“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I had an interesting little experience after lunch this noon as I was hurrying to get my stuff together preparatory to going to the hospital to see Jane. The effects still linger.

(At first I thought it was a trick of sunlight—which was quite diluted as it came through the room’s east windows—but all of a sudden I stopped to look at the painting as it sat on the shelf I’d built high up on the south wall just inside the door. For a moment I was almost transfixed—for the painting, I suddenly saw, was alive. The girl’s violet eyes stared down at me as though they would move behind their violet glasses at any moment. I stared. She stared back. And I felt life there. The flesh and hair and sweater looked alive even though they never moved. Yet I half expected them to. It was a meeting of eyes.

(Beside the girl’s portrait sat another small portrait of a man which I’d also finished this year, early. And when I looked at that one, I received the same wondrous feeling: It too was alive. In this portrait the man looks off to one side—yet those eyes too were on the point of moving. His opaque flesh had the quality of breathing....

(One of the first thoughts that came to mind after I realized what was happening was Jane’s book on Rembrandt. Some of the passages of that book, I understood as I left my studio, described what I had just experienced. I felt this without checking the book to see if I was right.

(It was raining gently by the time I got to the hospital. Jane lay nude on her left side with the pillow between her legs. The first thing I noticed was the better configuration of the bone in her right ankle, which was uppermost due to her position. Not completely clear yet, but better than it had been yesterday. She said she had pains in the foot at times.

(I began working on mail after reading several of the sessions to her. It was getting late in the afternoon and I told her she should turn over on her side soon, to get off her back for an hour before supper. She said she’d try for a little session. I got my clipboard and paper ready, and went back to the mail. And once again she came through with a session almost before I was expecting it. This time her Seth voice was stronger than it has been, and a bit deeper.)

Our sessions have put you in a receptive state of mind, so that you were alert to the phenomenon with the paintings. I told you that as a result of the sessions both your and Ruburt’s creative energies would be enhanced, so to some extent that acceleration was responsible for what you “saw.”