“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(See the notes on page 269, Volume 5, of the 232nd session, dealing with Jane’s recent poetry book and the request by Jane’s publisher, F. Fell, that she send it to him along with a tape of some of the poems, also by Jane. In the 277th session Seth said this book would be published. F. Fell returned the book a couple of weeks ago, and it is now in the hands of another publisher. Jane did not seriously expect Fell to accept this book, but still wants to hear from Seth about it. Playboy Press has also rejected the poetry book. See the notes on page 312, Volume 5. Seth hasn’t named any specific publishers in his predictions, nor have we asked.

Now. A few general remarks following our last discussion, concerning our sessions.

Now this development helps me, for I need his development in order that my communications be more clearly presented and received. Basically however all of this takes place in deeply unconscious layers. Abilities and energies are released. These cannot be willed however, on a conscious level.

Now. I am not going to discuss many of your points this evening. However, the poetry book will indeed sell.

(Jane now paused. Her eyes were still closed. She leaned forward in her rocker, elbows on knees, head down. The pause was rather long, and her voice was quieter when she resumed at 9:14.)

Now, let us go at our own pace here. These are impressions.

Now. The physical body often and consistently acts upon subconscious knowledge, but in order to impress consciousness, such information must be carried by some kind of sense impression, whether this be a pseudosense impression, or a more normal one.

Now. In the earlier impressions that I gave you this evening, I was trying something new, and we will give you what further information we can, when we can. We were throwing our net of awareness in a large circle, so to speak, to see what we could catch, and the results should prove rather interesting.

(It was now time for the 49th Dr. Instream experiment, although as it developed this came a bit later than usual. Once again Jane spoke slowly, with her eyes closed and her voice rather quiet. Resume at 9:59.)

Now. The material that I gave you earlier, concerning your finances, was quite approximately correct.

Changes that may allow you to insist upon bettering your own position there. Now do not rush me.

(Jane now took another pause, at 10:06.)

Now, give us a moment for our Instream material.

Now for the object. A book, or an object resembling one. It could be a box of book shape. The space between either the covers of the book or the covers of the box being colored, and patterned. (Long pause.) The patterns resembling imperfect circles—shapes—perhaps red, orange or yellow, but more than one color.

(Seth now prodded me into asking the third question, so I asked for elaboration on the motor data given early in the experiment.

Now we shall indeed close our session.

Our friend Ruburt is picking up again, and in his own work as well. Now. If you are tired we will close immediately.

Then I have a few personal remarks which you may or may not include in the records, as you prefer. From now on I will give such information at the end of a session, because you can delete it if you want from the record.

You are now out of the woods, physically speaking. You have passed the period where in the past illness was most probable. The afternoon at your parents’ home could have initiated an illness, but did not because of your more rational reactions.

Now there are pills I believe that once taken become activated again within given time periods. This is how your virus acted, and you yourself triggered it. Now there was a connection here with a vaccine, I believe taken by you and Ruburt, that should not have affected you at all.

The other was to hurt yourself. Now, it has taken you this much time to recover completely, and without our sessions recovery would have been slower. Now, your energy can indeed bubble up freely in your work.

(Break at 11:04. Jane was well dissociated, she said. Her pace had become fairly good, her eyes opening often. I left the well-paying field of comics just about at the time I met Jane, in the spring of 1954. Jane now resumed in the same manner at 11:06.)

I wanted to congratulate you however, you personally, Joseph. Now your next line of endeavor will involve good health in the late summer, and this can be arranged. We will work on it, and shortly give you some specific suggestions that will be of practical benefit.

Now. Whenever you find time, we will hold sessions in which definite diet suggestions are given for you both, for there are allergies that operate here, and you are not taking advantage of the information that I have in this regard.

(End at 11:10. Jane, again well dissociated, said Seth “could go on for hours,” but by now we were getting tired. We have often wondered whether food allergies might be influencing us. Seth had some information for us on our diet, in a general way, in the 185th session. See Volume 4.)