“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now. These generic images are composed of highly complicated electromagnetic complexes. They have nothing to do with physical vision. They are built up through cellular memory, and are to some extent activated replicas of previous forms.

Now, projections do involve variations in intensities on your part.

Now, do you have an envelope for me, Joseph?

An advantage. Something to do with an advantage. A big A.

The impression of a maze (or amaze?). A Friday. A vertical format. (Jane now lowered the envelope to her lap.) Three. This could be 3 PM, I do not know, but a trio or three. (Pause.) And a connection with time mentioned. A scale of sorts.

Connection with a large city. This Minneapolis connection, I do not know to what it refers. Again, a capital letter impression, a large M. Minneapolis, Mississippi—that length of word, with a place description connected.

Do you have any questions? A broken-up note.

I do not know. A large A impression. Whether it is symbolic or literal I am not aware. A chimney shape also.

(Pause.) Having to do with an argument. Also with a past war connection. A connection with a diamond also, and a woman. Ruburt thinks there of your mother.

(“Do you want to go back to that other man now?”)

(“An advantage. Something to do with an advantage.” Jane read the article aloud to us, then Bill, Don and I tried tipping the table first. We sat at the south end of the table and made the vacant north end rise as we chanted away, per instructions in the article. What the three women didn’t know at the time was that the three of us were helping nature out a little, making the free end of the table rise by conscious physical pressure from our hands.

(We did this twice. In between the three women tried to do the same thing, and failed. Our knowledge that we were faking certainly gave us an advantage over them. More follows from this.

(When Bill, Don and I tipped the table deliberately and were not detected doing so, we certainly got an amazed reaction from the three women. Peggy’s jaw literally dropped. Jane and Marilyn were also very surprised, and Jane later told me that after the first shock of seeing the north end of the table rise, seemingly of its own volition, she thought Bill, Don and I actually succeeded in accomplishing this.

(“Three. This could be 3 PM, I do not know, but a trio or three.” As far as we know 3 PM doesn’t figure in the envelope data, but a trio, meaning Bill, Don and me, does. Another trio featured during last Friday evening would be Jane, Peggy and Marilyn. Both trios worked at tipping the table several separate times, for many minutes at a time.

(“Connection with a large city. This Minneapolis connection, I do not know to what it refers. Again, a capital letter impression, a large M. Minneapolis, Mississippi—that length of word, with a place description connected.” Jane said she was sure these long names beginning with an M reflected her attempts to come through with Milwaukee, rather than Minneapolis. She tied up the Milwaukee name to our having beer to drink at the gathering Friday evening: and of course a beer can furnished the metal object used in the experimental envelope. See page 88.

(I blackened the cap in the candle flame in order to tie the evening’s activities more closely to the cap, for the beer had been consumed during the table tipping. As stated I held the cap in the flame without pretense, before everyone, but of course told no one why I did so. Nor did anyone ask. It also developed that Jane did not notice my doing so.

(“Two men, yourself and another connected here.” I am of course connected to the envelope objects, having authored the note. See page 86. This data called for a good amount of vexation on Jane’s part as soon as she opened the envelopes and saw the initials RFB on the note. Her confusion is also apparent in the series of questions I asked, as I usually do following the delivery of the data.

(Jane said at break that she had had an image of the initials RFB, and she wished mightily now that she had said so. As it is she gives several excellent pieces of data on the note, and the initials would have made her achievement even better. Jane said she didn’t speak the initials aloud because she thought they might refer to my father, and that this was a distortion. She knew she had already mentioned me, as “yourself”. My initials are the same as my father’s; but although I am a Junior, I seldom use it after my name.When I do I abbreviate it as Jr.

(2nd Question: What does the big A refer to? “I do not know. A large A impression. Whether it is symbolic or literal I am not aware.” The meaning is symbolic, and Seth explains after break.

(4th Question: What’s that about a skirmish? “Having to do with an argument.” Again see page 96. There were several skirmishes during the evening over whether the three men were faking the table tipping. There was also one between Jane and me after company left. This was not an argument, but Jane forcefully presented her idea to the effect that she and I were obligated not to clown around with effects in the psychic field. I agreed.

(5th Question: Do you want to go back to that other man now? “We are having difficulty. Ruburt thinks of your father, but is afraid of distorting the information.” At break Jane said she again had the image of the RFB initials, and was more confused than ever. Later, she said, she realized the initials were meant to be taken literally, but instead she tried to interpret them; hence getting the idea of my father into the picture.

(“What do you think of the report of Jane’s publisher on the sale of her ESP book? “By telephone today Jane learned from her publisher, F. Fell, that the small first printing of her ESP book has sold out, even before publicity on the book has been launched. We were very surprised to learn this. The next 1500 copies are now being bound.”)

Basically, it is not necessary that Ruburt work out, but because you both believe that it is, then it becomes so, you see. This is your doing; that is, the doing of you both, and none of mine.