“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane faced me while speaking this last phrase, her eyes still closed, and in good humor.)

(Since Seth paused after giving voice to the question, I answered, since I had been writing at a fast pace. I soon saw that I shouldn’t have however, since Jane now turned the same humorous expression toward me that had confronted Bill a few minutes ago.)

(Here Jane began to describe the shape of the clock in the air with her hands, as she spoke with her eyes closed. Since she was so definite about the clock’s shape, I made a quick drawing of my version of her description. This of course caused me to miss out on a few words of her verbal account, so I took the chance and asked her to repeat her description. This is the first time I have asked her a question during a test. She responded without a sign of bother or irritation, and her second description was the same as the first, as near as I could tell.

You may take at this time a brief break, and that is the end of our Instream material. Except that you may wish the good doctor a happy holiday for me.

(Break at 10:11. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes had remained closed; her pace had picked up considerably toward the end of the delivery. She told me my question did not bother her; also that she saw the clock she was describing pretty clearly. She was aware of the traffic noise.

Are you referring to Ruburt, or are you speaking to me?

(At an earlier break, Bill had mentioned to me, while Jane was out of the room, that he believed Jane was right-handed but that Seth used predominantly left-handed movements. I hadn’t noticed this, but told Bill Jane had talked at times of being left-handed as a child; I told him I remembered Jane saying something about being made to write right-handed in school.)

Ruburt, indeed, should give his own answers. Far be it from me to answer for him. I use one hand, and he uses the other, primarily.

Now and then with Ruburt, to a smaller or lesser degree, my own habits therefore show through, for I manipulate his muscles in a different way than he does. But, scientifically again, this would not be proof of my existence as an independent personality who has survived physical death. Not that this concerns me, for it does not.

The conditions are not physical conditions. These would be the simplest. The conditions have to do with the amount which Ruburt is willing to allow me to have of the physical matter of which he is composed, and of which he is naturally jealous.

It would be difficult for me to change the features of a third individual indeed, but far less difficult to change Ruburt’s features, since he gives me permission to work through him, and his mental and psychic abilities would help me. A picture would not help me on its own.

I will let you have a break, and you can congratulate me, Joseph, for keeping my voice so well under control. I hear mighty yells when it is out of control, but no comments when it is under control.