“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

My first impression is of blocks, and a turnstile. Has he visited someplace with this kind of entrance, for example, or does he have a photograph of such a place…

It may be a photograph of the earlier mentioned impressions, you see, if not a photograph (Jane’s eyes now opened, wide and very dark. This is the first time they have done so during such an experiment.) A picture of some kind—an image of another man, rather than the thing itself.

The impression of a fence or border here, shown in the picture. (Eyes open and closed.) It is of an old, rather than a new place, I believe, connected with a stone building. (Eyes open again; with gestures.) Perhaps the building is in some way on exhibition, or one must pay to enter it. Again, this is a picture of some sort, and not the building itself.

Now other impressions. A meeting of four people in the afternoon. They seem to have white hair or blonde hair. None of them is a dark-haired person. (Long pause.) There is another man standing up. They are around a round table, in a fairly large room that seems to be empty except for themselves. One man has a watch on a chain.

Give us a moment, please. These are impressions.

The color red. An impression of many people. Connection with a tall man. The letter L. Perhaps the number 17. A twist.

Missed, an occasion missed earlier. The impression now of looking down, from a high position… That is connected with rocks. Or of looking down (gesture) from a high position into a hole.

(“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.

(“The impression now of looking down, from a high position…” This is an excellent description of my position in the second-story studio, looking quite straight down as I sketched Jane on the lawn. She was perhaps twelve feet below me. Jane had an image in connection with this data, which is explained below. At the time I made the drawing I wondered if Jane would sense the fact even though she didn’t see me. Jane paused noticeably before she continued.

(This rock data and related data is a case where Jane decided to pursue her original impression of being up high. Often, she said, it is left up to her as to whether to so develop an impression. Sometimes she doesn’t know what to do. This time she followed up to some degree because she also had an image, of someone standing on high, looking down from some kind of rocky perch. She believes this image was distorted to some degree.

(“The sort of lines for example that a map would have to indicate small roads, or the lines like cracks in a dry ground.” My second question asked for more on the wavering lines impression discussed on page 185. See the copy of the object on page 178. The drawing is composed of thin pencil lines in part at least, and these could in the abstract represent small roads on a map, or lines like cracks in dry ground.

(After the experiment, and after we had interpreted the data, Jane recalled one impression she had which she had not mentioned. The impression was “Star shape.” Looking at the drawing, Jane felt it applied to the radiating lines on the crown of the straw hat she wore as I sketched her. We think this legitimate for Jane uses such calligraphy in her paintings.