“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The test object is simply a drawing in black ink of the same symbol used in the first envelope test, of August 18,1965, in the 179th session. [...] I made the drawing for this evening’s test on white paper; the paper was thin and the heavy black ink struck through the paper rather clearly. [...]

(As stated on page 95, the black ink drawing struck through the thin test paper so that it was visible on both sides of the paper. [...]

Black and white (pause) having to do with a particular circumstance, and initials and many designs. [...]

(Neither Jane or I understand the reference to black and white. [...]

(Tracing of the black and white photograph used in the 11th envelope test, September 29,1965, in the 194th session.)

[...] Jane and I wore black clothing; our little table was draped in a dark red cloth, which we used because we had forgotten to obtain the black.

(“Connection with black, and a small square. [...] The back of the bill is printed in heavy black ink, the front in red. [...]

Connection with black, and a small square. [...]

[...] The back of it is printed in black. [...]

[...] There is black printing on the back of the object, plus a bleedthrough of the price and date at the top, and a couple of ghost images of other price-and-date data beneath, in reverse.

[...] And (to a black student) you cannot know what it is like to be black in this culture — you may not agree here — unless you are also white in it…. [...]

(In our private session, Seth commented on my “quite legitimate” reincarnational data involving the black woman, Maumee or Mawmee, who’d lived on the Caribbean island of Jamaica early in the 19th century. [...]

[...] Without thinking, I casually remarked that currently I had three things going reincarnationally¹ — involving the Roman soldier, the black woman, and Nebene — and that if I could untangle their time sequences, I could use them as part of a chronological list of my “past” lives.

[...] (To the class:) That is, he knew the black woman was not in the physical room with him in this space and time, running through his studio [where he had the experience]. [...]

[...] You were black and a craftsman, for there were crafts. [...] It was a small black image—something like the stereotyped Buddha image—but with several differences. [...]

The color red is more vivid than the color black, using black here as color. However red takes up no more space than black. [...]

[...] Behind her closed eyes the customary blackness began to turn gray, then white, or light; she saw finally a milky diffused light, as though she was looking at a frosted glass. [...]

[...] It will all be down in black and white for you, however, before too long.

[...] This period of time is leading you both away from black or white patterns of thought to some degree, so that you can consider the aspects of your lives, bothered less by absolutes. [...]

[...] In other words, avoid black or white thinking. [...]

[...] They were winter trees, you see, done in black. [...]

[...] The black boots should not be worn next year. [...]

[...] Everything seemed threatened, curled at the edges, burnt black and in need of replacement. [...] She shook her head emphatically so that her short curly black hair bobbed up and down.

(When we close our eyes, Jane said, we are aware of a certain “area” of blackness, an area we are used to. [...] Had she known more about it, we felt she might have understood more that would be going on in this extended black area. [...]

(Jane said it was as though her eyes had actually moved farther apart, to create this expanded, broadened field of awareness, of infinite black. [...]

[...] They hadn’t made such an impression on her either time, because although she had felt the expanding of the skull, she had experienced nothing like the strange infinite black within this expanded area.

(“Black and white colors.” The envelope object is white, with both the printing and typing on it in black ink. Wendell’s letter is also black and white, though his signature is in blue ink.

[...] The object was a standard white business envelope, printed and typed in black. [...]

[...] Black and white colors. [...]

[...] A date above, connection with black small squares. [...]

(“A date above, connected with small black squares.” [...]

(Perhaps the small black squares refer to type? [...]

[...] As stated the object is in black and various shades of gray, printed on white. [...]

[...] A thick black rubber hose in a backyard after dark for a moment actually becomes, or could become, to a timid soul a particularly vicious, ridiculously long and fat black snake.

[...] Also during this period, Jane experienced an odd sensation within the black field of inner vision: as though she was moving quickly through space and changing perspective.

(Also, I saw a big black spider on woman’s dress, over one breast. [...]

[...] Upon it we had spread a triangular piece of black cloth. [...]

[...] The room was not pitch black. [...]

[...] The pistols were black and long, much longer than pistols of today. [...]

(“Squares that are interconnected, and the color black.” [...] Each window is divided up into many small panes a few inches on a side, and all have black molding or frames. [...]

Squares that are interconnected, and the color black.

[...] The name is written in ordinary black pencil. [...]

A black and white photo. [...]

(I joked that I thought “A black and white photo.” [...]

[...] The card was carried next to a black and white photograph, incidentally. [...]

[...] As far as Ruburt’s condition has been concerned, you both have habitually thought so in terms of black and white that you added a narrow, limited area in which improvements might begin, but could only go so far.

[...] Instead, of course, he felt in such a position before the symptoms showed—as each of you felt, and were convinced in black-and-white fashion, that creative people were misunderstood, held in inferior position in the world, and were generally considered oddballs.

Your black-and-white beliefs have often led you both to either expect scorn, misunderstanding, or on the other hand to expect too much of others who come here. [...]