“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The second session was held at our apartment Friday evening, December 30, with Jane and me, Wesley Swan, Bill Macdonnel, Pat Norelli and Claire Crittenden present. Seth discussed computers and their future use; Wesley Swan agreed with the data. Seth also gave a good deal of personal data concerning a Brian Houlihan, a friend of Pat’s and some data concerning Claire and Pat, and answered questions from all of us. Evidently a good amount of the data was correct, being called so by Pat and Claire, although without notes we cannot check. One interesting bit: Seth named Claire’s birthday correctly—as falling on February 13, but missed the year by one. He said 1948 when the correct year is 1947.

I have a few matters to discuss here. The probable realities of which I have spoken are separated from your own, not in terms of space but in terms of energy focus. Survival personalities, as you term them, are not separated from you in space either, but in terms of energy focus.

This is done to some extent in the dream state, but it is not a deliberate contact. It is a spontaneous coming together. (Pause.)

These probable realities exist within what may be generally termed your own sphere of activity, your own plane. There are many other realities that are far divorced from your own however. Every thought, as I have told you, is an action and must seek to fulfill itself. It is a fragment, therefore. You are literally surrounded by other realities that you do not perceive consciously. Some of these are perceived by the inner self, but all are not.

I can perceive much that you do not for example, but I hardly perceive all, and what I do perceive is but a fraction of All That Is. Survival personalities exist both as they were and as they are. This is an important point. What they were still exists, and under certain conditions can be perceived.

(Caroline Keck sent Jane the items to give to her in appreciation for a pen and ink drawing of a pigeon I gave to Caroline Keck. In July 1964 Jane worked at the Arnot Art Gallery, and Caroline Keck and her husband Sheldon spent some time there then, putting the gallery’s collection in shape. Jane liked Caroline Keck, and the two got along well. The drawing of the pigeon was among a group I had exhibited at the gallery at the time the Kecks were present; they saw it and admired it. I never met the Kecks, but told Jane to give the drawing to them.

(“A yellow square.” No connections. The object is printed on card stock with a light cream tint, but not yellow. Jane, oddly enough, said she had an image of a yellow square.

(“A framework within a framework.” Somewhat vague, but we believe legitimate. Jane said the Kecks worked with frames and pictures while at the gallery in July 1964. A painting could be a framework, fitting within another framework—the frame. Could also be a generalization, referring to either the Arnot Gallery here in Elmira, or the Brooklyn Museum mentioned on the object, or both.

(“And a G.” The illustrations for Louis Pomerantz’s book are done by Paula Gerard. But we think the G data a distortion, referring to our friend Bill Gallagher, as brought out in the question period.

(“Several small letters or numbers, and a stamped card, from a distant place.” See page 230. The object contains small printed letters in the address in the upper left corner. It also contains numbers in the date. It is a card, but is not stamped; instead of being mailed alone it was enclosed in a small package or envelope with Louis Pomerantz’s book and the mimeographed list described earlier; and all addressed to Jane.

(“A very small image, such as the square or rectangle on the item.” This could be distortion arising from the object being similar to a postcard. But as stated the object was not mailed alone, and bears no stamp, etc, nor any marking like a square or rectangle.

(“An invitation to attend.” At this date Jane cannot recall. The Kecks are well known in their field, and it is possible some social affair was held for them while they were in Elmira and at the gallery doing their work. Jane could have been invited to attend. She knows she attended no such affair in their honor, but doesn’t know, now, whether she was asked to.

(“Connection with a man also. With you and another man," Some distortion develops here, but we think this legitimate data. See the copy of the object on page 230. Note that Caroline Keck writes Jane that her son Larry appropriated my drawing for his own use. Jane looked at me when she gave this data, incidentally.