“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The 58th envelope experiment was held this evening. The object was a faded color Polaroid photograph. The picture was taken by Don Wilbur on April 4,1966, as noted on the back. Don and his wife Marilyn were due to witness the 248th session on April 4, but last-minute developments prevented them doing so. Don left the sealed envelope he had prepared for the session with me, however; I kept it until the Wilburs were able to witness a session. The photo is of a decorative garden cat, bearing a shining glass glaze, and was made by Marilyn.

Now, I am going to give you a short break to rid ourselves of the pussies. (Our cats were noisily playing at Jane’s feet.) Then we will briefly give the Instream material, and perhaps briefly also whatever envelope material you may have for me. Following this we shall return to the material which we have been discussing, for you shall be in need of it shortly.

(Break at 10:22. Jane was out as usual, she said, and the cats hadn’t particularly bothered her. We put them in the studio. Jane’s pace had been good, her voice fairly strong, her eyes open often. It had not been a quiet session. Besides the interruption there had been noisy neighbors downstairs, heavy traffic, etc.

(“Colors green and yellow.” Don took the picture of the ceramic cat as it sat on a brick wall cutting across grass as indicated in the tracing on page 206. This particular roll of Polaroid color film had been exposed to heat; Don took the chance that it would still give legible pictures. As it was the color print used as object has a dull, overall brownish cast, yet the local colors are still visible, to a reduced degree.

(The grass immediately in back of the cat is light yellow brown in color, shading off to a darker greenish brown around the edges of the photo. See the tracing.

(“Connection with high round objects.” As can be noted on the tracing, Marilyn’s ceramic cat is composed of round or circular components. The cat’s head rises especially high in the modern fashion.

(“M and G”, raises once again the question of what meaning to assign to initials. The M can refer to Marilyn, who made the ceramic cat. Marilyn said the G did not refer to any person with that initial that she knew of, in connection with the object. However, she thought it might refer to the fact that the ceramic cat has a certain type of high-gloss glaze fired on; this glaze being made of glass.

(Since I didn’t know what the object was all my questions were asked in the dark, so to speak. My first one asked just how the yellow and green were connected to the object. “Perhaps yellow in the center of a slightly rectangular shape, outlined in green.” The object is rectangular, but more than slightly so. The above data is a good description of the yellowish brown grass in back of the cat’s head, as explained under the yellow and green data on page 212; and of the way the yellow grass merges into the darker green brown grass around the edges of the photo. See the tracing on page 206.

(Seth continues in answer to the first question: “A visual connection, with square or rectangular objects in the center of a larger area”, refers to the rectangular bricks marching up across the center of the object. “with modern connotations as a design might have.” refers to the very modern, rounded or circular design of Marilyn’s ceramic cat. “Perhaps connected with spindly lines or strings.” refers to the abstract pattern created, in line form, by the narrow crevices and shadows around the individual bricks, all these lines being interconnected.

(My second question asked for more data on the M and G: “They are not together, but separate. They are not initials.” We of course had this answer before giving our own interpretations of the M and G data on page 213. We had assigned the M to Marilyn’s name, thus using an initial, and the G to the glass glaze on the cat. Seth agrees with this interpretation after break, so there is some contradiction here.

(“They refer to objects on the object, or strongly connected with it.” The third question sought to pin the M and G data down further. Thus the G for glass glaze refers to the cat shown on the object, the M to Marilyn who made the cat. We wouldn’t be sure of this however without Seth’s confirmation after break.

(“The F may refer to a person.” The fourth question asked about the F and O data. Marilyn and Jane thought the F referred to F as in feline, or the F sound in the name Lucifer, the name which Marilyn gave to her ceramic creation. “The O, I believe, is simply a shape, that is, a circle shape.” The ceramic cat is composed of forms circular in shape. See the tracing on page 206.