“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.

(See the tracing on page 270 and the notes on page 271. As stated I picked the red ribbon used as object from the bed of our cat on about June 20, with little idea of its history. It developed that Jane had to think hard in order to tentatively link the object with a hand-knit sweater she had received from her mother as a birthday present. Jane’s birthday is May 8, but she received the package sometime after this; we located a letter from Jane’s mother dated May 10, in which she discusses mailing the sweater to Jane soon. [This session was held on July 18.]

(“Parallelogram, or something parallel, rather emphatically so. Like roads with white markings, and with fairly large areas between, and with darkness around or outside also.” It is interesting to note that Jane said after the session that she doesn’t know what a parallelogram looks like. The ribbon arrangement on the Bristol of course is an X shape rather than parallel; both shapes are geometrical. The dictionary assigns this shape to a parallelogram,

(Jane located the inside box in which the sweater was packed, and remembered this box being inside another. The ribbon from which the object was taken was around the outside box, she felt; she also remembered a note with the sweater, but we could not locate it. We did find her mother’s letter of May 10th however.

(“Four. Objects perhaps—that is, four objects perhaps indicated.” No connections. The ribbon itself is in three pieces, for instance, and is tacked to the Bristol by five pieces of tape, etc.

(“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 package however did refer to the sweater. The box was wrapped in a layer of brown paper tied with a red ribbon; the whole then inserted into another box, a commercial box from a store, in which a nightgown had once been placed.