“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(While giving the above data Jane had no visual material to accompany it, and said she was just as glad. She took this lack of imagery to mean that her own feelings and ideas were bypassed; she felt free of concern about the accuracy of the material, and thought it might be better for this.

(Jane particularly remembered the appointment because it is the first she ever made voluntarily. This she calls “a turnabout” from previous habit. The card can be “Part of a missive.” We both saw “something swinging” as the dental drill suspended over the chair. We thought “The number 5” good, since the appointment was for May 5.

(We regarded, offhand, the data on my parents as probably distortive or associative, as the material on Jane’s aunt and uncle. We thought it possible that “a man and woman, not yourselves. Older than yourselves”, referred to the parents of Marie Colucci, the dentist’s wife. The Coluccis are personal friends of ours. On a visit to their home this summer we met Marie’s mother, in Elmira on a visit from New Jersey. Marie had made the trip to New Jersey, to get her mother, by train.

(We thought this connection with “a trip by train” might be the distant connection referred to by Seth, when we remembered that while Marie Colucci’s mother had been visiting in Elmira, the mother’s husband died of a heart attack at home in New Jersey, while bowling. This would be the connection with “service” and “Flowers,” meaning funeral.

(Jane had been relaxing on the bed during break, and resumed speaking from there. She lay on her side, her head propped up by one hand. Her glasses were on; because of this I thought her eyes might open eventually. Her pace was good, her voice quiet as she resumed at 10:45.)

The older people represented the dentist’s in-laws, and the distortion occurred here, for Ruburt picked up correctly the idea of parents, but thought they were your own.