“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The 49th envelope experiment was held during the session. The object was a sheet of yellow paper upon which our young friend Don Wilbur doodled various numbers and words on the evening of Friday, April 15. I found it while cleaning up after company had left, and decided to use it for an experiment. Jane told me tonight that she didn’t remember seeing Don make it. It was produced on the evening of the unscheduled 251st session. Jane ended up physically ill after this session, which saw very strong voice effects. There were five witnesses, excluding myself.

(I dated and initialed the paper when I found it on April 15. Tonight I placed it between the usual two pieces of Bristol and then sealed it in double envelopes. The whole sheet was used and was folded in quarters.

Do you have an envelope for me, Joseph?

(Without opening her eyes Jane took the envelope from me for our 49th experiment. Her position, with a hand to her eyes, did not change; she held the envelope in her lap.)

(As Seth states in closing, the impressions tonight are legitimate, but too far removed for our purposes. Jane and I saw many glimmerings in the material, but needed more specific data; too many meanings could be attached to many of the impressions. The envelope object was made in our presence; because we were present we feel an emotional rapport with the data which would be lacking for an outsider. A couple of examples will illustrate the nature of the data.

(“The word grand… a grandparent?” Our young friend Don Wilbur made the envelope object on his usual Friday night visit here with his wife Marilyn. They have a two-year-old son. On Friday nights the parents of either Marilyn or Don take care of the little boy so Marilyn and Don can have a night a week free. Thus the boy has a grandparent(s) for a sitter.

(“Four plus one.” The unscheduled 251st session was held on the Friday evening Don Wilbur produced the envelope object, April 15,1965. Present besides Jane and me were five witnesses—the Wilburs, the Gallaghers, and Ann Diebler.

(“Gold.” The envelope object was made on a sheet of Jane’s yellow typing paper—the kind called second sheets.

(Tracing of the photo of Jane’s father Del [for Delmer] and his deceased second wife, used as the envelope object in the 50th experiment, in the 255th session for May 2,1966.)