“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I have the impression of a name, I believe Severn, S-e-v-e-r-n. I do not know to what it refers. There seems to be a hill here also. Perhaps a person named Severn lives on a hill.

Also a date, 1937. Other impressions, not connected with the object: A misuse. Dr. Instream believes that something is being misused. A connection here with a framework of associations having to do with psychology. And a misfit.

Give us a moment, please. These are impressions.

No more than I have said. If the object is not a photograph, it is closely connected. I have the impression of a black and white photograph.

(Break at 10:29. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes had remained closed through both experiments. She said that Seth had felt like giving many impressions.

(As soon as she opened the double envelopes, Jane said the object looked like a man to her, with either horizontal edge uppermost, and that she thought this impression had given rise to the photograph data. See the tracing on page 162, and the description of the object on page 163. This marked the end of the session for all practical purposes as far as Seth was concerned. Jane and I made the connections we could and did not ask Seth to elaborate.

(“Dark printed matter.” As stated, the pigment used on the object is quite dark, a burnt gray brown, but it is not black. Jane’s impression of it, I noted, was that it was darker to her than to me. I don’t know whether Seth uses printed here to mean an ink applied to paper or newsprint, or just some other substance applied to a surface as in the case of the object.

(“A square object, perhaps a small square shape at the top center of the object, balanced by another shape at the bottom center.” Throughout the data Seth keeps attempting to refine this shape or block image, with some success. Although none of the shapes on the original object are square, they do give the impression of being balanced one upon another. Any object produced like the envelope object will give a feeling of balance, no matter what the design, as long as both halves are printed or impressed in full. On the original many small white interstices show that are not visible on the quick tracing. It seems Seth had a correct impression.

(“or something memorized, as four score and seven years ago… That is, a phrase known to many, and rather cliché.” We don’t know where this impression came from, and are quite puzzled by it.

(“No more than I have said. If the object is not a photograph, it is closely connected. I have the impression of a black and white photograph.” Presumably because of the reasons cited above. My second question asked for elaboration on the decoration data, and resulted in some more information.

(“Give us a moment, please… With a block or blocks, as rocks or steps of stone.” This block or rock or stone data could be connected to the data in the paragraph just above this one; although Seth took a long pause in between. At any rate it seems that the texture, the rough stonelike feel and appearance of the pigment on the object, could have given rise to the rock or stone impressions which in turn could conjure up the step data and so lead to the idea of a photo.

(“Perhaps some connection with a pond or pool shape.” Again, this applies to the irregular shape of the pigment on the object, and is close, and in the same vein as the “something overturned,” and “the feeling of a fluid dark color” data. We regard these three impressions as good.

(I neglected to deal with Seth’s next impression, “The object marked in the middle of the back, in pen or pencil.”