“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You are, as I have told you, far more important than a stenographer, and your active energy was indeed not here earlier.

The willing fingers and good intent, yes, but the active focus of your energies was not here. (Pause.) Ruburt does rely on you as a partner in these endeavors. It is not a matter necessarily of how much time you spend, for admittedly your hours are well consumed. It is a matter of your active, active (underlined)interest, and the enthusiastic focus of energy, whether or not you are directly involved in a given experiment.

This usually requires more effort, and there will be no messages on these occasions. In this method detailed above, there is cooperation between a survival personality and the person who is the operating sensitive. Some contact between the fingertips and table is necessary here, to set up the proper requirements for this particular kind of force field.

For Ruburt’s class try the following combinations with the large table: Venice, Paul and Sheryl; Shirley, Venice and Sheryl; Ruth, Joan and Paul. Ruburt for this class should keep one definite place at the table for his own. You have three or four small problems here, rather than one large one.

(We tried several locations without success, finally standing at a table close to the death scene, a doorway. Seth then came through, and in no uncertain terms told us to mind our own business. We were told, in a strong and echoing Seth voice, to let the poor man rest in peace; he would be “here” for a while longer yet, then leave. In the meantime we had no business trying to contact him. He did not want to be reached, but to rest and be left alone.