“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

DECEMBER 15, 1965 9 PM WEDNESDAY AS SCHEDULED

(See the tracing of the test object on page 140. It is of the front of an envelope addressed to Jane and me by my mother on December 1. The letter contained in this envelope figures in the test results, and will be kept on file with the envelope. The letter would be quoted here except that the contents are rather personal. It is of course available however to anyone seriously considering these tests, should they be that interested.

(“The mention of a time” is easily accounted for in the same letter. In it my mother discusses the visit Jane and I were due to make to my parents on Sunday, December 5th. The date was not mentioned, just the word Sunday. My mother then canceled this visit of ours by telephone, and Jane and I then journeyed to visit my parents in Sayre, PA, on the following Sunday, December 12. It was on this visit that I obtained the test object used in the last session, the 217th.

(“Road, or road shape,” and “Unusual shadows” are too general. There may be a vague connection with “A cake,” but it would be several times removed from the test object. We did not have cake for dessert at the family gathering on December 12 for instance.

(“Something that two people know, and two other people do not know,” is good, since my mother’s letter specifically concerned such a situation. Jane and I were the two who did know, and my parents were the two others who did not know. This matter was straightened out on December 12.

(Jane said “a connection with an animal” is also valid, in that while she went for a walk during our December 12 visit to the family gathering in Sayre, she saw a dog, possibly a stray, that aroused in her a strong desire to own a dog. She still misses our dog Mischa, who died three years ago. So do I.

(Thus Jane and I followed this procedure concerning the data Seth gave on Peggy’s business trip to Washington, DC in December. A written question-and-answer period was held with Peggy a day or two after her return. Peggy cooperated wholeheartedly and gave much information. I stressed that we did not want to put words into her mouth concerning Seth’s data, and she agreed that we did not.

(Peggy Gallagher is a feature writer for the Elmira Star-Gazetteand Advertiser, a Gannett Newspaper. During December 6 to 9 the paper sent her to Washington, DC to attend A Seminar on Poverty, conducted by the Office of Economic Opportunity which is headed by R. Sargent Shriver.

(Seth gave data on Peggy’s trip in the 214th and the 215th sessions, December 6 and 8. He also gave some preliminary data on the trip during an unscheduled session held on December 3; Peggy took a copy of these predictions with her to Washington. Seth listed nine predictions and Peggy verified three of them. Seth gave them in Peggy’s presence; his score in the two sessions held while she was in Washington was much better.

(She returned to Elmira on December 9 and a written question-and-answer session was held on December 10. Jane and I made an effort to obtain detailed answers to Seth’s statements, and Peggy cooperated in excellent fashion. The interview lasted about two hours. Once again, we stressed that we did not want to put words into her mouth concerning Seth’s material, and she agrees that we did not.

(As in the Puerto Rico experiments, Seth’s material is presented line by line, in regular type, with Peggy’s answers below. These answers are quotes from my notes made during the interview. Begin with Seth’s material from the 214th session for December 6,1965.)

(Peggy said either 3 or 4 speakers addressed the seminar in the morning session on Monday, December 6.

(“You will meet a man you do not like” is one of the advance predictions given Peggy by Seth during the unscheduled session of December 3. Jane and I have wondered what part suggestion might play in such a case. Peggy told us she had also been aware of this, and that she could say that her dislike of the individual in question transcended any suggestion that conceivably could be operating.)

(Yes, most definitely. This evening, Monday, December 6, Bill Gallagher’s ulcer bothered him to such an extent that he called a doctor. This he seldom has to do.

(Tests resulting from this upset led to the medical opinion that Bill has two ulcers. However a recheck of old X-rays seems to show that the second ulcer had previously existed, but had not been detected. Needless to say, neither Jane nor I had seen Bill, or heard from him, since the unscheduled session of last Friday, December 3. We saw him later in the evening of December 10, after the interview with Peggy.)

(In the unscheduled session for December 3 Seth said Peggy would meet a woman dressed in green. Peggy met no such woman. After the cocktail party however, Peggy found she couldn’t remember the color of Mrs. Carlyle’s dress. She checked by phone; Mrs. Carlyle had worn a red dress. Later note by RFB: Red and green are opposites on the artisit’s color wheel.)

(We now begin with Seth’s material on Peggy’s Washington trip, from the 215th session, December 8,1965.)

(This is, also, one of Seth’s predictions given during the unscheduled session of December 3, before Peggy left for Washington.)

(Peggy verified three of the nine predictions Seth gave in the unscheduled session of December 3, prior to her Washington trip. Two of the three correct items have been listed in their place in the above material. The third prediction, listed on page 108, is this:)