“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(What a comedy of errors, I told Jane. First the girls are wrong about the cause of the slight swelling, then Fred gives her a lousy suggestion about arthritis! I told Jane I hoped the whole episode served as a warning as to what hospitals were really like, and the well-meaning but misguided people who worked in them. Jane answered my question about whether Fred had any idea he was giving out rotten suggestions about arthritis by saying that it never occurred to him—or any other doctor.

(Jane ate very well—her appetite is much better now—and after lunch Peggy Gallagher visited. She brought with her a letter from a fan who wants to visit. And what are you gonna do? Georgia brought me ice cream without me asking for it. She really likes us, and we like her. Jane told her this morning that she could borrow the copy of If We Live Again that we have in 330; Georgia wants it overnight for her daughter to read.

(3:50. Lorrie came in to take Jane’s blood pressure. She gave no sign that she realized Seth was present. Jane broke off at once to speak in a conversational tone. Lorrie is the gal who, with a student nurse, broke Jane’s leg when turning her, when showing the student how to do it. Lorrie smiles and talks to us, but hurries in and out as quickly as she can. I know the episode affected her. After she left I read the last paragraph to Jane. Resume at 3:53.)

(4:32. Jane now said that her reference yesterday to an unexpected visitor probably referred to Peggy G’s visit today. Then I got it. Of course: Peggy had not only visited unexpectedly, but she’d brought a letter from a fan who wanted to visit us from New York City. I’d scanned the letter while Peggy was present, but hadn’t made the rather obvious connection then, nor had Jane. “It makes your prediction pan out,” I said to Jane. “It reminds me of those old envelope tests. See the correlations?” Jane did. Things work out in unexpected ways.