“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The session was held in our front room. There was a chance that Peggy Gallagher would be present with a press camera, to take some pictures of Jane while she was in trance. Jane’s publisher has written requesting some photos, drawings, etc., in connection with the book Jane is now writing on the Seth material. Peggy is a writer for Elmira’s newspaper, the Star-Gazette, and has access to the necessary equipment.

(For the session Jane and I looked more presentable than usual, but by 8:30 Peggy had not appeared. In my daily predictions for today, made yesterday, I had noted that Peggy would not make it. The predictions were made at 3 PM, March 15; Seth has something to say about the hour and day later in the session.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(Seth began talking about these points in the very early sessions. By the 15th session he was explaining Jane’s role as a translator for him, putting concepts into words, etc. See Volume 1.)

(Break at 9:31. Jane was dissociated as usual for a first delivery. Her eyes had opened once briefly, when she sipped wine. She did not smoke. Her pace had picked up considerably and her restlessness in her chair had continued. She hadn’t been aware of this. See Seth’s psychological-bridge material on page 14.

(Seth began on this material in the 13th session. See Volume 1.)

(My fifth opportunity to question Seth concerning envelope data. See the second paragraph of the data above.

(Break at 10:25. Jane was dissociated as usual, and her eyes had remained closed. We made what connections we could, but missed some that Seth later pointed out; these then seemed to be rather obvious. It also developed that we had some conflict of terminology, as will be seen, and as Seth hints at in the last data above.

(See the tracing of the envelope object on page 20. The ticket is printed in bold black type on yellow card stock. On page 24 Seth stated that when Jane receives images, the psychological framework between Seth and Jane is operating; in these instances Seth is not giving Jane envelope data by way of concepts, directly and telepathically. Jane had some images this evening.

(“The number four in the center of a square.” We made no connection here, although Seth points out an interesting one, somewhat distorted, after break.

(“White paper with small implied border. A July date. A note, short, that does not take up all the available space.” This is the data I asked Seth to connect with the envelope object. His answer was that a note was sent, presumably to our neighbor across the hall, Leonard Yaudes, concerning the object. Jane and I do not know if this is so, and probably will not ask Leonard; he does not know of these sessions.

(“Symbols or initials in the lower left hand corner. Having something to do with a house, or residence.” Near the lower left hand corner of the object is printed the name of the hotel in which the VFW affair was to be held, along with the specific rooms. We wonder if Seth/Jane mentioning a house or residence referred to a hotel, via a close distortion.

(“A note was sent, I believe, concerning the object.” This was Seth’s answer to my question about the “white paper, July, note,” data. See page 26.

(Jane said it is possible that the “larger white object” referred to the inside envelope used as a matter of course in our experiments. This envelope is perhaps half again as large as the largest dimension of tonight’s object, and is almost square. I put the object in this envelope, place it between two pieces of heavy Bristol board which are cut to just fit inside the second, or outside, envelope. I did not think to ask Seth to clear up this point.

(Check the printed copy in the center of the object. Beside the word “wars” there, we see the words “for” and “foreign.” Seth mentioned “the number four in the center of a square.” The envelope object is rectangular rather than square. We wondered whether the square reference was to the “larger white object,” mentioned at the end of the envelope data. See page 27. The inside envelope used in these experiments is almost square.)

(“Good night, Seth.”