“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I have the impression of a group of miscellaneous objects, bearing no particular relationship to each other: a stone, a pencil, a grape, something that looks like a twig. Another, a banana shape. All of these in a circular arrangement. (Pause.)

The items have been kept in a box. Also the impression of a small ceramic sculpture, of two people, and colored. The figures upright, with some gadget on top. This is only an example now, but a gadget like a handle, for example.

The above is to be taken as my impressions concerning an object, or objects.

Now. In connection with Dr. Instream himself, a splendid occasion of some kind, occurring recently. (Pause at 10:15.) Something movable and round. These are separate impressions, you understand; the movable and round does not necessarily refer to the splendid occasion.

(Here Jane made a gesture, her eyes still closed, as if she could somehow distinguish between the above impressions.)

The impression of cleverness, several children, and a dismissal. A long passage of time, and then a meeting.

(In order to understand the data it was necessary to write out a schedule of events; most of this was done after the session. As it was we spent about half an hour during break in an effort to begin to sort out the impressions. It developed that four letters were involved with the envelope object, and that one of these was enclosed in the experimental object. The common denominator here is that the date, January 25,1966, is somehow involved with all four letters. Seth uses this as a springboard for his impressions.

(“The impression of cleverness”, meant little in particular, other than that Jane received the impression that F. Fell is the shrewd businessman type, through her telephone talks with him.

(We now come to an impression that Jane had while giving the experimental data this evening, but to which she did not give voice. Naturally, she was considerably vexed to learn that it was a legitimate one, and pertained directly to the object. See the tracing of the experimental object on page 289. Note that the word “bread” is written upon it as part of a grocery list. As soon as she opened the sealed double envelope and saw the object, Jane realized she had had an impression of bread. She did not have an image of a loaf of bread, for instance, but the words “a loaf of bread,” rather quickly. She does not know why she didn’t give voice to them, other than that the next impression came along quickly. This has happened before, she said. Then succeeding impressions crowd out memory of what has been left unsaid, until later. In this instance, Jane could not recall very accurately what part of the data she was giving voice to when she had the bread impression, except that she was sure it wasn’t toward the end.

With good circumstances it would have been quite an achievement to separate all the impressions connected with these letters.

While it is true that any conceivable item can be used, it is indeed simpler at present if an item without so many associated impressions is used.

The three letters of the same date brought about the difficulty, though the difficulty would have been far less had our circumstances this evening been better. There is no need to go into the meanings for other impressions which were not clear.

The impressions which you caught were indeed legitimate. I asked you to let the one impression pass because I hoped to make it clearer, but was unable to. Even when conditions are not the most beneficial, we are not too far off, you see.