“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

These are my impressions. A series of small boxes, as in a post office, though I believe they are connected with the college.

They are rectangular, and fairly deep. (Pause.) He has been working there, I believe, on marking grades, or making out some sort of reports which are finding their way into these boxes. He sits now (at 10:09) at a table like a card table, I believe alone, with a game of some sort before him, or at least with a board such as a checkerboard. (Pause.)

I pick up once more a connection with boxes, but here in this room. And they are larger, perhaps shoe boxes or that type.

We have here also the impression of a box once more, and I will tell you later why I have repeated this impression.

(Jane had no idea as to why Seth referred to a box again. She told us she enjoyed the test involving a more impersonal object, in the sense that I did not choose it. However Jane was as much aware of the emotional charges surrounding this object; she felt that she was quite aware of the emotional disturbances involved in a hospital stay in this particular case.

I am not going to keep you. I wanted however to mention one small point concerning the box image that was repeated in both tests.

This has to do with two separate principles. First of all there was a retention of image. Second of all, there was quite separately an association because of the size of the card given as test object. In the second case the association was Ruburt’s, for on his own he picked up a file-card image, but he translated this into the image of a box in which such file cards are often kept.

Now while this association was his own, it was caused by the image retention carrying over from the first test. I want it clear that two rather than one causes existed for this second box image or impression.