“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(Break at 10:25. Jane said she was “way-out.” Seth hadn’t wanted to take a break at the regular time, and had wanted to keep her under for the experiment also. He also had Jane let the cat in so she wouldn’t get upset by the animal’s scratching at the door. Her eyes had remained closed during the experiment and her pace had been quite rapid except where indicated.

(See the tracing of the actual object on page 319, and the copies of the greeting card on page 320-21. Notes pertaining to both are found on page 322, and will be developed as we run through the connections we make with the envelope object. Seth adds a few comments after break.

(Of course the emotional involvement and reaction between us and my parents is strong, and would tend to override more specific details of the envelope object itself, once Jane had picked up the idea of my mother. Jane had the idea of Mother’s greeting card in mind from the start of the envelope data, she said. She tried not to let this color the data. She mentally dropped it, deciding to let Seth speak in his own way. But the card plays a large part in the data nevertheless.

(“Something misplaced.” Leonard Yaudes, the author of the object, has recently lost a pair of garden shears. Jane subjectively feels this is the correct interpretation. I wondered if it might not refer to our search for the greeting card, described on page 327. Jane might have had subconscious knowledge that the card was lost. She was well aware that she was giving data concerning this card. I did not think of this possibility at the time and so did not ask Seth.

(“A connection with a closet. I do not understand as yet to what this particular image refers.” This is legitimate data and is explained when Seth answers the second question.

(“I L I A.” Jane was puzzled at this data at the time she gave it, as though she didn’t have it right. Seth deals with it when he answers the first question.

(2nd Question: “Can you elaborate upon the closet data?” “Ruburt thinks of your mother’s sewing room. To me a reference to some shape, dark and narrow, with the feeling of motion involved, as a falling through or a falling out. Downward motion, with some speed.” The sewing room of my mother is a legitimate connection. We aren’t so sure of Seth’s interpretation, unless it pertains to the motion of the sewing machine. Could the dark and narrow, etc., be another grave or illness reference?

(3rd Question: “What’s that about a black cat?” “A distant connection. (Pause.) A loss of an advantage, or period of poor luck.” See the explanation re. the black cat on page 328. Seth’s additional data here conjures up the thought that the neighbor’s black cat also serves as the classic symbol of bad or poor luck; the connection here being the failing health of my father, and the failing health in a more drastic way of Mr. Meeker, the father-in-law of my brother Loren. It was while at Loren’s that my mother sent us the greeting card. When she called us on August 14, she, of course, discussed the health both of my father and Mr. Meeker.

(7th Question: “Can you tell me anything about what the handwriting says on the object?” “Not an invitation precisely at all, but reference to an occasion or visit.” I thought it okay to ask this question since Seth had already mentioned handwriting in connection with the data. Seth’s answer here is a good reference to the note Mother wrote inside the greeting card. It can actually apply just as well to the envelope object itself. The phone call on August 14 from my mother concerned a visit by us to Sayre, and one by her to us in Elmira. During this call arrangements were made for her to visit us here next weekend, on Saturday, August 20.

(9th Question: “Well, why don’t you tell me something about the four people?” “These are further general impressions. An S. Perhaps a C. The object, a card with a note. An out-of-town connection.” As can be seen Seth did not answer the last two questions directly. A connection with S? Perhaps Sayre, my parents’ home… We see none offhand for C.

(“Good night, Seth.”

(End at 11:09. Jane was out as usual, her eyes open part of the time. She said Seth was quite capable of going on for hours.

(Note that I asked Seth 9 questions concerning the envelope data—the most so far.)