“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The 43rd envelope experiment was held during the session. The tracing on page 43 is a reproduction of the envelope object, a page of notes from my pad. The notes concern the efforts of Jane and myself to pin down Seth’s impressions given on page 32 of the last session.

(Sometimes Jane has seen envelope objects, and sometimes she has not. Sometimes she has seen them but a few days before, sometimes months or years before. Whatever the case may be, it apparently makes no difference in the results as far as time goes, or previous visual contact. Seth does respond to emotional charges; these charges we have learned need not stem from Jane or myself or a friend; they can be related to a total stranger and still be detected. Someday perhaps these envelope experiments can be correlated with various factors, sensual and otherwise. For some time now we have kept a weather record, taken just before session time, and there are probably correlations here. This record includes time, temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, rainfall to date, wind velocity and wind direction. Soon I will make a copy of the chart to include with these sessions.

(The approach was a little different this evening, in that Jane had seen the envelope object perhaps two hours before the session. She helped me compile it for future checking against page 43. At this time I had no idea of using it for the experiment; the idea occurred later, some time after Jane had left the studio. I sealed it up in the usual double envelope, between two pieces of Bristol.

(Bill and Peggy Gallagher were due to witness the session. Peggy was going to take flash pictures of Jane while she was in trance; Jane’s publisher had asked to see some material of this kind. We had no idea of the success of this venture—whether Jane would be distracted while delivering the regular material, or during the envelope experiment; if possible we wanted to cover both categories.

Do you have an envelope for me, Joseph?

(Jane paused at 10:15. She took the usual sealed double envelope from me without opening her eyes. This was our 43rd experiment. Peggy was ready for more pictures. Jane pressed the envelope to her forehead briefly, then lowered it to her lap—possibly because she knew pictures were to be taken of the experiment. I wondered about the results this evening in the face of possible distractions.)

(End at 10:23. Jane was dissociated as usual, she said. Her eyes had begun to open toward the end of the delivery, and her voice became humorous. Peggy Gallagher had taken ten photographs in all, and the taking of them had not seemed to bother Jane. I did think the envelope data had probably been shortened somewhat.

(Jane and I made what connections we could, and did not ask Seth for any clarifications. See the tracing of the envelope object on page 43. As stated it is a reproduction of a page of notes I had made, concerning the efforts of Jane and myself to pin down Seth’s impressions given on page 32 of the last session.

(We believe we have made some progress checking Seth’s impressions in this case, and they involve Bill Macdonnel, John Bradley, and Peggy Gallagher among others. It isn’t necessary here to go into these points in detail one by one, either in the data on page 32, or on the envelope object. But we do believe these excerpts from page 32 apply to Peggy and her place of employment, the local newspaper: “A crisis involving health. A doctor… A connection with a man who can be considered an outsider to a group. He is connected with the crisis.”

(The connection with the envelope object is that the object concerns an investigation of Seth’s data on page 32; this data involves Peggy’s involvement in a crisis at her place of employment. The change of plans came about when Peggy was ordered out of town on assignment for March 16,1966, Wednesday night, the time she had planned to photograph Jane during the 242nd session. Peggy was given this change of plans on Tuesday, March 15, and as shown Seth mentions March 15 in the data this evening.

(“A statement.” The envelope object is a statement of various possibilities to be checked out concerning the impressions on page 32.

(“A bright color suggesting sunlight.” We don’t know. A reference to the flashgun? Peggy took three shots of Jane during the envelope data. The sunlight reference is one occurring once in a while in the envelope data, and sometimes involves circles of bright colors. The object tonight is white paper, but then many objects are.

(“A plan.” The envelope object can also be a plan for checking the impressions on page 32, as well as a statement.

(“A cross shape.” There is a large cross shape toward the bottom left corner of the envelope object:

(“A paper item.” The envelope object is a paper item. As mentioned by me at various times, many of them are.

(My typed front copies of the front of the two cards used as the objects in the 44th envelope experiment, in the 245th session for March 28,1966.)

(Copies of the backs of the two cards used as the objects in the 44th envelope experiment, in the 245th session for March 28,1966.)