“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The envelope object for the 69th experiment was a colored postcard sent to us by Barbara Ingold, our neighbor who lives below us on the first floor. Colors on the front and back of the object are indicated to some degree on the tracing on page 16. Jane hadn’t seen the card since we received it. As usual I placed it between two pieces of Bristol then sealed it in double envelopes.

(Jane had no idea of what Seth was going to talk about before the session began. As usual she began delivering the data while sitting down, her eyes open from the beginning; she was also smoking. Actually Jane’s eyes were closed for much of the material. Her pace was average, her voice also.)

(Break at 9:33. Jane had been out as usual. Her pace had been average, her eyes mostly closed; she had taken a few long pauses. She resumed in the same manner, smoking once more, at 9:40.)

(Break at 9:56. Jane was dissociated as usual, her eyes closed for the most part, her pace average. She resumed at 10:01.)

(At 10:06 Jane took the sealed envelope from me for the 69th experiment. She pressed it to her forehead in a horizontal position with her right hand, her eyes closed. Somehow I knew the results of the experiment would be good.)

A connection with a session. With, now (Jane gestured with the envelope, her eyes closed) my impression here is of a desk, or chair connected with a desk. The type used in classrooms. I do not know if this refers to a child who attends school, to a teacher, or to someone such as your friends downstairs who have such an object.

(Pause. Jane lowered the envelope to her lap.) Liquor connection. A visit to a place where it is sold. A man here.

(Break at 10:25. Jane was out as usual. Her eyes remained closed from the time the envelope experiment began. She had images while speaking, and these will be mentioned later.

(One image Jane had while speaking was of Barbara’s boyfriend Dick, and of the very colorful plaid sports jacket he wore. Jane saw Dick wearing this today. This is a legitimate connection, since the image served to bring up the idea of Barbara, who sent us the card used as object.

(I picked the card deliberately because it had an emotional attachment to Jane, versus such a neutral object as a leaf, a clipping from a magazine, etc. In these experiments we try to show that an original emotional attachment can lead to valid clairvoyant/telepathic data. However Jane had not seen the object since we received it in July, and consciously had forgotten its existence.

(Seth offered no help with the data but Jane and I made our own connections.

(The Cratsley connection here leads Jane to mention them again later also. The teacher data above may refer to the 67th envelope experiment in the 279th session; for in that session the object was a postcard sent to us by Leonard Yaudes, who is a teacher.

(“Again, a formal affair connected here.” The card used as object tonight was sent to us by Barbara from Ft. Belvoir, VA. She visited her sister there, and while there attended a cocktail party and a dance in the company of a male she thinks highly of. Jane and I do not know if these affairs were literally formal however.

(“One seven. Perhaps two one.” Jane and I made no connections. No such sequences appear on the postcard, although the individual numbers do.

(“A connection with an item usually unavailable. With a machine of some kind.” Jane gave this data together, and we believe it refers to the flight made to Virginia from Elmira by Barbara and Lisa.

(“A spectacular arrangement.” In view of Seth’s answer to the first question, this is a reference to Story Book Land. This also had been my mental interpretation as Jane gave the data, before we reached the question-and-answer session.

(In connection with the “small circles” data above, I should add that Jane was subjectively sure the data did not refer to the printing or Barbara’s writing on the object. With this data Jane had an image of tiny circles, as on the Mother Goose costume, or of jewelry.

(“A distant connection with wine or a wine house.” Remember that Jane had an image of Barbara’s boyfriend Dick. Jane is sure this data is a reference to the fact that last Saturday evening, September 3, Barbara and Dick visited a local pub; a bone of contention arose between them over this visit, but will not be discussed here. Suffice it to say that strong emotional feelings were engendered by the visit, and that Barbara discussed the visit with Jane today, the day of this experiment. The connection of course being that Barbara sent us the postcard used as object.

(There is also type on the back of the object in the center, but Jane says the data refers to the rhyme rather than this.

(“Also a connection with September.” This is a reference to the fact that Jane talked with Barbara today, as she does on most days since Barbara lives in the same apartment house.

(2nd Question: Can you say who is involved? “Ruburt here thinks of his corn, and Lois.” Jane said this is brought about through the chair data, and is a confusion arising from the fact that Barbara, who sent us the object, and Lois and Merle Cratsley live on the ground floor of the apartment house, in adjoining apartments. See the chair data interpretation on page 22.

(3rd Question: Can you say something about wine or the wine house? “Liquor connection. A visit to a place where it is sold. A man here.” See the wine house data-interpretation on page 23. Remember also that while giving the data Jane had an image of Barbara’s boyfriend, Dick, wearing a brightly-colored sports jacket Jane saw him wearing today.

(This data is a little more specific than that on page 23, and the man reference concerns Dick; as stated Dick and Barbara visited a certain local pub, and an altercation developed between them because of this. Barbara discussed the trouble with Jane today.

(Jane resumed, her eyes closed, wearing her glasses, at 10:55.)

(End at 11:04. Jane was out as usual. She said Seth could have cheerfully continued.)

(On Saturday, September 10, Jane and I checked some of this experiment with Barbara. Two points arose worth noting.

(Regarding “Two children”, interpreted on page 22. This data is more accurate than we had supposed. Consciously Jane had no way of knowing this, and Barbara had not told us the circumstances surrounding the incident after her return from the trip to Ft. Belvoir.