“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The session was witnessed by John Bradley and Bill and Peggy Gallagher.

(To Bill G:) I was here the other evening (1/3/69)...looking over your shoulder... The Jesuits do not miss anything, you see... They are always given to specific answers... We are oftentimes amused, but always delighted.

(There was more here, and it led into an exchange of jokes between Seth and Bill G.)

I am in fine company. I am honored... (to Bill:) you run away. Jesuits are not that bad... We could get rid of all of your symptoms, but... to please you I will make a bargain with you: I will not mention your problem if you do not want me to—(There followed another humorous exchange between Seth and Bill.) Some Jesuits are sorrowful jokers, and laugh while the tears roll down their cheeks. That is all right... They will learn...

([Bill:] “I don’t know Seth... I’m 43 now... worried about learning; etc.”)

([Bill:] “I remember clearly.”)

(To John and Bill:) Now. This applies to anyone, so if I look at you consider yourself the symbol of everyman. And this applies also to you. (To Bill:) You have very simply two alternatives. You either take the time and the effort to look into yourself or you do not. If you take the time and the effort, then I tell you, Jesuit, you will have no terrors of the flesh. While you do not take the time you must put up with it, and depend on your doctors...

(To Bill:) I will try to give you some practical suggestions. Take your break... I dare you, Jesuit, to look into yourself. I have never led you wrong, and I tell you, you can be a healthy man.

Now, I like you (to Bill), but I do not intrude when I am not invited, and as a rule I do not offer advice when I am not asked...

([Bill:] “Seth, you have an open invitation from me, anytime...”)

([Bill:] “I need it all.”)

([Bill:] “I wouldn’t know how to begin, Seth.”)

(Jane, during break, began to get impressions from/for Bill Gallagher, and Bill signaled me to take them down. There follows an accurate account of what Jane said, not quite verbatim however.

(“Tom C., he’s got hair like spikes on his forehead...Tom Crompton. He’s 36. Connection with a grocery store ... produce of some kind. There’s a woman connected with him, a sister, who helps him somehow. There’s a Detroit connection. Spikes. A group of 4 people; he and a woman are one... Bill’s one; a female relative the other one.”

(“I don’t know why I get this...” [In answer to Bill’s question.] “A close relative. I don’t know... I leaped to the death of a father. A connection between this guy’s father and yours [to Bill]—because I know your father’s dead. Either that, or there’s a real connection between this guy and his father.”

(Bill Gallagher told us he knew a Tom Crawford in college; Bill and Peg verified, or made connections with, much of this data. Lengthy explanations were required and I did not record them; the Gallaghers said they would write out the data for us upon receipt of a copy of the impressions, so the material can be included with this record.

(A few impressions that were particularly apt were September 1943, the Detroit connection, the spikes-for-hair, the lawsuit type of trouble, the family situation similarity, and the profanity. Tom C. was a prolific profanity man, according to Bill.

(To Bill:) It is the probabilities that worry you, though certainly you can put up with them... (After a humorous exchange:) You play hopscotch beautifully...

(When no one spoke up:) Give me a moment. (To Bill:) Now. An appointment... Do not say yes. Forget the unprincipled... You have more to offer than that. Three men seem to be involved, and one you cannot trust. Forget the arrangement. It is a bed of nails. You can seem to be accommodating while holding your own on the one main issue... And do not back down on that one issue. To back down would... be weakness.

([Bill:] “I’ve never doubted either. It’s the context...”)

You may take a break... (To Bill:)

(11:16. In contrast to earlier breaks, Jane now came out of trance rather quickly. Bill and Peg didn’t particularly want to talk about the data given above, but said it had a direct bearing; something, we were told, about a meeting tomorrow...

(Bill showed Jane a page of pencil drawings he had doodled while Seth spoke. They were heads, in various stylistic poses, small in scale. He told Jane they were not cheerful. After a short discussion Seth returned.)

([Bill:] “Do you know what the name and address are?”)

([Bill:] “Do you mean a circular in the graphic sense, or in the Sears or Montgomery Ward sense?”)

(This after quite an exchange between Bill, Peg and Seth, as an attempt was made to lucidly describe the item in question. The discussion proceeded rapidly and I missed most of it. At the moment Bill could say nothing about Cincinnati, etc.