“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The envelope object for the 64th envelope experiment was a parking ticket obtained at Robert Treman State Park, near Ithaca, NY, on July 12,1966, on our recent vacation. It is printed in black on card stock, with the serial number in a light blue ink. I enclosed it between two pieces of Bristol, then inserted this into the usual double envelopes. Ithaca is 30-some miles northest of Elmira.

(We visited the park three times during that week, but I kept the date for the ticket straight by attaching a penciled slip to it. As it happens some of the envelope data arises out of our two subsequent visits. The first visit was on Tuesday, July 12, the second on Thursday, July 14, and the third on Saturday, July 16.

(Jane said before the session that she had no idea of what Seth would talk about. Her eyes were open from the beginning of the session, she was smoking, and her voice was average with pauses.)

(Break at 9:52. Jane said she was far-out. Her pace was a bit faster, her eyes open often, etc. As Seth talked she had feelings of concepts, of things “opening up.” She felt herself rushing in various directions, she said, inspired by these concepts, then giving voice to them one by one as she reached them. She called it a process of returning.

Tree shapes and an arch. A note that was not answered. This leads Ruburt to think, for his own reasons, of his ESP book notices. I tell you this for your own information.

(“Where was this group?”)

(Break at 10:21. Jane was out as usual. Her eyes remained closed throughout. She had some images and these will be mentioned in sequence.

(“A connection with a flower or flowers”, immediately reminded Jane of our visits to Enfield Glen, or Robert Treman State Park. Jane was subjectively sure of this, she said. I remember our specifically commenting on the flowers there, on all our visits. Objectively however there is nothing in this data to connect it to Enfield.

(“A small round object in a lower corner, rather balanced by another round object in a diagonal corner.” Jane, her eyes closed, indicated both ends of the envelope. There was of course but one object, the parking ticket, in the envelopes. Two of its corners are beveled but hardly round. The object however is small in comparison to the envelopes. Jane had one of her images here, seeing mentally two small objects in a space resembling the usual envelopes; she saw no detail however.

(“A center, as the center of spokes. As the spokes of a wheel, for example.” In a free manner Seth uses associations of Jane’s to get at the idea of a car, or travel. The parking ticket was obtained at the state park as a result of a 60-mile round trip by automobile, as were the two subsequent parking tickets for the same state park. But again no mention of either a car or the park in specific terms.

(At Saturday’s visit there was indeed a gathering and an affair—an outdoor picnic involving 15 people, either relatives or close friends. Five of these people were my brother Dick and his family, including three children, from Rochester, NY. The above data is developed further in two of the questions Seth answers later, and will be furnished then for convenience’s sake.

(The object also contains the number 5 twice, in the serial number and the price. I didn’t ask Seth about this, but perhaps the number 5 at the beginning of the above data was used to lead to the rest of it involving the gathering, etc.

(“Also the letters D O L, followed perhaps by another L,” Here is another instance of Seth trying something new in the way of association, as he did with the D E L for delivery data in the last envelope experiment. See page 276 of the 273rd session. It appears to be a good system and promises much. Jane was quite vexed at break to realize the implications of this method, and that she hadn’t followed through as Seth evidently intended her to.

(At break she now recalled that in addition to the D O L L which she had given voice to, and which she had seen mentally within, she had also seen the letters A R, but hadn’t spoken them aloud. The word of course being dollar. Jane now said this word was Seth’s way of leading her to the price on the object, 50¢; she thought that if she voiced the word dollar, Seth might have tried to get the 50¢ through.

(Jane said this method is new and she is not used to taking advantage of it. Mentally she first saw the D O L. She was aware of a “space,” she said, then she saw the second L, there was another space and she saw the A R. Each segment as described vanished before the next came along. She now added that in the D E L for delivery data in the 273rd session, she had seen only the D E L.

(“The color red. Circular red. Green and an off-blue. A cross designation. Tree shapes and an arch. A note that was not answered. This leads Ruburt to think, for his own reasons, of his ESP book notices. I tell you this for your own information. 6 plus 1, or 7 times.” Most of these led us to consider various connections, some probably correct enough had we asked Seth to verify them. Since we didn’t take the time we cannot claim them.

(“A printed note.” Here Jane was subjectively sure that this refers to the envelope object. The back of the parking ticket bears 15 lines of fine print pertaining to automobiles, loss or damage, etc. Jane said this data is the way she would refer to such an object.

(Second Question: Can you say something more about G or J or A? “The initials or the letters seem to be connected with a square item, or package.” As stated, there were two Anns at the gathering Saturday, and a Jane and a Joe, etc. See page 284. This would connect such initials with the fact that the envelope object is a square item, [although not a package]. However, remember that the object came from our visit of Tuesday July 12, whereas the gathering was held on Saturday July 16. The link here being that a parking ticket was also obtained, and saved by me, during Saturday’s visit; this ticket was the same except for the serial number as the ticket used as object.

(What could have been a serious incident developed at the park and gathering during our Saturday visit. Dick’s young son David fell from a high slide and injured his back. At first it was thought seriously. David naturally cried loudly. As it happened five people tended to David, and their action was witnessed by Jane and myself from some distance away. Three females and two males did the attending: My mother; David’s mother Ida; Ann Crosby; David’s father Dick; and my father.

(Question: “Where was this group?” “Outdoors, rather than indoors in this particular instance.” Very good, the incident involving David did take place outdoors in the park.

(Both impressions here are valid. The blanket data because of David. After he took his fall a blanket was hunted for among the members of the gathering. One was finally taken from a car, and David was made to lie quietly on it for a while to make sure no delayed injury showed up. None did. The interesting bit of information here is that a deliberate effort was made to spread the blanket on a grassy spot near the picnic tables, so that a softer bed would be furnished.

We have been making attempts in the direction of more specific material, and giving it to Ruburt in a slightly different fashion. For example, the D O L L. Your interpretation was correct. I was leading him to dollar, and then to half dollar.

I gave him a visual image of the letters, and this is fairly new for him. He will catch on however rather quickly, and then our data should be better than it was before.

The blanket incident overshadowed the other data because of the emotional content of the child’s fall. There is no need to go further in interpreting the material now. My heartiest regards to you both. Again, my concern for your time limitations. The D O L L you see, followed by the A R, would have required little interpretation. I was leading him to half dollar. We are coming along. Good night, my friends.

(End at 10:59. Actually, now, Jane sat very still, in trance, for over two minutes. Her eyes were closed, her head bowed. She was smiling, somewhat expectantly, I thought. I could see that Seth was in a fond mood. When she did leave trance Jane said Seth “spoke to us silently,” and debated as to whether to speak further this evening without notes on my part. He decided not to.)