“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The session is incomplete as far as notes go. It was held primarily so that Rich Conz, of The Elmira Star-Gazette, could photograph Jane in trance. We wanted the photos for Jane’s book on the Seth material, which is now practically finished. Rich also brought with him contact proofs of photos he took of Jane and me yesterday afternoon.

(Rich took forty shots, most of which turned out well, as we saw later. Some of them are excellent. Most of them are of Jane in trance, from a variety of angles; I appear in a few to show our procedure in note-taking, etc. We are highly pleased with them.

(The session began ordinarily enough, but before long an interaction between Rich and Seth began to show. Seth’s pace also speeded up considerably, and I began to fall behind. But more than this, words cannot really record the very humorous exchange that developed between Rich and Seth. I saw Jane, as Seth, laugh herself far more than ever before in trance. Seth did most of the talking as usual; and more and more his attention became riveted upon Rich as the latter buzzed around, taking photo after photo, with flash. The interaction between the two finally became so funny and fast paced that I laid the notes aside and surrendered to laughter.

(9:15. Jane left trance quickly, although it had been a good one, she said. She did not remember being bothered by the picture-taking, or the flashgun, etc.; in trance she gave no sign, for instance, that the flashgun interfered in any way, etc.