“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Give us a moment here… I am searching for a connection for you, concerning the past. A negative response dealing with Dr. Martin. Some, to me, indistinct connection between the strange young woman here with your friends, and Emma Martin. An old unpleasant association. You were uncomfortable, a child. Dr. Martin and his wife visited your parents. You cried, and you clearly heard Emma Martin tell your mother that she should not go to you, and then you would be quiet.

There was an afternoon… I am not clear here…. You were given cod liver oil. The symptoms began that day. You should not eat salads at your parents’ home, that are mixed with oil, during the season.

We will go slowly here. You were in the house, in the cellar or on the upper story. You were not on the main floor of the house. The episode involved your father and yourself.

A distant connection in the past, with a gathering that was formal, I believe… not certain here… With dancing (gesture, eyes closed) as at a wedding reception perhaps.

(Pause.) Two women perhaps and a man. One of the women in the background. However others are involved also. 37 here and a magistrate connection.

(The object is a poem written to me by Jane on a sheet of yellow paper, in a dark pen, and dated July 3,1966. The back of the object is blank. Here is a brief summary of the circumstances under which Jane produced the poem; it will be expanded as the data unfolds.

(“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.

(“A distant connection in the past, with a gathering that was formal, I believe… not certain here… with dancing as at a wedding reception perhaps. Through personal association with my last remark, Ruburt is led to think of the coming D’Andreano wedding.” As stated, Jane was quite embarrassed at the teasing Dick had taken from Barbara about marriage the evening of July 3, and by Dick’s obvious anger. The wedding talk here thus links up with a wedding Jane and I attended perhaps nine years ago in Rochester, NY—that of my brother Dick and Ida D’Andreano. This was a formal occasion for which Jane and I were dressed formally, and at the lengthy reception afterwards there was much dancing, etc.

(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.

(“37 here and a magistrate connection.” Jane herself is 37 years old, and Barbara’s boyfriend Dick is either that age also or very close to it. The magistrate connection arises out of the wedding conversation which was a feature of the group’s gathering on the evening of July 3.

(4th Question: What’s that four plus one? “Four plus one life. Vito.” This is enigmatic to us, although the Vito connection is clear. Vito is one of the sons in the D’Andreano family and was married a couple of years ago. Thus Jane returned here to the wedding idea through the D’Andreano family.