“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Tonight’s session began at 9:50 PM. After supper this evening Jane expressed a desire to vary the routine, although she did not want to skip the session. On impulse I invited her out for a beer. There were go-go girls at the neighborhood tavern we went to, and both of us enjoyed the break in routine. Jane, very amused, commented every so often that she received little “messages” from a certain party, expressing approval of our actions, and merely suggesting that we do get to the session at least a few minutes before the Instream material was due.

(As mentioned by Seth in the last session, I have begun keeping a record of outside weather data from our television weather channel. This includes humidity, barometric pressure, etc., as detailed on page 97. This record is for session nights only; I do not know whether it is necessary to insert the data into each session. When we begin our dream experiments with the recorder, we will also keep a daily weather record, again as suggested by Seth.

We will of course shortly give our Dr. Instream material, and so I shall not become involved in any complicated matters beforehand. You have both been doing very well however, and shortly we shall be having an anniversary of sorts, I believe.

To some extent I have explored some of this, but it will do you well to join wholeheartedly into the very necessary spirit of the time, for it is constructive and most beneficial. And in so doing you help yourself and others.

Now. There was no historic Virgin Birth, and no historic Crucifixion. This does not mean that these do not represent symbolic realities.

(Pause.) Whether or not this is a cafeteria I do not know, but he and others seem to be drinking coffee. (Pause.) He is dressed in a business-type suit this evening, with shirt and tie, standing up and talking to two other people.

The doctor looks at his watch. (Pause at 10:08.) He received a book by mail today, a biography sort of book, having to do with a personality of the late 1800’s. A medium.

He made a trip to his office, and spoke briefly with one man there. (Pause.) Again, some sort of connection with a small black box, very small. The top is black. I do not know about the bottom half.

Do you have a test for me?

Now we shall see, again, what we can do. Give us a moment. A connection with water. One, two, three, or three of a kind. A connection with a commercial venture. A connection again, with an afternoon and two people, yourself and Ruburt.

(“One, two, three, or three of a kind,” can be the July 3 postmark date on the envelope. The envelope is addressed to Jane and me, “yourself and Ruburt,” but we do not particularly see where “afternoon” comes in. I remember the photograph of Jane and me taken at Marathon, Florida. “A border” regarding the test object does not ring a bell, but “Horizontal lines that are similar to each other,” are the postmark cancellation lines. The letter was mailed in July, “a spring or summer month.”

(We do not see a connection with “Light and dark, with shadow shapes” particularly. Jane’s father, who addressed the envelope, can be “A connection with another individual, a male.” Jane’s father is of course “someone who visited here,” but we do not know what “A photograph” means, particularly, in the test data, since Seth did not elaborate.

(Usually now we do not ask Seth to explain every reference made in a test if we do not see any connection. We list what we see as connections, and have noted that if we are really puzzled about any test data, Seth will say something about the problem after break.

Now. I am going to give you a brief session, since you do have one coming, and you have been most faithful.