“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Pause.) Do not ask any questions here. These are merely loose impressions. A bad stumble. Difficulty with a third vertebra (pause), leading to unequal nerve pressures. The condition originating in one incident some time ago, and further aggravated by a second incident in more recent times. (Pause.)

The other, the sitting forward stretch. (Pause.) Give us time here. (Long pause.) The condition leads at times to a bunching of muscles in the side of the neck in precisely this area (Jane touched the right side of her neck) that can occasionally appear almost as a hardish lump. Simply knotted muscles caused by strain. The same exercises will help here. (Pause, head down.)

Now. On the diet of your Stephen. (Pete’s brother.) We find a confusion in body chemistry, caused either by the diet itself at present, or alternating changes of diet. (Pause.) Some actual, though not drastic, starvation of tissues from the same causes. Each individual utilizes carbohydrates and protein in a slightly different manner and what is good for one is not necessarily for another.

There is an overemphasis here on the one hand, and a lack on the other. (Pause.) There is not sufficient fat of the kind that the body derives through carbohydrates, that are sustaining. What is needed is a balanced diet, a normally balanced diet. If weight loss is desired then less should be eaten. No whole body of foods such as carbohydrates should be drastically reduced. This puts the body chemistry in an unbalanced condition.

Now give us more time. (Pause.) Incidentally, I suggest some peanut butter, as it contains some nutrients that are needed. There should be, again, no overreliance on any particular group of foods.

There is nothing wrong in trying to perceive tomorrow. (Pause.) It is risky however to live today in such a manner. There are too many errors that can be made when dealing with precognitive elements. You are dealing with a world of probabilities. Now Ferd looked into a possible future, and this was quite legitimate—as a probable future. There is much concerning time that you do not yet understand, and I cannot explain it to you, unfortunately, in an evening. This may sound contradictory, but it is not. It is possible to perceive the future as it will be; on the other hand the future itself is always changing, for you change it in the present. (Pause.) In the precise moment in which you spoke the words, there was a probability, and a good one, that the event would occur as stated.

An R, the letter R, J, or an R and a J, being the initials of one name, or the first initial of two first names. (Pause.) In an Australian connection. A room (pause) that appears bare, though it is not necessarily, giving the impression of more size than it possesses. This is an Australian residence.

(Pause.) Now, by itself, ostriches. A connection here. A particular chest that has been in the family for some generations, or that is highly treasured. Among other things containing ribboned letters from a foreign land. (Pause.) It may be a handwrought chest.

Now give us time. (Pause.) It is connected to a woman. Approximately five foot five, though somewhat shortened now, as with age. Simply the word Osburn connected here. (My phonetic interpretation.) Perhaps letters from an Osburn at one time. This in the past, with the Osburn connection.

(Jane’s words were slurred a bit, and I thought she was again in a deep trance. She was using pauses however, whereas before break she had been speaking rather rapidly.)

Three children in a kitchen, sitting in a row, in her past, and she is one of them. She is six. (Pause.) There is an argument among adults, and a door slams. The location was near water, or the street had water in it, or there was a connection with swans—all of this applying to that episode.

For all of this, a basic fierce loyalty to the family. She has particular disturbances in April and November. These following the patterns set early in her psychological heritage. Iron would be helpful in her diet. (Long pause.)

There is some resentment here, a smoldering one. She would have preferred to have been born a male. This is her first existence as a woman. An episode occurring when she was approximately in a sixth grade (pause) added to an already existing sense of insecurity. (Pause.) There are also other-life connections that enter in here. The family also uses the mother as a way of testing its own strength and unity, and as a method of channeling aggression. Often she picks up the aggression of the family, and then reacts for you all. You can then blame her without facing the fact of the underlying aggression.

She is one pole of the family, and you are the other (to Pete). You have the loyalty and unswerving support of the others, partially simply because their aggressions are channeled in an opposite direction and toward another family member. (Long pause.)

This is simply a matter of time and development. You will learn together. (Pause.) You are both emotionally-based individuals, and you will be open to each other’s communications, which is all to the good. Your material will come in a slightly different manner, and the psychological framework that develops about you will be of a somewhat different nature than that which exists between Ruburt and myself.

(Long pause.) Ruburt may finish his glass of beer, and then return to the recommendation made earlier.