“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(See the copy of the first draft of my letter on page 31. A brief history: Last month our friend Marie Colucci let a local dentist, Dr. Lodico, whom Jane and I have not met, borrow an abstract painting of mine to try out in his office. A couple of weeks ago, on August 31, Dr. Lodico sent payment for the painting, with a request to see more abstracts for his office. Tonight’s object is a first draft of my reply to his letter, and is dated September 12.

(“An array, or disarray.” Seth’s use of “or” is somewhat confusing here, since both these terms can apply to the object. My letter concerns a group, or array of paintings I have available to show Dr. Lodico. Also, the Arts and Crafts Exhibit, featuring displays, or arrays, at Mount Savior is mentioned on the object.

(“Four square, or four squares.” This is a reference to the fact that I have four paintings to show Dr. Lodico, in answer to his letter. As stated, Jane did not see either the first draft of my letter, which was used as object, or the final copy, which I had sealed in an envelope. I did ask her to mail it, though, and described its contents roughly.

(“Connection with October, and four, or perhaps 64.” Without seeing it to make absolutely sure, Jane and I are reasonably sure that the abstract Dr. Lodico has purchased from me was painted in October, 1964. I am sure I did the painting at least two years ago. I have the habit of dating my paintings, so will be able to check this data when I visit the doctor’s office. If no notice is added to this data at a later date, it can be taken as correct.

(“A main turnabout, or a connection with Maine.” The turnabout connection is correct. In the letter used as object, I inform Dr. Lodico that I’ve changed my mind about sending the abstracts to the Mount Savior exhibit, and plan to submit other kinds of paintings instead. This makes the abstracts available for the doctor’s inspection, and perhaps purchase.

(“Connection with a circumstance not repeated, and a road.” We make no connections for circumstance. Road is also too general. I thought of the long steep road leading up to the Colucci residence in the country. Marie Colucci is responsible for bringing my paintings to the attention of Dr. Lodico, as explained.

(The group of people data is too vague. It may refer to a recent gathering of friends here at the Water Street address, about two weeks ago. Marie and Andy Colucci were present, and at this gathering Marie told me about Dr. Lodico being interested in my paintings.

(“A name with seven letters.” Lodico has six letters. Colucci has seven letters however, and Jane was subjectively sure this is the name referred to, especially when taken along with the next data.

(An A. The first name of Marie Colucci’s husband is Andy. As stated above, under the group data, Marie and Andy were in the group visiting us a couple of weeks ago. During this visit they discussed the sale of paintings to Dr. Lodico.

(“Two men and a woman. She wears a hat.” We thought of various combinations here, among them Marie Colucci, Dr. Lodico and myself, since we are closely involved with the object. We didn’t know whether Marie wears a hat, though. Seth verifies our interpretation, even though we couldn’t be sure.

(As stated, neither of us has met Dr. Lodico, and up to and including the time of this session did not know where he lived, although we had his address. All evening however, since writing the letter used as object, I had pictured a certain medical building in our neighborhood as probably the site of Dr. Lodico’s office. The building has a flat roof, is one story high, is of red (orange?) wood that looks lighter in sunlight, and has a series of shingles or name plates hanging outside that might be called banners. I also thought I remembered cast iron grill or scroll works as decoration on the building.

(Jane had no idea as to this building’s location in relation to Dr. Lodico, although of course she has seen it often. After the session, although it was late, I suggested we walk the few blocks to check out the above data. Arriving there, we saw that Dr. Lodico had no office in the building in question. Instead we discovered his office—and that of his father—to be in a conventional two-story building across the street from the building with a flattish roof.

(This was the first time either of us had specifically noted that Dr. Lodico had his office in a certain building that both of us had driven past many times. His sign is fastened to the wall of the house beside an office door, beneath a porch roof, and would not be readable, probably, from a passing car.

(Jane and I considered two possibilities. Since I had the medical building with the flat roof strongly in mind during the evening, Seth could have picked this up telepathically from me and used it for data. Or the proximity of this building to Dr. Lodico’s actual office could have resulted in confused impressions which Jane gave voice to. The two buildings are no more than fifty feet apart in physical space, being directly across the street from each other.

(Both of us are very familiar with the medical building with the flat roof, since it is of distinctive design, whereas Dr. Lodico’s office across the street is housed in a conventional building we haven’t paid any particular attention to. I may ask Seth to straighten us out here, next session, since after break he told us my first interpretation of this data was correct; actually it is not correct.

(First Question: What’s that array or disarray? “I am not sure here. A display, perhaps, though only perhaps, that is not neat, or ordered. As flowers grown wild and disorderly, for example.” Here I sought elaboration of Seth’s first data. As stated, my letter used as object specifically mentions the Arts and Crafts Exhibit at Mount Savior. This could be a display. My abstracts, offered for sale to Dr. Lodico, can also be a display; and again, to some abstract paintings might not seem neat, or ordered.

(As an aside, Jane personally likes abstract painting, so we don’t know whether this would influence such related data or not. Also, checking out the building data described on the last page, we saw that flowers were used as decoration for both the Lodico office, and the medical office building with the flat roof, across the street. Both displays of flowers were orderly however.

(4th Question: How about that word acrimony? “I do not know. I have only the sounds here. Perhaps Akron, Ohio.” Studying the letter used as object, we see nothing to particularly remind us either of acrimony, anger, or Akron. The Coluccis for instance do not come from Akron, nor do we. We do not know anything about the history of Dr. Lodico or his family.

(7th Question continued: “The object I believe came through the mail, whether or not it is a photograph.” Very good, if not one hundred percent correct. The object is of course a letter; it is destined to go through the mail tomorrow. A related thought concerns the letter I had from Dr. Lodico, and mentioned earlier—this of course has already gone through the mail, on August 31.