“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(In the last session Seth said the possibility existed that we would have four or five witnesses for the session tonight. He had also mentioned such a possibility during Sunday’s unscheduled session of February 27. However no witnesses appeared.

(Prior to the session Jane and I had a discussion as to the exact profession of the person who had written the many notes on the manuscript of her ESP book. See pages 319-20 for notes on this, in the 236th session, and Seth’s comments. Neither of us thought the person in question a psychologist. I favored a parapsychologist, Jane a psychiatrist. In his comments he referred rather often to his own theory of spherical time. Neither of us have heard of this, nor can we find a reference to it in our books.

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 takes prissy tiptoeing steps, always looking backward with worried caution. He does not carry his precious spherical time idea far enough to begin with. His spherical time is like the surface of a sphere only.

Now. When the communicator is still strongly tied emotionally to your own system, and when he is still acclimating himself to his new conditions, then his communications will be extremely garbled, as a rule.

His control over the nervous system of the person through whom he communicates will be faulty and erratic. His interests will largely be those he had during physical existence. This is generally true.

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.

Our communications are not of this type. As an overall personality, I have always been concerned with ideas. I am not emotionally in strong connection with any personalities known to Frank Watts, for example. He is a part of, or a fragment of, my whole self, and an independent one.

If such a study is conducted however with preconceived ideas, then each experimenter will find only what he has been looking for, for all else will appear meaningless to him.

He is in a building several stories high, and he is not on the first floor. The building is modern. He has matches in his hand, and lights one. He stares at the matches, a small packet of ordinary matches.

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.)

(“and a connection with a man who wears glasses. Not you, Joseph.” Don Wilbur wears glasses. I do also. So does Bill Gallagher. Peggy Gallagher was visiting Jane on the evening I made the print used as the envelope object, on Sunday, February 27. After I was through with my efforts Bill arrived. As we recall he was not wearing his glasses on that particular evening. Don Wilbur wears his all the time, as I do.

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.

It was in a similar period in the past that the test data were very poor. The improvement will show itself more clearly as he becomes psychically more active again. My best regards to you both. If you have no questions I will end the session.