“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

All answers obtained through the Ouija board, and later through Jane’s dictation, are in caps. My questions are in regular type, my comments and descriptions are in parentheses. Occasional corrections the board made in mid-passage are also in parentheses, and can be skipped in the reading. The word “gratis” is used to denote places where, after a pause, the board delivered up further information without being asked to.

To obtain this verbatim record: In the first few sessions Jane and I sat facing each other with the board on our laps, and with a desk close beside me on the right. Jane always kept both hands on the pointer. I kept my left hand there and wrote down questions and answers with my right, using the desk as support. At times my onehanded approach slowed up the pointer’s transmission, but if I touched my right hand to it, it picked up speed. At times it moved very fast. If it moved too fast I either held it back every few words until I had the message down, or wrote with one hand while keeping the other in position.

Neither of us has ever obtained any results using the board alone.

We borrowed the Ouija board from our landlord in the fall of 1963, when by chance he mentioned that he’d bought one but had never obtained any results with it. Jane and I tried the board a few times (sometimes with friends) and at first had no success. Then for a few sessions we received what seemed to be understandable information in the form of various names, initials, dates, places, etc. Nothing we could very easily verify, and some of it was contradictory. Nor could we ever contact the same “source” again.

There is personal evidence to be obtained here that can be obtained in no other way. [...]

(Seth refers to last night’s ESP class, in which Jane and some of her students obtained some unusual effects and experiences. [...]

I make this as a strong recommendation, for if you are to obtain full benefits from your developments, then you simply must become proficient along these lines. [...]

[...] The answers I obtained did not vary and the pendulum gave definite yes-and-no answers, without quibbling. [...]

[...] According to the pendulum the answers obtained are not projections of my own problems.

[...] Bill Macdonnel, who has witnessed several sessions and has been involved in some of the effects obtained during sessions, was visiting us. [...]

[...] It will be noted that the 102nd session was also unscheduled, and that it dealt with the subject of obtaining physical effects.)

(No doubt, of course, that extrasensory information was obtained; telepathy from Jerry in some cases perhaps—from her conscious and subconscious mind. [...]

(This session was held to obtains answers to two questions we had for Seth. [...]

[...] He will not bother to use normal perception to obtain it. [...]

(A long time ago, Jane and I discussed this method of obtaining trance data, and decided not to use it for various reasons. [...]

[...] I use it, with excellent results, to obtain ideomotor — ‘subconscious’ — responses about knowledge that lies just outside my usual consciousness. [...] By mentally asking questions, I obtain ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answers according to whether the pendulum swings back and forth, or from side to side.”

(The envelope object for the 64th envelope experiment was a parking ticket obtained at Robert Treman State Park, near Ithaca, NY, on July 12,1966, on our recent vacation. [...]

[...] As stated we obtained the parking ticket used as object on July 12,1966 at Robert Treman State Park, Ithaca, NY, and I kept track of this date by attaching a note to the ticket. [...]

[...] The parking ticket was obtained at the state park as a result of a 60-mile round trip by automobile, as were the two subsequent parking tickets for the same state park. [...]

[...] We also obtained like objects for the other two visits, and Seth evidently uses this fact to lead to related connections. [...]

[...] His references to my own material being valid concerned my insights that many of the heads I paint represent my own psychic searches, or efforts, to obtain understanding of the dimensions of the psyche through reincarnation and counterpart depictions of those various personalities.)

(The board began to work for them immediately, where it had taken Jane and me quite a few sessions before we obtained anything at all through it. I took down the answers the Pipers obtained, and Jane was an observer.

[...] Notice also that this material was obtained 60 sessions ago; and as far as my memory serves, Seth has not contradicted himself on this fifth dimensional material in any sessions that have taken place since then.)

[...] Jane and I wore black clothing; our little table was draped in a dark red cloth, which we used because we had forgotten to obtain the black.

[...] We obtained no results of any kind. [...]

[...] Jane had never seen the object; I obtained it today, October 24, from Marjorie Buck, the proprietor, when I bought pencils and paper stumps with which to do the job my old friend, Bill Ward, mailed to me over the weekend. [...]

[...] The bill is not dated by Marjorie; when I obtained it I had no notion of using it as the object. [...]

[...] Marjorie Buck is the proprietor of The Art Shop, where I obtained the bill used as object. [...]

[...] As stated I had no idea of using the bill as object when I obtained it from Marjorie. [...]

[...] Our old cat, Willy One, died last November 5. A few days later we obtained Willy Two from Stray Haven in Waverly, New York. [...]

[...] After lunch I massaged both of her legs as I’ve been doing, and once again obtained good reactions. [...]

[...] This is the data obtained after I asked Seth to elaborate upon the underground, or grave, data. [...] Jane said now that because she hadn’t given the word grave in the envelope data in the 232nd session, involving a death, she made it a point to speak it aloud this evening when she obtained a similar impression.

[...] My idea was that this data referred to my place of employment, from where I obtained the object, by calling upon the death of a friend, Ezra Havens, in 1964. [...]

[...] This was shortly after we had obtained the book on hands, and during the evening Jane asked the Wilburs if they would cooperate in having handprints made. [...] Arrangements were made to obtain their prints on Friday, February 25, but were not carried out because of the difficulty in getting good prints. [...]

[...] This is but one of many prints I made that evening; I discovered it is not easy to obtain a full print that has good overall detail.

[...] In the light of the material obtained in the two deleted sessions earlier this week, we believe this to be a significant step forward, a mark of Jane’s increasing confidence in her psychic ability, and wholehearted acceptance we believe to be necessary.

[...] In the light of the material obtained in the two regular sessions earlier this week, we believe this to be a significant step forward; a mark of Jane’s increasing confidence in her psychic ability, and wholehearted acceptance we believe to be necessary. [...]

[...] The results were obtained without delay, evidently from Framework 2. Of course, Jane wanted these results for herself, also. [...]

[...] Frank Longwell cited a case whereby his brother Waldo obtained encouraging answers to a set of business problems that had been bugging the Longwells for some time. [...]

(As in the case with Dee and Joe Masters on the evening of November 24,1964–see the 110th session–some results were obtained that did not involve Seth in any way. [...]

[...] Twice during the seance Lee obtained effects or results which seem to fit in with Seth’s description of some of the inner senses and their use. [...]