“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Unknown to me Jane used her pendulum in her workroom. When we sat for the session around 9 PM, Jane said her pendulum told her that the symptoms were caused by the house we lived in, and, specifically, by the original owner. [...]

(After supper this evening both Jane and I did a lot of griping and complaining about her symptoms, and our inability to solve the problems involved. [...]

[...] We had no idea if Jane’s pendulum data was the magic we were looking for, but at least we hadn’t considered this idea before. [...]

[...] But I will see that the palm is Jane’s.

[...] It is Ruburt who is in a Jane trance most of the time. [...]

[...] Jane’s list included Sally Benson and Mimi Ford.)

3. As of several months later, though, Jane hasn’t remembered any dreams about the light….

4. Jane and I heartily disagree with this idea.

[...] Jane paused, rubbing her closed eyes.)

(While delivering this paragraph Jane walked into the kitchen, still in trance, to rummage for a book of matches; she wanted to light a cigarette.)

[...] Jane’s trance had been good, although she appeared to come out of it quickly enough. [...]

(While walking downtown this afternoon Jane received several messages from Seth.)

[...] (Jane, her eyes wide and very dark, leaned forward in amusement.) This does indeed represent an improvement.

(I thought Jane tired, perhaps wanting to end a little early.

(John Fuller is to visit us with his wife next Wednesday evening, to interview Jane for an article he is writing on survival. [...] The Harvard professor wants Jane to give a lecture, presumably for his class.

[...] What follows applies more specifically to Jane. [...]

(Before tonight’s session Jane said that she’d like Seth to continue his comments on her general situation, although neither of us had specific questions.

[...] Jane’s manner was her regular one. After the boy had gone Jane said his knock stopped her delivery abruptly, but that she did not come out of the light trance quickly enough to go immediately to the door. [...]

(Jane had no idea of the material for the session as the time for it approached. [...]

[...] Jane stopped dictation in the middle of a sentence. [...]

(Jane said her mother does have a friend, Mary Miller, who did housekeeping for Jane and her mother when Jane was perhaps seven years old. [...] At the time Jane did not like her, she said. Mary Miller is the same age as Jane’s mother.

[...] Jane’s eyes had remained closed most of the time.

(Jane resumed at 9:25.)

(Before the session Jane read her summary of the week’s events, including her continuing improvements. [...] Tam called her Friday; he’d received the James presentation, and was most enthusiastic, which cheered Jane a great deal. [...] Tonight Jane remarked: “If only I could get my physical condition to work as well as the money one.” [...]

[...] Jane had no questions. [...] Perhaps, I suggested to Jane, we could get some material on his life then.

(Jane wasn’t particularly interested, however. There followed a rather complicated discussion between us about the idea of questions for Seth—why I seemed to have them, but Jane seldom did. [...]

[...] He’d read hardly anything Jane had written, and I wondered why he’d sought her out. I never heard Jane give better advice, though I doubted if an interview was going to do much about changing what seemed to be a lifetime’s habits.

[...] His tale showed that Jane’s efforts of the night before had largely been futile. [...] He left, and Jane still had the impulse to have me call him back in another effort to help him. [...]

(Last night, Jane spent an exhausting couple of hours trying to get through to a young man, Stuart, who called on us unannounced at about 9 PM. [...]

[...] This alarmed Pat so that she phoned Jane long distance, asking for some information from Seth.)

[...] Jane’s eyes had remained closed. [...]

[...] Jane told me later that she felt the new influence mentioned would be a male.)

[...] During break I said I hoped Seth would discuss the episode Jane experienced during the 523rd session for last Monday, April 13, 1970. While speaking for Seth, Jane realized later, she evidently had a brief out-of-body, seeing herself from a position near the bookcase in our living room, as she sat in the rocker delivering session data.

(As Seth, Jane held out her arms with them bent at about right angles.)

(The day after this session, Jane received a letter from her editor at Prentice-Hall, Tam Mossman, asking if she had received her contracts through the mail; there has been a worrisome delay, due at least in part to the recent postal strike.)

(Jane had been blue and depressed yesterday, and she was that way again when I got to 330 today. [...] Jane is hoping that if he can give her new glasses her vision will improve, and this would help her spirits.

(4:46 p.m. It was time to turn Jane. [...]

(On June 5, 1968 John Pitre telephoned Jane from Franklin, LA, seeking answers to three questions: the reasons for John’s uneasiness concerning his wife Peg last week; the reasons for the loss of leg feeling John experiences in hot weather; and data on a pilot, Albert Blevins, who vanished on a flight in a small plane near the Gulf Coast about four years ago, presumably near Franklin.

(It was perhaps our hottest and muggiest night to date here this summer, and Jane was not at her best. [...]

(Jane began speaking in trance in a somewhat subdued voice. [...]

(On Friday, October 28, I [Jane] saw Peg for the first time since her return, and went over the Seth notes. [...]

(A note by RFB: Jane’s punctuation in her copies of Seth’s Gallagher materials varies at times from the originals—but only in small ways, and not at all in content.)

(“Not unless you have something to say for Jane”)

[...] Jane’s stance is showing improvement now, as Seth commented. [...]

(Seth-Jane’s delivery soon had me writing along at a very brisk pace in order to keep up.)

[...] Since Jane doesn’t look at the book, she is unable to remind me of such points unless I happen to discuss them with her, and I forgot to do that, too.)

(From 3:47 to 3:57 Jane dictated this poem to me.

(At 4:37 Jane said: “You might want to write this down. [...]

(As we waited for the session Jane began to enter a transcendent, or enhanced, state of consciousness. [...] [See the extensive notes for the 653rd session in Chapter Thirteen, describing her various states of altered perception last April 2. In one of those intervals she’d sensed giants standing about the rim of our world.] Now, Jane said, from their massive viewpoint these observers could see “everything happening at once in our world, from California to Russia — like astronauts looking back at us….”

(Jane and I had driven through the hilly, very lush countryside around Elmira this afternoon; the sunny day had been just about perfect. [...]

[...] Jane nodded toward the open windows. [...]

(Just as the session was about to begin at 9:15, Jane said she thought we’d be interrupted somehow, or have visitors. [...] He teaches a high school course called “Inner and Outer Space,” in a small city in Connecticut; the class uses Jane’s book, The Seth Material, as text. [...]

[...] Jane’s pace had been good. [...]

[...] I had grown concerned lately that Jane was overdoing weekend psychic work, including sessions for visitors. [...]