“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(It will be remembered that these sessions began two years ago through our contacting a personality called Frank Watts, who was superseded by Seth in the fourth session. Jane and I have made a few sporadic attempts to learn more about Frank Watts; such a man did live in Elmira, we learned, through a resident who knew him. Since the sessions we keep an eye out for the name in the local paper, especially in a section called “Twenty Years Ago This Week,” which is printed every Sunday.

(The session was held in our large front room. Jane spoke while sitting down. She was smoking, and her eyes began to open and close often. Her pace was good, her voice average.)

Now. I should like to continue our discussion concerning time.

Every action changes every other action. We return to our ABC’s. Therefore every action in the present affects those actions which you call the past. Ripples from a thrown stone go out in all directions.

You have yourself doubtless thought of some, but we shall do our best to make these ideas clear and understandable, and to explain various complications that can be anticipated. There are for example certain limitations set here that must be clearly stated; but within these limitations you will find that events can be changed, and are constantly changed, regardless of the point or the apparent point of their original occurrence.

For our object, a ring. (Pause.) I believe a gold one. That is, a gold band. (Pause.)

(It was 10:22. I handed Jane the sealed double envelope for our 28th test; she took it without opening her eyes, then for several minutes held it against her forehead. She spoke at a somewhat slower rate than she had in giving the Dr. Instream material.)

(“Tumult, meaning noise.” referred, Jane said, to the traffic noise we became sharply aware of while working about the Birch house. Although situated on a hillside, the traffic noise seemed to roll up at us, and we used this as a reason for not buying the house. Seth said this was rationalization on our parts. See the sessions referred to on page 212.

I will shortly end our session.

As a matter of fact, our own test was a fairly good one. Unfortunately you cannot check up on the impressions with the owner of the card, and there is little reason for me to go into the various episodes connected with the card.

It was not our Frank Watts. However there was a family connection of a distant nature. They were I believe second or third cousins.

The other impressions all referred to situations connected with the owner of the card. The card was carried next to a black and white photograph, incidentally. And now again, good evening. I close our sessions, Joseph, within a convenient hour, for your own benefits. Any time that you wish a longer session for any reason, simply request it; or a shorter session for that matter.