“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I left work in the writing room at about 8:45 to see how Jane was doing at the card table in the living room. I’d heard her talking to herself, presumably while dreaming in her chair. She had been sleeping, I discovered. I felt guilty at leaving her alone while I worked on the preface notes for Dreams after supper. We’d had interruptions today—the plumber had had to return to again clean out the sewer line, Jane’s nurse had been here, Peg Gallagher had called, I’d taken time to write Nancy Overton a letter, and so forth.

(About the letter business: Yesterday Jane had called Tam, and learned to our complete surprise that last August Pocket Books had published a paperback edition of the second Seven book: The Further Education, etc. This was all new to us. We haven’t received any notification from anybody, don’t know if we have money coming, or what, so I asked Nancy for information. It seems our problems with communication with Prentice-Hall are getting worse by the month....

(Tonight, then, I was quite surprised when Jane roused herself enough to tell me that she wanted to have a session, no matter how brief it was. “It’s been on my mind today,” she said, but she hadn’t mentioned it to me. I got my pen and notebook.

(When she began speaking for Seth her voice was stronger than it had been, and had a different monotone-like quality that was quite unusual. I took it to mean that more effort was required for the session, or at least that her current physical situation resulted in a changed delivery. Pauses as usual.)

(9:20 PM. “Now wait a minute,” Jane said as soon as she was out of trance. “I want to get anything I can....” But after a few minutes: “I guess that’s it....”

(The session, brief as it was, gave me an odd surge of hope—because of the news involving Sheri and healing, and because I hadn’t expected the session.