“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The 55th envelope experiment was held during the session. Notes pertaining to the object will be found along with Seth’s data given during the experiment.

Now, for our object. One or two small white objects, perhaps dice. If not there is a close resemblance in size, shape and color. The numbers 7 and 3, perhaps facing upward. The objects may be connected with a small chain, in the manner of cuff links. A Q. I do not know to what this refers. Also four pieces of paper.

(“How about colors on the object?”)

(“Do you want to try to name the object?”)

(See the tracing of the envelope object on page 171. I found it in a drawer of my desk about an hour before the session and decided to use it for the object on the spur of the moment. I opened up the match folder and removed the matches, then sealed it in the usual double envelope. I knew Jane hadn’t seen it for at least a couple of years, and after the session she confirmed that it had been longer than that.

(The connection between the envelope object and our two visits to Mother Goldsmith’s is strong enough, in that Jane and I ate there both years. We saw the same hostess both times also—a girl Jane went to school with in Saratoga. We did not see Nate Goldsmith or his wife on the first visit, and the reasons we did not see either of them on our second visit are given in our data interpretations.

(The spade impression here is apparently elaborated upon by Seth an impression or two later, in connection with underground data. There can be a connection with the black color of the suit of spades in a deck of playing cards, and the black of the object.

(“Writing. Five, perhaps five lines.” Once again, we do not know just what Seth means by writing—type like this, printing, handwritten script or lettering, etc. The front cover of the object contains five lines of large type against the black background. The object was presented flat or opened up in the envelope, so also visible at a glance would be more than five lines—eight to be exact exclusive of the name on the caricature. I hand lettered inside the cover also. The phone number on the top fold of the object contains a five, but we don’t know whether this means anything.

(“A card.” The object is manufactured of the usual cardboard stock used for matchbooks. There could be other connections.

(“1963, or at least at 19 and a 6 3.” See the tracing of the object on page 171. Inside the front cover I penned the date, August 1963.

(“A path in a particular direction to be taken.” Jane feels this applies to the address of the restaurant on the object.

(“A large round circular shape, perhaps inside of a rectangular one”, can refer to the caricature of Nate Goldsmith on the back of the object. The drawing is made up of rounded lines and shapes, is rounded in overall shape, and fits into the black rectangular frame. We don’t particularly know why Seth uses large here, unless he means that the drawing could not be much larger and still fit into the rectangular shape.

(“The impression of movement, and some impression of a machine, perhaps an airplane.” Jane said this refers to our automobile trips to Saratoga, the object being obtained on the first of these in 1963.

(“Give us a moment. Red and green. A black or dark color against a light background. Also a dim yellow.” My first question concerned colors on the object. We don’t know what the red and green refers to, since these are not present on the object. The object is however printed in black, against a light background. Seth’s description of a dim yellow is a most apt description of the color of the cardboard stock used for the object.

(Possibly the yellow data also grew out of the gold in Nate Goldsmith’s name, which appears on the back of the object, as well as Mother Goldsmith’s name appearing on the front.

(“Perhaps a J and a G.” I asked Seth for initials of the people at the meeting. The J can refer to Jane, but not the G. The initial G of course shows up on the object itself, twice, in Nate Goldsmith and Mother Goldsmith’s.

(“A note.” I asked Seth to name the object. Perhaps the good amount of writing on the object, front and back, plus mine on the inside, gave rise to this data.

(261st Session, May 23,1966. Tracing of the pencil drawing of Jane, used as the object in the 56th experiment.)