“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane had engaged in her spontaneous actions re 458 in response to Seth’s suggestions in the last session—that she imagine others complementing her on how well she was doing, and so forth. She had trouble visualizing such situations, she said.

(Today was another quiet day for us. Jane’s body is evidently off doing its own thing, or some such, I said. Or maybe it plain wants to rest from all of the activities it’s initiated since last October 9. Either way, we’ll find out what’s up.

(Jane was already on her back when I got there at 1:05. I noticed at once that she has a much smaller patch on her left elbow—it’s approaching the state of healing the right one showed a couple of weeks ago. Another good sign, I reminded her. She also said that both arms definitely move more easily and through a wider range than they used to even recently—another good sign.

(As she’d done yesterday, she ate well for lunch and supper. She did few motions. I worked on mail. At 2:28 she started reading the session for the day before yesterday—the one she had so much trouble with yesterday and did very well indeed. She read right along at a good and easy clip. “It wasn’t my best. but....” I said it certainly was close to it. It was much better than many people ever do. She finished the three pages in 10 minutes.

(We searched through If We Live Again, looking for a certain poem she’d written in January 1980, in connection with a session I’m typing for Dreams, but when we found the poem it was not the one we wanted. I answered some mail, and told Jane I’d have a session any time she wanted one. I was also curious to get some material from Seth on child prodigies, relevant to an atticle I’d just read at the house.

(“He didn’t seem to do too well with the suggestions you gave in the last session—that he try imagining others commenting on how well he looked and was doing—”)

(4:04 PM. Jane had a cigarette. How interesting, I said, to have new improvements to look forward to! What would they be? Jane didn’t know either. She had me rub those certain spots on her neck that can send her head flying against the pillow—but when I found them there was hardly any reaction at all. Truly, her body wanted to do things in its own way. “Quit pushing it,” I finally said, about her neck. “The body doesn’t want to do that right now....”

(I haven’t done so, but I imagine that if I charted the days when her reading was markedly better, a definite pattern of improvements would show. The same sort of pattern of improvement must be operating with the body as a whole, then, I speculated.

(4:25. Jane made a few desultory movements with her left foot. I noticed another good sign, though: With her left hand she slid her glasses down her nose far enough so she could rub her left eye—then worked the glasses back up into position with the same hand. This was something she couldn’t have done even last week. As stated earlier, she said that her hands and arms definitely work better than they used to.