“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane resumed after a break, and her trance deepened considerably. Later she said it was her deepest trance ever. Jane began to speak in a halting manner, her voice dwindled, and she called my name as if in supplication. She lay on the floor on her back. She called me once again; as I went to her she burst into tears; her crying was strong and highly charged; it seemed obvious she was responding emotionally to an experience of Barbara’s of an early age; Jane seemed to have attained a state beyond words. It took some time for her to come out of the trance, with what little help I could offer.

(Indeed, Jane slipped back into it several times, at brief intervals. Barbara could verify none of this experience, which would be the case were it buried in the subconscious. Bill Gallagher took us on a ride in the hopes the cold night air would help Jane snap out of it; so at 1:00 in the morning we were bouncing through Elmira, Elmira Heights, and Horseheads. The therapy worked however.

Now, freedom does demand discipline. There was on Ruburt’s part a much more complete inner concentration, and for this initial indication a strong stimulus was necessary. As Ruburt suspects, granted the circumstances, subconscious controls were used. A time of safety was chosen.

The initial perceptions were picked up by the inner senses. A journey through time and space was involved. The medium through which Ruburt traveled was the emotional charge thrown out by the girl.

There was also a triangle formed by you, Ruburt and the girl, highly charged on a subconscious level, that added to the psychological climate. The Jesuit (Bill Gallagher) and the cat lover (Peggy G.) were balancing factors. All of these conditions, these balancing and propelling factors, were necessary for Ruburt’s first realization of this particular kind.

Without the experience itself these particular abilities would not have developed—that of course or another similar episode. The same sort of development would not have been initiated here in a session for some time, simply because the emotional conditions would not be met. We can use the development however very well.

(See the copy of the envelope object on page 51, and the notes on the page 55. As stated there, I had forgotten the contents of the test envelopes. When the time came to ask questions this evening, I decided to consider the data already received as specific enough. Actually one could ask many questions, whether knowing the object or not. Jane said she had no images while speaking.

(Another staircase interpretation here may concern our own steep flight of back stairs here at the apartment. We live on the second floor. Since it was a pleasant summer evening on July 1, we held the party out on the back lawn, leaving the cake upstairs in our apartment as a surprise for Bill. When the time came to get the cake Jane and I went upstairs together, lit the candles on the cake while hiding on the stairs, then carried the cake out to the party.

(“A circumstance involving a policeman.” This refers to a long and involved story told us by Peggy Gallagher during the evening of the birthday party, for which Jane and I wrote the poem used as object. Peg’s news made an impression and Jane and I still remember it. Very briefly, it concerns the behavior of a local psychiatrist and his wife—one of those continuing affairs that have been well known locally for some time, yet never getting into the newspaper.