“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now. I have a few remarks to make. However you, Joseph, have been rushed with your notes, due to circumstances; and if you prefer we can then, after my few remarks, wait until ten o’clock for our Instream material. We are at all times flexible.

(“No, I’m all caught up now.”

(Jane now smiled. Her eyes, very dark, opened briefly. She stared at me from across the table.)

Now—now you are on the correct issue. It was an accomplishment because you started from scratch, so to speak. Consciously the whole affair annoyed you no end. You saw it as a grumpy old machine, with its best days finished. But you put to excellent use the advice which I gave you, concerning the importance of psychological reactions.

Now when your attitude began to change, it changed first on a subconscious level. Consciously you were not aware of the change. Now. You had already done some damage. The problem was to make it as minor as possible. It was therefore concentrated as corrosion on the coil, and this corrosion was not there when your garageman previously examined it.

Now you can do, that is any individual can do, and does, the same with the physical body. If his reactions cause a generalized overall poor condition, this is much more difficult to treat. But if this energy can be put into a specific form, one pimple, one pain, one ulcer, at least the problem is recognized, localized, and can be treated with somewhat less difficulty.

Both of you do this now in relation to your Miss Callahan, so you should understand the feel of it.

Now. I have several things to say.

First of all, to give you a rest, Joseph, you may tape any sessions that you prefer, say, tape one week’s sessions during which Ruburt could then transcribe the notes to give you some extra time for yourself. He could follow your format and type them now and then for you.

Do you have any idea, now?

Now your situation is not only entirely different but contrary, for to you a car represents, because of your father, an image on one hand of perfection. Your father insisted, because of his work with batteries, upon perfection. An old car hardly represents this image.

(Jane now told me that while speaking last time, she received a message from Seth to the effect that from now on she wasn’t to smoke during tests, because of the distraction involved. She didn’t have to pause while giving the regular material to get this message, but seemed to receive it on another level simultaneously with the material she gave voice to. She had been smoking so far during the session.

(It was now time for the 30th Dr. Instream test. It did not materialize immediately however, and Jane resumed at 10:01 with her eyes opening occasionally.)

(Jane looked at me now.)

You are doing very well, much better than you think, generally speaking. Reactions which you would have accepted as natural in the past, you now accept as being unfavorable, as they are. But the recognition, you see, causes you at times to think you are not making progress when indeed you are. You expect more of yourself now, and you are getting more.

These small episodes of late would have snowed you under in the past, out of all proportion; such is not the case now. You have noticed, I am sure, also, that Ruburt’s reactions are of a more steady nature.

Now. Please give us a moment.

(Jane paused at 10:10. She sat quietly with her head down, her hands raised to her closed eyes. She was not smoking. Her pace was now slower, with many brief pauses.)

Now give us a moment please.

Now this remark leads Ruburt to think of Lois. Such personal connections are important for our purposes, so I mention them.

Now. A square, and a round object, perhaps inside the square. Initials. (Long pause at 10:26.) Ruburt’s connection: a disturbing event. You may put Ruburt’s connections in parenthesis.

(“Now this remark leads Ruburt to think of Lois.” This is a good example of the way personal associations can work. Our friend Lois took some photos of Jane recently, for use on the dust jacket of Jane’s ESP book. The photos my brother Loren took were also to be used in connection with publicity for the ESP book.

Now Ruburt may have his cigarette.

Now Ruburt grows unsure as far as Dr. Instream’s tests are concerned, when we are asked for a specific object, and this does hamper us. However this feeling will vanish as we continue, and again, it is a natural reaction on his part so he should not blame himself for it.

With many psychics, the ability is so automatic that you can learn nothing about the process as it occurs. Now I shall try to point out impressions that are incorrect when I am able to. You will be able to see how extrasensory perceptions merge with personal associations, and watch the mind as it actually learns to perceive the difference.

(Jane’s voice now deepened a good deal and became considerably louder. For more emphasis she rapped on the tabletop. Her eyes were open and very dark.)

Now, I am fully prepared to speak on. However I am aware that we have approached the time of our usual closing, and you may continue or not, as you prefer.