“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Our young friends, Marilyn and Don Wilbur, visited us before the session this evening but did not stay for the session itself. With their young friend Ann Diebler, they have witnessed a very few unscheduled sessions. They have been reading some of the early material and now want to attend a regular session, so arrangements were made whereby they would witness the 247th session. Don plans to bring a camera and flash also. Jane is 37, I’m 46.

(I became acquainted with Marilyn and Ann at my place of employment. Marilyn no longer works there because she has a son, but Ann still does. As stated before, these young people have asked Jane and me many interesting questions about the material, and other related subjects. Some of the questions have been surprisingly acute, and their general reactions have not been what we might have expected. They have become genuinely interested in the ESP field, and this in spite of a rather deliberate lack of pushing on our part. In turn, they have sparked an interest in some of their friends of their own age.

I do not want to take any more time with this discussion. But I did want to impress you with these facts. The relationship between you and Ruburt also gives the young couple the basis upon which to build their own life together, and such a basis was quite necessary for them.

I mean this, in the fullest context of those words. You are acting incidentally not as parents in those terms at all, but more as teachers. To some extent you are a teacher in your painting, Joseph. What you want is a more flexible arrangement. If possible get away from the idea of weeknights and weekends, for this is hampering to some degree.

I told you that the group of people you saw were well developed psychically. They are not members of a nationally organized group however, but of a small group of five to seven. They were gathered informally when you perceived them.

They were not trying any experiments at the time, but their energies were free, and reaching outward. Often you are trying your psychic wings, so to speak, when you do not realize it. This is rather important.

(For while approaching the end of the exercise routine I am quite aware that I will be in an extremely relaxed mood, and that as I lay resting I can count on drifting into a state where dreams reveal themselves. This would include other related material like hypnogogic images, hearing voices, etc. My point is that I am usually aware that such passages are transpiring as I lay quietly; I am not asleep yet some of the material seems to be dreams. This is a long way from being fully and consciously active while such internal data is manifesting itself, but perhaps it is a beginning.

(The images, voices, dreams, etc., disappear when I deliberately bring myself back to the full waking state, but it might be interesting to see what I can do to prolong them through the use of suggestion. Perhaps I can carry them with me briefly as I get to my feet, etc.

Now our object is something small and round, quite like a button but with symbols on it, and larger than a button. It resembles a coin, and is dark as if stained or old.

There is a connection with a word, not too clear. It sounds like Osis, but this is not it. The sound of an Egyptian god.

The object does not belong to Dr. Instream. Something to do with mileage. This is not the object now, but a separate impression. He plans a trip, to a specific location. A connection with Canada. Also I believe with a boat, though this will not be the main method of transportation.

(Jane paused at 10:16, her eyes closed. I hadn’t mentioned Wyoming today, although we had discussed it yesterday. But evidently this had been enough to alarm Jane subconsciously.)

If you use your head my friend, you can end up with a week that is well balanced, will meet both of your needs, will allow you to operate more effectively for this reason in all your endeavors. You will have a framework in your existence which is truly refreshing. The challenge and the opportunity is yours, but now is the time to initiate such a procedure.

(We haven’t used the Ouija board for perhaps two years. It will be recalled that the board helped these sessions get under way, in December 1963, but it was soon dispensed with when Jane began to speak the material. The pointer’s loss however was quite embarrassing because the board did not belong to us, but to our landlord, James Spaziani. We never did get around to buying our own.

(As of the time I type this, Saturday, April 2, we haven’t yet found the pointer. We used to keep it on a low bookcase shelf; we used to keep newspapers on the same shelf also. We tie the papers in bundles and put them on an outside back porch for collection. Jane searched the papers there but didn’t find the pointer. But collections have been made recently and the pointer, if there, could be gone easily enough by now.)

(“Sometime soon we’d like you to discuss the quasars, but we haven’t got the time now.”

(I was sorely tempted, but concerned lest Jane be tired. The situation was like having a book before you that you were very interested in, yet you didn’t open the cover.