“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(See the tracing on page 169. The test object is a visitor’s pass, produced by the Arnot-Ogden Hospital, where Lorraine is a secretary. This particular pass had been discarded; Lorraine picked it out of a wastebasket on the spur of the moment last August.

(It seems reasonable to describe a stay in the hospital as “a turbulent event, or unpleasantness,” and as “A disturbance again, and a storm; whether or not this storm is physical I do not know.” We of course realize there might be other connections in the private life of the patient, Miss Margaret M. Bunn. Lorraine does not know Miss Bunn. It is possible the hospital records contain more on Miss Bunn that would be revealing here, but I did not ask Lorraine to try to check.

(“Blue saucer” rings no bells, or “winter,” or “an event I believe occurring approximately 1947.” “An event of 1965” can apply, since Miss Bunn was admitted to the hospital on June 7,1965.

(“A miscellany of objects, designs that appear like numbers,” is we think a reference to the words and numbers on the pass. “A connection with a family record; as a page, for example, from a book,” is a hit. The visitor’s pass contains a number code referring to Miss Bunn’s hospital record, Lorraine tells us; and the pass is like a page from a book, in that such passes are kept in spiral books at the hospital.

(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.