“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Today Jane read all day, finishing up J. B. Priestley’s book, Man and Time, which she liked very much. She had read nothing by Priestley before, nor by Dunne, mentioned extensively in the Priestley book. After supper this evening Jane told me she thought Seth had come through twice, briefly, as she went about her daily chores before the session. Both instances concerned the Priestley book, which had excited her.

An old man, and jewelry.

(“Yes to both. Bill clearly remembers a white man, at least 60 years old by his estimate, who stood next to him at the roulette table at the casino. Bill noticed that the man wore three rings on his fingers; he thought this quite unusual.”)

Directly across from our friends there is a couple of middle-aged... (Jane pauses, shakes her head in puzzlement.) We will try to clear this up. The couple come from Daytona or Dayton. The man has a connection with the paper business, but not a newspaper. The production of paper itself.

The woman directly behind our friends’ seat may have a child with her. If so a female child, but there is no man in that seat.

(“On our flight to New York City, a woman and child sat across the aisle and a little ahead of us. There was no man with them. We don’t recall whether the child was male or female.”)

Someplace during their journeys they met a white-haired gentleman. I believe the name begins and ends with an A. His age about 62, perhaps older. The interest was of a business rather than a social one, in connection with this man.

After I reset the alarm I tried to wander to the other side of the motel to find a name sign. Instead I watched a man from above and behind; dressing in suit, hat, carrying a bag or briefcase. He crossed a blacktop expanse of some kind and walks on sidewalk by a large bulky building.

({Peggy:] “Yes. Bill watched such a man from just outside the guest house. He was colored. Bill watched this man each morning; he noticed the man because he wore a suit and hat as though for business, instead of the usual tourist attire. He carried a black briefcase. The large bulky building was a post office.”

A tow-headed man with whom our friend comes in contact. She may not like him overmuch.

(Peggy met a black-haired man whom she found to be “repulsive.” She told us she considered this person to be really upsetting to her personally; it was a case of one individual taking a strong dislike to another.

(“You will meet a man you do not like” is one of the advance predictions given Peggy by Seth during the unscheduled session of December 3. Jane and I have wondered what part suggestion might play in such a case. Peggy told us she had also been aware of this, and that she could say that her dislike of the individual in question transcended any suggestion that conceivably could be operating.)

A particular man with a camera slung over his shoulder, who gets our friend’s attention.

(Peggy quite clearly recalls a man with such a handkerchief in his breast pocket. She remembers this because the handkerchief had four sharp points showing, which she considered unusual, very much out of the ordinary. She cannot recall however whether this man was also the cameraman. She does not remember any initials.”

Her room above three floors. A man across the way. The number 421.

(Peggy’s room, #208, was on the second floor. She doesn’t know whether a man had the room across the way, and has no connection to offer for 421.

A very smallish crowded room. I believe a cocktail party. A woman seems to be the main hostess, though a man is present with her.

([Peggy:] “Yes, although the initials are R. D.” Peggy wanted to talk with a certain official on the poverty program; his offices were on a floor lower than that of the seminar, in the same building. Peggy went to the man’s offices on Tuesday and waited for some time there. Failing to see him, she made an appointment for Wednesday, but did not keep this appointment because of the press of other business.)