“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.

In certain areas of mass shared dreams, collective mankind deals with the problems of his political and social objective structure. The solutions which he makes within his dream reality are often, however, not the same solutions that he accepts within physical reality.

You see, in the waking state you direct your energy into the manipulation and construction of objects.

Now for our object. Rectangular, yet it rolls, or can roll. Rather light in weight, as say paper or cardboard, resembling a spool of some kind. But larger than a spool of thread. It is not an esthetic but a functional object. Perhaps it is a roll of paper.

(“How about colors connected with the object?”)

(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.

(“A frame.” The walls of our living room are hung with my paintings and drawings, some of which are framed. On the object Don had idly noted the item, 17 pictures, after counting them.

(“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.

(“Small scribbled writing”, could refer to my own writing, date and initials at the top of the object.

(“Also blue, and white, and one strong darker color. Perhaps a dark green.” This is interesting. The doodles on the object were made with a blue pen. We see no connection with white particularly. There is a strong darker color in a couple of spots on the object, where Don blocked out numbers. Since the obliterations are made with blue on a yellow paper, the effect is on the greenish side, and very dark. However, it may be that it was just difficult for Seth to determine between a darker blue and a dark green. Blue and green both being cool colors and side by side on the color wheel.

(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.)