“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(On Friday, November 4, Jane called about a job teaching nursery school at the JCC. She was given an appointment with Mr. Miller for Tuesday, November 8, by Gladys Austin. On November 8, Gladys wrote out the memo slip used as object, bearing the name of Mrs. Methinitus, another teacher with whom Jane would work. The name is written in ordinary black pencil. Jane met Nancy Methinitus on Wednesday, November 9, and began teaching Monday, November 14 at the JCC. Sometime after Gladys Austin wrote out the memo slip on Nov. 8, the folded slip found its way into my jacket pocket.

(“Alienate. Things separate from another. A going apart. Something by proxy.” Jane thought all this data an attempt to get at the name Gladys Austin on the memo used as object. Gladys, as Mr. Miller’s secretary, served as a go-between, Jane said, between Jane, Nancy Methinitus, and Mr.Miller. It was Gladys who finally informed Jane she had the job at the JCC, for instance.

(“Music or Muzak.” Music is involved in Jane’s job at the JCC. In the downstairs playroom at the JCC, Jane and Nancy play a record player for their young charges, which is similar to the Musak recorded sound system. On a Friday afternoon Jane and Nancy took the class to an upstairs room at the JCC, where Nancy played the piano. This room was next door to the office of Gladys Austin who came in to listen.

(“Connection with a grocery, and vegetables.” Again, possibly a reference to the lettuce/Gladys association on Jane’s part. Also, on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, November 24, Thursday, Nancy called Jane and asked her to bring some vegetables to class for a special project. Jane forgot to buy the vegetables hence her memory of the incident. Nancy’s name appears on the object.

(“A circumstance with unknown ending.” Jane said this is represented quite well by the object. When Gladys gave Jane the memo bearing Mrs. Methinitus’s name on November 8, arrangements were made for Jane to sit in on a class the next day, and to thus meet Nancy M., etc. Naturally Jane wondered how things would work out, etc., which bears on the next data also: “Someone wonders how something will come out.” Jane discovered that she and Nancy were very compatible.

(“A mid-thirty connection here, or three five perhaps.” See page 216. Mrs. [Nancy] Methinitus, whose name appears on the object, is in her thirties, and quite possibly 35 years old. Gladys Austin is about 45 according to Jane.

(“An unforeseen circumstance involving three or three dollars approximately.” See the bill data above. One class day, Nancy Methinitus picked Jane up at the house because it was raining. Nancy parked by the Art Shop on the way to work and asked Jane to run in after some art supplies for class. This errand was unforeseen by Jane; this event took place during one of Jane’s first classes, when she did not know about plans for classes, etc.

(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.

(The calendar data would be another reference to the memo pad and calendar idea explained earlier. In a more literal interpretation, as explained Gladys Austin wrote the memo to Jane on November 8, with the specific intention that Jane would meet Nancy Methinitus on November 9. This she did. See page 216.

(The Grumbacher data can also apply, in that Grumbacher is the manufacturer of some of the art supplies Jane picked up for class one day when being given a ride by Nancy Methinitus, whose name is also on the object. See pages 216 and 224; the unforeseen circumstance and three-dollars data.

(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.