“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

It was of course an upsetting one. This does not mean that it was not a rather important occasion. Ruburt did not use his abilities in precisely the same manner in the past, simply because he was unable to do so had he been willing.

His abilities took in one way a giant step forward. True, you will want to use controls and discipline. The fact remains that the circumstances brought about an imminent development. If those particular circumstances had not occurred, then the next similar set of circumstances would have served the same purpose.

Six plus one. A pen. Small wavering blue lines. Something written by an old hand perhaps, with thin wavering lines.

A note. A description, perhaps of a house or a building. The impression of something scribbled. A small square, and perhaps a larger one.

(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.

(“Six plus one.” Bill Gallagher’s birthday is on July 1—six plus one for a total of seven. The poem used as object was written by Jane and me for the birthday occasion which occurred on July 1.

(“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.

(“A circumstance involving a policeman.” This refers to a long and involved story told us by Peggy Gallagher during the evening of the birthday party, for which Jane and I wrote the poem used as object. Peg’s news made an impression and Jane and I still remember it. Very briefly, it concerns the behavior of a local psychiatrist and his wife—one of those continuing affairs that have been well known locally for some time, yet never getting into the newspaper.

(“With a 1964 or ‘65 event.” We are not sure. Jane thinks this refers to her writing some poems for Peg’s birthday also. She believes she did this in January of 1966 however. Jane thinks the idea of this data is correct, in that she wrote the poems for Peg before she wrote the one for Bill’s birthday six months later.