“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(After In Search Of ended on TV at 2:30 Jane read the draft of my note for session 896 for Dreams, in which I wanted to know whether she’d ever willed herself sick [as I had] when a youngster, in order to avoid something I wanted to get out of doing. She said she had, and gave me the infomation I needed to complete the note tomorrow morning.

(3:20. A girl from Andrew Fife’s office called to tell me that Andrew had called one of the supervisors at Syracuse—Blue Cross—about our major medical claim. The man there said he’d pull our file, go over it all, and call Andrew back tomorrow. Word would be relayed to us, presumably in 330. So we’ll see.

(I thought I heard Teresa [help me, help me], sounding as though through closed doors. Jane said Teresa “was really going last night.”

(Then she said that off and on for a couple of hours last night she got very blue—awful, she said —crying and calling for me. This was before midnight. Then she was fine, and slept well. Actually she didn’t elaborate very much on the episode. I thought her spell might fit in with Seth’s recent material that her blue periods would gradually vent themselves away.

(4:00 PM. We’d had no interruptions. I read the session to Jane. “That session could be quite significant,” I said. I was also puzzled. I asked Jane if Seth’s use of the word “explosive” was apropos, and she said it pretty well was. This made me realize that the episode had been much stronger and longer-lasting than I’d thought.

(4:15. A young male nurse or aide came in to take Jane’s temperature and pulse. I said hello in a sort of surprised voice. Jane laughed after he’d left. “That kid was so shocked to see me naked that when he took my pulse I could feel his pulse going bumpity-bumpity-bump....”