“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The 63rd envelope experiment was held during the session. The object was two sections of a red ribbon taped to a piece of heavy Bristol board. I found the ribbon in the bed of our cat on about June 20. I knew nothing of its history consciously, and hoped Jane and Seth could help out. As it developed Jane was somewhat hard- pressed to identify the ribbon, did so eventually, and with Seth’s verification. We regard such objects, where we know little of the history, as being like objects furnished by others.

(This was our first session since June 29,1966. Jane said she had no idea of what Seth would talk about. She began as usual at 9 PM, her eyes closed, sitting down, in a good voice and with pauses.)

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(Break at 10:28. Jane out as usual. Her eyes had remained closed, her pace good. She said she had images within only when Seth “said so”. She was not unduly nervous at the idea of an experiment after our vacation.

(Seth confirms after break that the object was linked to the sweater package. We made our connections during break, of course, and felt them strengthened by Seth’s information. More history will be given as we interpret the data.

(Nor did Jane know the diagram for parallax. We believe she was on the right track in spite of her semantic difficulty, however, with the roads data and the white markings, areas between, etc. Jane’s personal idea was that Seth used parallelogram to lead up to the rest of the data here. In this respect see page 274, where Seth mentions Jane’s associations.

(“A small cube, perhaps gold color, that is the cube perhaps is gold colored.” We could make no connection here although Seth helps out after break.

(“Scripts.” Seth, after break, reinforces Jane’s idea that a note was enclosed with the sweater, but we cannot find the note and so can’t demonstrate this.

(“A distant connection with the country.” We believe this data and the parallelogram data are related, since the latter developed into the mention of roads. The nursing home or hospital in which Jane’s mother is cared for is also actually in the country, outside the small town of Middle Grove,NY. The ribbon which served as envelope object of course helped wrap a package coming from Jane’s mother. Seth confirms the data relationship also.

(“The word seisograph comes to mind. Or marks like earthquake marks on a graph. Printing I believe at the lower center, outside of a margin, or implied margin. Very small, the printing very small, perhaps D E L. Part of the word delivered, I do not know. Perhaps a connection with some item delivered.” Again, see Seth’s comments on page 274, concerning his use of Jane’s associations. We think the above block of data is a good example of his attempts to have Jane talk about the delivery of a package to our door. Seth and Jane here seem to permit the use of such association in a much freer manner than in the past.

(Had we not found the May 10 letter we wouldn’t have thought of the connections immediately above; even as it is I would hesitate to claim them without further data from Seth. Jane thinks they are legitimate.

(I asked Seth three questions, asking for elaboration on color, the country connection and the nurse, or nursing. His answers merely reaffirmed the original data. See page 275.

(“Good night, Seth.”