“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The 75th envelope experiment used as object the employee record stub from Jane’s first check as a substitute high school teacher. Jane had of course seen it several times since receipt on October 28. The object is printed in black on green paper which contains a faint pattern. The green is itself a light tint. The large numeral in the upper right corner is in red. The back is blank. I placed the record between the usual double Bristols, then sealed it in double envelopes.

Now, do you have an envelope for me?

(At 9:42 she took the envelope for our 75th experiment from me and pressed it to her forehead in a horizontal position. Her eyes remained closed. Her pace was quite fast.)

Horizontal lines (envelope still to forehead horizontally) with a small square. Piccadilly Square. A city. Very distant connection with something like Cincinnati, Ohio.

(Pause. Jane still held the envelope horizontally to her forehead, but by now she had shifted hands several times while doing so. Eyes closed.)

(Break at 10:04. Jane was very well dissociated, she said. She did not lower the envelope from her forehead until just before break. Her eyes remained closed. None of the data made any sense to her, she said. She could not recall specific images at the moment, saying that she saw them when Seth said she did.

(See page 141 for a copy of the envelope object, and the notes on the next page. As stated the object is the stub from Jane’s first paycheck as a substitute teacher, received on Friday, October 28. It is made of green paper, light in color, with a pale green pattern throughout. The printing is in black, with the large number in the upper right corner in red. The back is blank. The stub contains the amount of the check, tax deductions, the date, etc.

(“A four plus one”, No connections in particular, although there are several fours and ones on the envelope object. There are also fives. But no 41. Speculation.

(“A center upright.” Jane said this is a reference to the fold in the object, made when I inserted it in the double envelopes. See page 141. Note that Jane held the envelope to her forehead in a horizontal position, as she almost always does; this means the fold in the object would be vertical in relation to the long dimension of both the object and the envelopes. The long dimension of the folded object paralleled that of the envelopes.

(“With a momentous occasion of some kind; not usual occasion. Somehow different.” Jane also had the idea of an initial occasion here, and regretted not saying it aloud. She said this data refers to her first day of teaching; to her it was certainly momentous, not usual, and different. The envelope object is the employee pay record from her check for this first day’s work.

(2nd Question: Are you saying this is the object? “No. I am saying that the image I see gives me this impression. It may or may not be the actual object, but seems to be strongly connected with it. And something raised up from a surface, as something embossed.” More on the taxi-auto connection regarding Jane’s teaching, from whence comes the envelope object: Probably the multitude of numbers on the object also related it closely in the data to the license and auto ideas. By asking this question I hoped to lead Seth to be more specific about the object itself.

(9th Question: What’s that toreador connection? “A red and violent connection. High activity connected with a male, or repressed violent tendencies, in the situation.” This is also good data, and related to the envelope object in that it refers to an event taking place in Jane’s classroom on her second day of teaching. [The object represents Jane’s first day of teaching.] Briefly, a very violent scene was enacted before Jane and her class. A male teacher entered with a young male student in tow, and literally threw the student across the classroom in a violent fit of anger. The bout resulted from the student’s misbehavior in the hall.

(11th Question: What’s the 1963 mention? “I do not know. Connection with a past incident at about that time, and a seeming connection with a 1967 incident yet to occur.” See the 1963 data on page 147. As stated the date could very well refer to the time Jane lectured a class at Elmira College on poetry. The connection would be the teaching activity as related to the envelope object.