“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

The idea shape itself is not one unitary thing, for example. The idea shape of this chair is not an absolute unitary, disembodied, or unspirited concept. (Very energetic delivery, eyes wide. Jane pounded on the arm of her rocker.) The idea shape of this chair is a composite, a gestalt, formed on the part of each atom and molecule that composes it.

The object is a chain, or connected with a chain. It is of dull silver color, of necklace length perhaps. Two other objects are connected with it. Two other objects have been on the chain at various times. One, a fairly oval object, of an inserted brown background, and a raised cream-colored area.

(Jane paused at 10:29, and took the envelope for our 60th experiment from me without opening her eyes. She pressed it to her forehead with one hand.)

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

(Break at 10:40. Jane said she was well dissociated during both experiments. Her eyes had remained closed throughout. She recalled having one image, and this was associated with the cross sign she had made.

(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.

(“The impression of splendid, something splendid.” It is no stretching of the truth to say that the office begonia plant is quite a splendid one.

(“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.

(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.

(Checking the day after this experiment, I found that the chain contains five large links, each perhaps two inches in diameter. The chain is made of gold coated stock, that is card stock that is gold on one side. The gold side of the stock is on the outside of the links so that they sparkle when sunlight strikes them. Seth’s mention of a visual impression, and the yellow and circle data, reminded me of the chain. We cannot determine the meaning of the red five data however.

This is to be expected. One note: The significance of course of the bird who could not fly, and Ruburt’s background, and the subsequent doctoring attempts on his part. My best wishes.