“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(On the evening of February 2, during the 229th session, Seth said: “You will get no appreciable amount of snow, I believe for ten days or so...” See page 254. Seth was correct. Indeed, we began to receive our first appreciable snow within three hours after the ten days were up. This was a very heavy wet snow that began shortly before 1 AM Sunday, February 13; it continued until dawn, accumulating about an inch, then turned into a very heavy soaking rain that lasted all day Sunday and on into the night. Jane and I were quite conscious of the prediction Sunday because we had to be traveling. I had been keeping track of it in the meantime, however, and noted that we received a few very light dustings of snow during the ten day interim. Actually, the weather has been so warm that most of the heavy snow received two weeks ago has melted.

(Saturday night, February 12, Jane had a vivid dream that she believes to be significant, and hoped Seth would discuss it this evening. It is included later in the session.

(The session was held in our front room. All windows were shut tightly, and the traffic noise was not a problem, although it was audible to some degree. Jane began speaking while sitting down, at 9:01. Her eyes were almost immediately open. Today was Valentine’s Day. Jane had been in a good mood, and so was Seth. Jane smiled broadly as she opened the session.)

(Jane’s eyes now closed. She sobered, and began to speak at a slower pace.)

(Jane’s voice now began to grow somewhat heavier.)

(Break at 9:29. Jane was well dissociated for a first break, she said. Her voice was heavier than usual, and her pace had finally become very fast. After the humorous opening her eyes had remained closed. She had not smoked.

(Ordinarily, Jane said, she would have had a cigarette during the delivery; but this time she “got the message” that she was not to smoke. It came on a parallel level while she was speaking other words aloud. She felt no force preventing her hand from reaching for a smoke, yet she didn’t feel free to reach for one.

(In the 222nd session Seth asked Jane not to smoke during tests. Sometimes seriously but more often humorously, he has gone into the reasons behind Jane’s smoking in these sessions: 31, 32, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 222.

(Jane was smoking when she began speaking again. Now her eyes began to open frequently; they were very dark. Her pace was slower, her voice average. Resume at 9:39.)

(Break at 9:55. Jane was quite well dissociated, she said. She wasn’t aware of much except the voice. Her pace had on the whole been good, her voice average. Her eyes had opened occasionally, and she had smoked.

(It was now time for the 39th Dr. Instream experiment. As usual Jane sat with her eyes closed, her right hand raised to them. Her voice was quiet, with many short pauses. Resume at 10:08.)

(It was 10:17. I handed Jane the envelope for our 33rd experiment; as usual she took it without opening her eyes. She sat with it pressed to her forehead for a few sentences, then lowered it to her lap.)

(Break at 10:25. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes had remained closed throughout both experiments. She said she had tried to block out all personal associations in connection with the envelope data.

(I read the data to her before she opened the envelope. Jane pointed out three instances in it where she had personal associations with Seth’s data, and as it turned out all three would have been in error had she voiced them.

(See the tracing of the envelope object on page 278. As stated, the object is the front page of the announcement of the marriage of my brother Loren’s daughter, Linda, to Dennis Murray of Brooklyn, NY. Once again Seth goes over the data with us, so immediately below is listed, first, the connections Jane and I made ourselves.

(“An entrance,” Linda, a Protestant, married a Catholic in a Brooklyn church. Jane said she felt the reference to an entrance concerned the recent decision by the Ecumenical Council in Rome, to the effect that Protestants could now be allowed to enter the altar enclosure to be married. My brother Loren told us Sunday that this decision is so recent that his daughter was the first to be married in such a fashion in this church.

(“Four, the number four. A connection with an older man.” This was perhaps a vague reference to the father of the groom; he is quite a bit older than my brother, who is Linda’s father. Later, Jane told me that this was a reference to brother Loren, Linda’s father.

(“and a letter that did not meet your approval.” This is a reference to the letter written to Jane and me by Linda’s mother, on January 24, telling us about Linda’s marriage on January 22.

(“and five in a circle.” meant nothing to Jane and me.

(We were discussing the data when Seth resumed. The first couple of sentences of his discussion concerned the three items noted above. He seemed in the mood to continue for a while, and to discuss the envelope data, so I began to ask questions. Jane resumed with her glasses on, and with her eyes opening occasionally, at 10:40.)

The older man represented the groom’s father, simply because of the discussion concerning him Sunday. (But see Jane’s comment on page 285.

(As mentioned in the notes for the 232nd session, page 269, Fate Magazine wrote Jane concerning an article on the envelope experiments. She has now written the first draft for the article. We suppose Seth’s rather cryptic note above means the article will sell if Jane sticks to the way she has planned.

(There follows a copy of Jane’s dream of Saturday, February 12, as taken from her dream notebook. Jane believes the dream to be a significant one, and had hoped Seth would discuss it this evening:

(The term made me wonder if Seth referred to another physical life for Jane; in the past he has reiterated that our present physical lives are the last for both of us.

(We are not sure whether Seth refers to the publication of Jane’s ESP book, or perhaps the start of another in some fashion. The ESP book is due May 16; Jane’s birthday is May 8. Also, Seth and I are mentioned often in the book. Jane was speaking rather rapidly now, and I did not think to interrupt and ask Seth to clear up this point. She is 38. I am 47.)

(End at 11:01. Jane was well dissociated, she said. Her eyes had opened often, and halfway through the delivery she had opened her glasses, as if to put them on. Her pace had been good but her voice had sounded tired. Now she said she did feel tired at the end of the session.)