“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane now took a long pause, quite an unusual procedure after the opening salutation.)

At Ruburt’s stage of development however, he reacts as a result of emotional impetus, which is picked up rather directly, and which acts as additional energy in transmission. It is for this reason that he now and then does enjoy visitors to sessions, because he instinctively feels that he is thereby learning to manipulate and use these abilities oftentimes, and thereby learn the various subjective feelings that accompany valid perceptions, and to distinguish these from subjective feelings that turn out to be based upon invalid perceptions.

(See the 204th session. Philip is John Bradley’s entity name. To date 40 sessions have been witnessed out of 210. Jane’s eyes were now opening and closing rather frequently as she spoke.)

Now, speaking once more about our primary and secondary conditions, it should be said now that this will not be as simple as it might appear. Many breakdowns and also syntheses will be needed. Ruburt brought up a point, I believe; he observed that the experience of talking occurred in both the waking and the dreaming states, but did not think that these represented primaries.

I now suggest your break.

(Break at 9:27. Jane was dissociated as usual for a first delivery. Her eyes had opened and shut often. Her pace had been quite rapid after the slow beginning. She remembered the material concerning Helen Dyer, and now told me she had felt an immediate rapport with Helen when she entered our apartment this evening, and a desire to help her in some way. Helen has been in our place once before, perhaps a couple of years ago.

(At times Jane gets “feelings” about the physical condition of an individual, whether it is a friend or someone she passes on the street. Sometimes these intuitions involve the approaching death of the individual concerned. She has felt other psychological states also, and now notes them down when they occur. These developments have been quite recent. A recent example involved her sensing the breakup of the marriage of a friend with whom I work, some two weeks before the friend told anyone. I had suspected nothing amiss personally.

Now first of all, in line with your conversation during rest period. Under no circumstances should this information I have given you be passed on to the woman involved, or to any of her friends.

We will now see what we can do with your envelope. Please give us a moment. (Pause.)

(Jane said that at the moment she had no idea why she clung to the photograph idea. Although she was a little tired, she didn’t feel particularly bad. She now revealed that she had actually seen within three photographs, rather than the two mentioned. She saw these photos quite clearly, she said, and knew that two of them were in our album, and the third in a file of her own. From the descriptions given I recognized them also.

(It was now time for the 19th Dr. Instream test. Jane’s pace was now again very slow. Although I could not see her doing so, her eyes must have opened a trifle to find the ashtray, since she was again smoking. She sat with one hand to her face, her head tipped down, speaking quietly. She took many pauses, some of them long. Resume at 10:06.)

Now give us a moment. Then I shall have some remarks to make later. (Pause.)

(Jane’s eyes now opened wide. She stared at me as she lit a cigarette. Her eyes then closed.)

Therefore, if the results are poor, this undermines Ruburt’s confidence for the following tests. This is rather important. I have no objection now to the fact that you check the results of the envelope tests immediately afterward; but only when this occurs after the Instream material.

Now as to the poor results themselves in the envelope test. Primarily there are two reasons for our unsatisfactory results. He did not want to have the test given to him while the Instream material had not yet been given for one thing, and so this did not work for us. To begin with however he simply was not at his best in any case.

He was shocked by the earlier information that I had given concerning the woman, and this led him to block further information for the evening. He worked, or allowed me to work through, the layers of personal subconscious only, which now and then may yield valid information, but highly distorted as a rule, and unreliable for our purposes.

One point here. I allowed the test to continue because, again, such episodes can teach you lessons. I tried to separate the levels, for a while, of perception; but Ruburt by then would not open up the deeper layers of communication. You may now take your break.

Now. We are going to give you the week of Christmas off, for all students have a holiday sometime. We may even give you a report card. Tonight’s performance will not pull your average down too far, but perhaps we can bring it up for you in the meantime.