“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Without the experience itself these particular abilities would not have developed—that of course or another similar episode. The same sort of development would not have been initiated here in a session for some time, simply because the emotional conditions would not be met. We can use the development however very well.

(“The impression of something swirling about, as leaves in a wind.” Our interpretation here was that the swirling and leaves data referred to the mention of a garden in the poem used as object. See page 51. This may be correct. Also according to Seth after break however, the swirling was to have led Jane to frosting. The birthday cake we gave Bill Gallagher on July 1st was frosted. The poem used as object was written for this occasion.

(Another staircase interpretation here may concern our own steep flight of back stairs here at the apartment. We live on the second floor. Since it was a pleasant summer evening on July 1, we held the party out on the back lawn, leaving the cake upstairs in our apartment as a surprise for Bill. When the time came to get the cake Jane and I went upstairs together, lit the candles on the cake while hiding on the stairs, then carried the cake out to the party.

(“A square object.” We feel reasonably sure here that this refers to the box we carried the cake in, home from the bakery, the afternoon of July 1. We recall the box as square, of the folding type. Of course there could be many interpretations.

(“Small wavering blue lines. Something written by an old hand perhaps, with thin wavering lines.” Jane’s corrections on the object were made with a blue pen, which appears quite dark on the yellow paper upon which the poem was typed. Her corrections are small, but not wavering. The old and wavering data puzzled us, and we missed out here because we did not interpret the emotional charges involved, as Seth did.

(“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.

(“Four three eight.” We think this a close reference to our address, 458 W. Water Street. The birthday party was held at this address and the poem used as object was given to Bill here also.

(“A letter written by an older person.” This ties in with the earlier old and wavering data, interpreted at the top of page 57. As Seth tells us after break, the old reference concerns Bill Gallagher’s subjective feelings on his birthday last July 1. The letter reference here stems from the resemblance of the typed poem used as object to a letter, and echoes the note data, also discussed on page 57.

(“A connection with woods.” Our own interpretation here is that woods refers to the literal Biblical Garden of Gethsemane, which is spoofed in the poem used as object. Jane says the actual garden was not a formal garden, a cultivated type, but rather contained olive trees, etc., and much growth of this kind. Seth’s blanket endorsement after break implies, again, that this is the correct interpretation.

(“Connection with a leaf or autumn.” See the data on page 55. As then, we think the leaf data here refers to the garden mentioned in the poem used as object. But also we think the autumn data here grows out of the swirling data on page 55, and Seth’s attempt to get Jane to give voice to frosting. The autumn data here could have grown out of the interpretation on Jane’s part of Seth’s frosting impression.

(“And a new circumstance told to you, that serves to connect these events.” We make no connections here.

(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.