“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.

A framework. Two people. An assortment of objects or shapes.

(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.

(“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.

(The test object is “Paper with printing,” the printing being the machine-applied cancellation, in my opinion, rather than my mother’s handwriting. “Your handwriting,” meaning mine, does not apply.

I believe it is apparent in our own tests, incidentally, that some preciseness is beginning to show through, for in the general associations connected with the object, identifying points concerning the specific object now appear.

A white taxicab. Identified by a round symbol on it, with a border inside the circle, and some sort of figures. Whether these are people, shapes or object shapes, I do not know. The symbol is of more than one color, however, and fairly dark against the white. I am seeing it in the evening, so the color of the symbol is not very clear. It is in front of a stone building.

(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.)