“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Smile.) First of all however, a small note to our friend Ruburt. From me, dear Joseph, but on your behalf. Now. I would suggest that afternoons Joseph not be disturbed for any but the most unusual matters. It would be best indeed if Ruburt imagined that you were working out of the house, and he should be able to do this.

Your privacy during these hours is very important to you. He knows this of course, but forgets it. You may if your prefer close your bedroom door you see, neatly dividing your apartment in half during working hours. I do not know why you have not thought of this yourself, or in any case why you have not put it into practice.

The bird episode, you see, bothered him deeply. He made an effort not to call on you, but emotionally you see he felt that the whole world should stop to help his bird. (One of our cats nearly killed a young robin today, and Jane is trying to nurse it back to health.) The episode however was one of a series of interruptions of your private hours, and I do seriously recommend that you be allowed your work period without disturbance.

Now. As I said earlier, sense data does have a reality, but this reality does not reside in an object. The object represents your interpretation of the basic reality. The energy belongs to the idea. In other words, the prime energy within physical reality resides precisely in those intangibles which do not, because of their nature, appear within physical frameworks. They give life and reality to the physical framework.

The inner senses can and do perceive this reality in an undistorted fashion. Your brain is itself a camouflage pattern. It can only translate and perceive what seems to be the evidence of the physical senses. It cannot step outside of itself. (Smile.) It is that which it attempts to investigate.

Now for some other impressions, not connected necessarily with the object. The letters N, P, G, A. I do not know to what these refer. A small cross, connected with Dr. Instream’s past. The date 1873, connected with Dr. Instream’s parents, or parent.

Do you have an envelope for me?

Do you have questions? (Jane changed hands on the envelope, but continued to hold it to her forehead.)

I am not sure. I am thinking in terms of family connections. However, the word may have to do instead with, for example, type on a card.

(“Do you want to give me some colors on the object?”)

The four areas could be different in color, and fairly bright—perhaps also a pale blue. I do not know if this is a symbolic impression or not. (I would like to add that while making the above cross sign, Jane held the envelope with its long dimension also horizontal. This has a bearing on the data, we believe.

(“Do you want to name the object?”)

(In addition, Jane has asked me at various times to bring home a slip from this office plant, so that she can start another pot; she has been quite impressed with my descriptions of how well the office plant has been doing.

(We do not know if the pot holding the office begonia had ever, also, been wrapped in fabric. It is a possibility, since the pot as well as the plant came from the apartment, and one of Jane’s pet activities is decorating the plant containers with various materials and in various ways.

(“I am not sure. I am thinking in terms of family connections. However the word may have to do instead with, for example, type on a card.” My first question, concerning the lineage data: See page 230. Seth didn’t elaborate very much. There is no type on the object. Can family connections be applied to the descendants of a parent plant?

(“The four areas could be different in color, and fairly bright—perhaps also a pale blue. I do not know if this is a symbolic impression or not.” The object itself is in black and white only. We offer a pale blue connection however that we have been aware of for several years. Miss Callahan, who gave Jane the parent begonia which led to the making of the envelope object, is inordinately fond of blue. We do not know if Seth would call this a symbolic connection. Miss Callahan’s apartment is largely blue. Her living room has pale blue painted walls, including a floor to ceiling painted blue bookcase. Her divan is covered with solid blue, as is a matching overstuffed chair. The other chair is of a blue printed pattern. The rug is a darkish violet and gray, close to a blue, etc.

(My fourth question asked for the initials of this older woman. The question made Jane hesitate: “You had better wait on this. The older woman data leads Ruburt to make personal associations which could be distortive.” (Pause.) “We will try here with the initial A, or G.” Jane said the question brought her mother to her mind; Seth however did not want to give her mother’s name, which is Marie Roberts, or those initials; and Jane did not do so. But A or G as far as we know do not apply to Miss Callahan either, whose first name is Florence.

(We do not know whether the chain interpretation is correct. It would be very interesting, if so, since Jane has never seen the chain, nor as stated even the plant itself since I took it to the office. Nor did she know the paper chain existed; she is quite sure I did not tell her of this, and I have no memory of doing so.