“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.

(The session was held in our front room. Jane began speaking at a slow rate, her eyes closed, her voice average.)

(Jane and I have met none of the relatives and friends.)

(This evening Marilyn gave Jane and me a flowerpot that she had made in ceramics class.)

(Break at 9:22. Jane was dissociated as usual for a first delivery. Her pace had begun to pick up finally. Her eyes began to open and she sipped at wine.

(The other morning in a burst of inspiration Jane wrote out a full outline, including chapter breakdown, of the book she intends to write after she finishes the first book on the Seth Material, and the book on dreams that she now has well under way.

(The new book is titled The Expansion of Human Consciousness. Jane wrote the outline for it in less than an hour, and says the process of intuition responsible for it was much like that which led to her production of the book of poetry discussed in the 227th and 228th sessions in Volume 5.

(Break at 9:55. Jane said she was well dissociated. Her pace had been fast, her eyes open often and very dark.

(It was now time for the 52nd Dr. Instream experiment. As usual Jane sat with her eyes closed and her head bowed to one hand. Her pace included many pauses; they were short for the most part however and her pace was on the whole good. Resume at 10:06.)

(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.)

(Jane smiled, her eyes closed.)

(Break at 10:25. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes had begun to open occasionally after the impressions for Dr. Instream, and her pace had quickened.

(Jane knew that after Monday’s session I had looked at a road map of Wyoming; she had not done so. She said she had grown used to the envelope experiments, and missed them now when we didn’t have them. We had been busy with our visitors before session time and I hadn’t had my mind on preparing an envelope.

(Jane began speaking in an active manner again, and her eyes opened almost at once. Her voice was, briefly, quite loud when she resumed at 10:31.)

(Jane paused and closed her eyes. Both of us had almost forgotten that we wanted Seth to help us locate the little three-legged pointer that goes with the Ouija board. Last weekend we had discovered the pointer was missing, and had been trying to find it ever since.

(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.

(When we discovered the pointer was lost, I remarked to Jane that now Jimmy would probably want the board back. Two days later, Jimmy visited us and asked us if he could take the board back; he and his wife wanted to experiment with it. They had never used it after Jimmy bought it. Jimmy now told us it had been on his mind in recent days. Jane and I looked for the pointer again while Jimmy waited. We didn’t find it and all three of us ended up embarrassed. Jane and I decided it was time to ask Seth for help.)

(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.)

(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.

(End at 10:51. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes had opened often and her pace had been faster. She ended the session with a broad smile, and explained now that she’d had a strong feeling of rapport with Seth. He would, she said, be only too pleased to speak to us and be of help; he would speak now for hours, Jane said, were it not for the work involved on our parts.)