“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(An unscheduled session was held on Friday evening, December 3,1965, in our apartment. Beginning at about 10:15 PM, Seth spoke at no great length to six people, myself included. The six witnesses comprise Seth’s largest audience to date. Bill and Peggy Gallagher were present, and Ann Diebler, and Don and Marilyn Wilbur. The last three named are from the group of young people who witnessed the unscheduled session of November 5,1965. See the notes on page 57, preceding the 206th session. Ann and Marilyn work with me at Artistic Card Co.

(Seth gave Don Wilbur a few lines of information concerning a job change he was considering, and Don has a copy of this material. Seth told Ann Diebler he could not at this time answer her questions concerning a friend in Newport News, Virginia, because he has not yet established an emotional rapport with her. He did willingly answer many other questions asked by Ann, Marilyn and Don, questions mostly based on the material itself and the concepts involved.

(“November 30. Dream not very clear now. ‘The Mediumship of—1885.’ I saw a book with this title. A study of the mediumship of a mother and daughter, it seems. Of the Eisenhower or the Kennedy families? As dream opens I see a house; a farmhouse? Someone is bringing this book to the man or men who live there. This is a country rather than a town house. The man who is given the book startles the man who gives it to him by quoting a line from Dante having to do with (his?) not appointing God. This may have been written inside the book cover, for example. Was the book written by a woman? Woke up finally and wrote this down on scrap paper.”

(Also on dreams, recently I have had two extraordinarily vivid dreams involving my brother in Rochester, whom we usually see about twice a year. Seth said during Friday’s unscheduled session that these two dreams are significant, and that tonight’s regular session would deal with them. My brother, Bill, is due for a visit here next week; which fact was unknown to us when I had the pair of dreams.

(The 20th envelope test was held during this session. See the tracing on page 107. For the test object I used part of one of the paper napkins Jane and I were given when we varied our routine prior to the 213th session, and visited a local discotheque for a beer. See the notes on this on page 102. The results of tonight’s test were very interesting. While we were in the discotheque ultraviolet lights were turned on when the entertainment began; this means the test object was viewed by us in this unusual light, and this fact shows in tonight’s test data.

(Tonight’s session was held in our back room, and was a quiet one. Jane did not smoke while speaking. As usual she sat down; her eyes remained closed for the entire session. Her rate of speaking was good from the start, her voice quiet.)

(Seth has given so much material on action that it cannot be assigned to a few sessions. It was mentioned by name before the 15th session or thereabouts. It has been especially stressed since the 120th session, and so continues.)

(Break at 9:25. Jane was dissociated as usual for a first break. Her eyes had remained closed, and she did not smoke. Her pace had been good from the beginning.

(Jane has been reading J.B. Priestley’s book, Time and Man, recently. She is well aware that Seth often discusses her reading matter. She remarked that tonight Seth had elaborated on a few statements Mr. Priestley had made; that is, Seth was not paraphrasing, but carrying ideas further.

(We thought it might be time now for Seth to give some data on Peggy Gallagher and her activities in Washington, DC, since in giving the data on the Gallaghers in Puerto Rico last October, he had done so at 9:30 in each session. Jane now resumed with her eyes closed, and at a good pace. She was smiling. Resume at 9:35.)

Your physicists know that time does not exist, basically, as a series of moments, one following the other. Therefore my earlier remark that physical reality was not dependent upon time as a series of moments should be obvious. Physical reality is dependent upon your sensual perception of action, and that is all.

(Break at 9:51. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes remained closed. Her pace had picked up considerably by the time break arrived.

(It was now time for the 23rd Dr. Instream test. Once again Jane sat with her hands raised to her closed eyes. Her pace was not too slow, although broken by many pauses. Resume at 10:04.)

(Break at 10:17. Jane was dissociated as usual. She said she didn’t particularly remember what she had said on the three tests, but could to some degree if she stopped to think.

(The design on the napkin covers one quarter of the surface area, and it was this quarter which was “turned up” to us when the waitress placed the folded napkins on the table before us. There was of course no photo involved, or a house or any connection with my parents, or the past.

(Jane felt that “white, snow white,” was valid data, even though she was thinking of a certain photo of my parent’s house, taken when there was deep snow. She saw this white as very bright. See my notes on page 109. When the ultraviolet lights were turned on in the discotheque, some colors were activated more than others. The light was actually quite dim, but the ultraviolet made anything white appear to be blinding white-paper, socks, white shirts, etc. The effect was very striking. The napkin was of white paper.

(There were two female dancers at the discotheque, and Jane felt that “a connection with another person” referred to one of these, although she couldn’t say why. We did not know either of them. One was brunette, one was blonde. Both of us liked the brunette the best, for whatever reason, and certainly she was the better dancer of the two.

(Jane felt good about “Purple. Large letters.” See the tracing. The word discotheque on the napkin was printed in a blue that was strongly on the red side, although actually short of being an outright purple. The letters are of course large. “Something fairly important... the following day” did not ring a bell with us. “automobile” could refer to our driving to the discotheque, though there could be other meanings here, we think.

(“yellow, as in sunlight,” is as interesting to us as the snow-white data listed above. Jane wore a white blouse to the discotheque. When the ultraviolet lights were turned on however, we were surprised to see a large, bright yellow stain on the front of her now brilliantly-white blouse. This stain was invisible in ordinary light. In addition, we discovered more similar yellow stains on both of Jane’s palms. We never did discover the source of the stains.

(“a gathering” can refer to the crowded discotheque, or bar. I wouldn’t say the napkin was an “item strongly connected” to me, although it was my napkin rather than Jane’s that I used for the test. Nor were my initials on it.

We picked up some valid impressions. The other person was your dancer, upon whom you both were strongly focused.

The important event had to do with some kind of a family nature, and involved one of the two dancers, and their parents, or the parents of whichever girl was involved. I believe the event concerned the other dancer, the blonde.

(There may be an outside chance that we can confirm this data. A friend of ours who lives in our apartment house knows the two dancers, who live together in the neighborhood. But we do not know them, and this was the first time Jane and I had been in the discotheque in over a year.)

The snow white referred to the colors, or to the color, rather, of the napkin in the light. The snow I used merely because the white was so blinding, and this led Ruburt to his own associations, concerning your parents’ house, and a particular photograph which was taken in the wintertime. But we managed to continue on after this, to deliver some fairly decent impressions. He is still learning, and it is quite all right.

(End at 10:42. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes had remained closed.)