“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Apples. 73. Perhaps a connection with your parents. The word Ensenada.

(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.

(“Distant connection with a cat. Perhaps black.” A black cat is connected to my mother in perhaps more than a casual way. My mother’s next-door neighbor acquired a black kitten a few months ago; the animal has made quite an impression on my parents, who enjoy watching its antics in their own yard as well as the neighbors’.

(“Monumental. A monumental occasion.” See the copy my mother wrote inside the greeting card, shown on page 321, in which she refers to finally arriving in Tunkhannock to visit my brother and his family. My parents live in Sayre, 50-some miles north of Tunkhannock. My father does not drive much anymore, and traveling is difficult for them. We think that in my mother’s eyes the visit to Tunkhannock can legitimately be called a monumental occasion. Her copy begins: “At last we made it to Tunk…”

(“Apples.” Another reference to my parents and their home in Sayre, PA. A large, old and beautiful apple tree sits in the backyard. We are all fond of sitting beneath it.

(“Perhaps a connection with your parents.” Yes, both the object and the greeting card.

(“The word Ensenada.” We thought this referred to a camping trip Jane and I made to Baja California with Jane’s father. This being a distant connection with my parents, who also camped in years past.

(8th Question: “Was that word you mentioned Ensenada?” “An incident primarily involving four people, I believe. This is in continued answer to your previous question.” This data seems to emphasize the first of the two possibilities mentioned in the 7th Question. The four people thus, presumably, would be my parents, and my brother and his wife in Tunkhannock.

(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.

It was a very distant connection, and not very useful at all. Ruburt camped with his parent you see at Ensenada, and your parents’ camp. There were two illnesses however referred to, the severe one, and your own father’s. The illness of both men gave a strong impression and that is all.