“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.

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.

(See the tracings of the object on page 16. The object was a postcard mailed to us by Barbara Ingold from Ft. Belvoir, VA, on July 12,1966. It is of a display called Story Book Land at Woodbridge, VA, and shows Mother Goose. Barbara lives in the downstairs apartment, beneath us.

(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.

(“Something oval. Egg-shaped as a thin oval line just inside of a rectangular card.” The object is rectangular and is a card. There is no oval shape just within its borders however, either literal or implied, although there are several oval shapes within the picture on the card, as well as the circular postmark on the back. Later note by RFB: Mother Goose on card carries a basket (of eggs?). There is a goose beside her—reminds me of goose eggs.

(“A connection with a session.” The connection here is Barbara herself, who mailed us the card used as object. Barbara, as well as her boyfriend Dick, played a strong emotional part in the envelope data for the 68th experiment, of August 29, 281st session.

(It may be possible that this connection is reinforced by a postcard as envelope object in the 67th experiment, in the 279th session for August 15. That card was sent to us by Leonard Yaudes, who also lives in the apartment house. See Volume 6.

(“With, now… 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.” There are plenty of connections here, though some are roundabout. Merle and Lois Cratsley also live in the apartment house, on the first floor, and do own such a chair. Their apartment adjoins Barbara, and they are of course well acquainted. The Cratsleys have no children but Barbara does have one, a girl nine years old. Later note by RFB: Mother Goose is a child’s tale. The place referred to as Story Land.

(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.

(“That is, a formal affair or formal arrangement.” If this data is connected with the numbers above, we miss the connection. We believe the formal arrangement here refers to the layout of the display of Story Book Land at Woodbridge, VA. The copy on the back of the object in the upper left corner refers to “a beautiful woodland setting” of favorite storybook characters.

(“Red.” Mother Goose, on the object, wears a red skirt, and a purple blouse and hat with red circular decorations. The flowers at the foot of the statue are also red, with a few in white.

(“Two children.” We know of but one child involved with the object, Barbara’s 9-year-old daughter Lisa. Lisa accompanied Barbara on the trip to Virginia and Story Book Land. But see supplement, page 25.

(“A garden.” A flower garden is shown at the foot of the statue of Mother Goose, on the object. The flowers surround three sides of the statue base, and appear to be petunias, red and white.

(“A variety of small circles, fitting one inside the other, like jewelry. Like some earrings.” The picture on the postcard used as object contains many small circles, mainly the flowers as noted above, and the small circular designs, also apparently flowers, on the blouse and cap of Mother Goose. They do not necessarily fit one inside the other however. Mother Goose wears no earrings.

(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 wooded area.” In back of the statue of Mother Goose is a dense, dark green pine forest, as indicated on the tracing on page 16, as well as several trees nearer the foreground. As noted, the copy in the upper left hand corner on the back of the object mentions “a beautiful woodland setting.” Story Book Land is also in Woodbridge, VA.

(“Vases.” We believe this a reference to the flowers shown on the object, and already described; or perhaps to the gift shop which is partially visible in the right background on the object. See supplement, page 25.

(“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.

(“Printed matter, near the center.” See the tracing of the object on page 16. On the picture side of the postcard there is a plaque beneath the statue of Mother Goose, bearing a rhyme. The plaque is in the lower center of the card, thus “near” the center.

(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.

(“One six.” We made no connections, either for one six, sixteen, etc. The numbers appear, separated, on the back of the object, but that is all we can offer here.

(“And many, more than one, reddish colored stamps.” No. The card bears the usual single gray blue 5¢ stamp showing George Washington. This data may have been confused with the many red flowers shown on the object, plus the many red decorations on the costume of Mother Goose.

(“And some blue. With a figure.” We believe this data goes together. As stated the stamp on the object is gray blue, and bears a figure 5. It seems however that this data probably refers to the figure of Mother Goose, shown on the object, and to the statue standing upon a base that is painted blue. In addition Mother Goose wears blue shoes. There is blue in her costume as well as red, and the goose beside her is a blue gray.

(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.

(4th Question: What’s that connection about a session? “Our sessions were discussed, or the item is closely connected to one used previously in our sessions.” See the interpretation of the session data on page 22. Tonight’s item, a postcard, is closely connected to one used previously as an envelope object. The object for the 67th experiment was also a postcard, used August 29 in the 281st session, and was sent to us by Leonard Yaudes, who also lives in our apartment house. Leonard and Barbara are of course friends also.

(As stated on page 21, Barbara did take her own daughter, Lisa, to visit Story Book Land, the subject of the postcard sent to us by Barbara, and used as the object in the 69th experiment. We now learned that Barbara had taken another child along also—for a total of two. The other child being one of Barbara’s sister’s in Ft. Belvoir.

(Regarding “Vases”, interpreted on page 23. Our interpretation may be a good one, but Barbara pointed out a better one. On the visit to Story Book Land with the two children, Barbara also visited the display for Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. [The postcard used as object for the session showed Mother Goose.] The Ali Baba display was quite impressive, Barbara said; so much so that she took a picture of Gary, her sister’s young son, in one of the large jars or vases belonging to Ali Baba.