“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The first part of this session was held for John Pitre, who telephoned Jane about a week ago from Franklin, LA, on behalf of his ill wife, Peggy.

(Jane began speaking in trance at a very slow and deliberate pace, I had the distinct feeling that she wanted to get the information through in as undistorted a manner as possible, as Seth began to discuss the material John had given during his call.)

She does indeed sense it, and she is not afraid. (Pause; one of many.) There seems to be some other important event that will intervene or happen first. (Eyes closed; Jane gestured as though attempting to understand.) I believe to someone else beside the man and his wife—the man, or his wife.

We must be very careful here. The event may involve the wife’s mother…. (See page 185. Pause.) There is no basic contradiction between the man’s ideas and those orthodox ones followed by his wife. The difference is only an apparent one. A difference of interpretation. She has clothed a basic idea of reality in certain garments, and he has chosen other garments. Both are necessarily distortive, but beneath both is the same reality.

I will not give him any date, or approximate date, for his wife’s death. The knowledge would not be to his advantage, nor in some ways would it be to her advantage, for his attitude toward her would change.

The man may have more on his hands, you see, than he does now. I do not see any point in informing him, because of the suggestions involved. Probabilities do operate, but I do sense this rather strongly, as if many probabilities pointed in this direction. (Pause.

Now. He enjoys having sessions to some degree for his students, for he responds to their desire and need, but he distrusts himself more when you are not present, you see. (Long pause.) This should vanish in time. It is a new experience for him. In such cases, you see, he must trust himself entirely to me, and since he distrusts himself and me to some varying degree, then there is some conflict. This is not of a severe nature.

(“Were we correct about his symptoms for the last couple of days?” Jane’s annoying head manifestations, said by her pendulum to be caused by the Pitre session.)

You were. He felt duty bound to hold the session, you see; guilty that he had not held it; and yet highly uneasy, for he realized it would contain information that could bring sorrow. Added to this was his fear of distorting it. Do you have other questions?