“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(At 8:55 PM Jane had the impression of the name, Alice Prentice, as that of the deceased high-school classmate of mine, who was now dead, that I had helped astrally. See page 30. I thought the name Alice familiar, but couldn’t help out re Prentice. I may have some high-school material filed away, that can furnish data.

(Jane was full of restless, positive energy this afternoon and evening. I viewed it as a helpful expression, and wondered if it was connected with the letter she had received from Harry Edwards, in England, last Friday, August 9. In the letter Edwards told of a program he had begun, to send healing energy to Jane.

Now it is important that you realize that we have used analogies rather freely in our last two sessions, for there was no other way to give you any clear concept of the material I wished to present.

They would emerge. The neurological structures would create new pathways to accommodate such knowledge when the knowledge itself was sought for. The brain structures of your race therefore grew more complicated as the inner knowledge sought to make itself known to the physical creature.

I am speaking now in terms of evolution. The material in the last two sessions was given to you therefore in terms that you could understand. (Pause.) Multidimensional concepts cannot be received, nor interpreted, at this point by the physical brain. The mind and the inner self can become aware of such concepts. Now give us a moment. (Pause.)

I do not know now to what the following refers exactly: a connection with Miss L. Were you in a class together? With a teacher who was Miss L... (Pause.) Connection with drawing or maps or geography.

(There was no response from Seth to this. Upon reflection, and without checking records, I believe Miss Lennon could have been my teacher in junior high school, or perhaps when I was a freshman.)

(None of the above data, outside of the familiarity with the name Alice, meant anything to me. I graduated from high school in Sayre in June 1937, 32 years ago, and have seldom seen any classmates. The class was also a rather large one.

In your state of development you cannot easily understand the meaning of the word “purpose,” for to you the term itself implies an eventual rigidity, a goal with an end, a progression, literally, toward a nothingness that it would have to follow once a goal in those terms was achieved.

The girl worked in a shoe store in 1938. Your mother, I believe, was aware of this or mentioned it to you at the time. (Pause.) The fox is a strong connection here. An address, perhaps 428. This may be a Fox Street, to the outside area of town...

(Jane later told me she felt the street was south of my parents’ home in Sayre—and where I had lived while going to high school. I happened to have a street map of Waverly, Sayre and Athens, and checked it before writing this. No Fox Street. The towns adjoin each other: Waverly is in New York, Sayre and Athens in Pennsylvania.)

...and a connection with two elderly people who I believe lived there. Now let us see this through. The girl was twice connected with you, presumably in classes. A smaller brother. A close friend named Cheryl. She married a man with a name like scramble or scrapple. (Pause.)

(The impressions were given on June 29. On June 16 and June 23, Jane’s notebook shows that she had vague, encouraging dreams about writing and publishing and New York City. The dream book was not mentioned specifically in her notebook.

(“Why was Jane so restive and angry this afternoon?”)

He has some insight into this. Feelings were to be expressed and directed outward. Problems to be recognized instead of hidden. Where they festered. Assurances were given to him in the dream state that this was satisfactory and recommended.

(I now had the rather distinct feeling that Seth was somewhat annoyed as he gave the following material. Perhaps I have been trying too hard re Van Elver.)

(10:43. Jane was in a good trance but left it okay.)