“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now, my dear friend Joseph: Reincarnation and projection, you see, are one and the same thing.

They simply appear to be different. As a rule the ego is not aware of its departure from one physical organism and its growth into another. This is a projection. The years of growth, as I have told you, are illusion. Value fulfillment is the law of the universe, and it appears as growth within your system.

There is no past and present, and therefore one life is not before or after another. None of this should be new to you.

The impression of small squares with orange, I believe, circles in the center. One eight four one. Connection with a monstrosity, as of a monstrous building, perhaps old Victorian. The first impression was of monstrosity, the rest is interpretation.

Four divided. The explosive impression again. A date above, connection with black small squares. Something identical to something else. Connection with a February event. One nine four three.

(This procedure left me knowing only one thing about the object: that it came from some section of the New York Times, date unknown. Jane and I have often speculated on what part telepathy plays in the envelope experiments, since I usually am consciously aware of the object in detail. I thought the method used tonight might make ordinary telepathy harder to divine on Jane’s part. As it was we think the results were good; Seth evidently clairvoyantly read the object. If he got any help from me it was telepathy twice removed.

(After the experiment was over Jane opened the envelopes, and I picked up the newspaper from which the object had been taken. It turned out that I had chosen Section One of the New York Times for Sunday, November 6,1966, and from this had torn the object from pages 11 and 12. It also developed that I had leafed through this section of the paper in a casual way—without remembering the pages in question, 11 and 12—and that Jane had never seen it.

(Seth did not return to help us out; in the meantime we made our own connections. Section One of the Times was many pages thick, as is usual on a Sunday. Therefore Jane and I arbitrarily decided to limit the interpretations and connections to the object itself, and the one page—11/12—from which it was torn. These two items are on file along with the front page of the section.

(“An impression I do not understand. Gubatorial, blue. Something in the vernacular.” This we regard as excellent data. Jane groped a bit on gubatorial, although I had no trouble putting down her pronouncement here. The data is made even clearer in answering the one question asked. The object features election day sales on both sides. Since the New York State elections, including that for the governorship, were due on November 9, it is apparent that Jane was trying for the word gubernatorial, with which she is not particularly familiar on a conscious level.

(“One eight four one.” On the page 11 side of the object there is a sequence of numbers: 189.95 at the bottom of the illustration, and one: 18, 14 ½ to 22, at the bottom of a box to the left of this on the same side.

(“Liberal giving two—two of a kind—two a date, or 2:00 o’clock.” To the far left of the page 11 side of the object is the bottom section of a help-wanted ad by Macy’s in New York City. One of the headings in larger type is: Want a job with liberal discounts?

(Perhaps the view reference in gray view refers to a short article on the page 11 side of the full page, in column one. It concerns an eye bank in Ceylon to aid South Vietnamese civilians. Could gray view refer to clouded vision, dim color perception? See page 152.

(“Connection with a disturbance”, is, Jane said, a possible reference to the article on the prison system in Portugal, in column one on page 11 of the full page. Many statistics are given in the article, dealing with various types of crime, etc., as well as the new prison system that is replacing the old buildings, etc.

(“One nine four three.” The year date, 1943, is mentioned in the article on the Dominican Seminary, on page 12 of the full sheet from which the object was torn: It was started in 1943, three years after the Dominican Order was readmitted, etc.

(“An inadequate performance.” Jane said she thought this a reference to the article on prisons of Portugal, in column one of page 11 of the full sheet. The article presents some of the history of Portuguese prisons, mentioning their past low standards, overcrowding, etc.

(Jane and I wonder about the coincidence involved in my selecting, by the blind method on page 158, a newspaper page that features an article about religion, and the Catholic religion at that. See page 153. Religion is one of Jane’s strong points.

(“Something like a toy that is misplaced.” This could imply something lost, and toy could imply a gift or children perhaps. We speculate whether this data refers to the short article about the Ceylon eye bank, in column one on page 11 of the full sheet, from which the object was torn. See page 152.

(“1731.” No connections. The earliest year date on either page 11 or 12 is 1834, in the article on the Dominican Seminary, page 12. There is a $15.96 price given for one of the coats shown on page 11.

(“Orange and purple.” Again no connections, unless one can make them from the list of sheet colors on the full page 12: Soft beige, pastel blue, pastel pink, mint green, orchid mist [Jane said this would be a purple], aqua blue, yellow. Or the colors listed for the thermal blankets, the list being partially visible on the page 12 side of the object: White, green, pink, blue, gold.

(“And a child.” As stated before, children are mentioned in the Ceylon eye bank article in column one on page 11, of the full page from which the item was taken. See page 152. Quote from the article: the ophthalmologist … said the recipients would be… Vietnamese civilians, mostly children, etc.