“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The 60th envelope experiment used as object a quick black line drawing, on porous white paper, that I made of a giant begonia plant at the office. The plant sits on a taboret beside my drawing table. It has grown beautifully from a tiny slip that I took to the office approximately last March. Jane has not seen the plant, hardly ever visiting the office.

(Nor had she ever seen the drawing used as object, nor did she even know it existed. We have the plant here in the apartment from which the slip came however, and its history will be given in the envelope data. I placed the object between the usual double Bristol and sealed it all up in the usual double envelopes.

This is in connection with a drawing or design. And mono, also meaning one.

(“A salary or payment connection.” As I sit at my drawing board at the office, perhaps a foot or eighteen inches from the begonia plant which served as a model for the envelope object, I am given my paycheck each Friday afternoon.

(“A distant connection with monolithic.” Our dictionary says monolith, while referring to one of a kind, also can mean one of large size. The object is a drawing of what is called a giant tubular begonia.

(“A group of men.” We believe this to be a valid interpretation: My drawing board at the office, with the begonia beside it, happens to be the first in line of several. Just beyond my board is a very large table that is used to spread out very large printed sheets before they are cut up into individual cards, etc. This table is perhaps three feet away. Around it are clustered groups of men every day, going over the current job on the press. Foremen, printers, directors, artists, etc.

(“A card written on both sides.” The drawing used as object is done on a porous paper that is somewhat thicker than most papers, yet is not actually card stock. I used a black felt marking pen to make the drawing; this is indelible, and the ink soaked through the porous paper until the drawing is quite easily visible on the reverse side. This cannot be seen on the tracing on page 226.

(“Now, I have the impression that the object is roughly divided into four areas, in this manner, you see, with fairly dark lines.” See the notes with this data on page 230. Jane, while holding the envelope, and the object inside it, horizontally, made a vigorous crossing and vertical motion with an arm. See the tracing on page 226. The drawing shows that the leaves of the plant are climbing up a wooden stick. With the object held horizontally, the stick is also horizontal and divides the drawing in half easily enough; the horizontal attribute of her gesture was stressed by Jane. The fairly dark lines on the object are obvious.

(“I believe an older woman.” The third question sought to find out who the other woman was beside Jane. See the woman data on page 230. We think this answer reinforces our interpretations of the woman data, and the symbolic blue data just noted. Miss Callahan of course being considerably older than Jane—about 78, we believe. Again, Miss Callahan gave Jane the parent begonia which furnished eventually the office begonia; a drawing of the office begonia was used as the envelope object for tonight.

(I now made a comment: “That word monolithic is interesting.” Seth replied: “This is in connection with a drawing or design. And mono, also meaning one.” The envelope object is a drawing. See also the interpretation of monolithic on page 232.

(The next question was: “How about that five in a circle?” “The impression is visual. The circle outlined in yellow, I believe, and I see visually a red five inside.” This puzzled us, and we think it contains some sort of distortion as far as the red five is concerned. Part of this data may be valid. As a joke one of my coworkers at the office hung a homemade chain from the top of the wooden stick which supports the begonia. The stick is visible in the drawing used as object. I did not of course show the chain in the drawing.

(“A connection with a framework of some kind. Perhaps wooden”, can refer to the wooden stick which shows in the drawing used as object. The stick supports the begonia plant, and is a framework in this sense.

(“He still does.” See the drawing of the envelope object used in the last session, on page 217. Today Jane told me the eagle still looked like a moose to her.)