“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(“No, Seth.”

(My next quick sketch as Jane continued speaking for Seth: Is this sign, +, a reference to the string wrapped around the Bernard package? Thus: )

(I tried something a little different during the experiment and Jane said now that she didn’t know whether it helped or not. The idea being simply to offer Seth encouragement when he was right, or close, or to ask a question at the moment to develop a bit of data further. She was aware that the approach was different. With the exception of an image of a photo of her schoolday friend, Marie Tubbs, Jane said she did not know if she had any images or not.

(Seth didn’t comment specifically on the experimental results and Jane and I made our own connections.

(“Blues and yellows, strong colors.” Later Seth links these with paintings. The object contains items I use to do artwork with, although no paint. Jane did visit the art shop where I buy my paints. I thought another connection might apply also. Not on the list, but bought by Jane Tuesday were four transistor radio batteries. I had forgotten them but she remembered. The batteries are covered with a strong red, blue, and yellow design, very bulky. See Jane’s list, page 190, also.

(“or there is something dark on the corners, perhaps black.” See above. Seth here appears to be drifting into a photo interpretation, as below.

(“Also a white border. The impression is certainly of some kind of photograph here. Ruburt now thinks of a woman and a child, and of a photograph of Marie Tubbs and a baby, in Florida… I feel we are off here, but that the connection is valid.” There is a Florida connection, and this led Seth to the Tubbs connection for our friend Marie also lives in Florida.

(“I do have the impression of dark color and white, small handwriting perhaps on the back, in ink.” See page 189. The object does contain small dark handwriting on white. The back impression could have been picked up by Seth because the object was folded inside the sealed double envelopes.

(“I believe the object has images on it of people.” When I told Seth the object did not, Jane said it bothered her but not Seth. She said she thought it a good idea to continue the experiments in this vein however. I was trying to see what answers along the way would do to help spur Seth on towards more data, when I noted that he was off the track.

(3rd Question: How about that scramble? “I do not know if it refers to a scramble of lines, events or perhaps eggs. The term scramble is my impression.” I told Seth it referred to events. See also page 195. A scrambled-egg connection also enters in, somewhat removed, since the Bernards and Jane and I had scrambled eggs for breakfast Sunday, November 27.

(I then asked Seth to elaborate on the strong color impression about the blues and yellows. See also page 195. “To do with paintings.” This has been explained. A more distant connection might arise from the fact that Jane’s shopping list, shown on page 190, was written on yellow paper with a dark blue pen. The battery interpretation is listed on Jane’s list; and my own list, which was used as object, contained items to be purchased having to do with art.

(Later I wondered whether Seth had been trying to get at the idea of string crossing itself around a package. A package of course is mentioned on Jane’s list, page 190. The cross effect can be easily found in the way I habitually wrap packages with strings and in the way I specifically wrapped the package to be mailed to the Bernards, thus:

(“And a connection with transportation. [4th Question: Transportation on whose part?] “On the part of guests.” I had told Seth it might more likely be transportation on Jane’s part, making the rounds to do the list of errands. There are links with the Bernards and transportation also of course, since they visited us over the weekend from North Carolina, then headed for a TV program in Philadelphia. The package data on Jane’s list is also connected to them.

(“Good night, Seth.”