“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(No session was held on Friday, December 9. The day was a busy but routine one in which we did our usual things. When Jane read the session for the day before she did quite well—much better than she’d done the day before.

(Two noteworthy events should be noted: Peggy Gallagher visited for the first time in a number of days. She at once noticed and said that Jane looked much better, was moving better, and was putting on weight. The other is that at 4:27 Jane called my attention to a new motion of hers: She reached across her belly with her right hand and down to the bed on her left side, to pick up a smidgeon of tobacco or bread crust. She couldn’t actually pick up the morsel with her fingers, but did make the movement preparatory to doing so—another first for her. Once again, I arranged the call button for her before leaving at 7:05 PM.

(Today, December 10, the day was warmer—35—but rainy and sort of gloomy. Jane was okay. She told me that she’d had to counter negative suggestions given to her in hydro this morning by both Lottie and Georgia, relative to new bedsores breaking out beside the sits of old ones—in other words, she was always to have bedsores. Jane most forcefully told the kids that she wouldn’t, and that she didn’t want such suggestions. Georgia agreed, though I don’t know to what extent she might have been surprised by Jane’s reactions on the spot.

I may or may not return, again according to those rhythms of which I speak—but know that I am present and approachable.

(I asked her if she’d covered up any other such instances of negative suggestion as those she’d been given today, but she said she didn’t think so. She added that they hadn’t been frequent for some time. “It’s easy enough for me to say,” I said. “but you’ve just got to assert yourself when they happen at such times. It’s your life, your health, so that’s far more important than what they think—”