“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The third time we tried it, the little pointer finally began to move beneath our fingertips. It spelled out messages supposedly coming from a Frank Withers (not the real name) who had lived in Elmira and died during the 1940’s.

We were surprised that the board worked for us. I thought it was a riot, two adults watching the pointer go scurrying across the board, and we didn’t take it too seriously. For one thing, of course, neither of us particularly believed in life after death—certainly not conscious life, capable of communicating. Later on, we did learn that a man with the communicator’s name was known to have lived in Elmira, and died in the 1940’s—that took me back a bit. But we were much more interested in finding out what made the pointer move than in the messages it gave.

“Do you have a message for us?” Rob asked.

From the first few messages, Frank Withers had insisted upon the validity of reincarnation, so Rob said, “What do you think of your various reincarnations?”

SHE IS CONCERNED BECAUSE SHE RECEIVES MY MESSAGES BEFORE THEY ARE SPELLED OUT. IT WOULD MAKE YOU CAUTIOUS, TOO.

A BOARD IS NEUTRAL. MESSAGES IN THE MIND ARE NOT.

“Seth, would you verify Jane’s reception of the above message?” Rob asked.

I relaxed a little; the pointer was taking over the messages again. But Rob asked another question.

Again the words were speeding through my head while the little pointer spelled them out slowly and methodically. I remember a terrific impatience, and then I was finishing the message aloud: “They have to be translated into physical reality. Fragments of another sort, called personality fragments, operate independently, though under the auspices of the entity.”