“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The 31st envelope experiment was held during the session. The test object is a leaflet concerning highway signs to be used in case of an atomic attack. Jane and I picked it up at our local Bureau of Motor Vehicles the second week in January, when we went there to inquire about the delay in receiving my new license plates. I had ordered them December 3,1965; as will be seen this date plays a part in the test results.

(This leaflet had a good emotional connection to Jane, since a very few days before we went to the bureau she had a dream concerning an atomic attack, radiation, contamination, etc.; in the dream she saw a building and a floor plan that were very much similar to the actual layout of the local bureau. The data contained in the leaflet closely paralleled the dream; therefore Jane was quite pleased to discover stacks of these leaflets at the motor vehicle bureau. She had not been inside the bureau for at least a year.

(The session was held in our front room and was not interrupted. Jane began speaking while sitting down and with her eyes closed, although they began to open after a few minutes. Her pace was good, her voice average.)

(Jane paused and smiled. Her pace had become quite slow.)

(Break at 9:26. Jane was dissociated as usual for a first delivery. Her pace had been good and her eyes had opened frequently. Her pace had been quite slow in the middle of the delivery.

(Jane now took a long pause. Her pace had again become very slow. although her eyes were opening rather often.)

(Break at 10:07. Jane had been dissociated as usual. Her eyes had opened often and been very dark. She had spoken slowly but with emphasis, and said she could almost feel Seth wanting her to get just the right words. Her manner had been intent, as though she worked much harder than usual for the material. She had not smoked.

(It was now time for the 37th Dr. Instream experiment. Jane’s pace remained broken by many rather short pauses. She sat with her head down, her hands raised to her closed eyes. She did not smoke. Resume at 10:12.)

(It was 10:21. As usual Jane took the experimental envelope, the 31st, from me without opening her eyes. We had decided to call these studies envelope experimentsinstead of tests. Now Jane sat quietly for a moment; she held the envelope to her forehead as she spoke briefly, then lowered it to her lap.)

(Break at 10:28. Jane was dissociated as usual during both experiments. Her eyes had remained closed. She said she wasn’t worried about the results of the experiments, and that nothing she said about them had any personal meaning to her at all.

(“Some connection with a magistrate of some sort.” When Jane and I went to the Elmira Bureau of Motor Vehicles to inquire as to why I hadn’t received the license plates I had ordered several weeks prior to mid-January, we found the office very crowded. We stood in line for perhaps fifteen minutes. Then a man I thought to be a policeman entered. I succeeded in talking to him, and saw by his shoulder patch that he was a sheriff.

(“An afternoon.” Jane and I made our visit to the motor vehicle bureau in the afternoon.

(“Two men, one taller than the other. Both of them at one time or another.” This I felt to be a rather far-removed connection involving myself and the service manager of the Ford garage in town that keeps our car running. He is a friend; visiting us over the Christmas holidays, he urged Jane and me not to wait too long before making personal inquiries at the bureau, to check and see if they had received my application. I am the taller of the two referred to.

(Jane was pleased with the test results. As stated, the envelope object had good emotional connections for both of us, with the added connection of the dream material mentioned on page 260. The dream material was not specifically mentioned by Seth, however. It will be noted that his data moved between the fact of our being strongly concerned about the license plates, and the experimental object itself, which was picked up as the focal point of our concern.

(Jane’s eyes began to open when she resumed, while smoking, at a faster pace at 10:32.)

(Seth now refers to the unscheduled 230th session of February 6, in which Jane gave the predictions for the ages of death for herself, the Gallaghers, and me.)

(Jane’s grandfather died at the age of 67. During last night’s session she gave this age for her own life span, and said I would live to be 87. The Gallaghers are also to live into their eighties. Later Seth corrected the distorted data, telling us Jane too would live that long.)

(End at 10:47. Jane was dissociated as usual. The last line of the session sums up pretty well Jane’s new attitude concerning the sessions, experiments, etc. Actually the attitude is not new; both of us have been aware of the point made for a long time. The recent difference seems to be that Jane is evidently able to put the realization into effect more efficiently now.)