“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.

(“But don’t they know any better?” I persisted. I even meant ourselves. For if people “knew better,” then places like the hospital would be empty, and all the people in them would be working at other kinds of jobs. Of course. “The only thing that’s going to save us is ourselves,” I said, and reminded Jane to never forget this little episode. “When you get home,” I added, “we’ll throw away all of your old clothes in the closet and buy new ones.”

(Now I mentioned the idea I’d had last night, and made a note of. It was simply that I’d bring in one of the Seth books and start reading it to her a page at a time. She liked the idea. I told her to name the book, or more than one, if she wanted. I added that as soon as she could handle pages, I could take the book apart so that she could hold each page up while she read it when she was alone. I could leave a stack of them on her bed. This would give her great freedom to read by herself at any time of the day or night. It would be very liberating, I said, truly. She agreed. I thought that the way she was improving, she’d be able to work up to such a step. Also, I could take apart any book for that matter.

(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.