“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The object for the 71st envelope experiment was the first draft of a poem Jane and I wrote for Bill Gallagher’s birthday, which fell on Friday, July 1st. We wrote it first aloud in the car as we drove about. Jane then typed up what we could remember; we corrected it as shown on page 51, then Jane copied it over to give Bill, along with a cake. This first draft was typed on yellow paper; I folded it as shown to insert it in the usual double envelope, after sandwiching it between two pieces of Bristol. More details later.

(A note: The 71st envelope experiment was to be held this evening. Strange as it seems, I had forgotten the envelope object’s identity; I had prepared this envelope for the session due Monday, September 19; that session was not held and I saved the envelope. During tonight’s session I realized I had forgotten what the object was, even though I had chosen it. At least on a conscious level, this made it seem as though a stranger had prepared the envelope.

Do you have an envelope for me?

(At 9:59 Jane took the envelope for our 71st experiment from me without opening her eyes. She held it to her forehead and paused but briefly.)

(See the copy of the envelope object on page 51, and the notes on the page 55. As stated there, I had forgotten the contents of the test envelopes. When the time came to ask questions this evening, I decided to consider the data already received as specific enough. Actually one could ask many questions, whether knowing the object or not. Jane said she had no images while speaking.

(Seth gave us a little help after break, and although this was brief it filled in a good deal on some of the data we had been unsure of. For convenience’s sake it is better to include Seth’s later data along with our own interpretations, made during break, since emotional charges explain much concerning the material. For more detailed information on how the emotional charges influence Seth’s envelope data, see the 286th session.

(“A small square, and perhaps a larger one.” Our interpretation here, without in any way being positive, was that this concerned the square cardboard cake box described earlier—which was square as we recall it—and the smaller birthday card. However we are not sure now whether the card was enclosed in a square envelope or a rectangular one. Taking literally Seth’s blanket notice after break that our interpretations were correct, this would include the above. We wouldn’t claim it on our own however.

(“I have a stable or horse connection.” This is another instance where Seth verifies our own interpretation. Jane very nearly did not mention her idea here, thinking at first it was too “far-out.” She finally told me that when she first looked at the envelope object during break, she read my penciled word “Man-a-me,” to the right of the poem used as object, as “Man-O-War,” which is the name of a very famous race horse. It is incidentally the only horse’s name that Jane knows, she said.

(First Question: Is this old hand male or female? “I am not sure, though I suspect male. The hand is not a typically male hand however, but more delicate perhaps.” Seth is correct, in that the old reference here does concern Bill Gallagher and his subjective feelings [the male], on the evening of his birthday party, for which the envelope object was written. Jane and I do not especially see any connection with the delicate hand reference however.

(End at 10:49. Jane was out as usual, her voice quiet. She commented that she wished the envelope data had been more specific, although it did contain some good points, and there seemed to be no doubt that Seth had tuned in on the correct situation, object, etc.