“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Before the session Jane said she had no idea of what Seth would talk about. She began speaking while sitting down and with her eyes closed. She had left a cigarette burning however, and her eyes soon began to open. Her voice was quiet, her pace quite slow.)

(“Good evening, Seth.”

(Jane confirmed that she did not like the “spiritual guide” connotation. Seth’s material upon resumption stems from the fact that Jane, housecleaning lately, had switched our bed from a north-south axis to east-west. Resume at 9:31, eyes open, smiling broadly.)

(It was now time for the 65th Dr. Instream experiment. As usual Jane’s pace slowed somewhat, and she sat with a hand raised to her closed eyes. Jane hesitated for a moment, saying that Seth was waiting for “just the right time” to contact Dr. Instream. Resume at 10:04.)

(Seth answers a few questions after break. In the meantime Jane and I made our own connections. See the tracing on page 178, and the notes on page 179.

(Seth mentions another possible connection with mirth in answer to my third question. But his answer to that question also makes us believe the interpretation above is the correct one.

(“A rectangular card, with printed matter.” The object is on a rectangular piece of heavy, porous-type paper, similar to card stock. Jane said she had an image of the correct size and proportion of the object, and that Seth was trying to get this data across to her. She had no image of a drawing, or herself.

(“An impression of many people.” Here Jane said she had the impression of a party, but decided to drop this line of association. This came from the mirth reference, she thought, and she was not sure the chain of association was correct. Sometimes it is left up to her as to what train of thought to follow. Again, Seth expresses uncertainty about the party-mirth connection in answer to my third question.

(“A card, such as the kind sent out by organizations for invitations.” Jane had an image here, of a rectangular card of the kind that used to be sent out by an art gallery where she worked up until a year of so ago. This image card was the same size and proportion, she said, as the rectangular paper the envelope object is drawn on; she believes Seth gave her this data to reinforce that idea.

(“Give us a moment… B and L and G.” My first question asked for initials connected to the object. Jane said that when giving this data she knew the initials referred to different things, not just one. So we speculated that B referred to Butts, L to lawn, and G to glass. Seth confirms this after break. Note that I didn’t indicate lawn, actually, in the sketch, although Jane’s cast shadow falls partly on the lawn.

(“I am not sure here. It seems a connection with a party. But also a connection with something unpleasant, so I am not sure.” My third question concerned the mirth data, discussed on page 184. At that time Seth didn’t come up with a party connection with mirth, although he mentioned party later on. He did connect mirth to something unpleasant, however, and we believe this to be the correct connection. Here above, he is also unsure about the party connection, the something unpleasant data interfering.

(“I think there is a red color, and rather large lettering, perhaps four or five lines.” My fourth question asked for the content of the horizontal lettering mentioned by Seth. Seth named both horizontal lettering and red before in the data. As stated on page 184 Jane wore shorts of a predominantly red plaid in the sketch, and the serape she sat on contained broad bands of red.

(We don’t particularly know why Seth called my writing on the object large. It does consist of five lines. Once again, Jane paused noticeably before continuing.

(“Come… An invitation to do something, or go somewhere, or to join.” Jane believes this data grew out of the gallery card data interpreted under organizations on page 186. There is another connection; Jane mentioned it tentatively but we had no way to be sure. Seth confirms it after break however.

(“Perhaps 24, referring to a day of the month.” The envelope object bears the date on which I made the sketch—May 23,1966. Seth is one day off.

(“I have done as much to name it as I can.” Here I asked Seth if he wanted to name the object.

(“Good night, Seth.”