“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(For the envelope test tonight I used my appointment card for my visit to the dentist earlier this month. As Jane did last time she visited Dr. Colucci in May 1965, I put myself in a trance state as an experiment, and was very comfortable. I also used Jane’s appointment card of May 5,1965 as the test object for the 15th envelope test in the 199th session. I picked the card for tonight’s session because I thought it would be loaded with strong emotional charges of a personal nature, whereas the identification card used in the last test belonged to a person almost unknown to Jane and me.

(I placed the card between two pieces of card and sealed it in the usual double envelope. To the best of my knowledge Jane had never seen it, since I carried it in my wallet from the time Dr. Colucci’s nurse gave it to me.

(The session was again held in our front room, and was not interrupted. Jane began speaking while sitting down and with her eyes closed. Her pace was a little slower than usual. Her manner was most amused, and she smiled often. She hadn’t been speaking long before her eyes began to open frequently; they were very dark. She was smoking as the session began.)

(Jane’s childhood friend, Eddie, died of diabetes in his early thirties.)

(Break at 9:34. Jane was dissociated as usual for a first delivery. Her eyes had opened frequently and her pace had remained a bit slow.

(Jane resumed in the same manner at 9:44.)

(Break at 10:01. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes were often open and very dark, and her pace was quite rapid as break approached.

(It was now time for the 32nd Dr. Instream test. As usual Jane sat quietly with her hands raised to her closed eyes. Her pace became quite slow, broken by many pauses of 15-30 seconds. She had been smoking earlier in the session but did not do so now. Resume at 10:10.)

(As usual Jane took the envelope, our 29th, from me without opening her eyes. It was 10:30. She sat quietly, holding the envelope pressed to her forehead. Her pace became somewhat faster.)

(Break at 10:27. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes had remained closed. She had no special thoughts about the evening’s test data except to say that none of the impressions she heard herself giving made any sense to her.

(See the tracing on page 219. Seth goes over much of tonight’s test data, but in order to avoid mixing my notes with his I’ll give the usual interpretations Jane and I made first.

(“Madison Avenue. A trip. A letter or note. [Ruburt thinks of Frederick Fell, in parenthesis.]” We agreed this data probably referred to Jane’s publisher in New York City.

(“A disturbing event in the month of June, ’64.” Jane said she thought this referred to an episode when she should have visited the dentist, Dr. Colucci, but did not. She keeps a brief daily record of activities, and verified her idea. In her notebook she found a record that on May 31,1964, she woke up with a swollen lower left jaw. I thought it a bad tooth. At this time, not having practiced self-hypnosis consciously, Jane had a great fear of dentists. Instead of seeing a dentist she visited our doctor next door; he put her on a series of antibiotics that lasted for four days, on into the month of June 1964. The pendulum told Jane the swelling was psychosomatic and not a tooth; the doctor agreed, eventually, and Seth did too, in the 59th session for June 3,1964. See Volume 2.

(“A connection with another car, not your own.” When I visited Dr. Colucci on January 11 he told me that about a week previously, probably on Sunday, January 2,1966, he had been unable to make the climb up the icy road leading to his home outside Elmira. Dr. Colucci lives on top of a long steep hill, yet this was the first time in three years, he said, that he had been unable to drive home. Jane said Seth gave this bit of test data because we ourselves had had trouble making a nearby steep hill in our own car, also this month. Seth dealt with our own car troubles in the 222nd session. Jane said she thought the association between these two episodes was legitimate.

(“The number 12. I do not know whether this refers to 12 people or not.” Jane said she believed the “12” came from the address of Dr. Colucci’s office, 112 Walnut Street, around the corner from our address on W. Water Street, and that Seth speculated about people because of Dr. Colucci’s waiting room being a gathering place for people.

(“A letter connected with an older individual.” Jane said this referred to her letter of January 13 to Dr. Instream. In it she told Dr. Instream of my using the trance state on my visit to Dr. Colucci.

(“The vicinity of another city”, was a reference, Jane said, to the fact that Dr. Colucci lives in Pine City. Pine City is one of those small suburban communities that border more populated places like Elmira; though their population is small they actually cover many more square miles of land.

(“and also a connection with an accomplishment.” Jane and I agreed this meant my using the trance state successfully on my visit to Dr. Colucci.

(Jane resumed, her eyes opening and closing, at 10:50.)

(As soon as the session ended Jane said she did indeed remember seeing Dr. Colucci as soon as Seth mentioned that she would. Dr. Colucci’s office is but four doors down the street from the M.D. she visited. Seth was quite amused in giving this information.)

(Jane and I hesitated to say that the note referred to the appointment card, since Madison Avenue and a trip were mentioned in close approximation, as well as Fell.

(Jane and I think this a most interesting bit of information. We also compare it with the number 12 data, wherein the numerals in the dentist’s address became scrambled with the idea of people in his waiting room. Only now, it appears, is Seth beginning to get this specific in his interpretation of test data.)

(Jane’s publisher had written her recently that he had had throat trouble.)

(End at 11:05. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her pace had been average, her eyes had opened frequently. As usual, she said, Seth could have continued indefinitely.)