“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(“Good evening, Seth.”

(This was very interesting, and a surprise to me. Recently I have been using suggestion rather successfully on hay fever, following Seth’s ideas. Friday was a good day. We had company Friday evening—Marilyn and Don Wilbur, Don’s brother and a girl named Pat, whom we do not know.

(Dr. and Emma Martin are old friends of my parents, and their age—early seventies, or nearly so. I have childhood memories of them, of course. As soon as Seth mentioned it, I immediately saw a distinct resemblance between Emma Martin, as she had been, and the young girl Pat. The smile in both was much alike. Consciously I had made no such connection however, before Seth mentioned it, but had sensed something familiar about Pat Friday evening.

(Jane of course has no memories of Emma Martin as a young person. Any such episode as described by Seth above would have taken place probably more than 40 years ago. I am now 47.)

(I was also concerned that the interruption would somehow interfere with the data, and after break Seth confirms that this happened to some extent.

(Seth helps out a little after break, but we made our own connections as best we could in the meantime.

(“Twelve, or one, two.” Jane said this was Seth’s way of leading her, by counting, to the next data, referring to three people.

(“I have the image of a circular object within a rectangular one, or rather an oval shape as in a portrait of a woman that is oval, for example as in old-time valentines.” To Jane this refers to the fact that Barbara is an amateur artist. Jane doesn’t know however if Barbara has for instance ever painted such a portrait. Jane wished she had allowed Seth to be more specific here. Later note by Rob: Poem is a valentine of sorts; love poem.

(“Four plus one.” We could make no certain connections, nor did Seth’s answer to the fourth question help much.

(“1821 or 1812, perhaps Milwaukee or Wisconsin.” As Seth tells us after break, this is a poor connection referring to the Victorian room at the Arnot Art Gallery where Jane worked a couple of years ago—and is thus another reference to Barbara and myself being artists. We saw no connection for Milwaukee or Wisconsin.

(As stated, I had temporarily forgotten I knew nothing of the circumstances under which Jane had produced the poem used as object, and so wasn’t sure that Seth’s data applied at all. This left me wondering about what questions to ask. I decided to go along as usual.

(2nd Question: Who is the woman referred to in the card and portrait? “The woman I believe strange to you, or at least in different surroundings or attire.” Jane was puzzled here. At break she said this data was an attempt by Seth to get her away from the D’Andreano family, the members of whom we know relatively well, back to Barbara, the newcomer to our apartment house, who is a relative stranger to us.

(“Good night, Seth.”