“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(On Friday evening, September 5, we had as visitors Dick and Carol Crossed; Edward Gassner, 3664 Culver Road [14622], and Bernard Houlihan, 25 Ewer Avenue [14622]—all of Rochester, New York. No session was held. Ed Gassner offered to do work with Jane and Seth; he is a biologist, Ph.D.

(Jane exchanged phone calls with Betty Taylor [of Harcourt Brace, among other publishers] on September 8 & 9. Betty Taylor called Jane first. During the call she verified several of Seth’s points made during the 497th session. Briefly these will be listed here.

(1: See page 362. She verified Seth’s statements about Jim Crosson’s worries about holding an audience, etc. 2: See page 362. Betty Taylor may soon change her position, moving to Washington DC from New York City to do reporting coverage for various magazines. 3: page 362. Betty Taylor nearly did not call Jane, as Seth mentioned. It develops that another speaker, thought not available, may, or has, change[d] his mind.

(In this session. held on Monday, Seth gave some data re Betty Taylor also. Jane called B.T. the next day and was given verification of some points by B.T. over the phone. Betty would like a copy of the data to study some of the other points. The results of this study will be included with a later session, which may be named here by number at least.)

(9:37. Jane’s trance was very good, she said. She told me that as she gave the above data, concerning the individual of whom I will do reincarnational portraits, that she could “almost see this guy.” But she couldn’t elaborate on any physical characteristics.

(A note: for Seth to offer such advice to Jane, or to us, is quite rare. Almost always it is “make your own decisions,” etc., and quite rightly so.)

(It had been suggested that Jane do stage trance work when addressing the SFF meeting. Jane had decided she wasn’t interested in this type of stage presentation.)

(As stated, Jane has already called Betty Taylor; a copy of this data is being sent to her also.)

(Over the phone BT told Jane she had an operation for appendicitis, but quite a few years later than 1936. Other points in this data either checked out or were close, according to BT, but aren’t listed here separately. A closer check by BT later may be added however.)

Ed. This could have been her husband, or a man close. (Ed was the name of BT’s first husband, she told Jane over the phone.) A middle name beginning with B, or his nickname with a B who worked in a building that from the outside looks like a large (pause), building almost entirely of unbroken plate glass windows on the ground floor, such as those that cars might be displayed in. A corner building, I presume, since I see one side of the building, where the other side is flush to others.

(Over the phone BT told Jane the building description reminded her of a new building that had just gone up across the street from her home address, in the city. It is a corner building.)

(10:10. Jane was out of trance quickly. She knew in a general way that impressions were involved. She didn’t remember any of the data before the impressions. Also, we might add that we hadn’t asked for impressions this evening, and so didn’t expect them, etc.

(“I know it.” Our cat Willy jumped up into Jane’s lap as she spoke. )

(10:42. Jane went over her dream for me during break. It was a long dream. She had it three nights ago; when she got up during the night to write it down, she found the task took an hour. It has been on her mind since then.

(This would be the second of seven revelatory dreams Jane is to have, according to Seth in the 492nd session. See the 499th session for material dealing with the first such dream. I am also to have a series of seven such dreams.)

(“Yes.” It wasn’t until this moment that I realized I hadn’t described the dream to Jane. It was a long one also.)

(This last sentence as I recorded it is obviously distorted. As Jane spoke I had the odd feeling that she, Seth, and I were all thinking about different events. By this time I was quite weary. I could see that Jane was also.)

(11:15. I explained my dream to Jane so she would have a basis for discussion, since we planned now to ask Seth to explain his above data in relation to the dream. Some of it could apply; I did not understand the reference to bed and bedroom however. I didn’t recall my brother Dick in the dream. Jane said she was too tired to clear the matter up this evening, so we’ll take it up next session.)