“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The 303rd session, held Saturday evening, November 26, with Eugene and Sarah Bernard, was a long and active one. The whole week had been a very busy one for Jane and me, and we were left somewhat short of sleep.

Now this is indeed a personal seminar that you attend, and in the terms used by Bernard. I am speaking to you from a particular point of my personality, the part which you can easily understand. I believe my way of teaching to be the best one for our purposes. Ruburt’s abilities are very strong. They must be nurtured in such a way that stability is maintained.

(My next quick sketch as Jane continued speaking for Seth: Is this sign, +, a reference to the string wrapped around the Bernard package? Thus: )

(One of Jane’s chores Tuesday, not on the list but performed along with the listed items, was to mail a package to Sarah Bernard, who along with her husband visited us from North Carolina over last weekend. See the last session. The package contained a sweater Sarah forgot. The Bernards had visited Florida a few weeks ago. Jane had made her own list of errands to run Tuesday, and this included a visit to the post office to buy stamps, as well as mail the package. See Jane’s list, page 190 also.

(2nd Question: Any others? “These are further impressions. A turn up or tune-up.” Possibly a reference to the sweater left behind by Sarah Bernard, turning up after the Bernards had driven away. This is referred to on Jane’s list under the mail package data; Jane did this on the same trip downtown during which she ran the errands listed on my list, used as envelope objects.

(“A distant place, that is rather distant, not close by. Water.” Probably a reference to the Bernards and their trip to Florida a few weeks ago. See page 195 and the Tubbs data. The Bernards live in North Carolina, which is also a rather distant places and the package was mailed to that address. We don’t know whether much water is close to Raleigh, NC.

(“Connection with a book. Perhaps mention of Ruburt’s book.” This links the Bernards with Janet’s list through the package data, and in turn with the object itself. The Bernards had a copy of Jane’s ESP book with them; we had mailed it to them some weeks ago.

(“I have the image of people. Let us see. Of four adults.” It can of course be said that Jane and I and the Bernards are linked rather strongly to the list used as object, and through that to Jane’s list, as already explained.

(3rd Question: How about that scramble? “I do not know if it refers to a scramble of lines, events or perhaps eggs. The term scramble is my impression.” I told Seth it referred to events. See also page 195. A scrambled-egg connection also enters in, somewhat removed, since the Bernards and Jane and I had scrambled eggs for breakfast Sunday, November 27.

(Later I wondered whether Seth had been trying to get at the idea of string crossing itself around a package. A package of course is mentioned on Jane’s list, page 190. The cross effect can be easily found in the way I habitually wrap packages with strings and in the way I specifically wrapped the package to be mailed to the Bernards, thus:

(“And a connection with transportation. [4th Question: Transportation on whose part?] “On the part of guests.” I had told Seth it might more likely be transportation on Jane’s part, making the rounds to do the list of errands. There are links with the Bernards and transportation also of course, since they visited us over the weekend from North Carolina, then headed for a TV program in Philadelphia. The package data on Jane’s list is also connected to them.