“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(This data was not as wholly precise as we would like, but we made the connections we could. Seth did not go over it after break, mentioning distortions and telepathic static instead. But we feel that more than enough points were made to establish that Seth/Jane had picked up the correct scent. Again, see the 286th session for an explanation of the way Seth receives envelope data.

(We believe this data is an example of the distortions Seth refers to. In my second question an attempt is made to get more specific data. Possibly the above data refers to Marjorie as proprietor of The Art Shop, and her two helpers, my first cousin Ruth Gridley, and the framemaker Roy Fox. All of these people are friends of ours, bespeaking emotional involvement. But in answer to the second question, Seth cites Jane’s difficulty, and the thought of my mother, her cousin Vivian, and Vivian’s husband Bill. Vivian and Bill, from Virginia, visited my parents last weekend, and Jane and I saw much of them.

(“An article that opens up.” I believe there are two choices of interpretation here. I favor the first one: that the data refers to the large flat package in which Bill Ward mailed me the artwork to be finished. “Writing on the inside and outside.” The package of course contained writing both inside and outside. “Or at least the inside and outside are covered.” This may refer to the package in a somewhat distorted manner. Or it may refer quite accurately to the envelope object itself, which would be the second possibility for this block of data.

(As indicated on page 115, the bill was folded once before insertion into the double envelopes. This would make it an article that opens up but with writing on the inside only; hence some distortion would be present with this interpretation also.

(Distortion probably operates here. Note that the bill used as the object has blue lines upon it. Bill Ward’s artwork arrived in a large rectangular package, but contained no tissue paper and bore no ribbons or string; it was instead sealed with tape. Nor did it contain any blue. Jane thinks she may have received accurate-enough data from Seth about a package, and constructed perhaps the ribbons herself because that is symbolic of packages. She used blue ribbons perhaps through a distortion of the blue pertaining to the envelope object.

(“The impression of a round orange object, or representation.” We offer no connections. Possibly another distorted reference to my mother’s love of red?

There were several distortions, and some telepathic static, so to speak. We will therefore close the session. My heartiest regards to you both.