“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(As usual I placed the objects between two pieces of heavy Bristol, to preclude any identification by touch, then sealed this sandwich in two envelopes. Seth has said before that he does not give any envelope data that could have resulted either from Jane’s sense of touch, or sight, and this has never been a problem in these experiments.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(Jane read aloud to the gathering an article in the November 1966 Fate Magazine titled Table Up! or How To Tilt a Table, by Georgia Mae Fields. This is an old children’s game, and we decided to try it with a card table. Our experiences of the evening involving this game enter into the envelope data, although neither of the envelope objects refer to it directly. This is often the case, the often innocuous envelope object reflecting whatever strong emotional charges surround it at the physical time Jane and Seth are trying to get back to.

(There are more details to our evening’s fun, and these will develop as we go through the data. Seth helped us out a little after break, but Jane and I made most connections on our own.

(“A big A.” Jane and I could make no connections, even after I asked a question about this. But Seth explains after break.

(“A vertical format.” Seth didn’t help us out here and I neglected to ask him to after break, but in view of later data Jane and I believe this applies to the design on the Draft Beer can, furnishing the cap used as one of the envelope objects. See page 88. Due to its nature a beer can would bear a vertical format. The card table we used had a plain brown top; but perhaps Seth referred to something else.

(“A 36 and 46.” We believed this to be jumbled data, an effort to be specific. No one of either age, for instance, was present. Jane and I were closest at 37 and 47. Bill is 41, Peggy 38, Marilyn and Don in their early 20’s, etc. We were not sure Seth even intended a reference to age. There is a 10 difference between the two numbers, and also between the ages of Jane and me.

(“Printed matter and a design.” Again, see the tracings of the two envelope objects on page 86. The note enclosed with the beer can cap bears my handwriting. This is not printing, although Seth has often intermixed the terms printing, writing, lettering, typing, etc. We think this good data. And that “design” can refer to the metallic, cleanly-designed beer can. Seth goes on from here.

(“Forty-six or 1946.” Jane and I made no connections. Seth helps out after break.

(1st Question: What’s that about a Friday? “A Friday connected with the item. Perhaps a 7, or 17, day of the month. Or 7 PM.” Seth is quite correct. See the copy of the note on page 86. Friday, October 7,1966 is specifically mentioned on the note which was one of the two envelope objects. 7 PM doesn’t enter in however. Later note by RFB: Very good.

(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.

(“A connection with a diamond … Later note by RFB: Ring? … also, and a woman. Ruburt thinks there of your mother.” This is another method Jane used to approach the idea of my father, and the RFB initials she saw mentally. Seth has more to say in answer to the next question.

(“Oval also. Something oval.” Jane said that while giving this data she knew a small object was referred to, but did not say so. She thinks Seth was trying to get across the idea of the elongated egg shape of the ring and cap, thus:

(6th Question: How about its color? “We gave you colors.” See the gray, black and white data at the top of page 97. In asking this question I wondered whether Seth might give other colors, in the event he referred to some other oval object than the tab.

(“Also 1861 or 1961.” See page 88. In small numerals there is the date 1842, within the circle enclosing the Indian head. Jane was fairly sure Seth was trying to get at this data; and she now felt that the 46 or 1946 data on page 96, and the 36 and 46 data on page 94, all reflected Seth’s attempts in this direction. Seth agrees after break.

(Just before Seth resumed Jane said she also thought she knew what the big A data, listed on page 93, meant, and that it had an old-fashioned connection also.

(In the 217th session for December 13,1965, Seth told us Jane would earn about $3,500.00 on the ESP book this first year, and that this amount was to double within two years from this and other books. See Volume 5 of these sessions.

(“Good night, Seth.”

(End at 11:04. Jane was well dissociated. She said Seth could have continued indefinitely. She had that sense of energy she gets under such circumstances, when she knows “the energy is not mine.”)