“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The emotional impact behind them determines their strength. They are passed on telepathically. You recall however that individuals receive in certain electromagnetic patterns, or pattern ranges, far better than they do in others. Some individuals therefore will simply not telepathically receive the dominating reality assumptions, but will be tuned to different ranges, highly unsatisfactory to them. It becomes quickly apparent that their view of reality is entirely different from their neighbors’.

Barriers are cut away, and once you become used to receiving within a larger range you will be able to do so in your future. These ranges, once opened up, then do not entirely close up to you. It becomes easier for you in your future to receive within them.

It goes without saying that in our methods the ego is changed rather completely but gradually in many cases, and only through its own willingness to do so. It recognizes its identity as a part of, underlined, the inner self. Therefore basically it has no need to fight the inner self, since it knows its survival is dependent upon this inner framework.

Now. Do you have envelope?

Dark green. A bill. 1631. Stringy, or to do with string. (Pause.) Several occurrences with a star.

Something that is mine, and to do with a group accomplishment. A calendar date.

Do you have questions?

The number four. I do not know. Some future connection it would seem—January or February perhaps.

(“Stringy or to do with string.” Possibly, according to Jane, a reference to her borrowing string from Gladys Austin one class day at the JCC. The class members were to string Cheerios to make necklaces, etc., but the string was too flimsy and deteriorated too easily; knots couldn’t be tied in it, etc.

(“Something that is mine, and to do with a group accomplishment. A calendar date.” This is good data. In the sense that Seth and Jane stem from the same entity, as explained in certain sessions, the object would be Jane’s. Gladys Austin gave it to her.

(The object does have to do with group accomplishment, since it introduced Jane to Nancy Methinitus, and the two women work together teaching nursery school.

(“I do not know. The future connection it would seem—January or February perhaps.” It is possible that a number four connection also applies here, for Jane is on Christmas-New Year’s vacation from her job, until Wednesday January 4. This data would be legitimate, in that the envelope object refers to the teaching job at the JCC.

(The head and silhouette mentioned here reminded Jane that one of the projects she and Nancy planned for the nursery school class involved the students making silhouette drawings of their heads, as Christmas gifts for their respective parents. The plan was for Jane and Nancy to do the actual tracing of profile, with the students filling them in, etc.

(This data was obtained on December 12, 1966. The head silhouette idea wasn’t carried out however by December 21, the last class before Christmas vacation. Again, the connection is a good one, in that the data has to do with the class referred to through the memo slip used as object. See page 216.