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(Aunt Mabel and I seldom see each other. Jane has met her just three times during the eleven years we have been married. The third time was at the funeral of my Aunt Ella on August 8,1965, in Wellsburg, NY. Thus the most recent time that Jane had a chance to speak at length to Aunt Mabel involved the funeral of a member of the Butts family. In addition Seth dealt at length with Aunt Ella in the 176th session of August 9,1965, the day after her funeral. Note that the object was secured two months after Aunt Ella’s funeral. We have noticed this curious time jump before in the envelope experiments, backwards as it were. Jane possessed strong emotional memories regarding the funeral, and clairvoyant knowledge of the envelope object in some form; evidently Seth responded to, or deliberately chose, what he perceived as the stronger intensities pertaining to Aunt Ella’s funeral over the object itself.

(It appears that Jane has formed an association that links Aunt Mabel with funerals, as seen above. If this seems tenuous, we think the idea reinforced by the fact that Jane and me and Aunt Mabel also attended another funeral together—that of Aunt Mabel’s husband, who died several years ago. This was the first time Jane met Aunt Mabel. Thus Aunt Mabel was involved with funerals and related activities on two out of the three occasions that Jane has spoken with her; these two occasions being the times when Jane could exchange more than greetings with her, also. Jane and I do not think tonight’s envelope data contains any references to the death of Aunt Mabel’s husband.

(The connection between the envelope object and the death-in-the-family reference is, simply, that the object was picked off the sidewalk beside the home of my Aunt Mabel, and that Aunt Mabel, Jane and I attended the funeral of the family member. The connection is more complicated than this, but to avoid confusion I will explain this portion mentioned above first.

(My Aunt Mabel lives around the corner and two blocks down the street from us. When Jane and I went for our leaf-gathering walk in October of 1965, we picked up the maple leaves in our collection beside Aunt Mabel’s home; this is the section of the street where the maple trees grow, and one of these leaves made up tonight’s object.

(9:49.) At the same time Aunt Sarah, unbeknown to you, might pick up a blue vase, one that you had just seen in your mind as belonging on a shelf in her living room. Touching the vase, your Aunt Sarah might think of the person who gave it to her, now on the other side of the continent. That person, perhaps thinking of buying a present for someone, might settle upon a vase in a flash of inspiration, or suddenly begin humming a song with the name “Sarah” in the title, or possibly even think of your aunt. [...] Because of the time element, it seems to you that the first episode caused the others, and that your first association concerning your aunt brought about the “following” events.

[...] You might think of your Aunt Sarah, for example, and in a few moments the associative process might bring you images of periods in the past when you visited your aunt, of her friends and neighbors, the articles in her house, and episodes connected with your relationship.

(On Sunday afternoon, August 8, Jane and I attended the funeral of my Aunt Ella Buck in Wellsburg, NY, a nearby small town. [...] I had seen very little of Aunt Ella over the years, and Jane had met her twice, as best we can recall. [...]

(I can say that as far as my own memory goes, Seth has furnished a stunningly accurate picture of Aunt Ella, her temperament, etc. The descriptions here tally very closely with my remembered childhood impressions of Aunt Ella, when I saw her most often.

[...] Nevertheless I will be glad to discuss your aunt Ella, whose entity name is Dorinella.

[...] As soon as Seth mentioned buttons, I immediately had a picture of Aunt Ella holding an old-fashioned red tin box, in which many buttons lay. [...]

(The house of Malba’s aunt was right in town. Malba’s parents were not married and the aunt brought Malba and her brother up. [...]

(She grew up with an aunt, and had an older brother. [...]

There seems to be a rather shadowy connection with a woman, perhaps an aunt, that does not seem beneficial. I am not certain of the aunt relationship however. [...]

[...] Consciously checked it with aunt.) Perhaps wedding. [...]

[...] Jerry and aunt have heard of a Tony.) Jerry tried too hard, consciously, making any contact difficult.

[...] (Yes, Jerry’s aunt. [...]

[...] Will ask aunt), on Billie’s part, I think… A wedding anniversary and a string of beads. [...]

(The older woman referred to by Seth is Virginia’s aunt, the younger is the aunt’s daughter-in-law. [...] The G, the Milligan’s said, refers to Geneva, where both the aunt and the daughter-in-law live. [...]

[...] I would say an aunt, but I am not certain here, and that does not seem to be correct. [...]

[...] This feeling stems from my mother, who “must always be up and at it,” Seth said, and also from my Aunt Alice, who used to be a missionary, and whom I have met but once or twice. [...]

[...] You may receive a letter from your Aunt Bessie, for example. [...] You might wonder if your aunt will take an anticipated journey to Europe next year, and that thought might give birth to images of an imagined future. All of these thoughts and images will be colored by the emotions that are connected to the letter, and to all of the events with which you and your aunt have been involved.

[...] I am at present at odds with my aunt, a female relative, and I know I should be handling this situation better. [...]

[...] If it is not the mother, then the aunt. [...]

[...] Since I am not sure which of the two women, the mother or aunt, is involved, this information from my statement to you, should remain private. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s aunt was looking from without, and the consciousness of Ruburt’s mother left the body as Rooney’s did. [...]

[...] During break John told us he has no aunt. [...]

(John also told us now that his wife has an Aunt Catherine who fits Seth’s description of a stocky woman in her fifties. [...]

Very old woman lived there, a relative, like a great grandmother, or great aunt perhaps.

Very old woman lived there, a relative, like a great grandmother, or great aunt perhaps. [...]

An Aunt Nellie. Now this Aunt Nellie may have died in 1936, but the date in any case is closely connected with her. [...]

[...] Perhaps in the 1930’s; and a relationship with an aunt. [...]

(Jane’s aunt, mentioned by Seth, lives in New York City. Jane has not seen her for some years, but keeps in touch via the aunt’s sister, Jane’s mother.)

[...] It’s attached to this session as page 302 and describes what seems to be in ordinary terms a senseless and horrendous story: A 20-year-old drunken driver crashed head-on into another auto, killing two people, the father and an aunt, and putting the other five passengers, all members of the same family, into the hospital. [...]

[...] The older woman (an aunt, killed at age 77) also wanted a quick death. [...]

[...] Summer… 1962… Anne’s aunt at a party…. [...]