“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The day was warm—over 45—and sunny. This noon Paul O’Neill left me at the house Jane’s new lower teeth, so I could take them to her. He’ll check about the uppers later.

(In the hall outside the emergency room I met Fred Kardon, who asked me how Jane is doing. Without being specific, I said that generally she was doing better in all departments. “I haven’t heard from any of the nurses,” Fred said, meaning he’d received no negative reports. He wanted to know how the ulcer on Jane’s knee was coming along, and I said very well. Fred stressed that it was important that Jane drink as much liquid as she can. I promised to tell her. He said he’d be up to see her one of these days.

(3:30. Just as we’re ready to begin some sort of working activity, Wade Alexander visited. He looked well, and seemed genuinely happy to see us. He had a class of school kids in town. He left at 3:55. Afterward Jane and I agreed that his visit was hardly accidental. His positive approach to the tape-business deal with Steve and Tracy answered some of our own questions, as well as those concerning possible conflicts over tape ownership. I told Jane his decision to visit might save us a lot of time later. She agreed. We anticipate no problems in that area now.

(Jane had a new catheter inserted this morning, by the way, and now she had some spasms and gas while reading the session. She was also interrupted by Lorrie, taking her pulse and blood pressure. I worked with some mail and Jane finished the session in quite good style at 4:16.

(4:35 PM. “I knew he was going to say that about water,” Jane said, “when I wanted to hold the session. Well, I’m going to try and drink a lot more than I have been.” I added that the session ought to be “enough incentive to tank up on the stuff.” She agreed.

(The matter of fire ants had come up when we watched the TV show, In Search Of at 2:30 this afternoon. It had featured the explosive growth of fire ants, up from Brazil in the 1930’s, and now threatening to spread over most of the United States. I had many questions, ranging from the consciousnesses of the ants involved, and their right to life, as opposed to the “destructive” view taken of them by farmers, scientists, and so forth in the conventional sense. I also saw correlations between the spread of the fire ants and the spread of the “killer bees” —also up into this country from Brazil—at the same time. I suspected Seth could tell us a most fascinating story here. I was ready for it at any time, I told Jane. I suppose my readiness was at least partially founded upon the idea that it would be a good thing for Jane to speak through Seth about other matters occasionally than her symptoms and related topics.

(She did drink more water, and I hope she makes this a part of her daily routine, even when I’m not there. After the session she did go into some motions, mostly involving the upper portions of her body—the head and shoulders off the pillow and mattress, side to side at times, once in a while rather strong, with noises and increasingly heavy breathing. The left foot moved once in a while, the right one seemed quiet comparatively. Jane said there was motion in her hips also.

(4:45. It was soon time to turn her on her left side for a massage with Oil of Olay. For a moment I thought she was dozing—but she was merely lying quietly while her “body tried to calm down a bit” from the exercises. “It takes me a bit,” she said. She was also quite warm, although both windows in 330 were wide open.

(After my nap, she ate well for supper, and said she was getting used to the teeth more. Her speaking was much improved. In fact, while she was eating I forgot that she had the new teeth, so well did she do. I read the prayer with her, and left to go food shopping at 7:05 PM.