“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Your acquaintance, Father Martin, will work out well if arrangements can be made. This sort of arrangement is more important than the other matter under discussion, concerning a possible photograph of Ruburt during a session. You may of course do as you like. I have nothing against such a photograph being taken or used.

The scales can also be used for weighing Ruburt before, after, and during sessions. He shall weigh in, as fighters do, though this is indeed a different kind of arena.

It would do no harm to purchase a thermometer, taking Ruburt’s temperature before, after and during some sessions. Anything that you learn is to your benefit along these lines, and will serve us all well. The thermometer could also be used of course to test any temperature changes occurring in a regular trance state. These are merely suggestions which I feel may be of benefit.

Again, any changes, or any lack of changes will be significant, and will help you distinguish the differences between various levels of consciousness as they show themselves physically within the organism. You see here that if temperature and pulse is noted before sessions, you may find a correlation that exists between these and specific instances of clairvoyance as demonstrated during a given session, and another given session. Do you follow my point here?

I could go on for quite a while, mentioning things that you could do. They all would add to your work load, though none of them alone would take much time. You have available, through your television set I believe, data having to do with outside temperature, wind velocity and so forth. For your own records you could note these before a session, and look for correlations.

It will do no harm to note them down before you retire. I believe that you will note some rather significant correlations, if you find the time to carry any of these investigations through with any regularity. And the regularity will be very important.

These will only indicate correlations however, and not basic conditions. They will be correlations between basic conditions, and there is quite a difference here. There is so much that can be done, and I know that you have little time to do them. You see, there are also other circumstances which could be noted, to your advantage, such as the phases of the moon, and others which would be more difficult to ascertain.

As far as our dream experiments are concerned, I believe that you will discover definite correlations of a rather important nature that exist between the incidence of precognitive dreams, and data having to do with temperature and weather.

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.

Do you have a test for me?

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.”

His confidence will then be maintained through the averages of our successes, which all in all will be quite good. Isolated tests do not work well, for they upset what he considers the normal circumstances of our sessions. When given they should follow our Dr. Instream material.

You are investigating these matters, and should be interested in discovering what you can about when we succeed, and when we do not.