“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The 76th envelope experiment was held tonight. The object was torn by me from pages 11 and 12 of the New York Times’ first news section for Sunday, November 6,1966. See the two previous pages. I chose the object at random by a method which will be explained later. Suffice it to say here that I did not see the object until Jane opened the usual double-sealed envelopes after giving the data. I did however know the object came from the New York Times. Results were good.

(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.

(See pages 152 and 153. Election Day sales are mentioned specifically in the headings for the sales described on both pages 11 and 12, from which the object was torn. Gubernatorial is a word in the vernacular. Blue is referred to both on the object itself on the page 11 side in the line: Norwegian natural blue fox… etc.; and is torn through on the page 12 side in the line referring to a sale of thermal blankets: White, green, pink, blue, gold. Blue also appears on page 12 of the full sheet, in a list of colors for imperfect sheets on sale, and in other places on page 11/12.

(“Connection with a monstrosity, as of a monstrous building, perhaps old Victorian. The first impression was of monstrosity, the rest is interpretation.” See the article indicated to the upper left on page 11 of the full sheet from which the object was torn, page 152. This concerns the prison population of Portugal’s prisons, and the prison system itself. Discussed in the article is the building of a network of modern establishments, to “replace a few big antiquated prisons,” etc. Other references include such phrases as “prisons were of very low standard,” etc.

(“Early November or late October.” The object was torn from page 11/12 of the New York Times for November 6,1966. The object also contains references to the election day sales due November 9.

(“Four divided.” Four divided gives two, if this is the correct interpretation. There are references involving two on both sides of the object, and the sheet from which it was torn. For instance on the page 11 side of the object: 2-skin natural male mink; on the page 12 side: Twin size, etc.

(“A date above, connected with small black squares.” See pages 152 and 153. Note that the object was torn from the bottom portion of the newspaper page, thus placing the date, November 6,1966 of course above it.

(“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.

(“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.

(“Brass. I am not sure here. The connection leads to buttons.” See page 152, for a sketch of the full page from which the object was torn. Five female models wear coats, and many buttons are visible on the coats. The buttons appear to be cloth-covered however, in the photographs.

(“A party.” There is a party, meaning company, reference on page 12 of the sheet from which the object was torn, in the lower left-hand corner. The copy here concerns the white dinnerware set, part of which is shown on the object itself also. The ad copy extols the virtues of Rosemont White dinnerware: …you won’t think twice about using it every day, and you’ll show it off when company comes, too.

(“Perhaps a colored paper.” As stated the object is in black and various shades of gray, printed on white. Colors are mentioned on the page 12 side of the object, in the thermal blanket ad, and of course on both sides of the full sheet from which the object was torn.

(Omitted earlier, after the Illia data: “And perhaps an F and R.” We can find F and R references on both the object and the page from which it was torn, without knowing if any of these would be correct. These would include phone letters, personal names, etc. In the article on the Dominican Seminary alone we find: Father Fernandes; Fatima; St. Francis Xavier; Padre Abel Faria, etc.