“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(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.

(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.

(“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.

(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 had smoked, and sipped wine occasionally. [...]

(Jane paused at 10:12, took a sip of wine without appearing to open her eyes, then gave voice to the last sentence above. [...]

[...] 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.

[...] Beer in any quantity should now be avoided. [...]

One brief remark: A rosé wine, rather than your Pisano.

[...] She smokes in trance and sips a little wine, beer, or coffee. [...]

(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. [...]

(3rd Question: Can you say something about wine or the wine house? [...] See the wine house data-interpretation on page 23. [...]

[...] A distant connection with wine or a wine house. [...]

(“Can you say something about wine or the wine house?”

(“A distant connection with wine or a wine house.” [...]

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. [...]

For your information I can taste the wine and fortunately I am not affected by the wine, although Ruburt may be. [...]

[...] —The wine is not as good as the brandy! [...]

(Indeed, we were out of beer, which Jane usually drinks during the sessions, and she didn’t want any wine. [...]

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

Wine rather than the grain beer. [...]

[...] Ruburt lately has looked for spontaneous release in anonymous social situations—the beer in the crowded bar. [...]

[...] I made her put on her glasses, drink wine, walk about, etc. [...]

[...] Peg and Bill Gallagher visited Jane at 11:00 last night, sneaking in through the emergency exit, Jane said, and left presents, including wine, for us. [...]

[...] Georgia got us some ice and we each had a glass of the wine the Gallaghers had left. [...]

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

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

[...] This room is saturated with my presence as if you had sprinkled it with that heady wine, aged wine. [...]

[...] My energy has been silent but potent in this room, like that bottle of wine that sits upon the table. [...]

(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. [...]

[...] In an intimate gathering of close friends, if a few glasses of wine are drunk, and if Ruburt happens to then be increasingly aware of inner data, there is not anything out of the way in holding a session, if this happens only occasionally. Indeed a judicious (underline judicious) use of wine is somewhat beneficial, but never to be overdone, and this is very important.

Also here a word concerning wine, in connection with sessions.

[...] Since, however, he has noticed that occasionally, without touching a drop of wine during a given session, he nevertheless feels as if he had been indulging, so I would like to make a brief explanation.

[...] If she uses wine it is seldom more than a glass or two. [...]

5) Beer.

(Two similarities between this time and last time: Although other people weren’t present as they were before, tonight Jane and I were discussing others; and I was also sipping wine [again my first small glass] like before.)

[...] …” She sipped wine and laughed. [...]

(“I was so aware of my body today,” she commented, “that I wondered if I’d be aware of it during the session, but all I remember is drinking wine — which is the kind of thing I usually remember.”