“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Beneath these root assumptions however portions of the self perceive physical reality in an entirely different fashion, free of the tyranny of objects and material form. Here you experience concepts directly, without the need for symbolisms. Here you experience the spacious present directly. Here you have knowledge of your past personalities, and know that they exist simultaneously with your own.

16. I do not know, perhaps 16 people, or a 16 date. A presentation. I do not know what we want here. We will try the word acrimony, or acrimonious.

(Pause.) 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.

I do not know. I only have the sounds here. Perhaps Akron, Ohio.

(“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.

(“Familiar.” Jane was vexed at herself here, for she realized now that when giving the familiar data, she was going to say something about a familiar location, meaning the location of our apartment as something familiar to us. Our address is on the letter used as object.

(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.

(“I do not know what we want here. We will try the word acrimony, or acrimonious.” No connections.

(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.

(This data is an excellent reference to the painting roughly indicated here.

(“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.

(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.

(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.

The lace was a very distant and distorted connection. Ruburt was thinking of a lace altar cloth, which was to have led him to a religious connection. I use his associative processes, you see, but this was short-circuited here. (See page 35.)

The opera here though was a legitimate connection, having to do with the way the mass is sung at Mount Savior’s. The Gregorian chant is what we were after here. This was quite legitimate.