“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The 33rd envelope experiment was held during the session. I trimmed down the front page of the wedding announcement of my niece, placed it between two pieces of Bristol and sealed it in the usual double envelope. It is printed in black and the reverse side is blank. It has a blind embossed border as indicated.

(On the evening of February 2, during the 229th session, Seth said: “You will get no appreciable amount of snow, I believe for ten days or so...” See page 254. Seth was correct. Indeed, we began to receive our first appreciable snow within three hours after the ten days were up. This was a very heavy wet snow that began shortly before 1 AM Sunday, February 13; it continued until dawn, accumulating about an inch, then turned into a very heavy soaking rain that lasted all day Sunday and on into the night. Jane and I were quite conscious of the prediction Sunday because we had to be traveling. I had been keeping track of it in the meantime, however, and noted that we received a few very light dustings of snow during the ten day interim. Actually, the weather has been so warm that most of the heavy snow received two weeks ago has melted.

(The session was held in our front room. All windows were shut tightly, and the traffic noise was not a problem, although it was audible to some degree. Jane began speaking while sitting down, at 9:01. Her eyes were almost immediately open. Today was Valentine’s Day. Jane had been in a good mood, and so was Seth. Jane smiled broadly as she opened the session.)

(Break at 9:29. Jane was well dissociated for a first break, she said. Her voice was heavier than usual, and her pace had finally become very fast. After the humorous opening her eyes had remained closed. She had not smoked.

(Ordinarily, Jane said, she would have had a cigarette during the delivery; but this time she “got the message” that she was not to smoke. It came on a parallel level while she was speaking other words aloud. She felt no force preventing her hand from reaching for a smoke, yet she didn’t feel free to reach for one.

(Jane was smoking when she began speaking again. Now her eyes began to open frequently; they were very dark. Her pace was slower, her voice average. Resume at 9:39.)

(Break at 9:55. Jane was quite well dissociated, she said. She wasn’t aware of much except the voice. Her pace had on the whole been good, her voice average. Her eyes had opened occasionally, and she had smoked.

(It was now time for the 39th Dr. Instream experiment. As usual Jane sat with her eyes closed, her right hand raised to them. Her voice was quiet, with many short pauses. Resume at 10:08.)

(It was 10:17. I handed Jane the envelope for our 33rd experiment; as usual she took it without opening her eyes. She sat with it pressed to her forehead for a few sentences, then lowered it to her lap.)

A disturbance that was not unexpected, and a result that was expected and hoped for.

(Break at 10:25. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes had remained closed throughout both experiments. She said she had tried to block out all personal associations in connection with the envelope data.

(“An entrance,” Linda, a Protestant, married a Catholic in a Brooklyn church. Jane said she felt the reference to an entrance concerned the recent decision by the Ecumenical Council in Rome, to the effect that Protestants could now be allowed to enter the altar enclosure to be married. My brother Loren told us Sunday that this decision is so recent that his daughter was the first to be married in such a fashion in this church.

(“and a schedule.” My brother and his wife traveled to Brooklyn by bus to attend the marriage. They were so pressed for time on this particular weekend that the day of the wedding was changed from Sunday, January 23, to Saturday, January 22, so that they could return to their home in time for work Monday, January 24. Fortunate that this was so, for they narrowly missed being stranded in the first heavy snowstorm of the winter.The announcement is a schedule of events.

(“Four, the number four. A connection with an older man.” This was perhaps a vague reference to the father of the groom; he is quite a bit older than my brother, who is Linda’s father. Later, Jane told me that this was a reference to brother Loren, Linda’s father.

(“A disturbance that was not unexpected”, we thought a reference to the disapproval with which Linda’s maternal grandmother greeted the news of the marriage. She definitely was not in favor of it, as everybody knew.

(“and a result that was expected and hoped for.” Linda did want to get married, of course.

(“two houses separated by grass.” This was too general.

(“Too many too soon. November six three”, are very accurate references to Linda, but are here not explained because of personal reasons on her part. The data are available however to anyone making a study of these experiments. The numbers refer to November 1963; during this month Linda was involved in a strong emotional experience that was unique for her.

...The six, which was significant. This was simply not given clearly. I merely meant that two sixes did appear, as 66.

The “strips of color” represented however, I believe you call it, confetti. This was in many colors and in small strips.

This was not our best. However, on the average we are doing much better. Ruburt is loosening up some.

Indeed. This referred to the altar arrangement. The “initiation” referred to the marriage of course, but also to the beginning of a new tradition in the particular church where for the first time a Protestant was allowed into the altar section.

The “grand affair” and the “ballroom” implication, you see—the connection somewhat distorted here was the formality of the wedding—clothes, the wedding clothes, which did lead Ruburt to think of a ball.

(I did not write it down earlier, but we thought Seth had referred to the home of my parents and the house next door. The connection is far-out: My brother, father of the Protestant bride who married a Catholic, was at my parents’ home Sunday; the people who live next door are Catholic.

This was simply to lead me up, or to lead Ruburt up, to the number six. I saw the number six twice, which led me to think it was significant. With numbers I use this device, and have in the past, counting aloud to the number that I want.

(“I dreamed I was on a bed, Rob on one side of me and another man also. No pain, movement in pelvis and I delivered a baby. Someone, a doctor, holds up two babies, twins, and I thought, somewhat humorously: ‘Oh no, twins! Really, this is too much.’ By this I meant, after having no babies all these years, now to have two at once! Then, though I’m not sure, I think that the doctor reassured me, that only one baby was involved. The hospital, or whatever it was, was near Lizzy Roohan’s old house, in my childhood neighborhood in Saratoga Springs, NY. I was pleased that the delivery was so easy and painless for me.”)

He will be reborn about the time of his own birth date. This is another reason why the birth symbolism was used.

(We are not sure whether Seth refers to the publication of Jane’s ESP book, or perhaps the start of another in some fashion. The ESP book is due May 16; Jane’s birthday is May 8. Also, Seth and I are mentioned often in the book. Jane was speaking rather rapidly now, and I did not think to interrupt and ask Seth to clear up this point. She is 38. I am 47.)

(End at 11:01. Jane was well dissociated, she said. Her eyes had opened often, and halfway through the delivery she had opened her glasses, as if to put them on. Her pace had been good but her voice had sounded tired. Now she said she did feel tired at the end of the session.)