“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The 50th envelope experiment was held during the session. The object was a black and white photo of Jane’s father and his deceased second wife, Maxine, taken sometime prior to 1954. Jane hadn’t seen the photo in recent months. I placed it between the usual two pieces of Bristol and sealed it in the double envelopes.

A sparkle. Something sparkles. A bracelet or watchband. Bulky rather than small, of a linked variety. A square object on it. Either an ornament or a watch, on a man’s arm with dark hair on the arm. The shirtsleeve white, rolled partially up. He wears a vest. He is past middle age and he is talking to Dr. Instream. (Pause at 10:12.)

He has an ache in his right arm. He gives a list to Dr. Instream. The list is handwritten, on a white paper that is tinged with blue, that is, bluish-white paper. It has to do with a schedule.

Blue and white.

(Break at 10:28. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes had remained closed throughout both experiments. She had but one image during the envelope data—of white notepaper with blue lines upon it, and she didn’t know whether this came from Seth or herself.

(Briefly, the object is a black-and-white photo of Jane’s father Del, and his deceased second wife Maxine. Del was about 48 when the picture was taken in the backyard of their home in Santa Monica, California, and Maxine was 38 or 39. Within six months Maxine was dead from cancer. Her death took place in California just at the time I met Jane in Saratoga Springs, NY, in 1954 in January. Jane hadn’t seen Maxine for a couple of years and I had never met her.

(“Suitable. A connection with something suitable for an occasion.” In the photo Maxine is dressed up, including white hat and gloves, and wears a large corsage on the left lapel of her dark-colored suit. The corsage could be something suitable for an occasion. There could also be a play on words here, in that Maxine is wearing one of the old-fashioned square-shouldered two-piece suits in style then: Suitable, suit. Seth elaborates a little in answer to a question.

(“An implied border.” The photo has a white border. It is clearly denoted on the sides and bottom through the contrasting darks of the foliage. It is invisible at the photo’s top, the sky merging into the white paper. I have ruled in the border on the tracing on page 124; actually it cannot be seen.

(“Blue and white.” Here I asked for colors in connection with the object. Jane said this is when she had the mental image of white notepaper with blue lines on it. She didn’t know whether this image came from Seth or herself.