“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(“C’mon, Seth,” Jane said impatiently at 9:15; we’d been waiting since 9:00 for the session to begin. “I feel stuff there, but I haven’t got it clear yet….” Then:)

(10:01. Jane’s trance had been good, but still she’d been bothered by the sounds of traffic rising up from the busy intersection close by our living room windows. Someone had made considerable noise while cleaning the halls of the apartment house, also — “… all while Seth wanted me to get that material just right,” Jane said a bit ruefully. “Maybe I can get better at it, but you need such a fine control….” Finally she laughed. “I don’t know who’s going to read this book but they’ll sure find a lot in it to study.”

(“Yes.” Here Seth referred to some comments about reincarnation and counterparts that I’d made to Jane this evening at the supper table.)

I bid you then a fond good evening. My heartiest wishes … Have him (Jane) read the latest material I gave for him (which we’d deleted from its spot at 11:44 in the last session) every day until our next one.

(11:43 P.M. An aside: Lately I’d delayed typing these sessions from my notes because I’ve been so busy doing the finished pen-and-ink drawings for Jane’s Dialogues. Currently I’m working on the 12th one out of the 40 planned. Jane hasn’t had a book session to read since the 718th, for November 6, was held almost four weeks ago. Now she reminded me that she misses keeping up with Seth’s dictation — that she has trouble deciphering my personal shorthand, and that not knowing what Seth has been saying makes her feel “uneasy.” This even though she and Seth have demonstrated often by now that as a team they’re most capable of producing a work “blind,” as it were, and on a continuing basis. But I’d become so involved with artwork that I hadn’t appreciated her own interests and concerns.

(During the whole of last month [October] Jane also had to go without reading a block of sessions [708–15] in Section 4; I used the time I’d have spent typing them to complete the diagrams for Adventures. Tonight we decided, then, that from my notes I’d begin reading to her the four sessions following the 718th. Once we were caught up I’d read her the Seth material received each week on the succeeding Saturday or Sunday until I got back to the twice-weekly routine of transcribing, early next year; I expect to do the last of the Dialogues illustrations late in January 1975.)

6. Several of my drawings in Part Two of Adventures relate visually to the idea of an “original self” (or “source self,” in Jane’s vocabulary) that never appears in physical reality. See diagrams 1, 8, and 14, for instance.

11. As Seth, Jane spoke with a smile while staring at me, for I’d voiced the same sentence last night in ESP class.