“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The 23rd envelope test was held this evening during the session. For the test object I used the front of an envelope addressed to Jane and me by my mother. I folded it once as indicated, enclosed it between two pieces of Bristol, and sealed it in the usual double envelopes.

(It was 10:15. Jane took the usual double envelope from me without opening her eyes. Reading over the last session, she had been surprised to learn that she had held the test envelope to her forehead for a few minutes, since she didn’t remember doing this. Now, she once again pressed the test envelope to her forehead, this time more deliberately, and with both hands. She continued to hold it there. Her eyes were closed, her voice very quiet. This is the 23rd envelope test.)

(Break at 10:23. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes had remained closed for both tests. She sat with the test envelope pressed to her forehead the whole time. The candle flame burned at the same steady height.

(Seth did not elaborate on the test envelope impressions, so what follows are our own interpretations. For his own part, Seth was too eager to get on with his discussion of Priestley’s book, it developed.

(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.

(“A framework” refers to the clear-cut single-line frame that borders Washington’s portrait on the current five-cent stamp. The envelope is addressed to “two people,” meaning Jane and me. The “assortment of objects and shapes” refers to the words making up the letter.

(Seth’s unclear connection with “a missionary” is interesting. My brother Loren is mentioned in the letter contained within the test envelope, and his father-in-law is a retired minister. The letter of course can be “A note”.

(Jane said she was sure “Something square” referred to the dimensions of the test envelope when it was folded, although it does not measure out as a perfect square. The “connection with four other people” works out well, since the letter concerns a situation involving both my parents, my brother Loren and my brother Bill, other than Jane and me.

(See page 122. At the time of the 215th session, Jane said she believed the pocketbook data, above, applied to herself, and as it developed a lost pocketbook connection involving Jane did grow out of the 21st envelope test, held in the 215th session.

(Before our envelope test in the 215th session Seth added one more line to the Gallagher test material; see page 121:)

(Tracing of the hospital visitor’s pass, furnished by Lorraine Shafer, and used as the test object in the 24th envelope test, in the 219th session for January 3,1966.)