“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Before tonight’s session Jane and I were discussing ways and means of taking her blood pressure, her weight and various other measurements of a physiological nature before, during and after sessions. Seth referred to this in the last session briefly. We know several doctors on a social basis, but for various reasons hesitate to ask one of them to perform these duties; we would also like to repeat these studies regularly, and could hardly expect a medical man to be available in this respect.

(The name of Father Martin came up in the conversation. He is a monk in a nearby monastery, an ex-doctor, and knows of the sessions casually. He has not witnessed any. Jane and I like him, but doubted his availability very often. One reason is that he gets up at 4 AM to work on the monastery farm.

(Jane has decided that she smokes too much during sessions; as a result she did not smoke while dictating this evening, but did light up at breaks. The session was held in our back room, and was a quiet one. Jane spoke while sitting down and with her eyes closed for the most part. Her pace was quite slow in the beginning, but by first break was up to its usual rather fast state.)

I am going to let you find your own answers, but any such tests and examinations will be welcomed by me, as long as they are conducted in such a way so that our sessions are not disturbed. And I anticipate no difficulties here.

The physical circumstances which you may discover should never be interpreted as conditions in themselves, under which we operate with varying degrees of efficiency, again, but merely as interconnecting correlations between two sets of intangibles. I will make this clearer at a later time.

I will see if you can discover these for yourselves, but if not I shall point them out for you when the time comes. I do not believe that it is possible for you to carry your dream experiments far enough to discover certain other factors that do exist between various layers of the subconscious, and falling temperature rates in the physical organism. Therefore I will mention the point here.

I pick up the initials A. R., but am not sure to what they refer. Now the impression of a small wooden box, quite small (pause) with something like medals or buttons in it. The size perhaps of a small box in which file cards could be kept. It is on a shelf, and is of dark wood. (Long pause at 10:11.)

Also a connection with a supper engagement, with two others beside Ruburt. The word congratulations. I do not specifically mean that the word is on the item, but that somehow congratulations are connected with an event associated with the item.

(We did not press Seth for an item-by-item interpretation of the rest of the impressions. I had prepared this test envelope for last Wednesday’s session but did not use it then; the session was witnessed by the Gallaghers and the test was shoved aside by other developments, notably the impromptu discussion between Seth, Bill and Peg. We ate during the course of the evening, but do not know whether this would be a “supper engagement, with two others beside Ruburt.”

When the tests are given regularly we will automatically hit those evenings when conditions are excellent for reception. We shall of course also hit evenings when conditions are not so good, but these will not annoy you when you have successes under your belt.