“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The 48th envelope experiment was held during the session. See the copy of the object on page 104. We had saved the article because it dealt with our friend Bill Macdonnel, who has witnessed several sessions. When Bill visited us early this evening I thought of using the clipping as object.

(I found other copies of the article after the session. The actual copy used in the envelope is as usual on file in our object notebook. On the partial copy attached to page 104 I penned in the row of numbers representing the date after the session. The session was a comparatively short one and Seth did not go into each point in the data. Some of the data is self-explanatory when checked against the article.

(Jane was still not feeling tiptop, but thought she would rather have the session than miss it. It was held in our front room. She began speaking while sitting down and with her eyes closed, in a quiet voice and with short pauses.)

The pathways are now becoming clear enough so that a change will be effectively apparent. Some of this is the result of the practice gained in psychic manipulation through our sessions themselves.

(Jane’s increased abilities could already be revealing themselves. She has been doing very well on her book on dreams recently; this afternoon she remarked that it was going so well that she wondered where the material was coming from. Seth spoke on the integration of our personalities also in the 228th session; the material grew out of his material on the poetry book Jane produced so effortlessly. Our thought is that the dream book material is also appearing in the same way. According to Seth we are just beginning to use our creative abilities.

(True. See the summary of the unscheduled 247th session, which was held at the home of our landlady, Marian Spaziani. In the session Seth dealt with the coming operation Marian faces for an ovarian tumor that is benign, and gave Marian ideas for suggestion. Jane visited with Marian one morning early last week, and for the next day or two remarked that she felt quite like Marian’s description of her own symptoms. We considered that Jane was reacting to suggestion here, but were rather surprised since Jane knows how to guard against negative suggestion as a rule.

We will hold our regular sessions again beginning Monday. Now I am merely letting you rest for the reasons given earlier.

Ruburt’s illness at our unscheduled session was simply caused by a sudden inner panic, brought about because of his realization that the session was more complete than usual.

(Jane paused at 9:40, then took the envelope for our 48th experiment from me without opening her eyes. She pressed it against her forehead with both hands.)

(Jane progresses step by step. At the moment she said she feels uneasy when I ask questions pertaining directly to the object, but that she knows this will pass in the light of past experience. In the beginning also she could not name an object for Dr. Instream regardless of questions of accuracy. She does so easily now in most cases. Jane explained that our own experiments call up a chain of personal associations which she must sort out in reciting the data. She is not concerned with this in the Instream material.

(“More of an egg shape than a circle.” Seth gave this in answer to my second question, and continues below. See the data and our interpretation on page 109, with the description of the two near-circular sculptures in the same window of Bill Macdonnel’s gallery, with the disputed nude painting. Seth gave the above data when I asked him to clarify his original data on page 108. The smaller of the two sculptures is more egg-shaped than the larger. See the next impression.