“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The 17th envelope test was held during this session. The test object, sealed in the usual double envelopes, was the insurance slip for the manuscript of Jane’s ESP book, dated August 30,1965. A drawing of it is not necessary since the test data did not coincide by a wide margin. The data, and Seth’s explanation of the results, appear in their regular places in the session.

At Ruburt’s stage of development however, he reacts as a result of emotional impetus, which is picked up rather directly, and which acts as additional energy in transmission. It is for this reason that he now and then does enjoy visitors to sessions, because he instinctively feels that he is thereby learning to manipulate and use these abilities oftentimes, and thereby learn the various subjective feelings that accompany valid perceptions, and to distinguish these from subjective feelings that turn out to be based upon invalid perceptions.

There is a good reason for this. You always check on the results of the envelope test immediately afterward.

Therefore, if the results are poor, this undermines Ruburt’s confidence for the following tests. This is rather important. I have no objection now to the fact that you check the results of the envelope tests immediately afterward; but only when this occurs after the Instream material.

Now as to the poor results themselves in the envelope test. Primarily there are two reasons for our unsatisfactory results. He did not want to have the test given to him while the Instream material had not yet been given for one thing, and so this did not work for us. To begin with however he simply was not at his best in any case.

The point about the test envelopes however should be well taken. This is one of the main reasons why, in the Rhine experiments, results were not given until a certain sequence of tests had been completed, or a given series.