“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(It will be remembered that our 2nd envelope test, held during the 180th session, was held on August 23, and that it featured a photograph of Jane at York Beach. Now checking our records, we saw that an unscheduled session was held on August 28. Can this be coincidence?

(The Gallaghers witnessed the unscheduled session, the 182nd. Lorraine knows them superficially, having witnessed a few sessions with them. We find no reference to either Lorraine or York Beach in the 182nd session. It happens that this session was reconstructed from memory; since it was unscheduled I had not been prepared to take formal notes. Jane and I did our best, recalling it.

(For the 10th envelope test I used a label from a bottle of Ballantine Ale. See the tracing on page 289. Jane and I met the Gallaghers accidentally at a dancing establishment last Saturday evening. I absent-mindedly peeled the label from a bottle as we sat talking in the darkened room, then decided on the spur of the moment to use it for a test. I wondered if friendly impressions might attach themselves to the label. I took care to slip the wet label in a coat pocket when neither Jane or the Gallaghers were looking, and as it developed Jane had no idea of the test object for the session.

(To our surprise Lorraine told us this evening that she is quite familiar with Seneca Lake. She said that in spite of its size there are relatively few gasoline stations on the lake. She also told us that she knows of a Mack’s boat livery on Seneca Lake. This livery of course has a gasoline station with it. She gave the location of this station as about 5 miles north of Himrod, on Route 14, on the west side of the lake. Jane and I will relay this information to the Gallaghers.

(The session was held in our large front room. Jane spoke while sitting down and with her eyes closed. Her voice was a bit stronger than usual, her pace faster. Much of the time she sat leaning forward with her head down somewhat. Her glasses were on when she began speaking, actually at 8:58, but she soon removed them.)

(Jane now took a long pause.)

(Break at 9:16. Jane was dissociated as usual for a first break. Her eyes remained closed. Her pace was good, her voice a little stronger than usual, and with a trace of her brogue. Lorraine was also taking shorthand notes.

(Jane resumed in the same manner at 9:27.)

(Break at 9:44. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes remained closed. Her voice continued to display its peculiar brogue occasionally. Her pace had been good.

(Up until now, although the session was being held in our front room, none of us had given a thought to traffic noise. It is interesting to note that when Jane resumed with the Dr. Instream material, we immediately became conscious of the traffic noise. I was of course aware of my own irritation; Jane concurred at the end of the session.

(When Jane resumed, still seated and with her eyes closed, her pace was somewhat faster than it had been in previous tests. She used some pauses however, and I will indicate a few of them along with a couple of strategic times. She sat quietly, with her head tipped back as she spoke. Resume at 10:05.)

(It was 10:12. I had to leave my desk to hand Jane the test envelope. She took it without opening her eyes.)

(As before, Jane’s “moment” was actually very brief, much shorter than many of her routine pauses. It was now that I was quite conscious of traffic noise. Jane’s voice remained quiet.)

(Break at 10:20. Jane was dissociated as usual, she said. She now said the traffic bothered her also. She was not nervous in giving the data on Dr. Instream, or on our own test object. Suffice it to note here that this was Jane’s third test before witnesses. An analysis of the test follows the end of the session.

(Jane resumed, again with her eyes closed and in a quiet voice, at 10:33.)

(Except now. Seth/Jane’s voice suddenly climbed a great deal in volume, very briefly, before subsiding.)

(End at 10:35. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes remained closed. Marleno is of course Lorraine Shafer’s entity name.

(The label contains a variety of shapes and designs. See the tracing on page 289. The connection with a fabric can be the coat pocket in which I carried the label home. Our table at the dancing establishment Saturday night had a top of simulated wood grain. The house can be our own, the several people of course Jane and me and Bill and Peggy Gallagher; the Gallaghers were with us Saturday night when I picked the label as a test object.

(Neither Jane or I understand the reference to black and white. Having to do with a particular circumstance, initials and many designs, can apply to many things, including the test object. The label is fuzzy on the edges that were torn as I peeled it from the bottle, yet it is printed on a peculiarly smooth paper.

(The Christmas reference is an interesting one, and can be seen when one notes that the label is printed in red and green, on yellow stock. Jane said also that to her the XXX symbol on the label means Christmas. We do not know to what “something dark of rectangular shape” refers to, unless it’s the shape of the table we sat at in the dancing establishment.

(The label has a dark green border. Jane suggested that the “something shady” reference can be the dimly-lit room in which we sat Saturday evening. Jane also said the sky symbol, to her, is quite definitely the circles used in the Ballantine trademark, the three-ring sign. She relates these circles to symbols for the sun, moon, the planets, etc.