“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.

(Jane began speaking while sitting down and in trance. Her eyes began to open at once. Her manner was active; she was smoking and sipping wine. Her pace was good.)

Your cat was hit, in your terms, at 10:30 in the morning. It was no coincidence that Ruburt took the flashlight and decided to check the clothes. In this case the cat’s accident was not caused by you in any way. But there is still a chance for you to insure his recovery.

The greater your understanding the more you can uphold and support without depleting yourself. The cat was not hurt, now, simply to give you a chance to support it, but the chance is there.

A man in a gray sedan took out his momentary resentment upon the cat. The cat accepted this simply because the resentment was too huge for him, and he was snowed under. The man, seeing the results, was subconsciously but clearly brought face to face with the size of his own problem.

(Break at 9:35. Jane was well dissociated, her pace good, her manner active, eyes open often. I had thought she might continue on without a break.

(We found our cat, Catherine, in a next-door backyard after dark on Sunday evening. His right pelvic joint was broken. We had been away Sunday. Upon our return that evening at supper time, Jane began to go outside to look for the cat perhaps every fifteen minutes. She does not usually do this. As it happened our washing had been hung in the basement the day before because of rain.

(Emphatically:) The Gibbs material was indeed unabashedly distorted by my friend, Ruburt.

(See page 139 of the 297th session. A prediction was given that Jane would receive a teaching job she had applied for at Elmira College. This was on October 26,1966, Wednesday, and predicted for November 2, the following Wednesday. On November 7, Jane was notified that she would not get the job.

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.

(Break at 10:03. Jane said she was well dissociated. Her eyes opened briefly a few times. She said she might have had images but couldn’t recall them until she came to the appropriate data as we made our connections.

(Since this experiment was a little different, I had decided not to ask many questions, preferring to see what results were obtained without them. See the drawings on pages 152 and 153. When Jane came up with the Gubatorial data, I asked a question about this data only, and as I hoped she cleared it up.

(I chose the object in the following manner. In my studio was a pile of old newspapers. Most of them were of the New York Times, daily and Sunday. I removed a few local papers from the stack. Backing up to the pile I pulled out a section without looking at it and tore off a portion of a page. I folded this behind me until I was sure it would fit between the regular double Bristols, and into the double envelopes.

(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.

(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.

(See the article indicated to the upper left on page 12 of the full sheet, page 153. The article concerns the efforts of a priest to build a seminary in Portugal. The priest’s order, the Dominicans, had been expelled from Portugal in 1834, and was readmitted in 1940.

(“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.

(“Four by five.” We don’t know. There are many 4’s and 5’s both on the object itself and the full page from which it was taken.

(“A determination and a disadvantage.” Jane said this is a reference arising out of the set of dishes shown on the page 12 side of the object. It concerns the fact that we are buying a set of dishes of our own at Loblaw’s supermarket; Jane said she was determined to get a set of dishes adequate for our needs. The disadvantage however is that obtaining the set in this fashion is much more expensive than she had figured on.

(“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.

(“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.

(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.