest a brief break and we shall continue. You should get a charge out of this material, if you will excuse a poor pun.

(See the report by Jane and me at the end of the last session. Bill and Peggy will be leaving next week for a vacation in Puerto Rico, and the four of us have already made plans to try some telepathic/clairvoyant communications. The plans are simple; at session times next week Bill and Peggy will attempt to concentrate on Jane, Seth and me, with a view to seeing what Seth can pick up.

(In the 63rd session of June 17,1964, Seth said that Peggy Gallagher’s subconscious abilities were well developed. Peggy is a feature writer for the local paper. Jane was working at the Arnot Art Gallery then, and the two became casual acquaintances. However the friendship between the four of us did not begin to develop until early this year.

(It might be interesting to note here that Peggy was hypnotized by Dr. Milton Erickson in late March of 1959, during a meeting of the Finger Lakes Clinical Hypnosis Association at the Mark Twain Hotel in Elmira. Peggy attended the meeting in her role of reporter, and volunteered as a subject. Before about twenty people Dr. Erickson put her into a deep trance quite easily, with the result that Peggy had complete amnesia for a ten-minute period. After she learned of the Seth sessions Peggy searched the files of the newspaper for a copy of her article on the experience. It was printed on April 2,1959.)

When Ruburt learns a few lessons, he will be able to tell when his impressions are correct. Most of the wrong ones are not necessarily errors, but he has not made the proper connections, or gone far enough, but stopped short in processes of association. For the basic valid impressions are not picked up by the ego; and, again, must be properly transformed into data that can be understood. And this often emerges as associative material, that must then be deciphered. He is in training, so to speak.

(Once again Jane considered the test a failure, and attributed it to her being upset today. As it developed we did not ask Seth for specific information on the impressions, so I do not know whether they were merely too far-ranging for our purposes, or simply errors. I saw possible connections with a few of them, and will note them for the record.

(The material on a dog reminded me that the Bristol stiffeners I enclosed tonight’s test paper in were the same two in which I had enclosed the test photo for the 11th envelope test, in the 194th session. The photo was of our dog, Mischa, now dead. It was taken several years ago or more, on a hot day in the summer; Jane was also with a man whose first initial was W on that day.

He has been upset, but this situation will soon be taken care of. It is this, plus the fact that he worries about his score, that is bothering us now. It has not bothered us to any great degree in the Instream material. Though all the connections have not been hits, enough has come through to show validity; though with training Ruburt will improve in allowing me to come through more specifically.

(“Good night, Seth.”

(It will be recalled that Seth himself [or Jane?] initiated the idea of asking me if I had an envelope test at each session. The first such test was held in the 179th session, and Jane knew about it before the session began. In that session however Seth also said it would be better if Jane did not know whether I planned a test before any particular session.

(In the 180th session however, Seth’s comments led into the second envelope test, and in the 183rd session Seth queried me outright as to whether I had a third test for him. This process set up a pattern which we have followed ever since.

(As stated before, the Gallaghers leave for a vacation in Puerto Rico next week; the four of us have planned some clairvoyant tests. Perhaps Seth will be able to tune in on the bizarre event involving the Gallaghers before they return home.