“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The print is on the whole darker than my pencil indication on the preceding page, and of much better quality. The lines in the palm, indicated by black lines, are in actuality in white on the original print, so that the effect is the interesting one of a hand in reverse, or perhaps a map or plan printed in reverse. The fingerprints show with fair clarity also. This is but one of many prints I made that evening; I discovered it is not easy to obtain a full print that has good overall detail.

Our friend of the manuscript thinks of himself as a liberal-minded man, but he will not take any giant steps away from the lines of academiclike safety.

He will be mainly concerned in an effort to prove his survival. His messages will be full of trivial but significant data that will make his survival plain to those he has left behind.

(Break at 9:32. Jane was dissociated as usual for a first delivery. She knew Seth was being deliberate, she said, but was not aware that half an hour had passed. Her pace had been very slow, and she did not have too good an idea of what she had said.

(Jane still used pauses, but her pace was much faster when she resumed. She was not smoking. Her eyes remained closed. She sat quite still for at least a minute after closing them, before resuming at 9:44.)

But the dreaming state presents any experimenter with original and varied material, and the opportunities involved are tremendous. The inverted time system will appear plainly, if any examination is made as to the relationship between time and the dream state.

This may not be the time to make this remark, but quite literally, tomorrow’s dream can change yesterday. All of the experiments that you are conducting are in themselves beneficial simply because of the training involved, and the expansion of consciousness.

(Jane paused at 9:56. Seth dispensed with the usual break before our experimental material. When break finally did arrive Jane said Seth was going to give a break at this time but decided to go ahead because she was in a good state. Usually, Jane said, she reaches a better state as time passes.

(Jane took a longish pause at 10:00. Her pace was broken by many short pauses, but was still good.)

One of the other men mentioned has a mustache, a dark one, though he is not necessarily a young man, and pointed features. The chin small but pointed.(Jane touched her own chin.)

Some connection with the initials C S. Also a connection with a young boy—that is, young man, I believe, but not an adult male.

(“A connection with many people, and with something like a basement—low, that is. This leads Ruburt to think of your Myhalyk’s, his impression.” Jane believes her impression here is correct. Myhalyk’s is our favorite dancing establishment in Elmira. On Saturday, February 19, Jane and I met Marilyn and Don Wilbur and some others at Myhalyk’s for an evening of dancing. This was shortly after we had obtained the book on hands, and during the evening Jane asked the Wilburs if they would cooperate in having handprints made. The Wilburs, who have witnessed several unscheduled sessions, consented. Arrangements were made to obtain their prints on Friday, February 25, but were not carried out because of the difficulty in getting good prints. My print, made on February 27, was an experiment in an effort to learn just how to make a good print.

(“Something low and something high, in contrast, to do with an understanding reached.” We think this is a reference to part of the technique in reading a hand; as described in the book it is not only necessary to consider the lines, but the “mounts”, which are the high points of flesh at the base of the fingers, the thumb, the heel of the hand, etc. Also the low spots or depressions are considered significant.

(The ink might have been of poor quality but it was difficult to remove. The red color was pronounced and I called Jane’s attention to it. She too had had the experience, since she had tried prints of her own a few days earlier. A lot of scrubbing reduced the red stain to a yellowish cast finally, but here I had to let it wear off. This took several days. Thus we have a progression here from black to violet to red to yellow.

Ruburt has been intellectually involved in a strong manner with our whole relationship and experience, as he studied the galleys for his book. This is not particularly conducive to his intuitional activities, so I did not give him a break before our tests, but let the trance state continue. This worked to our advantage. This period just passing, of comparative rest on his part, from psychic activities, makes one point at least plain: our results, all in all during this period, have been good.