“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

At our next session I will do your tape for you. I would not even tell Ruburt ahead of time (humorously), but even I need the tape in the recorder.

(Sue was fumbling with the tape recorder while Jane held the reel with her finger, when Seth came through.)

[...] You let the tape go!”)

(I also told Jane Steve Blumenthal called this morning, upon receiving the letter from Saul Cohen re not approving the tape deal. Steve is to send payment for the legal fees incurred by me so far for the tape question. [...]

[...] I taped the leaves to one of the two pieces of Bristol used in these experiments, sandwiched it against the other piece, then sealed the two in the usual double envelopes. [...]

(Seth goes from round to oval, which is more specific as far as the leaf is concerned, and from square to rectangular, which is more specific as far as the rectangular shape of the piece of Bristol to which I had taped both objects is concerned. [...]

[...] Since Jane had held the envelope to her forehead in the position above indicated, it can be seen that the “spines” of the two leaves, taped to the Bristol, would be roughly horizontal to the floor and thus to her vision. [...]

[...] With the object held in this position, it can be seen that the smaller of the two poinsettia leaves would be in the lower right hand corner or the lower left hand corner, depending on whether the piece of Bristol to which the leaves were taped had the leaves facing toward Jane or away from her.

“Let my soul find shelter elsewhere,” Jane said, by way of a quick translation when I played the tape for her a few minutes later. [...] I knew at once that the tape’s contents were so revealing of her feelings about her illness, so disturbing and frightening, that she couldn’t bring herself to explore those deep emotions at that time. [...]

Indeed, I didn’t learn that Jane had made the tape until five weeks later, after she’d returned to our hill house from the hospital: I found it on March 30, amid others in her writing room. [...]

[...] The tape goes into our files, although I’d love to know what she said on the rest of it….

In the meantime, two days after I discovered the tape, I asked Jane, “Do you want to have a session tonight?”

(I told her I got a call from Sue last night, re Steve and the tape deal, and from both Pete and Steve this morning, re tapes. [...]

(In between those calls, Steve Blumenthal called, and I told him that Jane and I had decided not to go through with the tape deal. [...] I said that I didn’t want the extra stress involved with the tape deal, that we’d dealt with our publisher for many years, and that I didn’t look forward to being in an adversarial position vis-à-vis them. [...]

[...] I hadn’t used the pendulum, for example, but I suspected that I was reacting to calling off the tape deal. [...]

[...] His positive approach to the tape-business deal with Steve and Tracy answered some of our own questions, as well as those concerning possible conflicts over tape ownership. [...]

[...] Played old Safe Universe Seth tape for them, was struck by Seth’s discussion strongly and saw how back in ‘75 he had the issues already organized for the future.... [...]

We always liked the idea, however, that others were recording class events and were keeping tapes for us if and when we wanted them; we also liked the idea that it was safer to have the tapes scattered about instead of being kept in one place. In class Jane might have listened to portions of a tape as it was being made, or immediately after class was over, but seldom would I hear her playing the same tape later—if we had a copy of it, that is. [...] I simply have never devoted myself to collecting tapes. [...] one of the few tapes we’d made together, or use our recorder when writing poetry. [...]

[...] One very unusual way these showed themselves began on the evening of October 31, when four younger people who had been members of ESP class visited us from New York City.⁸ They’d been scouting the Elmira area for other ex-students, to see if any of them had old class tapes of Jane speaking for Seth and/or singing in Sumari; they had had some success in their searches, but we didn’t play any of the tapes that night.⁹

[...] We grew up without modern conveniences like portable tape recorders, of course, but even so our natural creative desires had always been to express ourselves graphically, in written and printed words and in drawn and painted images. [...]

[...] But Jane set up the recorder, placed the mike on a coffee table near the center of the room, and ran a few feet of tape to make sure her voice was picked up from any part of the room. She then rewound the tape, recorded her name, the time and the date, and switched the set off. [...]

[...] We had the machine set to record at the slowest speed possible, in order to make the tape last. [...]

(During break Jane had to flip the reel on the recorder because the tape was almost used up. [...]

(Along in here the recorder abruptly ran out of tape. [...]

[...] For the program has already been taped. [...]

[...] It is completely a taped production. [...]

Now you will have your fun trying to figure out whether we are having an original or a taped session. [...]

[...] The object is the insurance receipt for the tape of the 170th session, which was sent to Dr. Instream on July 23,1965. The tape was made with the Gallaghers as witnesses, at their home outside Elmira, NY, on July 19,1965.

[...] As stated, it is the insurance receipt for the tape of the 170th session, made on July 19,1965 at the home of the Gallaghers, with them as witnesses. The receipt is handstamped July 23,1965, the day the tape was mailed to Dr. Instream.

(See the notes on page 269, Volume 5, of the 232nd session, dealing with Jane’s recent poetry book and the request by Jane’s publisher, F. Fell, that she send it to him along with a tape of some of the poems, also by Jane. [...]

[...] A reference to the motor of our tape recorder. [...]

(“Has Dr. Instream listened to the tape we sent him?”

(We mailed the tape of the 170th session to Dr. Instream on Friday, July 23. [...]

[...] She said she sensed a slight irritation on Seth’s part when I asked if anybody else had listened to the tape with Dr. Instream; it was as though Seth could get the information to answer the question, but didn’t feel inclined to so exert himself.

[...] I thought about the tape deal overnight, and this morning decided that it wasn’t worth going through with, at least at this time. [...]

(“I’ve decided to give up on the tape deal with Steve. [...]

(We had been hunting through the taped session for particularly strong voice effects so that John could get an idea of the power of the Seth personality. [...] The transition was so smooth that it was a moment before John and I realized we were no longer listening to the tape. [...]

[...] Besides that, my recording of the Sumari personality was poor and I had to stop at Fred and Pete’s [class members] to get their tape, and I didn’t arrive at Jane & Rob’s until 9 PM. We played the two tapes—Jane was especially interested in the chant that preceded the Sumari’s short speech—until 9:20. [...]

(Notes taped and transcribed by Sue Watkins.

[...] This afternoon I dropped in to talk about this incident with Jane & Rob; in the course of the conversation we decided that I should bring the tape of that class to their apartment this evening, stay on for the session, and record it and type it up.

[...] The tape was off, and I switched it on in a hurry. [...]

(Seth withdrew, and as break was starting and Jane began coming out of trance, Florence, shaking her fingers after writing for so long, made a comment that she wished the tape recorder was here. [...]

[...] You have your own tape recorder within your mind and you will remember what I said. [...]

[...] Also he mentioned that he would like an example of voice effects on tape, as long as we had a recorder, and we discussed mailing the tapes to him from Elmira. [...]

We will, as a gesture of good will, see that you will have a voice display on tape. [...]

[...] He was interested in getting this impression on tape because the Seth voice itself reinforced this feeling. [...]

[...] Expect another tape at a later time, and we will cover more regarding will. [...]

(Jane [Ruburt] said something to me on the tape about having a strong feeling of resistance on my part—as though in spite of all I said about wanting to have orgasm, I really didn’t want to—that it was a strong protective measure, as though my survival in one way depends on it.

Now there will be another tape within 3 months time if we do not see you earlier.