“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Shortly after this our new cat, Catherine, fell ill with distemper, and received a shot at the veterinarian’s Friday evening, July 29, along with some pills for subsequent days. By tonight it appeared the cat would be all right. Jane wanted me to be sure to ask Seth about the cat in case that personality failed to mention it voluntarily.

Now. If Ruburt were in danger of any serious illness, I would know it. And I would warn you, though I am aware of the power of suggestion you see, and would be under such circumstances extremely careful less the warning itself act as a negative suggestion.

If it appeared necessary however I would warn you, and give instructions as to how it could be best avoided. I was not aware of Ruburt’s approaching indisposition at our last session, although I knew his overall condition was not of the best.

Ruburt was sick to his stomach because he had not been able to work properly. He acted this out physically. The enforced rest also gave him time to gain back his psychic resources. All of this could have been dealt with on mental and psychic levels. In the past the physical conditions under comparable circumstances would have been far worse.

You chose, both of you, the two people who are the most psychically gifted of your acquaintance, and you called them here. You called them because the illness of the animal served to tell you that some extra reinforcement would be helpful. The whole affair was psychically logical, and followed inner patterns that aided all of you.

Ruburt took, all in all, a wise course under the circumstances. It was not the best course, which would have been a psychic one. I suggest your break.

Before conscious projection I would therefore recommend you take a small amount of starchy or sugar food. This molecular structure thins out, so to speak, and while not physically visible has a physical basis. For projections within other systems, another transformation must and does take place. The physical connection will only allow you to go so far. What amounts to another projection from this first form then occurs.

(“Stern. I do not know if this refers to stern as severe, or stern as a ship.” At first this stumped us. Jane said then that the connection referred to Enfield Glen, which we visited three times during our vacation from July 9-17. See the notes on page 294 and the tracing on the previous page. The object was obtained July 15, during our vacation, on Friday. Jane recalled that she had wanted to visit the Glen instead of drive to Wellsburg. The connection would be the Glen, where there is a beautiful pool and stream, leading to stern “as a ship.”

(The death connection enters in because the bill was filled out by the worker at the lumberyard who obtained and cut the Masonite so it would fit into our station wagon. The worker—whose name we do not know, but could easily learn—became quite talkative when he learned I planned to use the Masonite as support for paintings. He described to us in some detail how he had a portrait of himself drawn during the Second World War, when he was overseas. War…death. The conversation was unusual in that the worker explained how the artist drew his face as though it was symmetrical, whereas in reality it is quite asymmetrical, with an impaired eye.

(“And perhaps with water.” This could stem from the wells in Wellsburg, as explained earlier, or from the fact that Jane would have preferred going to Enfield Glen to swim, instead of buying Masonite. Also, we planned to go swimming locally after getting the Masonite, but became so busy we did not do so.

(“Writing or printing in a lower left-hand corner perhaps, very small, holding the object horizontally.” Jane at this time held the envelope horizontally. We did not mark the envelopes or the object to verify this data. However if she held the object so that its head, or top, pointed to the right as she faced it, then there would be printing along the left-hand side of the bill. This being the fine print at the bottom of the front of the bill.

(If Jane held the object with its head pointing to the left as she faced it, then the price and date would be at the left edge of the bill. This copy is larger however.

(On the object, the first word in the heading beneath the name is Roofing. This ties in neatly with the next data. Note also that the word Roofing is located on the upper half of the object; that is, high up on the object, as a roof would usually be over the head of an observer.

(“1966, also looking to 1967.” Note the box on the front of the bill bearing the words Account forwarded. Since I bought the Masonite in 1966, and presumably would keep an account going at the lumberyard, any sum due would be carried over into 1967.

We will close. If it were not so late I would discuss this experiment, as there are some interesting connections.