“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I do think Seth offered an excellent insight when he said that the blue periods on both our parts were ways of expressing fears. Without thinking about such bouts particularly, I suppose I at least had taken it for granted that the blue periods reflected weaknesses on my part, say — times when I should have known better or wasn’t doing well. I dare say Jane has the same ideas. Now we can appreciate that the blue periods are therapeutic.

(Jane called last night. I worked on Dreams but an hour this morning, and once again, told her that I was concerned about lost working time on the book. She said she’d been very blue as I left last night, but that the period had passed after a while and she’d felt fine. I’ve also had a number of blue periods lately, but try to keep going anyhow.)

It is natural enough in your situation to have blue periods now and then.

[...] Note that the bill used as the object has blue lines upon it. [...] Nor did it contain any blue. [...] She used blue ribbons perhaps through a distortion of the blue pertaining to the envelope object.

[...] But the paper the object is manufactured from is a bright yellow, and the yellow is printed upon with blue ink. Blue and yellow ordinarily would print green. But in this case the blue ink is so dense and strong that it prints as blue on the object. [...]

(“A rectangular package, covered with white tissue paper, and divided in fours by a slim blue ribbon.” Jane had an image here. She saw mentally the four divisions, and had the feeling of blue—of a white package with blue lines or ribbons dividing it.

[...] The object is printed in dark blue ink on yellow paper, with the writing in carbon blue. [...]

[...] But when he pulled the shorts up around his waist the blue denim kept turning into a blue Turkish towel type of fabric that he tried to pin together so they’d cover him and wouldn’t fall down. He kept trying to make something useful out this affair, and the more he tried the more obvious it became that he was trying to wrap himself in a blue-and-white Turkish towel in lieu of shorts. [...]

[...] It was summertime and I wore shorts, cut-off blue denim jeans.

(When I got to 330 I found my wife blue and teary-eyed. [...] “I guess everybody’s got the right to feel blue once in a while,” I said. [...]

He was angry at himself for feeling blue, and felt that you would be angry also. As the day progressed since morning, he had successfully countered many negative thoughts, until finally he did feel weary and blue. [...]

Your reaction to Ruburt’s fit of the blues was excellent—of the highest caliber. [...]

It is, of course, important that both of you keep your spirits as high as possible—yet be understanding with yourselves when you do become blue, and don’t add new guilt on top of the momentary sadness. [...]

(“The four areas could be different in color, and fairly bright—perhaps also a pale blue. [...] We offer a pale blue connection however that we have been aware of for several years. Miss Callahan, who gave Jane the parent begonia which led to the making of the envelope object, is inordinately fond of blue. [...] Miss Callahan’s apartment is largely blue. Her living room has pale blue painted walls, including a floor to ceiling painted blue bookcase. Her divan is covered with solid blue, as is a matching overstuffed chair. The other chair is of a blue printed pattern. The rug is a darkish violet and gray, close to a blue, etc.

The four areas could be different in color, and fairly bright—perhaps also a pale blue. [...]

[...] We think this answer reinforces our interpretations of the woman data, and the symbolic blue data just noted. [...]

(9:46.) Some of the material (in this session) on pain should help clear Ruburt’s mind, but the past week’s blue periods and so forth simply represented one more example of a situation in which he tried to make himself get better by “realizing the gravity of his condition”—by contrasting his performance against “normal” performance, and by the old beliefs of not trusting the body. [...]

[...] You can help most by reminding him of our resolutions when, say, he feels blue—for when he remembers them he does not need the reminder (with amusement)—and simply by reassuring him of his body’s good intent, and in its ability to follow through.

(Then she said that off and on for a couple of hours last night she got very blue—awful, she said —crying and calling for me. [...] I thought her spell might fit in with Seth’s recent material that her blue periods would gradually vent themselves away. [...]

[...] A girl from Andrew Fife’s office called to tell me that Andrew had called one of the supervisors at Syracuse—Blue Cross—about our major medical claim. [...]

[...] There were other people in a blue mood on his floor, also. [...]

[...] The blue period started after that. [...]

(“Blue and white.” [...] Jane said this is when she had the mental image of white notepaper with blue lines on it. [...]

[...] The list is handwritten, on a white paper that is tinged with blue, that is, bluish-white paper. [...]

[...] The object for tonight is small and blue and square-shaped, with perhaps an imprint on it. [...]

Blue and white.

[...] A large pennant or such with red, white, blue. Another with gold and blue and either green or white. [...]

(“Also blue, and white, and one strong darker color. [...] The doodles on the object were made with a blue pen. [...] Since the obliterations are made with blue on a yellow paper, the effect is on the greenish side, and very dark. However, it may be that it was just difficult for Seth to determine between a darker blue and a dark green. Blue and green both being cool colors and side by side on the color wheel.

[...] Also blue, and white, and one strong darker color. [...]

[...] She told me that Blue Cross has turned down the major medical claim for Jane, to their surprise. [...]

[...] I got from him the name of the supervisior of claims at Blue Cross, as well as a person, Mary Krebs, head of Utilization Review, which determines what level of care a patient is at, at the hospital.

(Andrew Fife said Blue Cross wouldn’t want the publicity of a suit in a case like ours, but I said they must go through this all the time. [...]

(I said to her that for all I knew, the incomprehensible position of Blue Cross represented more of the slipshod bureaucratic behavior Seth had referred to on December 3. I still remembered my dream about the checks out by the car, and so forth. [...]

[...] Blue, incidentally, is a healing color, which is why Ruburt craves it. The deep color, however, of the blue reflecting his own desire for contrast.

[...] The color blue should be added to the kitchen, by the way.

(“Blues and yellows, strong colors.” [...] The batteries are covered with a strong red, blue, and yellow design, very bulky. [...]

(I then asked Seth to elaborate on the strong color impression about the blues and yellows. [...] A more distant connection might arise from the fact that Jane’s shopping list, shown on page 190, was written on yellow paper with a dark blue pen. [...]

[...] Blues and yellows, strong colors.

(“Well, I’d say it referred to events… You said strong colors—blues and yellows. [...]

[...] Blue is referred to both on the object itself on the page 11 side in the line: Norwegian natural blue fox… etc.; and is torn through on the page 12 side in the line referring to a sale of thermal blankets: White, green, pink, blue, gold. Blue also appears on page 12 of the full sheet, in a list of colors for imperfect sheets on sale, and in other places on page 11/12.

[...] Again no connections, unless one can make them from the list of sheet colors on the full page 12: Soft beige, pastel blue, pastel pink, mint green, orchid mist [Jane said this would be a purple], aqua blue, yellow. Or the colors listed for the thermal blankets, the list being partially visible on the page 12 side of the object: White, green, pink, blue, gold.

[...] (Jane pronounced this as though groping a bit.) Blue. [...]

[...] Gubatorial, blue. [...]

(“And some blue. [...] As stated the stamp on the object is gray blue, and bears a figure 5. It seems however that this data probably refers to the figure of Mother Goose, shown on the object, and to the statue standing upon a base that is painted blue. In addition Mother Goose wears blue shoes. There is blue in her costume as well as red, and the goose beside her is a blue gray.

[...] And some blue. [...]

[...] The card bears the usual single gray blue 5¢ stamp showing George Washington. [...]

(“Blue green, written with a pen, or the color of blue ink.” I wrote the date at the top of the object with a ballpoint pen containing blue ink—the same pen used to duplicate this series of numbers on the copy of the object included with this session. The reference to green is interesting; my thought being that blue and green are next to each other on the color wheel and perhaps difficult for Seth to distinguish. [...]

[...] Blue green, written with a pen, or the color of blue ink. [...]

[...] When Jane and I visited the gallery window to check out this data before writing it up, we noted the three colors mentioned above in this particular sculpture—white, blue, gray.

(On Wednesday, May 13, Miss Callahan’s relatives asked Jane if we could move Miss Callahan’s blue divan into our apartment, and in its place let them take a hide-away bed we had in storage; this bed to be used for a nurse who was to live with Miss Callahan when she was brought home from the Town House. [...]

(Jane liked the blue divan; I thought it crowded our own quarters too much. [...]

(Perhaps if I had agreed enthusiastically to keep the blue divan, Jane would have done so. [...]

(Jane had been blue and depressed yesterday, and she was that way again when I got to 330 today. [...]

(She was still blue at session time, but her Seth voice was stronger than usual.)

Here are some observations on the medications you sent for Jane’s blue finger, and the ulcer. [...]

[...] The day after she’d taken the second dose—in the morning, Saturday —Jane’s little finger on her left hand began to change color toward blue, from the middle joint down. [...]

Ruburt does not feel blue now “for no reason” as he often did. It is natural enough to feel blue if you hurt, but this is something different from an overall glum inner climate. [...]