“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I got to 330 shortly after l:00 PM. For a change it wasn’t raining. Jane was doing well, and had slept well last night. As I turned her she said that this morning in hydro she’d felt more movements in her right leg—it had opened up more—and in the muscles of her upper back and her neck.

(3:12. After a cigarette and watching In Search Of Jane began reading yesterday’s session. Slow at the start, but she did better as she went along, amid pauses. Seth had talked about her blueness and crying last night. When Jane got to the end of the session, and read my own notes about my own crying spells, she began to cry while reading aloud—but she kept going, and finished in good style. I felt tears, listening to her.

(3:38. I rubbed various spots on Jane’s neck and head—got good results with motions.

(3:45. Jane said she was getting “the impulse to sit up again, in my spine.” Exercises and heavy breathing—head and shoulders, left foot and right foot.

(3:48. Both feet moving well. Jane could also turn her head to the right, on the column of her neck, to look towards me a bit, in a way she can’t usually do. “I feel like I’m in a saddle,” she said. I gave her some ginger ale.

(4:15. Lorrie came in to give Jane eye drops. The motions Jane has done today have been about average for her now for some time. I haven’t done any mail. Now that all the vitals have been taken care of, Jane said she wanted to have a session. I made sure the door to the room was shut.)

(4:32. Jane just finished the sentence when there was a knock on the door. Mrs. Misnick from dietary came in. “Do you have today’s menu?”

(“I sent it out with the tray after lunch,” I said. It didn’t occur to me until later to wonder whether she actually meant the menus for today, which dietary has lost, or the one I filled out today for tomorrow’s meals. She stayed but a moment. “Okay,” I said to Jane. Resume at 4:33.)

(4:41 PM. Jane had done well, I told her. She sipped some ginger ale. “I don’t know whether I should tell you this or not,” she said, “but for the last couple of days I’ve had the suspicion that he’s started another book. Maybe he didn’t want to tell me so I wouldn’t get upset about it. But when he says “comments” I figure he’s separating book material from stuff about me....”

(Jane said she’d go over the last few sessions and show me where she thinks the book started, but I said it was probably quite obvious. The thought of a new Seth book didn’t bother me. “It’s okay by me,” I said. I thought it marked a significant advance actually for it showed that she’d reached a point in her progress where she felt she could afford to devote some time to creative work that wasn’t just for herself.