“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The envelope object for tonight’s 35th experiment was a beer coaster that I picked up from our table last Saturday evening, at our favorite dining and dancing establishment here in Elmira. It was the one I had used. Jane and I met two young couples there by prearrangement, and we had much fun dancing. The coaster is made of heavy absorbent cardboard, so I peeled the top layer of paper from it. This contained the design, printed in red, without any unusual thickness to furnish Jane unwitting clues. It was sealed in the usual double envelope between two pieces of Bristol.

It has a connection with a clock, but is not a clock. It has hands but it does not tell time. The numbers four, three, six are connected here, and also a schoolhouse, and a bell, such as one that is rung to some children to school.

(“I get the numbers one eight eight eight, in connection with this.” My own idea here is that Seth/Jane picked up the three-ring design shown on each of the three glasses depicted on the coaster, and translated or converted this data into the number 8, three times. There is a graphic resemblance here. The numeral 1 appears in the code number, in small type, next to the bottom border.

(“Four, the number four, having to do with several of a kind.” There is a connection here but we did not see it at the time. Seth reminds us of it later in the session.

(“Four, five, no, six, the number six.” Here again Seth leads Jane by his method of counting. There were six of us in our gathering last Saturday evening, when I obtained the envelope object.

(“and a person who was not familiar to you personally.” The connection here is tied in with the “grassy lands” data, but Jane and I did not see it during break.

(“Also a grading.” We did not see anything here.

A distant connection here, you see, with Dickens, and little Tim of the Christmas Carol, and other connections hardly worth mentioning here.

(“Is there any training involved here for you also?”)