“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Our lives continue to expand in unexpected ways among an incredible variety of probable realities. And I must say that once again Jane and I have been surprised and touched. When I got home from 330 last night I found in the mail a letter from Maude Cardwell of Reality Change, the Seth newsletter she publishes in Austin, Texas. In it she described how she’d been approached by a subscriber who wanted to start a fund to help Jane and me with medical expenses. The letter I’d had published recently in the November issue of Coordinate Point International, describing Jane’s challenges, had come to the attention of the reader in St. Paul, MN, who had called Maude with the idea of a fund.

(I brought both the letter and the issue of CPI to show Jane and get her opinion. I was taken unawares by Maude’s letter, unbelieving and yet grateful that anyone else would offer to give strangers money. I thought about the whole situation last night as I typed yesterday’s session. I believe I also had some restless dreams about it last night, but couldn’t recall them today.

(I did remember a vivid dream of last night, though, and described it to Jane. With a young agile man, I’d climbed up the rough outside red brick wall of an apartment house—several stories up, at least, and climbed in through a window into my own apartment. Jane wasn’t in the dream. I had been a little nervous about the climb up the sheer wall, but had managed it okay. So had my younger friend. Now, I refused to go back out the window and down the wall, like a fly or an animal might. Instead my companion was assigned this job: Each day his task was to climb back out the window with perhaps three looseleaf volumes of the Seth material tucked under one arm. With the other, and his feet, he was to maneuver his way back down the wall, with only a white rope as an aid, until he reached the street. I saw him do this, and wished him good luck. I do not know what he was to do on the street, or ground level, with the notebooks.

(Jane had also had a very positive dream, she said. It involved her flying, material about the world—newscasts—and her rediscovery of some beautiful objects, including a sofa, that may have been hers before. To me all these activities meant that she was preparing to return to the everyday world of activity.

(2:30. Jane ate a good lunch. Afterward I read my letter and Maude’s to her. “Your letter is terrific,” she said, an excellent piece of writing.” I hadn’t thought of it that way particularly. We discussed many possibilities swirling around the fund idea. The idea was new to Jane, of course, and I wanted to give her time to think about it. I said I’d merely write Maude a note of acknowledgement at this time anyhow. Jane said she’d also dictate a letter eventually to the group. She was very reserved about Seth possibly delivering a message for them. Our answer could range all the way from yes to no, with any combination of stops in between. I thought Seth could comment today, but I expected no detailed response there either at this time. One thing became quite clear as we talked: The fund idea abruptly led us into looking at our beliefs and motives and “work” in new ways—a valuable service right there.

(3:09. Jane began reading yesterday’s session, but soon started having difficulty. At 3:22 I finished reading the last three pages of it to her.

(I told Jane that my dreamlike experiences last night had probably represented my trying out various possibilities regarding the fund proposal.

(Jane had been waiting for staff to do vitals before trying a session, but then she determined to go ahead anyhow. Her Seth voice was slower than usual, and rather quiet.)

(3:53 PM. There was a knock on the door. A new nurse came in to do Jane’s vitals—temperature 98, etc. Blood pressure also. Lorrie came in to apologize for forgetting to give Jane her medications last night. Eventually Jane had called, and someone else had done the deed.

(When we were alone again I reminded Jane that as far as we knew the fund idea was known to only two people, so I was a bit mystified when Seth evidently talked about many people wanting to contribute. Resume at 4:42, after I’d read the session to her.)

(4:05. Lorrie came back in to give Jane eyedrops. Resume at 4:08.)

(4:13 PM. At once we agreed that Seth had said much more about the fund idea than we’d expected at this time. I told Jane I’d be sending Maude Cardwell a short letter of acknowledgement. I’ll probably at least start it tomorrow.

(In relation to Seth’s material on the fund, I told Jane, it seems that creativity obviously has many more facets to it than we ordinarily think—if we need or want money, for example, with it just serving as a means to an end—our doing our work—it will be provided if we’re not closed to the idea. And it doesn’t matter how it comes, as long as it’s honest—through our “earning” it in the conventional way, or whether we find it on the ground or it falls out of the sky, or someone gives it to us, or it comes through insurance, or whatever. The fund idea is an ideal case in point, being quite unexpected. As we talked Jane said the idea may even have ramifications that may touch Pete Harpending, our attorney.

(We haven’t heard from Pete this week, by the way, but Jane said she hadn’t expected to—that nothing will transpire business-wise until the new year is in.)