“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.

(A week or so ago I forgot to buy gasoline, and this led to a situation that could have been dangerous. When Jane and I were on our way to the home of the Gallaghers, who live on top of a steep and long hill outside Elmira, the car lost power, then stalled out on the hill. It was after dark, the road was slippery with snow; I had to back down the hill while Jane lighted the way with a flashlight, until I found a driveway. I did not realize I had run low on gas at the time, for the car started as we coasted down hill. We arrived home safely but the car would not start up again.

(The car operated well the day after the garage repaired it, saying the trouble was moisture in the distributor. The next day the car once again would not start. This necessitated another tow to the garage. To our surprise the second tow and repair were free, the service manager telling us there was corrosion on the coil connections, and that the mechanic should have noticed this and corrected it the first time the car was in the garage.

(The 220th session, containing Seth’s advice, was held while the car was in the garage the first time. After the session I made a conscious effort to improve my attitude about the car. By then I had the idea that psychological attitudes could affect the car, and had recalled that once before Seth had dealt with the car and our attitudes while on our way to a Maine vacation in August 1964. See the 80-81st sessions. According to Seth, Jane and I had succeeded in altering considerably the car’s oil consumption; and as evidence we had before us the fact that the car had used much less oil on the trip than we had calculated. See Volume 2.)

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.

I have much more material on inverted time to give you, but there is a personal matter that I would like to discuss.

Well then, it is indeed time for these remarks.

There is also a lesser connection here with the garage in which your father spent so much of his time, for you picked up your mother’s anger that he was so often there. One small remark and you may take your break: Ruburt, for the reasons mentioned earlier, also liked anything with wheels that moved, roller skates for example. Anything that offered hope of mobility.

(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.)

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.

(Break at 10:29. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes had remained closed. She held the test envelope to the top of her head the whole time. She didn’t think she had done well in the test, whereas actually the results were very good.

(“Two o’clock.” would seem to be a reference to the time the photos were taken of Jane. On a Sunday after a noon dinner at my parent’s home Jane, myself, Loren and my father went down to the photographic studio.

(As stated earlier, Jane took the time to relax before the session tonight, and feels it was well worth while.

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.