“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(At the end of last Saturday’s session, I thought of two questions for Seth. They were based upon his discussion of the Cézanne book, and our changed attitudes, as demonstrated by our sending the books out. Jane suggested I write them down for tonight.

(1. Was there any connection between Jane’s Cézanne, and the New York City Cézanne show appearing at practically the same time? Did this have Framework 2 connotations? Both projects had been underway for a long time before surfacing to the public. See the note about William Rubin and the Museum of Modern Art, at the start of the last session.

(2. Did Cézanne “himself” have any sense of awareness, or of completion, connected with Jane’s book and the New York City show happening at the same time? Seth had said that William James did, in connection with Jane’s book about him, and his interest in gifted mediums. My own thought at the moment was that something different, or at least not the same, was involved with the Cézanne events—less personal.

(Last night we watched on television Alan Neuman’s show on the paranormal. We liked most of it quite a bit. See the clipping on file. His secretary wrote Jane on October 13. After the show, Jane wondered about Framework 2 immediately responding to the efforts shown by some of the gifted people on the show—those doing the firewalking, moving objects, fogging film, etc. The results were obtained without delay, evidently from Framework 2. Of course, Jane wanted these results for herself, also. She wondered if Seth might comment on this question, as well as the show itself. She wrote Alan Neuman a letter; this morning I mailed him a copy of Cézanne.

(The second instance involved the hassle we’ve been involved in with Elmira Video over mistakes in our billing. Has been dragging on since July. All the details are on file if needed for reference. Friday afternoon, when we received another erroneous bill, Jane called Elmira Video; the bookkeeper, Mrs. Trafzer, promised to call Monday to tell us what we owed. Over the weekend I found myself stewing about the silliness of the whole thing several times. I thought of legal action, among other things. Monday morning as I painted, I found myself doing the same thing. Rather irritably I told myself that I was throwing the whole thing into Framework 2, and that I wanted it taken care of.

(At breakfast I’d even considered paying the whole bill demanded of us—I told Jane—just to be rid of the entire affair. Late this afternoon Mrs. Trafzer called, as promised to tell us that we were to forget the bill and to send in the regular monthly payment of $15.94, instead of the $33.00 we were charged with. Something about her not being able to trace the skein of payments and errors through their computer, she said. We expected to pay more, of course. It took me a while to realize that I had received an answer from Framework 2, and that for us it couldn’t have been better.

(“But keep your fingers crossed,” I told Jane, “until we get next month’s bill.” Mrs. Trafzer has promised to personally put the proper figures into the computer, thus ending the billing confusion. I mailed her payment this morning, Tuesday.)

(10:25. Jane said that she didn’t feel that she was “quite with it, tonight,” for some reason, although I thought her material was as good as ever. Not that she didn’t feel like having a session, she added. She was speaking with a number of long pauses interspersed. Resume at 10:35.)

(“Okay.” Since her recent tooth extractions, Jane has noticed an increased mouth dryness after she’s spoken for a while.)

(10:51 PM. I was tempted to ask Seth what life he was referring to, but that would have kept Jane talking longer.)