“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.)

Each channel will represent a portion of the self, each one existing in a different dimension, and yet all part of the whole self, or the whole tape. You can see that it would be highly ridiculous to say that the material on your Mono One was any more or any less valid than your material on Mono Two. Mono One and Mono Two could be compared then to self one and two; self one and two here, however, in the context of the ego as self one and the subconscious as you know it as self two. We are not using Dunne’s terms here, in other words.

(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.

(When she resumed her pace was again slow, at 9:35.)

(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.)

The numbers three and twelve, and an occurrence that was not repeated.

(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.

(See the tracings of the object on page 258-59, and the notes on page 260. Most of the data was at once clear to us.

(“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.

(“The numbers three and twelve.” I had ordered my 1966 license plates by mail, on December (twelve) 3rd (three), and had the money order stub with me in case it was necessary to show a record of payment.

(“and an occurrence that was not repeated.” The sheriff told us the bureau was flooded by mail requests for plates and was very much behind; indeed they had just begun filling mail orders a day or so before our visit. The sheriff advised us to return a few days later if we did not receive our plates. Although we didn’t receive the plates by the day he mentioned, we did not return to the bureau as he said to do, but chose to wait a little longer; the plates arrived the next week.

(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.

Now, Ruburt’s subconscious simply got in our way at last evening’s session. Now and then it is to be expected, but I regret the particular circumstances deeply. He was subconsciously but never consciously aware that next month marked the time of his grandfather’s death, and subconsciously he knew his grandfather’s age at death.

When I gave my material it was meant to be reassuring. This was my intent. But when I tried to give information regarding Ruburt, the subconscious activity interrupted. We had his identification with his grandfather momentarily, and the subsequent distortion.

All the particular information given was indeed based upon probability. However, unless drastic changes occur in all of your characteristic ways of handling stress, then the relatively old ages mentioned should stand up well.

I would apologize to Ruburt, but the distortion was not my own. I do deeply regret it however. I also think that you will find his attitude from now on an improvement over his past attitude, as far as our experiments are concerned, and this will be of benefit to all of us.

That was indeed our weak point, and since we were doing well I did not press it. You were the taller man, and your garage man was the short one. I let this go since we were doing well enough without pressing Ruburt.

(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.)