“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(While Bill and Peggy Gallagher were on vacation in Puerto Rico last October, Seth gave impressions concerning them in the following sessions: the 199th for October 18; the 200th for October 20; and the 201st for October 25. No correspondence, phone calls, etc., were exchanged between the four of us during this time.

(The Gallaghers went over Seth’s material with us orally a day or two after returning from vacation; this was on the evening of the unscheduled session for Thursday, October 28, and I had time for but a few quick written notes. We obtained this written account from them later, and in the course of checking data with them several times Jane and I soon realized much effort could be saved by getting a written account as soon as possible after any such experiment.

(Seth’s statements are presented in full from each session, with the comments from Peggy and Bill just below each statement in italic type. The Gallaghers agreed on each answer, concerning the Puerto Rico material. They arrived in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Sunday, October 17. We begin with Seth’s material on them from the 199th session for October 18,1965, at 9 PM.)

(From the 200th session, Wednesday, October 20,1965, at 9 PM. As usual Seth’s impressions are in regular type, the written comments of Bill and Peggy Gallagher in italics below.)

(From the 201st session, Monday, October 25,1965, at 9 PM. As usual Seth’s impressions are in regular type, the written comments of the Gallaghers in italics below each statement.)

(Perhaps Jane’s puzzlement while giving the data on this page was caused by her confusing several airplane flights. The Gallaghers were involved in four airplane trips in a space of five days: From San Juan to St. Thomas, and back; from San Juan to New York City; from New York City to Elmira, NY.)

(The Gallaghers believe that the following impression, given by Seth in the same session as applying to Dr. Instream, applies instead to them. Jane gave the data after the break which had presumably ended the Gallagher test:)

(At the end of the 201st session, concluding the Gallagher Puerto Rico tests, Seth stated:)

(The Gallaghers said they did not eat turkey sandwiches upon arriving in NYC, but other kinds.)

(Concluding the 197th session of October 11,1965, held a week before the Gallaghers left for Puerto Rico on vacation, Seth stated:)

I believe a rather bizarre event will occur, regarding the Gallaghers, at approximately five o’clock during their vacation.

(Bill Gallagher had a narrow escape from drowning while skin diving in Puerto Rico. He hardly lists this as a bizarre experience. Seth deals with it to some degree in the unscheduled 203rd session of October 28,1965.

(Jane also tried psychological time experiments while the Gallaghers were in Puerto Rico. During these she lay quietly on the bed with her eyes closed and tried to contact Peggy and Bill either by acting as a receiver of data, or projecting her astral body to their location. All of the experiments took place in the late morning hours, usually lasting about half an hour. Jane tried five times, from Monday, October 18, to Friday, October 22,1965.

(The Gallaghers gave their written answers to this material just as they had to Seth’s material. This time in the following copy, Jane’s psy-time notes are in regular type, followed by the Gallaghers’ comments in italics.)

(October 18, 11:30 to Noon, Monday: Jane specifically requested information of the Gallaghers, but she did not list anything they were able to identify.)

(Note by R.F.B.: After Peggy and Bill left for Puerto Rico, I quizzed Jane to see how much geographical knowledge she had of the island. It developed that she had but the most general idea, to the effect that it lay south of Florida in the Caribbean. She did not know the name San Juan, for instance; nor had the Gallaghers told her, since we asked them to tell us nothing about their projected trip as soon as it was mentioned.)

(Note that this data was received on October 19, and that the Gallaghers did not arrive in St. Thomas until October 22. Seth also gave information pertaining to St. Thomas on October 18.)

(October 20, 11:30 AM to Noon: Jane tried unsuccessfully to speak to Bill Gallagher. She had a quick clear image of a high sandhill leading down to a beach. The Gallaghers said this is quite possible, but of course could say little else about such a general impression.)

(The Gallaghers brought back with them a map of Puerto Rico, including a street map of San Juan. It is interesting to note that the U.S. Naval Reservation of San Geronimo lies across a couple of hundred yards of open water from the spot where Bill Gallagher went swimming and skin diving.)

(In the 201st session for October 25, Seth commented: “...and incidentally, Ruburt’s experience in psychological time was quite legitimate.” Jane’s account of Friday’s psy-time experience was included in the 201st session along with our drawing; it is repeated here, with the addition of the Gallagher’s comments and Peggy’s drawing.)

(The map of Puerto Rico, brought back by Bill Gallagher, contains a street map of San Juan and other large cities together with an index of street names. A quick study for names similar to those given phonetically by Seth/Jane during the experiments has yielded no results, with the exception of the apparent similarity between San Geronimo and Jane’s psy-time impressions of San Quanamo and San Guatamalo. Any other similarities discovered later will be added to the record.

(Peggy Gallagher is a feature writer for the Elmira Star-Gazetteand Advertiser, a Gannett Newspaper. During December 6 to 9 the paper sent her to Washington, DC to attend A Seminar on Poverty, conducted by the Office of Economic Opportunity which is headed by R. Sargent Shriver.

(Yes, most definitely. This evening, Monday, December 6, Bill Gallagher’s ulcer bothered him to such an extent that he called a doctor. This he seldom has to do.

(Jane took a break at this point, seemingly ending the Gallagher test before she went into the Dr. Instream test. However, Peggy said the first paragraph of the Insteam material applied to her Washington trip:)

(Arriving later in the evening, Bill Gallagher told us that the taxicabs of the predominant cab company in Washington are painted white. They carry a symbol on their front doors that is semicircular in shape, the design being based on the Capitol Dome. The symbol is of course in dark color against the white background.)

(Before our envelope test in the 215th session Seth added one more line to the Gallagher test material; see page 121:)

I wanted to add something about shipyards to the Gallagher material.