“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.

(Another project we would like to explore is photographing Jane during sessions. I could handle this with a little practice. We talked of illustrating Jane’s book on the Seth material, which she is now writing.

I have been most interested in the topic under discussion immediately before our session. Such medical examinations as you have in mind would be excellent from several standpoints, and we shall have further suggestions on all these lines.

I have another suggestion, incidentally, that you might find most helpful. I would suggest that you purchase a reliable set of scales. Later on, using self -hypnosis, you can experiment to see whether or not you weigh less when you suggest that you will become lighter and lighter.

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.

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.

Humidity and barometric pressure would also be helpful. You are functioning within an environment. The psychic and exterior environments are closely connected, and the correlations are available if you know where to look for them.

I would definitely speak to this Father Martin before approaching anyone else, simply because his attitude would enable him to work well with us, I believe that he may be available, though not for any long period. He would be much more apt to be discreet and dependable, and he is more or less outside the regular community in which you live, which could be to your benefit. He is highly intelligent, perceptive and no one’s fool.

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.

I would definitely suggest that some of the items we mentioned in this session be used in connection with our sessions, for a beginning. There are obviouslyconnections between the psychic and physical self, and there is no reason why you should not begin to investigate these for yourselves.

It would be necessary to take your temperature many times during the evening, and to correlate the findings with the various levels of the subconscious as they displayed themselves through their characteristic activities within the dream series. Such an experiment would be extremely difficult.

It should be noted however, that with the exception of several other circumstances the various levels of the subconscious can be found to fall within definite temperature ranges. To some extent this fact can be ascertained through hypnosis. However, suggestion as to the effect that the subject’s temperature should rise or fall would tend to obscure the effect.

This correlation between the layers of the subconscious and temperature ranges is true, or rather observable, only when the personality is in an inactive state. Suggestions of motion or excitement given to it would change and affect the temperature reading, so that this characteristic temperature range could be unnoticed.

Ruburt would have preferred that I did not speak out because of our last episode.

(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.”