“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Tonight Jane was asked to do some mailing work at the gallery where she used to work.)

Ruburt’s experience with your Miss Callahan recently was quite legitimate. He used a most advantageous method of projection without knowing that he did so, and I highly recommend this method to you both. When you awaken, or seem to in the middle of the night, try simply to get out of the physical body. Simply try to get out of bed, you see, and to walk into another room while the physical body stays where it is.

The experience will be must less startling to the ego than an abrupt projection, and the ordinary nature of the activities, walking into the next room for example, will be reassuring. You are more calm, and in your own surroundings. Of course Ruburt was out of his body when he saw Miss Callahan, who was in the same condition.

(A note: Miss Callahan was taken to a home for the elderly a few weeks ago, and has given up her apartment in this house, etc. A couple of days ago Jane and I heard through a friend that Miss Callahan has twice been found walking along Route 17, a main highway here, as she tried to get back to this house. Her mind is failing. Miss Callahan’s first mention is in the first session of Volume 1.)

(Break at 9:28. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes began to open and her pace picked up quite a bit. She resumed at 9:40.)

(At 9:42 she took the envelope for our 75th experiment from me and pressed it to her forehead in a horizontal position. Her eyes remained closed. Her pace was quite fast.)

I did not say the object was. Something lifted up.

That was a result of a square impression. But this also has to do with a connection out of country.

(Break at 10:04. Jane was very well dissociated, she said. She did not lower the envelope from her forehead until just before break. Her eyes remained closed. None of the data made any sense to her, she said. She could not recall specific images at the moment, saying that she saw them when Seth said she did.

(“With an article, an article of clothing.” Too vague. Jane said there is a chance this refers to her second day of teaching. She was called late, and while rushing to get dressed caused a run in her last pair of stockings. She had to wear them on the job, run and all.

(“A city. Very distant connection with something like Cincinnati, Ohio.” A possible distant connection: At the end of her second day of teaching Jane was given a ride home by a next-door neighbor who is also a teacher. The neighbor is from Ohio, but not Cincinnati, which could account for Seth’s reference to “something like” Cincinnati. In addition, the neighbor had just returned to Elmira from a trip to Ohio, so the Ohio thought was mentioned in the conversation more than once. City is also mentioned on the object itself—City School District, etc.

(“With a momentous occasion of some kind; not usual occasion. Somehow different.” Jane also had the idea of an initial occasion here, and regretted not saying it aloud. She said this data refers to her first day of teaching; to her it was certainly momentous, not usual, and different. The envelope object is the employee pay record from her check for this first day’s work.

(“A room with something missing.” Jane said this refers to the taking of attendance in class. It was stressed to her that she attend to this job above all others, she said, so she was careful about this. Since all the students were new to her each time, she had to depend on their help to keep her records straight. Sometimes she took attendance every period of the day.

(1st Question: What’s that connection with greed or grasp? “I am not sure. Holding onto, reaching out toward, with some urgency. An unassailable position. A Q. A great deal of fuss.” As stated, this data applies to Jane’s taking the teaching job, and her grim determination to keep it at all costs. She felt it urgent that she do so. A great deal of fuss was involved, also. We saw no particular connection for Q.

(“A small rectangular object, perhaps of metal, with numbers upon it. Such as, for example, a small license plate, that would carry numbers and notations, and be metallic and connected with travel. And the color orange and black, and an automobile perhaps.” All of this refers to Jane’s taking a taxi to the various schools in town, whenever she was called. I was not available to take her, having already left for work except on the first occasion. The taxi she used was orange and black.

(3rd Question: The object isn’t embossed. “I did not say the object was. Something lifted up.” Another reference to a license plate. By telling Seth the object wasn’t embossed, I once again hoped to get more specific data about the object itself.

(4th Question: Can you say something about the initials J A B? “A connection with several circular shapes, rather oval.” Here Seth was still considering the previous questions pertaining, Jane thought, to the automobile or taxi idea.

(5th Question: The oval shapes are related to J A B? “No. I simply see the large capitals J A B, and do not know their precise meaning. Perhaps four connected here.” See the J A B data at the bottom of page 146. The question was an attempt to get more data on them. We see no connection with four here, particularly.

(7th Question: What kind of events? “Future events. Connected with past events.” This could apply to the object, since this employee pay record has boxes or spaces on it for the entry of moneys toward retirement, savings bonds, credit union, etc., for steadily-employed teachers. Jane had no entries in these spaces. Later note by Jane: Unknown to us at this time I was to end up with another teaching position, in answer to an ad I had not yet read.

(9th Question: What’s that toreador connection? “A red and violent connection. High activity connected with a male, or repressed violent tendencies, in the situation.” This is also good data, and related to the envelope object in that it refers to an event taking place in Jane’s classroom on her second day of teaching. [The object represents Jane’s first day of teaching.] Briefly, a very violent scene was enacted before Jane and her class. A male teacher entered with a young male student in tow, and literally threw the student across the classroom in a violent fit of anger. The bout resulted from the student’s misbehavior in the hall.

(Jane said the teacher’s face was very red with anger, and that it was obvious he had a strong temper. Later that day she overheard two of her students talking, and they discussed the teacher’s bad temper, it being a well-known fact in the school. Jane discussed the incident with me the day it happened. It had made quite an impression on her, and of course took her by surprise.

(12th Question: You mentioned Piccadilly before. “That was a result of a square impression. But this also has to do with a connection out of country.” See our speculations regarding the Piccadilly data on page 147.