“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane was sleepy before the session, but did not tell me until after the envelope data had been obtained.

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

(Her eyes now closed, Jane reached out to take the double sealed envelope for the 73rd experiment from me. As usual, she held it to her forehead in a horizontal position.)

(Jane had some images and these will be mentioned in place. This is a case where Jane had seen one of the two items making up the envelope objects very recently—the beer can cap, on Friday, October 7, three days ago. She had never seen my penned note bearing the date and identifying the brand of beer, Draft Beer. See pages 86-88 for tracings of the two envelope objects, and the beer can. I might add that Jane saw the beer can cap only in a casual way. There were quite a few lying about our living room Friday evening. Our candle was not lit until late that evening. When I picked up a cap to blacken in the flame I thought this would focus Jane’s conscious attention on this particular one, but she told me at break tonight that she hadn’t noticed my heating the cap, or else had forgotten it.

(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.

(“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.

(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.

(“A skirmish.” There were several verbal skirmishes in the course of the evening, stemming from the suspicions of the three women that Bill, Don and I might be faking the lifting of the table the first couple of times we tried it. Also between Jane and me after company left, when I told Jane we had assisted nature during the early attempts. A little more data comes out on this during the question period.

(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.

(“Also with a past war connection.” This is not as definite, but we think it applies to Bill Gallagher more than Don and me. All three of us have had military service, Bill and me in World War Two on active duty. Bill is quite a historian on the subject of war, and often discusses it. We believe the subject is almost always mentioned when we are together. The connection with the envelope objects being that Bill was of course present last Friday, October 7,1966.

Neither of you took me at my word. I told you the profit you would make, I believe.

The data in our own experiments will progress with Ruburt’s confidence. He will learn to believe in himself and in me. Regardless of what you think I am, or am not, I have given evidence, surely, in all these sessions, of my own individuality, and evidence of my concern and feeling for you both.