“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I planned no envelope test for this session, thinking that the test material on the Gallaghers in Puerto Rico, and on Dr. Instream, would be enough for one session. I was more interested at the moment in having Seth finish his analysis of Jane’s two dreams, which he began last session, and made it a point to say so just before the session tonight.

(Jane keeps separate records of such experiments, and has this one written up in the same manner as the Gallagher experiment that is included in the 196th session.

In his dream he is also aware that these people like him, and that in some manner he has been acquainted with them in the past. This also brings forth feelings of rediscovery and joy that accompanied the dream. The persons involved were good friends indeed in a past life. They were images of the men whose voices spoke to him in his earlier dream, when he was so frightened; and when he leaped so gracefully from the banister, I was the one who extended an arm to assist him.

The separate building of apartments represented possibilities in the more distant future. Ruburt is not ready for them yet. The one room into which he looked for example was not vacant, or ready for him in other words. The ability represented by the jacket however represents the fairly immediate future.

They ate at a place with wide windows and blinds, closed because of the sun. One extremely long window at the front, the entire length of the building, covered with this blind.

(At the same time Jane did something she has seldom done since she began speaking while sitting down. Her cigarettes lay on a bookcase out of her reach. Her eyes opened very slightly; she got up, reached the cigarettes, lit one and sat back down.)

The symbol of a road involves the distance from one life to another, and the change from one set of parents to another. The aggression can be channeled into the pursuit of your goals. There was something to do with a child in the dream somewhere.

(Dream # 1; Monday night, October 18: In color. I was showing a young man in his early twenties some things about drawing. He was blonde, a man I did not know. Deep voice, straight hair, white shirt sleeves. He had a drawing board to which he had fastened a sheet of rough watercolor paper, and carried this around with him. I saw that he had covered the paper with fine-line figure drawings and portraits, in pencil and pen. This is an unusual way to work on watercolor paper. Good drawings, and I still remember one profile head in line, quite clearly.

The failure perhaps was my own. The dream material should have been continued without a break. However I felt that Ruburt might need one. Still we have done well, as you should discover when you read your dreams over once more.

(End at 11:01. Jane was dissociated as usual. I believe her eyes were closed most of the time. Jane said she didn’t know, that during the session she wasn’t concerned one way or the other.

(Jane was very curious as to what new abilities lay in store for her, especially the one that Seth said she would shortly discover. We speculated that Seth’s method of interpreting my dreams in this session might have something to do with it.)