“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jerry had recently sent some of her elderly father’s clothes to be cleaned. This afternoon when the clothes were returned Jerry found a note stapled to a garment, found in a pocket by the cleaners. This puzzled Jerry, since she had thoroughly searched the garments before sending them out. She wondered if Jane could pick up any impressions from the note.

(The note was from Billie, Jerry’s stepmother, who had died in 1965. Neither Jerry nor her father had seen the note before, and it had a strong emotional effect on both of them. A further puzzle was due to the fact that for some time before her death Billie could not write, so Jerry was curious as to just when the note had been written.

(Billie was the third wife of Jerry’s father, and she herself had been married once before. Jerry added many italic notes after I’d typed the session.

Connection with initials M S, and a long car ride. The father went with Billie on a long car trip. That is, not terribly long, but perhaps 20 miles. (Orlando, FL, 20 mile trip approximately, to hospital, often.) He wore the jacket that day and the note was in the jacket, and she put it there and he didn’t know it was there.

I think Billie isn’t pleased with certain sleeping arrangements having to do with the father… Something to do with a second floor back room bedroom. (He is now in 2nd floor back bedroom. She never saw house. Moved in after Billie’s death.) She thinks he should sleep downstairs.

It could be “tip-up time”. Having to do with a drink, and with Jerry’s father. (Pause.

I see her banging on the table and she’s saying goddammit—she’s having a fight with the father —she’s swearing and kicked out… and there’s kids around. She’s hurt her foot. They’re fighting and they hit each other and she is calling him names. He is a no-good (swearing evidently omitted) …and something about a check and a job and another woman… And she says—I’m trying Robbie to separate myself—and she says by Jesus I won’t stand for it.

(The effect of the data here was that Billie seemed most concerned that we understand her true attitude toward Jerry’s father.)

Something about Linda (Jerry’s daughter—Lorinda. 5 now), that Linda is a wild one (yes, she is wild). I don’t want answers: is Linda 6? The furniture bill. Something about it coming due. Seems to be important… A bill… Either due on Jerry’s house, or for Billie’s in the past that Jerry’s father didn’t meet, or something that wasn’t paid for. I think on Jerry’s house, but I’m not sure. (He has bills and just took out another loan—Jerry unhappy here.)

She wants him to be his old self. (Pause, head down.) I seem to see a distant connection with Wisconsin (? Will ask aunt), on Billie’s part, I think… A wedding anniversary and a string of beads. (She wore beads a lot.) She was trying to get through Jerry to get to the father because she wanted him to know that she was with him as much as ever, and then she sort of laughs and says more so, probably more so.

(Jerry said that the data echoed Billie’s fiery, hot-tempered disposition very well, and that the phrases Jane cited like “guts and gumption”, etc., were the exact ones used by Billie. Billie swore often and talked very fast, as noted in the data. Billie was dominant over her father, Jerry said; she was very insistent and wouldn’t back down in an argument.

(Billie was the third wife of Jerry’s father, and she had been married once before herself. She caught the father “running around,” Jerry said, and raised hell. Jerry remembered that in connection with the Tony data, the name of Billie’s first husband was Anthony. Jerry said that as far as she knew Anthony wasn’t dead, but that she would check; perhaps death had occurred.