“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The brief session was held in the office of Jane’s publisher, Frederick Fell, in New York City. On August 15, Jane had declined to appear on the Alan Burke TV show, WNEW-TV.

(Jane met no old acquaintances at Star Island or in Boston, nor was any unusual session held. On August 9, Wednesday, Jane was invited by telephone to appear on the Burke TV show in New York City. On the evening of August 15, Tuesday, Jane and I were having supper at an outdoor restaurant, The Californian, at 7th Avenue and Broadway in New York City. At 7:30 PM, we were approached by Merle Cratsley of Odessa, New York, an old friend.

(Merle did not know we were eating there, but did know we were in New York City, having been so informed by phone by his wife, with whom I work in Elmira. He had planned to be in the audience at the Alan Burke TV show August 16. Merle and his wife used to live in the apartment house we occupy in Elmira. They moved perhaps a year and a half ago, and Jane has seen him perhaps once since then. He is hardly forgotten however.

(At the time of the 358th session we did not know Merle was scheduled by his company to be in New York City; nor could he have known where we would be eating supper at that particular time. He had not been to our hotel on 46th Street, since when we met at the restaurant he asked us where we were staying. We believe, however, that he may have had a general idea that we would be staying in the Times Square area.

(The second part of the data concerning an unusual session, can be interpreted as applying to this session, the 360th, which took place in F. Fell’s office in New York City on August 16, the day after the Cratsley meeting. However, the next session, the 361st, was also quite unusual, and took place in the coffee shop of our hotel, the Paramount, at 235 West 46th Street. It was a different type of session, unique in Jane’s experience and was witnessed by myself and Raymond Van Over of the Parapsychology Foundation. See the accompanying notes for that session. It took place later the same day, August 16, as this session, the 360th.

(The above notes will show how complicated a task it sometimes is to interpret data. In capsule form: The data given in connection with a Boston trip, with New York City not heard from yet by us; yet events during the New York City trip, a couple of days after the Boston trip, bear a close resemblance to the data. We have learned that data should be considered sentence by sentence, without considering the whole body of material as necessarily related. Again and again it has been demonstrated to us that two succeeding bits of material, seemingly related, can refer to entirely different matters, separated in time and space.