“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The session is quite unusual, in that all of it is devoted to experimental material of one kind or another. This includes the two usual tests plus the material delivered by Seth concerning our landlord. The landlord data arose out of one of those rather small incidents that keep accumulating emotional charges when most of the people involved turn stubborn.

(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.

(The session was held this evening with the chance that it might be interrupted. One of the tenants in the house had finally located a man with a plow, who was due to clear the area at 9 PM this evening. Everybody in the house was to chip in to pay him. We decided to go ahead with the session anyhow, on the chance the man with the snowplow did not show up, or was late.

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.)

There is some connection with Joe Cernohorsky’s wife, though not a direct one, in all of this.

A referral. L M, two one. Studious, someone studious. (Here now Ruburt thinks of your niece, and the letter announcing her marriage. You may put this reference in parenthesis.)

The connection with cloth is a good one. Evening. A connection with an endeavor that does not work. A short note. Several trees. This is a note, from someone in another place.

(As stated earlier the results of the envelope experiment were not high. The first reference, to a filing cabinet, is a good one; the colored paper I used in the test is kept in my cabinet, and has been so for perhaps two years. But after this Jane kept veering toward the letter. I thought someone studious referred to myself, but again there was not sufficient elaboration.

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.

(End at 10:44. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes had opened occasionally. She said she had been looking forward to the envelope experiment tonight, hoping I would give her one; she had given herself suggestions concerning it this afternoon.

One note: since much of this session has to do with personal material concerning your landlord, I did not mean earlier to point out to you your own reaction, Joseph, which has been excellent to the situation in general.