“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Right after the first snowfall two weekends ago, our landlord appeared with his Jeep and snowplow attached, and cleaned out our long curving driveway and the garage area in back of the apartment house. About a foot of snow had fallen, but this rather small amount still made things difficult for automobiles, and the area involved would mean hours of shoveling by hand.

(After the second foot of snow fell last weekend, the tenants of the house waited as usual for the landlord to appear with his plow. Drifts several feet deep had piled up in the driveway and against the garages. The landlord did not appear. Three days went by. It developed that he had thought we could shovel our own way out. By this time of course recriminations were beginning to fly back and forth by phone, although this did not involve Jane and me. Finally one of the tenants threatened to move, after feelings had been bruised all around. The situation was not without its comic aspects.

(By the time the landlord realized we couldn’t shovel our own way out, he couldn’t get his own plow into the driveway, nor could he hire help; everyone was busy. I was working overtime at my job also. I felt the brakes on our car needed adjusting so I wasn’t planning to drive personally regardless; this made it somewhat easier to be objective about the whole thing. I also decided that I wasn’t going to get excited about it in any event. Then yesterday morning it developed that the thermostaton the furnace was not working; we got up to a cold house, and this led to more telephone messages, the calling of a specialist, etc.

(The specialist, actually the man who keeps the house in good running order for the landlord, is a personal friend of his. While talking to Jane he mentioned that our landlord’s books had been called in by the Internal Revenue Service.

He is indeed in the wrong, but over tax matters, certain falsifications. Also certain procedures on the borderline, concerning the house in which you live. He is worried that the illegal tax methods in connection with his business will be discovered.

Nor, given his particular personality pattern, could he easily have avoided initiating these practices. He felt driven to them. He is aware of the compulsion with which he acts when finances are concerned. Since he realizes that he did not choose, consciously, to take these illegal steps, then he cannot understand why he should ever be penalized for them.

Nevertheless the fear exaggerates his morbid concern with his heart. He is somewhat like a wounded buffalo, and to some extent at least the wound was not self-inflicted, although he himself has aggravated it.

There will be some legal difficulties for him, with a March 1 5 date connected here. There will also be an illness for him, unless he makes some inner adjustments. Some difficulties also for his oldest daughter. Papers in connection with the landlord himself now, kept secretly, in a place not often used, within or behind an old desk. Perhaps in a basement, I think having a concrete or stonelike floor.

(Our landlord, Jimmy Spaziani, is 50 years old. His daughter mentioned here is a junior in high school. We like him and his family very much.)

Some private papers hidden, mingled with old photographs in poor condition. Possibly he will have some kind of a visitation from his own father to warn him ahead of time.

I believe also a death of his wife’s father by next November.

(Seth had dealt with Jimmy and his family in other sessions, notably the 100th and 101st. Our landlord operates a restaurant featuring a large party and catering service, so it is conceivable that a falling ill at a “party-type gathering” could refer to an illness occurring on those premises. See Volume 3.

(The visitation-from-his-father reference involves the material in the 100th and 101st sessions. Jimmy’s father died in the summer of 1964. Following the father’s death our landlord’s wife had several vivid experiences involving the deceased father; Seth said these were legitimate experiences involving contact with the father, and not dreams. It appears that our landlord’s wife is a good receiver, or relay station. Perhaps she would receive and pass on to her husband any visitations from the dead father.

One legal irregularity existing for twelve years. Business, an irregularity going back to an early small restaurant. An interesting sideline here: his stinginess in small matters is not so much the result of greed as an emotional attempt to maintain the psychic warmth of childhood, a childhood which was marked by poverty.

(Jimmy was one of perhaps a dozen children. As a child, one of his tasks was to pick coal along the railroad tracks in winter.)

An uncle of his, on his side of the family, to die in the near future.

I am trying to give you some material that you can check. His wife is ignorant in the main of his financial manipulations, and she hides what suspicions she has from herself.

There may be bonds of some type, belonging to him but under the names of different people. I am not sure. The people may be members of his family. There are some stocks held on a long-term basis, perhaps in his children’s name. I am on unfamiliar ground here. I think of AT& T.

I do not seem to see a courtroom situation however, but a settling up, or an agreement to settle up. An admission and settlement of some kind, through a lawyer. Perhaps a penalty paid, but with no confinement. A lawyer convinces him to settle, and avoid going to court, and through certain manipulations this part of it will be taken care of. (Another long pause.) Some money will be borrowed. The hill property will be sold, or used for collateral. Stocks will be sold. He will not lose his own house because of this.

I believe his mail is late because of the storm, and that he will receive a letter from the Midwest, later than he would have ordinarily. The letter not entirely unexpected. Duplicity, or a dual manner, in connection with a man who wrote the letter.

If you are interested in any kind of evidential material, it is good to hold tests fairly regularly. Now. When you want to give Ruburt a vacation from them, this is quite all right. But because of his peculiar makeup the first, or first few tests after resumption are apt to be poor now, at this time, because he is apt to try too hard. He is not used to the touch enough yet. He loses the touch of it, and falls back on other layers of the self which are not reliable for this sort of data.

One part of his whole personality is able to help me very much at times, but other portions simply cannot. I mentioned specifically Ruburt’s impression that the item had to do with a particular letter purposely, to tip him off, so to speak.