“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane had some images and these will be mentioned in place. This is a case where Jane had seen one of the two items making up the envelope objects very recently—the beer can cap, on Friday, October 7, three days ago. She had never seen my penned note bearing the date and identifying the brand of beer, Draft Beer. See pages 86-88 for tracings of the two envelope objects, and the beer can. I might add that Jane saw the beer can cap only in a casual way. There were quite a few lying about our living room Friday evening. Our candle was not lit until late that evening. When I picked up a cap to blacken in the flame I thought this would focus Jane’s conscious attention on this particular one, but she told me at break tonight that she hadn’t noticed my heating the cap, or else had forgotten it.

(Two other couples visited us last Friday evening, Bill and Peggy Gallagher, and Marilyn and Don Wilbur. Jane and I furnished wine, so did the Gallaghers, and the Wilburs brought two six-packs of beer—one of Draft Beer, the other of Carling Black Label.

(“A vertical format.” Seth didn’t help us out here and I neglected to ask him to after break, but in view of later data Jane and I believe this applies to the design on the Draft Beer can, furnishing the cap used as one of the envelope objects. See page 88. Due to its nature a beer can would bear a vertical format. The card table we used had a plain brown top; but perhaps Seth referred to something else.

(“Connection with a large city. This Minneapolis connection, I do not know to what it refers. Again, a capital letter impression, a large M. Minneapolis, Mississippi—that length of word, with a place description connected.” Jane said she was sure these long names beginning with an M reflected her attempts to come through with Milwaukee, rather than Minneapolis. She tied up the Milwaukee name to our having beer to drink at the gathering Friday evening: and of course a beer can furnished the metal object used in the experimental envelope. See page 88.

(Tracings of the beer can cap, and my note, used as the objects in the 73rd envelope experiment, in the 292nd session for October 10,1966.)

(Backs of the beer can cap, and my note.)

(Drawing of a draft beer can. [...]

The swelling has to do with a chemical that encouraged in certain parts of the body only a retention of fluid, and this was aggravated by beer consumption, and also by the drinking of whole milk.

[...] I am no medical man… Because of the psychological condition he extracted, or he used this in both whole milk and beer, in such a way that it left residues near certain joints, blocking passageways and allowing fluids to accumulate. [...]

[...] Beer and whole milk are contained in the list. [...]

(“Do you want me to get you some beer?”

[...] She drank three bottles of beer during the session—more than she usually does. [...]

[...] She felt the effects of the beer. [...]

(For the record, let it be added that although we did go out for beer, we first took John up to the house we plan to buy for a quick inspection of the property. [...]

[...] We sat on the long wide front porch and drank the beer. [...]

(Nor did he reveal his presence while we sat in a neighborhood tavern later, with more beer. [...]

5) Beer.

[...] She said it was probably because she had picked up what Seth was going to discuss after break, although I had seen her take a swallow of beer just before she started coughing. [...]

[...] She lit a cigarette and sipped at a beer. [...]

[...] Jane drank two and a half quick beers, which affected her enough so that no session was held.

(I thought excitement from receiving the letter had as much to do with Jane’s feelings, as the beer.

(The envelope object for tonight’s 35th experiment was a beer coaster that I picked up from our table last Saturday evening, at our favorite dining and dancing establishment here in Elmira. [...]

[...] She feels the sharp edges is a reference to the beer glasses depicted on the coaster: one can think of glass ordinarily as sharp-edged, but to be useful as a drinking vessel the material would have its edges smoothed, or blunted.

[...] Jane had the idea, now, that the envelope object advertised beer, made from grain.

[...] Jane, in trance, held up a fresh bottle of beer. [...]

(“Do you want me to get you some more beer?”

(10:01.) You may take a break, or get Ruburt some beer while I leave him in trance. [...]

(“I’ll get the beer,” I said, since Jane was doing well and I felt like continuing. [...]

[...] Now she still sat upright in her chair, sipping beer, eyes closed. [...]

[...] When she sipped beer, she felt the cold liquid descend inside her body, but displaced to the right of her esophagus. [...]

(Now Seth asked me to open a beer for Jane. [...]

Then get our friend a beer.... [...]

[...] I got her a beer. [...]

(Jane, as Seth, reached across the coffee table between us, to take my half-full glass of beer. [...]

(Amused:) My friend Ruburt is out of his beer, so I will let you pause briefly.

Take your break and open our beer.