“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(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.

(I told Jane that if she wanted to do anything about a session, now was the time before people started coming in to do her vitals. She went into the session, then, just as I was getting ready to start on the mail.)

I bid you a fond good afternoon. I wanted to tell you that Ruburt is already something of a mystery to your Dr. Kardon. He is doing much better than the doctor thought that he would, while often refusing to follow the conventional course of action that the good doctor advised.

(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.)

(Then I looked up to see Jane reaching up to her left ear with her left hand—in a spontaneous gesture I haven’t seen her do in I don’t know when. It looked unnatural to see her do this. She was surprised too. It was another great sign, I told her. With her gesture Jane couldn’t quite reach the ear, which itched. She began to move on the bed, twisting her hands and wrists and rotating her arms. “But you will reach it,” I said, delighted. She tried again—and did reach the ear. She actually dug a bit of wax out of it with a forefinger. “I got it. I got it,” she exclaimed. Obviously, this was something she couldn’t even manage yesterday, let alone last week, say.

(As we talked Jane’s big toes began to move at the first joint, almost in unison. They were painful when I gently touched them, but the toes moved at the first joint. Jane felt strong sensations in them like pins and needles, she said. But a little later the big toes began to bend by themselves. Then both ankles began to move—the whole foot in each case. She said the rhythmic motion was “just like that bicycle exercise I used to do, right in rhythm....” She had to stop when the tingling sensations got to be too strong even when I wasn’t touching them.