“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Our landlord’s wife, Marian Spaziani, visited us this evening, and told us tales of the people who call her with long histories of their own illnesses, etc. These episodes have begun to leave Marian herself in a nervous state, etc.)

(A note: Miss Callahan was taken to a home for the elderly a few weeks ago, and has given up her apartment in this house, etc. A couple of days ago Jane and I heard through a friend that Miss Callahan has twice been found walking along Route 17, a main highway here, as she tried to get back to this house. Her mind is failing. Miss Callahan’s first mention is in the first session of Volume 1.)

(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.

(“Connection with an encounter.” Jane said this is definitely a reference to her first day of teaching, October 11,1966. The object is from the paycheck for this day’s work. Jane said that although she liked teaching, the first encounter with a class is one to be remembered. She has had odd jobs teaching in the past, but never in a school system, in a formal classroom, etc.

(“A city. Very distant connection with something like Cincinnati, Ohio.” A possible distant connection: At the end of her second day of teaching Jane was given a ride home by a next-door neighbor who is also a teacher. The neighbor is from Ohio, but not Cincinnati, which could account for Seth’s reference to “something like” Cincinnati. In addition, the neighbor had just returned to Elmira from a trip to Ohio, so the Ohio thought was mentioned in the conversation more than once. City is also mentioned on the object itself—City School District, etc.

(“A schedule of events, and an accounting.” Good data. Seth gets back on the track in the next sentence. The object is an accounting of Jane’s earnings, and a schedule of when she earned the money, etc., since it is an employee’s pay record from the Elmira school system.

(7th Question: What kind of events? “Future events. Connected with past events.” This could apply to the object, since this employee pay record has boxes or spaces on it for the entry of moneys toward retirement, savings bonds, credit union, etc., for steadily-employed teachers. Jane had no entries in these spaces. Later note by Jane: Unknown to us at this time I was to end up with another teaching position, in answer to an ad I had not yet read.

(8th Question: What does that call and the color black refer to? “Ruburt has a phone connection, of course.” Jane had to have a phone put in for the teaching job, since she would be on daily call. She insisted on a black wall phone, in the face of the company’s efforts to sell her more expensive colored phones, etc. We regard this as good data.