“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.

(Jane of course saw this particular print, along with perhaps twenty others I made at the same time. There is nothing about this one to distinguish it from many of the others. Following the instructions in the book, I traced the outline of my hand in pencil while pressing the inked surface against the white paper. The print was sealed in the usual double envelope between the usual two pieces of Bristol.

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.

Of course I get help from him. One of my main purposes is to instruct, and to do so with all the available equipment operating at least to some degree. The light trance state is ideal for this.

One of the reasons, incidentally, for Ruburt’s good performance for me is precisely his ability to use words well. We are building up a foundation here, in which words are important, and for which incidentally subconscious shorthand symbols would be of little use.

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.

The cover has a representation of a building on it. Howard Johnson. Two other men in particular, standing up as if to leave. One taller than the other, and both seem hatless.

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.)

One of the men carries a brown cardboard large envelope, or folder, with strings on it, and records inside.

(Jane paused at 10:14. Her eyes were still closed and she still held the envelope to her forehead. This was my first opportunity to ask a question during such experiments; I picked what I thought was a safe one, meaning that I didn’t think it would give Jane any clues.

(“I have the impression of a steeple shape, or upside-down V shape, that is rather prominent.” To Jane the shapes of my fingers as outlined in pencil on the print, were steeple shapes. There are several V shapes on the print, and a prominent one between the thumb and forefinger. We are not sure why the upside-down reference to a V shape however. During the experiment I noticed that Jane held the rectangular test envelope to her forehead with its long axis roughly parallel to the floor; perhaps the folded object inside gave rise to the upside-down impression.

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.