“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Before the session Jane read her summary of the week’s events, including her continuing improvements. Her knees especially have shown many signs of loosening. Tam called her Friday; he’d received the James presentation, and was most enthusiastic, which cheered Jane a great deal. Then Saturday we learned by mail that Bantam is about to contract for the paperback edition of Politics. We are also waiting for the September royalty payment from Prentice-Hall, due probably next week. Tonight Jane remarked: “If only I could get my physical condition to work as well as the money one.” But she’s making progress. And last night we had a congenial group of friends in.

(It should be noted that this Saturday morning, for the first time in many years, Jane took a shower when she got up—even before breakfast, in other words.)

(10:37. I thought since the hour wasn’t very late yet, we could get some information on other subjects. Jane had no questions. I speculated about my painting of the Italian woman, as I call her, and about a passage I read recently in Seth Speaks; in it, Seth had mentioned that he’d been a black in Ethiopia. Perhaps, I suggested to Jane, we could get some material on his life then.

(Jane wasn’t particularly interested, however. There followed a rather complicated discussion between us about the idea of questions for Seth—why I seemed to have them, but Jane seldom did. Much of Seth’s material to follow these notes deals with the topics of our discussion. Resume at 10:58.)