“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Ruburt’s own perceptions are somewhat confused here because he thinks of two photographs. One in which he is perched in a tree. This one taken in California, and the other one of the two of you, taken at your New York glen, by a picnic table, in which your images are almost hidden by the trees.

We will try and say that a photograph is involved, that it is a fairly dark one, that Ruburt is in it, perhaps also a dog. The dark portions are shadows of trees, or perhaps rocks.

There is a man connected with the photograph. Ruburt’s husband. (Pause.) But it has to do with the past, at least five years ago.

(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.

(Since Jane had developed the photograph idea so consistently in the test, we thought something must have happened to put her on that track, and we said aloud that we hoped Seth would deal with the reasons for this before ending the session.

He put himself back in time, seeing three photographs of himself, progressively further away from the present, in order to separate himself from the sort of information that he heard himself giving earlier this evening. So all in all he was not working at his best, and it can hardly be expected that he do so constantly.