“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane sat quietly in trance while I left my seat to turn on the air cooler set into one of our living-room windows. It was a very hot and sticky night. The cooler didn’t make so much noise that Seth had any trouble speaking above it.

(Before the session I had asked Jane if Seth could give me some more data on the art and gallery material begun in the last session. I was going to try to put it to practical use, I told Jane not to try too hard, though, to get more data. She said that the impetus would be strong to help me on these subjects. I was a little surprised to hear Seth start right in on the gallery data.)

(Later Jane confirmed that she’d heard of the ashcan school of art.)

(Rooney moved a few feet into the hall, then sat down to rest. In the living room Jane sat still in trance. To use the time I let our other cat, Willy, in the back hall door. After Willy went into the apartment, with my help, Rooney finally ambled out the back way. All of this took several minutes, which I endured impatiently.

(Yet Jane sat quite at ease, still in trance, waiting until I resumed my place and picked up the notebook.)

(9:44. Jane was slow coming out of trance. She said traffic noise had bothered her at the session’s start, until Seth had me turn on the cooler. Then her trance had been deep, though she remembered the cat episode.

(Then Jane surprised me by saying that Fox was not the name she had spoken, re Jerry A. She was very definite—that Fox wasn’t correct, saying I had misunderstood her. She thought the name was Foss, instead, although she was not as positive here. We speculated about Foch or Foche; Jane said the name was one syllable with a softer sound than Fox—hence Foss. We thought Seth would clear the matter.

(I told Jane however that we should get some material on a matter broached to her by letter last week by Reverend Crosson, re a speaking engagement in New York City later this year. The gallery data could be continued later.

(Whether or not we visit Reverend Crosson this summer at his camp in the Berkshires, in Massachusetts; and whether later in the year Jane speaks in New York City at a meeting of the Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship, with Reverend Crosson.)

(Seth refers to Betty Taylor, one of the editors at Harper’s. She told Reverend C. that she would call Jane this week, but as of August 20, Wednesday, has not done so.

(Our cat, Willy, now jumped up in Jane’s lap. Without coming out of trance Jane put him down and resumed.)

(Again Willy jumped up into Jane’s lap, and again she put him down without leaving trance.)