“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The session was witnessed by John Bradley. John is from Williamsport, PA; he is a salesman for Searle Drug and has witnessed quiet a few sessions. He has also been the subject of some of Seth’s material. Jane, incidentally, felt strongly that John would witness the session, so she was not surprised when he visited us unannounced at 8:30 PM. John told us he could stay only until 10 PM. In the meantime he had a little story to tell us.

(But he did drive home. As he walked out to his mailbox he felt certain the letter was there. It was; it did confirm that he had been given a raise by the company. The raise was totally unexpected, he told us. John wondered whether Seth would comment upon the experience.

I indeed anticipated that you would ask.

(Before the session Jane and I asked John if he would cooperate in some telepathic/clairvoyant experiments like those involving the Gallaghers recently. John would make a good subject, we thought, because he lives some distance away and Seth could tune in practically whenever he pleased.

You see, in a full session dealing with an individual, I can interweave material. Ruburt cannot follow me then and he cannot block me then. He does not indeed block me on purpose, but the results would be the same.

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.

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.

(John had his hat and coat on, and left at 9:56. Jane said Seth was extremely well tuned in on John tonight; she hoped that he would be able to return this evening while things were going so well. Jane also said she felt that Seth had more information on John’s mother, but that she had blocked it.

(As far as we know, this is the first overt experience we have encountered where Seth has spoken to another party while separated, in our time and distance, from Jane. It raises many questions if it is a legitimate experience; if legitimate, it would seem to be a most significant development. We are well aware that it could be said Seth was merely taking credit for another person’s psychic experience.

(If genuine, does this experience imply an expansion of Jane’s abilities, along with Seth’s, or does it merely mean that once others accept the possibility of psychic expansion, they too become receivers? This would imply the separate existence of Seth; he has claimed all along to be an “energy personality essence.”

(This thought comes to me: Quite a few sessions ago Seth remarked that an event would occur which would bind John, Jane and I together. I searched briefly for the remark but did not locate it.

Perhaps this is a scene from the novel or an opera, for now there are two very tall candles, with golden holders and many shadows. (Pause.) And the entrance of a male character. Perhaps a deathbed scene, but I do not hear music, and it would seem that music would be connected with an opera. But the scene is macabre.

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.

When I spoke you listened. You did not say something that you would have said otherwise.

It would appear that all bars are long and narrow. There was a particular decoration however at the center of the bar.Ruburt now thinks of his Green Pastures, but this is his idea not mine. We will mention it in passing. It clears the air.

There is a house, not in the western section of town, the third or fourth house in the middle of a block, in which she dwells. She would have used you quite unconsciously. But in many ways she is very strong, and you would have been driven to return. My words were a warning, and I do not warn without reason, and I do not cry wolf.

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.

I hesitate to use the word oath or vow, but something along these lines. Perhaps a promise would be more fitting as a word to describe what I am thinking of.

We then bid you all a most fond and affectionate good evening. We may indeed end up with another session before Monday, but if so we shall see to it that you do not write up all our notes. I do my best in my own way to look out for all of you, and yet I am also limited as to my actions within your system. You must often read between the lines when I speak. Subconsciously you pick up more than you realize, and subconsciously you make preparations for events of which you may be consciously unaware. I cannot spell all things out, and I would not do so if I could.

(I was in my studio at the back of our apartment, putting the notes for this session away, when Seth came through again briefly as Jane and John talked in the front room. The exchange was finished by the time I walked back to them. It was to the effect that within three years Jane and I would have our own house.

(Seth came through with this, we believe, because he had expressed a wish that we had our recorder going this evening, and because he evidently wanted to sound out strong and loud and could not do so in an apartment house. Seth told John our house would have privacy.