“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(On Saturday January 8 Jane and I received a letter from Dr. Instream, asking that Seth do his best to give data on but one object during tests. Dr. Instream also mentioned his difficulty in attempting to repeat an experiment with ESP cards, involving odds of a million-and-a-half to one. Jane and I mentioned that we would like Seth to say something on both points in tonight’s session.

(It was now time for the 29th Dr. Instream test. As usual Jane sat quietly with her hands raised to her closed eyes. Her pace was quite slow, broken by many pauses that ran to 15-20 seconds. Resume at 10:09.)

I do have a few words for Dr. Instream. I believe I mentioned earlier that an object will work best if it has emotional significance for him.

You see, at this point we must flow through many legitimate impressions that we pick up in connection with Dr. Instream, before we get at the specific impression that he wants.

There is no reason why the test results cannot be repeated, intrinsically. Dr. Instream however fears that they will not be repeated, and unless this feeling is changed on his part such will be the case. He wants a repeat, but he fears he will not get it, simply because he wants it so badly, and the student reacts to this subconscious inhibiting factor.

I seem to pick up a similarity somewhere between Dr. Instream and the student involved—a similarity in name, I do not know. He believes and expects success in his hypnosis experiments, and that is why he attains success. We shall however achieve what we want.