“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(I had the choice of trying to guide Seth back to the object through questions, or of trying again with new data. It had soon become clear that the impressions were off, although at this time I didn’t know why. Seth’s accuracy had picked up toward the end of the data, however. Jane sat waiting.

(From the first data, page 255: “Pointed flower or star shapes. Again, a connection with a disturbance, with a knife. This is the pointed impression. I do not know if the knife is literal. Sharp, something sharp… Ruburt thinks of a newspaper article, about a murder.” Seth also mentioned a connection with turbulence at the start of the data. There can be a direct connection with the envelope object, and a newspaper connection; it seems that both are somewhat distorted, and that one perhaps influenced the other.

(At the end of Seth’s second try at the envelope data, he once again came up with the newspaper connection: “Still, there seems to be a newspaper connection. Printing or black ink, I do not know.” The black ink connection is interesting to me. As I worked with the materials on the newspapers, I wondered whether it was such a good idea, fearing that perhaps the acrylic glue I was using might dissolve the black printing ink enough to cause it to dirty the white burlap I was handling. There was no real trouble although I did get a few faint smudges on the burlap; I removed them without trouble. I do not know if Seth referred to this, or merely black ink being connected with newspapers.

(“Good night, Seth.”