“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The 30th envelope test was held during the session. I cut out ten small pieces of colored construction paper, put them between the usual two pieces of Bristol board and sealed them in the usual double envelope. I was aware that there wouldn’t be much emotional charge connected with these, and Seth was too. As is the case also, Jane did not do well on the resumption of such experiments.

(The session is quite unusual, in that all of it is devoted to experimental material of one kind or another. This includes the two usual tests plus the material delivered by Seth concerning our landlord. The landlord data arose out of one of those rather small incidents that keep accumulating emotional charges when most of the people involved turn stubborn.

(Break at 9:20. Jane was quite well dissociated for a first delivery, she said. Her eyes had opened briefly but once. Remember that the above material was delivered with many pauses interspersed. Most of the time Jane sat with her head down and her hands raised to her face, as during the Instream and envelope tests.

Do you have a test for me?

(As stated earlier the results of the envelope experiment were not high. The first reference, to a filing cabinet, is a good one; the colored paper I used in the test is kept in my cabinet, and has been so for perhaps two years. But after this Jane kept veering toward the letter. I thought someone studious referred to myself, but again there was not sufficient elaboration.

(From what Seth says after break, we saw the connection with cloth, evening, and an endeavor that does not work. Jane and I bought this colored paper to use in an experiment whereby, blindfolded, we tried to determine the various colors by touch alone. This after we had read an article in Time Magazine about a woman who had been able to do this. Our tests had been held in the evening, and our results reached chance level only.

If you are interested in any kind of evidential material, it is good to hold tests fairly regularly. Now. When you want to give Ruburt a vacation from them, this is quite all right. But because of his peculiar makeup the first, or first few tests after resumption are apt to be poor now, at this time, because he is apt to try too hard. He is not used to the touch enough yet. He loses the touch of it, and falls back on other layers of the self which are not reliable for this sort of data.

Notice also that little emotional content was contained in the test item. I like something better to get my teeth into.