“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The vision was very clear, lasted for a long enough period to observe easily, and gave me strong thrilling sensations. It showed a life-size, full-face figure of Bill Gallagher wearing a long dark coat, as he stood against a somewhat stylized outdoor background of pyramid shapes in bright colors—either tempera or acrylics.

(His head was bare and his hair blowing in a wind. The portrait was life-size, from the knees up, very dramatic and bold in concept and detail, and very effective pictorially. I was delighted to see it, and was at once sure I was capable of producing such a work. The Gallaghers visited us Saturday evening, December 2. I did not see them arrive, but witnessed their departure. I had not mentioned the vision to them, and asked Jane to wait before she did so. As Bill Gallagher walked down the hall away from us upon departing, I saw that he wore a long black coat with I believe a hood upon it—a garment quite like that he wore in the vision, and one I possessed no special knowledge of in his wardrobe.

(The vision had one oddity—I stood at my desk working at something else when I became aware of it to my left. It was large, framed, and cocked at an odd angle to the floor, as if propped up by invisible hands. While I stared at it it appeared to be solid, and very nearly animated—note the wind effect mentioned earlier.

(When I became aware I was seeing it, I faced it and tried to prolong its existence. As soon as I realized this conscious effort I relaxed, in hopes that this would encourage its longevity, but the vision faded and did not return. I drew a quick very rough little sketch of it, dated it, then told Jane about it. I hoped Seth would mention it this evening.)

The vision that you saw was of a future painting that you will do.

You are allowing yourself more inner freedom again, and so you permitted yourself to see this. There were some—some (underlined) distortions, simply because the painting was interpreted in the light of your present knowledge. (Jane lay flat on her back on the divan.)

(Here Seth refers to Jane’s book of poetry, High, Low and Psycho. In a very recent session Seth told Jane to send the manuscript to a publisher beginning with an L or V. The book had already been rejected by Viking, the only V in her index of publishers. Checking the L’s, Jane was surprised to discover the publisher Horace Liveright, a name containing both an L and a V.

(Looking up the address of this publisher, she was further surprised to learn that it was at 386 Park Avenue South, New York City—the same address as Frederick Fell, the publisher of her ESP book. But for a further surprise, Jane also learned that Liveright’s editor is named Pell—very close indeed to Fell.

(9:46. Jane said she was pretty far-out during the session, and that Seth was “on a kick” about the data concerning painting. He could have continued, but we decided to cut it short.

(Jane said the room was much too stuffy at the start of the session, and that she couldn’t have continued without taking her sweater and shoes off.)