“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The object for the 77th envelope experiment was a copy of an article from The Saratogian, the daily newspaper of Saratoga Springs, NY; it was printed in September, 1950 and was saved by Jane as a souvenir, and also because she wrote it. It describes her election as president of the Day Students Council for Skidmore College, in Saratoga. See the rough copies on pages 168 and 169.

(I have indicated the highlights of both sides of the object by typewriter; actually it was printed in two columns, instead of the one I have indicated. Jane saw the object about three weeks ago when she was sorting out some papers. I picked this item after finding it lost among some newspapers, and about to be thrown out. I placed it between the usual two pieces of Bristol, then sealed it in the regular double envelopes.

(Break at 9:27. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her pace picked up some, and her eyes opened occasionally as the delivery progressed. She resumed at 9:34.)

I was after this mountain shape, which seemed to be triangular, a triangle with the feeling of height, or the apex or high point of an episode.

(Break at 9:55. Jane was out as usual and her eyes remained closed. She held the envelope to her forehead until almost the end of the experiment. She said she had no images except for the profusion of small colored squares. Her pace had been good, the pauses brief.

(See the rough copy of the envelope object on pages 168 and 169, and the notes on page 170. Seth did not return after the break, so Jane and I were left to make our own connections between the object and the data. In fact, we cut the session short because I was not feeling well. But we feel Jane did well.

(The typing below the photo and on the back sums up the content of the news stories on the object. Jane last saw the object about three weeks ago, but did not know it was in my possession particularly, when I decided to use it as an object. I folded it once as indicated on page 168 before inserting it in the usual double envelopes.

(“A circumvention.” My interpretation involves the article on the back of the object. See page 169, and my insert, originally omitted and added with this typing. The news article concerns the Feinberg Law, which spells out the intent of the New York State Legislature in the Education Law, concerning the removal of any school employees for treasonable or seditious acts. The pertinent lines in the story being: “This law in no way violates the constitutional rights of freedom of speech, press or assembly. The Constitution was meant to preserve our gov’t., not to serve as a protecting screen for those who would seek to destroy it…”

(“A name or place beginning with a D.” One of the four women elected to the council, and shown in the photo, was Frances Donahue. Jane also thought the several references to Day Student Council might bear on the data.

(“Connection with a barrister or lawyer.” The whole of the news story indicated on the back of the object, as shown on page 169 concerns law, statues, the Constitution, overthrow, rights, government, etc., plus the mention of two names: Feinberg, and Aronowitz. Feinberg sponsored a law bearing his name, and possibly is, or was, a New York State legislator. We do not know the profession of Mr. Aronowitz, who is quoted in the article via a lecture delivered about the law. Evidently he is connected to New York State in some official capacity.

(“An initial attempt, followed by others.” Jane was a bit dubious here, but said the photo heading up the article on the front of the object pictured the first meeting of the newly-elected Day Students Council; this meeting of course was followed by others.

(“An immediate engagement connected with another engagement.” Jane was not sure, unless this data was another reference like the initial attempt, above.

(1st Question: What color is the object? “Connection with an orange yellow white. With something inept perhaps. Not formalized. Perhaps poorly done, though I do not believe this impression should be carried precisely that far. More ill-defined perhaps.” Again, we made no connections as far as colors go with the object. However, the rest of this data can refer to the last paragraph of the news story on the back of the object. See page 169. “There was also a dispute over whether or not a secondary school teacher would have the freedom to teach even the concepts of Communism, without being afraid of misinterpretation.This seemed to involve interpretation, and the final answer is left to the people.” Something ill-defined, not formalized, etc., applies here.

(5th Question: What’s that about a triangle? “I was after the mountain shape, which seemed to be triangular. A triangle with a feeling of height, or the apex or high point of an episode.” As stated, Jane felt this referred to her election as president of the Day Students Council—the high point of her college tenure as far as honors went. It was, Jane said, a big deal. This election is the subject of the article on the front of the object.

(Jane was elected to this post in her junior year at Skidmore. She was expelled from college at the end of her junior year, through being blamed for something of which she was innocent. Thus the words “apparent misdeed" in the above data are important. She was in her early twenties at the time of course.

(12th Question: Any initials? “B or C.” Again I put the question poorly since I was thinking of the initials of one of the two females. The actual phrasing of the question allowed too much latitude. Even so, there is no personal name on the object, front or back, with a C, initial. There is a B, for Orlyn Barron.