“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I remembered very little about the bow, yet subjectively I was sure it had been taken from a greeting card of some kind. I work for a greeting card company, but did not remember seeing other ribbons like it there in particular. I did not recall the card the ribbon came from, nor why I had removed it—if I was the one who had done so. I hoped Seth could fill us in on the details. The bow was in poor condition, and I assumed I had carried it home in a coat pocket sometime last winter.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(Seth began talking about quasars and related background material in the last session. That material in turn resulted from a question I asked, or a comment I made, in the 246th session. Once again, quasars are quasi-stellar radio sources, presumably at the farthest reaches of our observable universe according to our instruments. They contradict our laws of physics, being many times too bright for their size and distance, and emitting much too much energy. See the article on them in Time magazine for March 11,1966.)

(Break at 9:27. Jane said she was really “out”, or that Seth was really “in.” She was aware of nothing but the material while speaking, and felt the ideas were good. Her pace had been fast toward the end of the delivery; her eyes had been open much of the time and very dark, and she had spoken with emphasis and many gestures. She now felt much better. She said she wouldn’t have been surprised had Seth called off the session in the beginning.

(Break at 10:02. Jane was again very well dissociated, she said. Her eyes were open and very dark for much of the last part of the delivery, her pace fast but broken by pauses, her manner very emphatic. She said that when Seth comes in strong she feels more like him than she does herself. She smoked and sipped at wine.

(See the tracing of the envelope object on page 82. I felt Seth was on the track with his data, yet because I had so little background concerning it myself the data seemed opaque to me. I found myself feeling the same way about the answers to my questions, so I did not continue to ask them. I also thought the data was mixed up with the planned visit of my parents to the apartment for Easter Sunday, April 10, and a very short reminder my mother had written in connection with this.

(Seth helps us out with some data after break. Follows a few points we believe refer to the object itself.

(“Five and ten.” This could apply in that the card would have an excellent chance of being marketed in a five-and-ten store. I say this because most of our merchandise produced at my place of employment is so marketed. I also felt subjectively that the ribbon came from my place of employment, though I cannot prove this at the moment on my own. Seth agrees however.

(I will add some more notes as Seth deals with some of the data after break. Jane resumed at an average pace at 10:41.)

(I was still trying to find out from Seth just what card the ribbon had been taken from.

(I work all day Friday at Artistic, the rest of the week mornings only. This has been the routine for the last year and three-quarters or so. Before that I worked full time there. Seth did not specify a Friday afternoon above however, even while stressing an afternoon. If I removed the ribbon on any other afternoon of the week, this would push the time back toward the 1963 given earlier in the material.)

(Seth refers to a young artist I work with. I am not sure just when Curt joined Artistic, except that it was probably after 1963. But not much after. If the card in question was revamped in 1963 it is possible that Curt might have handled it as one of his first jobs.

(“Good night, Seth.”