“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The 40th envelope experiment was held during the session. See the tracing above. The envelope object was a dried holly leaf. This gray-brown leaf had been taped to the shade on my lamp at work for well over a year; originally I had used it as a model in doing some artwork for a Christmas card. I saved it because of its interesting color and shape, and the fact that its points were as sharp as ever. It was sealed in the usual double envelope, between two pieces of Bristol. Jane had never seen it, nor did she know I had brought it home.

(The session was held in our front room. Once again Jane smoked very little during the session. Her pace was again slow, with many pauses of varying length. She spoke while sitting down, and with her left hand raised to her lowered head. Her eyes were closed; she maintained this position until break.)

(Break at 9:59. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her pace had picked up considerably. Once again she sat in the same position for the entire delivery—her head lowered, her left hand raised to her closed eyes. Her eyes had remained closed and she had not smoked.

(It was now time for the 47th Dr. Instream experiment. Once more Jane used the same position, with the difference that now her pace slowed once again. Resume at 10:06.)

Music. He meets a woman who was a close friend of a male friend of his, who has since died. I believe the initial W here.

(This was my fourth chance to ask a question about envelope data. I had an idea about the first bit of data.

(Break at 10:28. Jane was dissociated as usual, and once again maintained the same position throughout the delivery. Her eyes had remained closed.

(“A connection with something deep. A hole underground, as a mine or grave.” Seth had been talking about association regarding envelope data in the earlier part of the session, and I thought this data a good example of it. My idea was that this data referred to my place of employment, from where I obtained the object, by calling upon the death of a friend, Ezra Havens, in 1964. Ezra had worked at my place of employment, Artistic Card Co., for many years.)

(In Volume 5, see the 232nd session for Feb. 9,1966. In that session Ezra is dealt with in the envelope data with the same type of data; Seth gave Jane the grave data, signifying Ezra’s death, but at that time Jane, who did not like the idea of graves, did not use the word. This time, Jane now said, she came out with it when Seth gave her the data. We believe the grave data was to refer to Ezra, who worked at Artistic before he died, and that this in turn was to lead Jane to identify Artistic as the source of the envelope object.

(“The number 6.” A lengthy article on Jane’s ESP book was published in the local Elmira Star-Gazette on July 6,1965. This can be a possible connection but we are not sure since I did not ask Seth to speak on this point. The article however is involved with some of the following data.

(“A G and H.” I thought this an inverted reference to the fact that the envelope object came from my place of employment, presided over by my boss, Harry Gottesman. Harry noticed the holly leaf in particular when it was first given to me about a year ago; and like I did, he pricked his finger on the exceedingly sharp points.

(“A miscellany of shapes arranged in a row.” I call this a good reference to the location of the holly leaf at work. I have a Dazor lamp, a standard piece of equipment, fastened to my drawing table at work. It is a fluorescent lamp with a shade about 18 inches long. I have a habit of sticking various objects on the shade for easy reference—small pictures, drawings, pieces of tape, stickers of various kinds, and other objects. One of these was until recently the holly leaf; I had taped it there after finishing with it close to a year ago. Due to the long narrow shape of the lamp shade, the objects fastened thereon end up arranged in a row.

(“A reference to four people.” We were not sure here, unless this was a reference to the evening Jane and I spent with my boss and his wife, after the note and the phone call, etc. We call these kind of impressions twice-removed from the actual object.

The initial grave association was meant to lead Ruburt to your place of work, since in another experiment the test item was connected with a man who had died.

The color was correct, and the miscellaneous shapes, as you see. The initials were inverted, and applied to your Harry Gottesman, to the note from his wife. Ruburt misinterpreted here. To the four people in the Gottesman family, at your visit there.

(End at 10:48. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes had remained closed, as they had all evening with the exception of one instance.)