“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The conscious mind had nothing to do with this. He strongly wished for the friend’s presence. The wish became reality. You must understand the rules that apply. For they apply whether or not you understand them, and whether or not the wish is one that you really want fulfilled.

Hay fever was for your father also a defense against the world, for it allowed him some isolation. You can have the necessary privacy without using this symptom to get it. The ink has a symbolic association for you personally, a healing one you see, and its presence, according to my recommendation, has the effect of a mood tonic.

Stirrup. No, something stirred up. Twelve, or one, two.

Three people concerned. 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.

Four plus one. A connection with February 3, I believe. With a rose. Connection with a journey, and invitation. With a brush or something that resembles it, with bristles. 1821 or 1812, perhaps Milwaukee or Wisconsin.

(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.

(“What’s that four plus one?”

(Pause.) Four plus one life. Vito.

(“Stirrup. No, something stirred up.” The drink that Barbara’s boyfriend Dick gave Jane, in the episode just described in the backyard on July 3,1966, was a mixed drink, a Wink-and-gin. This drink is the one referred to in the fourth line of the poem used as object.

(“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.

(“Black and white. Please reply.” This is another reference to the upcoming wedding of Louie D’Andreano, to which Jane and I have been invited. The announcement was printed in black ink on white, as is usual. It also requested that Jane and I reply in writing as to whether we planned to attend. Once again, the D’Andreano wedding data, involving the present one concerning Louie, and the distant one concerning my brother Dick, is called up by Jane’s associations, because of the marriage talk between Barbara and Dick on the evening of July 3,1966, when Jane wrote the poem used as object.

(First Question: Can you say more about the yellow square? “I have the image of a small, neat yellow square, in a lower right hand position.” By now Jane had lowered the envelope from her usual position against her forehead, and sat with it dangling by one corner from her right hand; her right arm extended forward and down over the arm of the rocker. It is possible the yellow object inside the sealed envelope had settled into a corner. But it was a rectangular rather than square object.

(3rd Question: Who are the three people involved? “Two women perhaps and a man. One of the woman in the background.” As stated on page 6, three people, two women and a man, were involved in the circumstances surrounding the creation of the poem used as object, on the evening of July 3,1966: Jane, Barbara and Dick. In this context it would seem that Barbara would be the woman in the background, since the actual envelope object was an item of Jane’s. Other interpretations could reverse this order however. We could wish the data were clearer.

(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.