“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(Seth helps out with a few connections after break, but in the meantime Jane and I had made our own. We checked up on one we thought correct after the session, and instead of verifying the data ended up confused, as will be explained.

(“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.

(“Something twisted.” We don’t know, and neglected to ask Seth to explain. Another reference to the elements in abstract paintings, or to the letter itself?

(Seth confirms the above, incidentally.

(“Some distant connection with an opera, opera house or music.” This baffled us at first. We missed the actual connection, and Seth helps out later. At this time Jane said one of the abstracts being offered to the doctor reminds her of music. She was going to tell me this before the session, but did not.

(“With lace.” No connections. Seth helps out later.

(“A group of people, and connection with a boat perhaps, or water.” The boat and water part of this data refers to our Water Street address on the letter used as object; on past occasions Seth has expressed an interpretation of the Water Street address in this way.

(Jane was sure Andy Colucci was the name referred to here, and Seth confirms this after break.

(“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.

(“A small building or house with a flattish roof. A lightish color in sunlight. An orange color, and perhaps with scrolls, or scroll shapes, and a banner.” This turned out to be confusing data, and at the same time quite interesting. I thought it all of a piece when Seth delivered it, and still do. It may also involve direct telepathy, Jane reading my thoughts here.

(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.

(5th Question: Can you say more about the four squares? “Having to do with the geometric shapes.” In asking this question I sought to tie the four squares data to that of the geometric shapes, and Seth confirms the idea. See the original interpretations on pages 36 and 37.

(6th Questions: How about colors? “These squares may be filled in; as buildings in a photograph would be picked up by me first as shapes, you see.” As well as answering the question in an oblique way, Seth appears to be still considering the geometric data. Note that the photograph idea persists, once brought up through personal association.

(The photo idea however is quite legitimate, since a photo can be related to a painting in many ways. The areas on all of the abstracts are of course filled in, and also the abstract foundation of the paintings relates them to the idea of buildings. In fact a friend interpreted one of them as being a painting of buildings recently. Jane said Seth might not be able to very easily distinguish between the emotional charges connected to a photo and a painting; they might appear much alike to his perceptions. This is even more apparent in the next data, which I break into two parts.

(7th Question: Do you want to name the object? “I am not sure. There is a strong connection with a photograph, but I do not know whether the object itself is a photograph. Dark colors and light colors and shadows.” Thus the visual idea of a painting and a photo are closely related, to Seth. Some distinction is made, either by Seth or Jane, in that a photo is not definitely named as the object. “Dark colors and light colors and shadows” can refer to either a photo or a painting; the description is quite apt for the painting roughly indicated on page 39.

(See pages 39 and 40, explaining our confusion over this data. Seth’s answer, above, contributed to the confusion, and is in error. The next session has by now been held. It concerns a discussion by Seth of the envelope experiments. He discusses this particular building data and the inaccurate answer in a most interesting manner. He also confirms our idea that Jane picked up the building data from me telepathically.)

(“Good night, Seth.”