“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(John spent last week making the rounds of doctors’ offices in Williamsport. One day while driving about town he felt strongly that he should return home. He felt that mail awaited him, that the letter was from his district manager, and that it concerned a raise for him. Ego-wise, John doubted the whole thing, especially so since he had not been getting along too well with his superior recently.

This is a test. Testing, one, two three; if you will indeed forgive my attempts at humor. The number three in regard to the bonus. This is not very clear. 3 or 300. 30 or 300. I want to loosen him, Ruburt, up in regards to you, however, for I intend to indirectly look in on you, with your permission, during some of our sessions.

Permission, and a very airy attitude indeed. I am however enjoying myself. I will let you all take a break. No one is tired but Joseph, for I have kept him going at a steady rate indeed.

(John Bradley told us that when Seth mentioned his becoming aware of more inner communications in the future, he felt a twinge of fear. John said one of his favorite expressions has been that he had never wanted to be able to read tomorrow’s paper today. I answered that perhaps John was beginning to change his mind at least subconsciously.

(John now delighted Jane by telling her that the figure 30 is the correct one, exactly, concerning his raise—thirty dollars a month.

The situation to which I referred was not the one regarding your father-in-law, though that will be resolved.

The situation however in the family does involve your own parents. I would say specifically your mother. The conversation of which you are thinking is the one to which I refer concerning the raise.

There will be others if you remain with the company, for much of your superior’s income is dependent upon your own, and he has only at the most two other salesman in his territory which are lucrative for him. One is a short man, already beginning to bald. And your superior himself worries about his own position.

(To avoid too many notes at break, I can add some comments as the session progresses. At next break, John confirmed Seth’s statement that his superior was worried about his job. John also agreed with Seth that only two other salesman are selling well in the division. The short man who is already beginning to bald, John knows as Bill Driscoll; John told us he is a very good salesman and the only one in the division fitting that description. Driscoll is not old, John said, merely balding prematurely.

I told you that you would have other telepathic or clairvoyant experiences. I did not say however that you would be able to read tomorrow’s headlines today, so you need have no such fears. Your ego is a sufficiently well-developed one so that you need not worry but that it will set up acceptable blockages, and shield you.

When you intend to leave in the middle of a session, there is hardly time for me to light into you adequately, or to answer the questions that I think we could answer. I am not harsh with you. Indeed, I have been harsh with no one, though I have been tempted at times. And I am always hampered both by time and because of mechanical difficulties, and because we must be so still and silent.

(I might mention here a situation that John, Jane and I, and Bill Gallagher have long been aware of. This is the fact that John, Jane and Bill all have mothers who were, or are, bedridden with arthritis. Bill’s mother has died. Quite a while ago Seth remarked that this fact is one of the reasons John and Bill were drawn to the sessions; but he has not elaborated.

Again a candle, but a tall one, and a floor with many designs, as of diamond shapes. I am sorry Joseph that the recorder is not going, as I feel restrained and could speak more quickly.

I do indeed find the conversation very interesting. As you know I make no attempt to regulate Ruburt’s activities, and I should find it highly hilarious to find him in such a position, or positions. We will leave the matter there, with one addition: I do not approve personally. This does not mean however that I would go so far as to caution him against it.

(Jane now took a pause that lasted at least one minute.)

One dream can change the development of a personality, and change his physical course. To those of us not within your system, we can turn into that dream, pick it up in other words. But the dream is not predestined, and the dream develops because of the personality involved.

She would have used you as a buffer between herself and another male, and as a bargaining point. I was referring to her subconscious energies when I spoke of force. I was not referring to the personality which she exhibits. She would have exaggerated the slightest interest you showed in her, and an unpleasant situation would have resulted; an unfortunate one involving yourself and the other male to whom I referred. Therefore I spoke out.

(John also told us later that he felt the woman herself was the one who was 27; certainly not over 30, in his opinion. Her male companion was older, John said, but he did not know by how much.

An older man than the one I described.

With more hair, though he is older. One of the men I believe is precisely 37. The second man occasionally wears glasses. His hair is a shade of brown, though not a definite well-defined color.

([John:] “The second one.”)

(Jane and I do not usually use the recorder for sessions because it doubles the time involved in transcribing notes. We realize spontaneity is important, but our time is limited. We have considered holding just one longer session a week, in which the recorder could be used. Jane prefers two sessions a week personally, however, and many sessions ago Seth also said he preferred more than one session a week.)