“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The 38th envelope experiment was held during the session. The object, sealed in the usual double envelope, was the insurance slip for the two manuscripts Jane mailed to her publisher on February 10,1966. These were the poetry book and the first section of her book on the Seth material. This material is discussed in the 234th session, among others.

(Jane was not feeling at her best, and did not do as well as she wanted to on the experiment. I had suggested earlier in the day that she skip the session but she declined. She also wanted to have the envelope experiment. John Bradley, our salesman friend from Williamsport, PA, was a witness, and I believe this contributed to the envelope results, in some way I cannot define. Previously Jane has done well with envelopes before witnesses.

We will however shortly begin our Instream material, and then we will be involved with our own envelope, if you have one for me, Joseph.

Now. Do you have an envelope for me?

(As usual Jane took the double envelope from me without opening her eyes. On impulse I almost told Seth there was to be no envelope, but decided to go ahead in the presence of a witness. Jane appeared to feel all right, also. She held the envelope against her forehead.)

(Jane paused at 10:17, without opening her eyes. She now held the envelope in her lap. This was the second time Seth had given me the chance to ask a question after an experiment. I could not be sure, without checking with Seth in detail, but I thought Jane had been wandering about on the above data. Because we had a witness I didn’t think we would spend too much time checking details. Earlier in the day I had wondered what would happen if I asked Seth/Jane to go over all of the data again; I supposed Jane would take this as a sign that the first data wasn’t much good, and at break Jane said this was her thought at the time.

(Break at 10:25. Jane said that toward the end of the delivery she was more dissociated as usual. When I asked her to try again she took it as a sign that the first attempt with the envelope wasn’t good.

(Since most envelope objects are paper items, we usually discount such data. The numbers 4, 6 and 9 however do appear on the object, as mentioned in the first data.

(“A connection with a rush, or hurry. An engagement. A framework and a variety of incidents leading up to an important development.” Jane felt emotionally good about this data, she said. It involved her efforts in getting the tape made, and the two manuscripts in question, ready for the mail. All of it was done in quite a hurry, at the request of her publisher. Jane called her publisher on February 8, as noted in the envelope material in the 234th session, then hurried to get the scripts and tape ready for the mail on February 10. A variety of incidents were involved while Jane made the tape recording of the poems, etc.