“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Our dear friend, Frank Longwell, who has been a great help to us for many years, visited while I had lunch today; he’s made his first sale of a hearing aid. We wish him well. The day was much warmer — 25 degrees — when I left for 330. I turned Jane on her back right away. She said that after I’d left last night two nurses had taken care of her, and that while they were doing so, they unloaded numerous negative suggestions about many things. Jane didn’t say anything. Then when Steve and Tracy visited shortly afterward, they too had many negative things to say about many things — until finally Jane told Steve to quit dumping on her. Steve was also talking about the phases of the moon having influence on his behavior and actions, Jane said she didn’t believe in that. He apologized.

(Carla interrupted our conversation to check Jane’s vitals — temperature 98.4. During our talk I noticed that it didn’t take my wife long to begin reacting emotionally to my questions, which I thought were innocent enough — but it was apparent that the subject matter of our conversation had an emotional charge for her. One of them, I thought, probably related to her symptoms if one traced it back. In fact, I was sure of it. However, after she realized what she was doing, Jane seemed to take my questions in stride, and even volunteered a lot of information I hadn’t asked for.

(4:40 p.m. I thanked Seth for appearing. Jane had some ginger ale before I turned her on her side. I didn’t note it in my dream account earlier here, but I’d described to Jane how I’d asked whoever owned 458 W. Water Street these days how much our rent would be. I did this several times, but received no answer. I expected it to be good, and was afraid it would be high. Seth hadn’t commented, and I didn’t ask him.)