“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I read yesterday afternoon’s session to Jane this morning. As we’d discussed last evening, we decided to try for another session this morning, possibly to get more specific material on some of the questions I’d raised in the notes for yesterday’s session. Jane also wanted Seth to comment on her “relaxations” during the day: She sleeps practically all day while sitting in her chair. I hoped these relaxations were signs of a healing process taking place after years of tension. At the same time, I wanted material on why Jane might be perpetuating behavior that might lead her back into the hospital—an experience which she’d found to be so traumatic last time.

(I do seem to be slowly learning that Seth may be avoiding being pinned down to material that’s too specific at this time. Perhaps he feels that it isn’t needed at this time, that it’s simply better to just let Jane’s natural healing abilities do their work, now that that “corner in probabilities” has been turned.... In a strange way, I’ve even become inhibited about asking him the direct questions I think I so much want the answers to. Maybe through the graces of Framework 2, the course we’re following, if reluctantly, isn’t so bad after all at this time.

(10:39.) Now: when you work through such an episode as this weekend’s bout, then you gain an individual but also joint confidence in your ability to do so—a very important point, a very intimate and vital way of dealing with your joint reactions. Some such feelings could be expected, naturally enough, since you do not live in a perfect world. It can be understood that they are transitory, however, and in the entire picture they begin to dissolve easier and easier. Various things can spark such feelings, according to the circumstances, while at another time the same kind of stimulus may not apply at all.

(As far as I can remember, this will be the first time that we held two separate sessions during the same day—if one develops now. After supper Jane told me to come out to the card table with the notebook at 8:15. I got there at 8:22, after finishing a page of typing from Sunday afternoon’s session. I’m trying to get all the material typed as soon as possible.

(“That wouldn’t keep you awake any more than trying to have a session,” I said. “Do you have any insight as to why the relaxation at this time? Is it because we just ate, or...?”

(Jane replied that her condition bespoke a generalized relaxation—which was beneficial, of course. I hoped it would lead to increased mobility, at least. Her head kept dipping down and I kept calling her, and she kept telling me that every time I did so I interrupted her when she was “getting something.” To me it looked as though she was falling asleep each time. I stopped badgering her. Then:)

(Long pause, head down. eyes closed.) These interlaces (word repeated at my request) referred to earlier operations as carriers of information—information that is triggered by your own needs at any given time.

(8:56 PM. “Well, you got something,” I said to Jane, almost laughing. “Had quite a time there, didn’t you?” It was amazing, how much better I felt now than when I’d written the notes for yesterday’s session [Sunday, the 7th]. “Anything you want to add?”

(This could be quite important: Several times later during the evening, Jane told me that she felt like she was on her feet, with the safety of the chair close behind her when she wanted to sit down. Very encouraging psychological signs, I said, adding that I hoped they were harbingers of future developments.)