“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(She began speaking in trance while sitting down, and with her left hand raised to her closed eyes. Voice average, pace slow with many pauses.)

The generic patterns set up certain organizations among themselves, maintaining direction over some cellular functions, and are closely allied with the movement and purifying agencies of the blood, and also with kidney function. Their vitality is influenced by the seasons, and runs in cycles of ten to fifteen days, followed by a more relaxed period. They are also connected with your ability to utter vowels, and they are themselves sensitive to sound.

This is done automatically. The data is not radioed back (gesture, eyes closed) to the physical body, so to speak, for interpretation. Consciousness can adapt physical methods of procedure even when separated from the body. It forms its own  pseudophysical apparatus, even as it originally forms the physical image itself. The consciousness is aware of seeing and observing more or less in physical terms, and so it is.

(Her eyes now closed, Jane reached out to take the double sealed envelope for the 73rd experiment from me. As usual, she held it to her forehead in a horizontal position.)

(Break at 10:01. Jane had been out as usual, she said. Her eyes had remained closed during the experiment. Her pace had been much faster during the experiment than during the rest of the session. She said she was not aware of any of the data while she was giving it, or what it might mean, whether it was valid, etc.

(“The color red.” We cannot be sure. There could be many sources of red that Friday evening; for instance, the candle I used to deposit a coat of carbon black on the cap used as object, was a brilliant red; this was a large fat candle, and one we have used in previous experiments. We used it toward the close of the evening last Friday as an object upon which the six of us focused our attention. Half humorously, we attempted to increase the height of the candle flame by concentration, with no success. This was after we had finished the table tipping.

(I blackened the cap in the candle flame in order to tie the evening’s activities more closely to the cap, for the beer had been consumed during the table tipping. As stated I held the cap in the flame without pretense, before everyone, but of course told no one why I did so. Nor did anyone ask. It also developed that Jane did not notice my doing so.

(Jane resumed in trance, her eyes opening and closing, at 10:55.)