“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane was upset when I got to 330 this noon. Jeff Karder, her doctor, had been in. At first she didn’t want to tell me what he’d said until after lunch, but I persuaded her to tell all. One of the nurses had evidently told Jeff that the open sores on Jane’s right knee were draining. He told Jane that there could be an infection there, at the site of perhaps a bone spur — he wasn’t sure. Jeff added that a small operation might fix it, or that perhaps nothing need be done.

(“Well, that wasn’t so bad, was it?” I asked my wife when she’d finished. Jane seemed to take it well, and recovered okay, I thought.

(I’d brought in Chapter 6 of Dreams, which I’d finished typing this morning, and ended up reading the whole thing to Jane except for a couple of notes. I had the time, being caught up on correspondence again. She liked the whole thing. She had the same feeling I’d noticed when reading sessions one hadn’t seen for several years: that it was all brand new, and surprising, as though someone else had produced the work. I told her at the end of the day that the Seth material is an excellent example of her own direct cognition; this obvious description had come to me after I worked with Seth’s material on direct cognition in Chapter 6 of Dreams. A very good point, though, and one I want to add a note on for the chapter.

(It was so late when I finished reading Chapter 6 to her that Jane wasn’t planning on a session today, until I told her it was okay with me.)

(4:47.) There are other kinds of suggestions that involve identification. A child may be told: “You are just like your mother; she was always nervous and moody.” Or: “You are fat because your father was fat.”