“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.

(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.)

Do you have a test for me?

(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.

(“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 object connected with an event that happened in the afternoon.” My dental appointment as shown on the test object was for 2:30 PM.

(“A filling station.” We thought there might be a connection here in that our car ran out of gas on the road to the Gallaghers; even so, this data would be too far removed from the test object.

(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.)