“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The 41st envelope experiment was held during the session. See the tracing on page 20. The object was an unused ticket to a VFW ball and entertainment. It is printed in heavy black type on yellow card stock; the back is blank. It was given to us on the evening of Saturday, November 20,1965, by a friend of our neighbor across the hall. Our neighbor is Leonard Yaudes. As Jane and I were leaving our place to go dancing that evening Leonard called us into his place to meet two friends of his, a man and a woman, not married; we have forgotten their names. The man, who was also planning to attend the VFW affair later that evening, gave Jane and me a free ticket.

(We preferred not to go, but took the ticket to avoid explanations, without making promises. We thought the affair would be dull. I forgot about the incident until a couple of days ago, when I found the ticket in a coat pocket. Jane hadn’t seen it since last November. I sealed it in the usual double envelope, between two pieces of Bristol.

Do you have an envelope for me?

(Jane paused at 10:15. Her eyes still closed, she took the usual double envelope from me. This time she did not hold it to her forehead but in her lap. Her left hand was raised to her eyes. This was our 41st such experiment.)

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

(“I’m wondering about part of the early data here; you seem to be talking about a letter or note. What’s the connection with the envelope object?”)

(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.

(“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.

(“The appearance of a neat, even, script, with small letters. The main paragraph forming a neat rectangular form. But neatly squared off. A block of matter.” Jane said this data referred to the printed envelope object, even though she used the word script instead of type. I was wondering if her use of the word script was a reference to the note sent in connection with the object, but Jane said no. She is not aware of the difference between the terms script, lettering, and type, for instance. She had an image here, of small even words on a rectangular shape; but my questioning could not elicit whether she could distinguish, here, between type, script, etc., on this rectangular shape. She merely knew there were words present.

(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.)

(Tracings of the insurance receipt used as the object in the 42nd envelope experiment, in the 243rd session for March 21,1966.)