“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.

(9:42. Jane said she had been well dissociated while giving the material, but still remembered it to some extent. Her manner had been concerned and careful, with many pauses and searching for the right words.

(This material had been on her mind for the past few days, to the extent that some physical symptoms of her [Jane’s] own had shown themselves. Questioning on my part, and Jane’s use of the pendulum, told us these symptoms, somewhat annoying and at first puzzling, were related to the above material. Since we learned their cause they have slackened a good deal, but I asked that Seth discuss them in case there was more to be learned here.

(10:11. This was very odd, another break so quickly. It was brought on because our cat Willy, decided to jump up in Jane’s lap as she spoke in trance. Usually he pays the sessions no attention. Jane now found this somewhat distracting, and gestured to me to remove the cat. However, I believe she also called for a break because she had finished with material for John Pitre this evening.

(During break Jane told me that she had felt a sideways thrust of energy going out of her; she thought this probably an attempt at projection to Louisiana while in trance. She had also been aware of the same feeling as she sat quietly just before the session, she now told me; both attempts had been abortive however.

(“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.)

(Instead of answering the question at once, Jane pointed to the sculp, hanging above me as I sat on the couch.)

( 10:55. Jane said that during our minute of quietude she felt a projection of energy toward me, not strong but definite, and that this seemed to “open up” into a room. It also involved or contained the newer sculp, she thought, but she was not able to describe or draw it.)

This 394th session was held on February 19, 1968. At the end of the private session of December 11, 1967, I described to Jane an internal vision I’d just had, and made notes about it and a quick drawing. In part: “Briefly but rather clearly I saw this hanging sculpture. I knew it was mine. The piece was of cast iron, with a soft mottled black-brown patina, densely conceived and I liked it very much. It was perhaps two and a half feet tall, hanging from a ceiling by a chain.