“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(John Bradley witnessed the last session. In it Seth mentioned developments to come within John’s family, involving his mother particularly. Jane also felt she blocked some of this data. The next day, yesterday, Jane had a most unusual experience for her. It involved a peculiar heavy sense of premonition of some kind, as of us personally, or our families, but might be related to John’s family. We have not seen him since Monday, and probably will not for at least two weeks. The sense of premonition lasted for about three hours with Jane, then lifted. She has the experience written up elsewhere.

(The session was held in our back room and was a quiet one. Jane began speaking while sitting down and with her eyes closed. Her pace was quite slow at times, her voice quiet.)

Now. May I personally thank our Dr. Instream for his recent letter. I have a few comments that I would like to make here.

In our tests with the Jesuit and the cat lover, we hit on several specific points. The one that comes to mind right now, though there were others, concerns the three-dollar cab fare, which they considered too high, and the right- hand turn, all of which were given here, and which proved out exactly.

In our recent session with Philip, otherwise known as John Bradley, we also hit some specific points. The raise was one, the description of another salesman was another; and there were more in that session.

The intellect is highly important. It has little to do however with the framework within which our tests take place. The idea of a game will indeed work more to our advantage, for this is not an intellectual exercise. The intellect can be used most handily in tabulating our results, but it will not help us to get our results, unless it is utilized as a means toward discovering how best to harness the emotions for communication purposes.

Nevertheless what we need in our work with you is an emotional rather than intellectual attempt, and from your letter I believe that we see eye to eye here.

Now. Some of this rapport business will take care of itself through the natural course of events, in your letters back and forth for example. And if you yourself have a more flexible, easier, less intellectual attitude toward our tests, this will make our task easier.

I am mentioning these points here, as they can help us. I may try varying a few conditions from this end. We shall see. Ruburt has himself gained some confidence as a result of our own tests, and also as a result of tests that he has tried on his own. One in particular that involved again Philip, or John Bradley.

However, I suggest a break so that we pick up our friend on time.

Ruburt’s confidence, or lack of it, was a stumbling block at our end.

While this is not completely overcome by any means, we are certainly on our way to overcoming it, and this will help matters. I do want to have on record my own comments concerning my warning to Philip, or John Bradley, and the implications that are involved. This and the dream material will be our next subjects of discussion.

We will now end our session.

I would continue it, for there is some material that I am anxious to give you, but our last session was a long one.

There will be another short-story sale shortly for our Ruburt.