“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?

(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.

(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.)

Do you have a test for me this evening, Joseph ?

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

You may as always after our tests take a break.

(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.

(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.

(Designs are repeated in the label, but no blocks appear. The journey by automobile can refer to our driving home Saturday evening. There is an 1840 date on the label, but not 1965. I was of course involved with the test object, and my initials are R.B., but this can apply to any test object. We don’t know which “another” Seth refers to. The label bears parallel oval lines which can suggest a road or a path.

(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.

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