“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Since the visitors began to appear on the first day I was in bed and within a matter of hours, Jane and I soon thought it more than coincidence. We had 4 visitors the first day, 3 the second day, 5 the third day, 4 the fourth day, etc. Moreover two of our first four visitors, Sonja Carlson and Louis D’Andreano, were from out of town.

(Sonja bought a painting from me on November 18, 1964, and is mentioned by Seth in the 108th session of that date. Louis witnessed the 89th session, held in Rochester, NY, and was also discussed by Seth in the 90th session. Another visitor that first day was Jim Beckett, who witnessed the 47th and 49th sessions. Thus Jim and Louis were the two neutral visitors referred to by Seth.

(My younger brother, William Richard, also from Rochester, NY, was a visitor on March 28. He is custodian of the second carbon of these sessions, and witnessed the 89th session. Another visitor was Bill Macdonnel, entity name Mark, and several times a witness. On file I have a complete record of the 21 visits Jane and I received.

For the benefit of our visitor, let me say that action is the vitality of the universe from which all realties spring. [...] Therefore, when our visitor hesitates between his two doors, he is not motionless, but uses as much energy in indecision as should be expended in purposeful direction.

[...] The present personality of our visitor was aware of the sessions before Philip mentioned them. [...] The number fifteen is an important one to our visitor.

The entity name of our visitor is Marleno.

[...] The visitor could appear and disappear then without fear of pursuit. Civilizations were often warned in advance of natural disasters that were apparent to the visitors with their greater viewpoint.

(Jane’s pace, as Seth, was now quite a bit faster.) Some such visitors in your terms were more evolved than others. [...]

[...] Therefore it became much more feasible to approach earthmen during their dream state, when their natural fear reactions were somewhat minimized, and where the danger to the visitors was far less.

(A session had been mandatory Monday evening, February 5, since we’d scheduled it for an out-of-state visitor some time ago, but we didn’t feel much like it when the time came. [...]

[...] Our visitor is to send us transcripts of the tapes he made. [...]

[...] I gave the information [in this chapter] purposely when I did, knowing that our visitor from the psychiatric clinic would be here.

[...] The visitors, for example, are not numerous. [...] It is almost as if you were able to look at our material from your own viewpoint, and yet at other levels to perceive it from your visitors’ viewpoints. [...]

You must understand that I am not telling you not to limit visitors. [...]

Your visitor will help spread the word, so to speak, but the books will make their own way irregardless. The interview was important because it dispelled some of your visitor’s erroneous beliefs about “mediums,” and the utilization of energy.

Now: your visitor (Andrija Puharich) is a good man—a scientist and a child; an actor of a sort, searching for wonders. [...]

Your visitor believes that these children who can also move objects (and who work with AP) are unique, and a new breed—but any children of past generations who realized that such feats were possible, and desirable, could do the same thing. [...]

(Just as the session was about to begin at 9:15, Jane said she thought we’d be interrupted somehow, or have visitors. [...]

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

[...] When you are having regular sessions, an occasional visitor will not annoy you, but such visits should be known in advance.

Now if you have not already discovered it for yourselves, and some of you have, you have visitors here this evening. [...] You have also had visitors in one of your class dreams. [...]

3. A. Why do we attract the kind of visitors we do, in person?

After eight o’clock on the night of a session, Ruburt should take steps so that he is not concerned over the question of whether or not particular visitors will arrive. [...]

[...] There are abilities on your visitor’s parts which are not being utilized, and which certainly should be.

I would suggest that your visitors be allowed to borrow a copy of the material, as they are both capable of comprehending and benefiting.

[...] My heartiest welcome to visitors for the evening. [...]

[...] You do not have to follow me and visitors here this evening do not have to feel as if they must follow me. [...]

(By way of reactions, we thought of improving our behavior in any such future encounters, insistently if necessary, and of preparing for them by informing would-be visitors that they’d have to read a selected list of books beforehand. We would add that the books alone would indicate how different our thinking was from the usual, and that the visitor wouldn’t find us agreeing with much of what they might want to say. [...]

[...] But Jane and I have seen the pattern demonstrated again and again: the visitor walks in the door, starts talking, usually about himself or herself, and seldom stops until leaving x-number of hours later. [...]

[...] Apropos of Jane’s efforts to personally do what she can, she received a visitor recently who displayed signs of a secondary personality….

[...] The visitor arrived from the airport with his wife in tow.

[...] [We’d also had an unannounced visitor—a Korean woman lawyer—from Los Angeles the other day.] Naturally we’re turning away all visitors because of the time element. [...]

(Yesterday we also had two unexpected visitors, as well as a brief call from a young man who had called on us unannounced with a friend, last week. [...]

[...] I decided that henceforth I would turn visitors away, since I didn’t see how I could know in advance whether she felt like seeing anyone or not. [...]

Forget worrying about visitors, one way or another. [...]

[...] Sometimes it seems that you are bothered by visitors when you do not want them, but those visitors are also a part of that spontaneous order, whether or not at any given time you recognize the purpose of such a visit, or its place in your lives. [...]

(11:44.) You are correct in your suggestion that you give yourselves some break from visitors for a while. [...]

[...] And Seth, very briefly commenting upon the search while it was still in progress, remarked to an out-of-town group of visitors that Jane was endeavoring to use her psychic abilities on her own; and that the assurance she was gaining through her efforts would be much more valuable to her than any she might derive from Seth himself “doing all the work.”

What of your letters and visitors lately? [...]

[...] The visitors took Ruburt’s mind off of his condition, provided new stimulus, provided reassurance, and allowed his body to continue its improvements.

[...] Although we wanted to see her, we found ourselves caught in the old dilemma about visitors conflicting with plans we’d already made— i.e., the session tonight. [...] We do make progress in such affairs as visitors, expected or not expected, but could do much better.