“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.)

A meeting together once a month for the purpose of answering their questions, explaining our material, would be most beneficial. This would not be a social affair however, per se, and that should be clearly understood. Through these people you have also influenced their circle of relatives and friends, though to a lesser degree.

One more note. These are the people, you see, we want to reach, for they are young and they can learn, and they are not hampered by old theories. Through watching them, you see, you can observe the effect that our material has on their daily lives. This is the material in its functional working dimensions, and that is very important.

(Many sessions ago, I believe within the first 50, Seth told us we should one day be aware of our dreams while fully conscious. At the time we did not have enough background material to see how this would be possible. We now believe it possible, and the closing paragraph above struck a chord within me; I think the very passive state I achieve at times after doing hatha yoga might signal a beginning here.

Now give us a moment please for our Instream material.

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.

You made rather too much of a point of our location in Wyoming, Joseph. We will see what we can do however, and if we do not get the correct data this evening, we shall do so eventually.

A connection with salt. I give Ruburt a break after our impressions, and I shall do so now. Then if you are not tired we shall continue. I leave the length of the session to you. Add the number 103 to our information concerning the location, and there is the whistle of wind.

(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.

In our next session we will return to our basic material. However this information, such as tonight’s will be most beneficial.

(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.

(Recently several magazines and newspapers have printed articles on the newly-discovered quasars, or quasi-stellar radio sources. These objects are at the limits of our observable universe according to our instruments, yet are many times too bright and emit much too much energy for their size, according to the laws of physics. See the Time Magazine article for March 11,1966.)

My best wishes to you both. If it were not for the labor involved on your part, Joseph, I would speak to you both more often. There is personal material that we do not seem to have time for, as I want to continue developing our basic material. You may always call upon me whenever you wish, however.

(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.)