“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The memo pad slip used as the 80th envelope object is printed in a dark chocolate brown on a paper that is a rather bright orange brown of middle value. It was folded once horizontally as indicated, although there were vertical fold marks in it also. It was placed between the usual double Bristols and sealed in the usual double envelopes.

This does not mean that they will appear within your own system however. They are as real and as unreal as physical objects. Little attention has been given to the pathways opened, even in the physical brain, as the result of psychedelic experiences. Those portions of the brain, seemingly unused, deal with these other dimensions, and physically (underlined), you begin to use these portions, though minutely, for the first time, under psychedelic situations.

Something with dimension and depth suggested—that is, the object. The feeling now, about the object, of something transparent, or that opens up without actually opening up.

(“Can you give me a date connected with the object?”)

(“What material is the object made of?”)

(See page 216. The object was a memo slip from the Jewish Community Center in Elmira; from the desk of Gladys H. Austin, secretary to the Center’s director, Mr. Miller. It is printed in a dark chocolate brown on rather bright orange brown paper. It was folded once horizontally in the double envelopes, as indicated, although there were also vertical fold marks in it.

(I found the object in my jacket pocket on December 1, without knowing how it got there. I decided to use it as an object, then forgot about it. That evening when we did the wash the jacket was included in the load. Jane emptied the jacket’s pockets, and so handled the object; but it was folded and she did not recognize it. To the best of her recall she hadn’t seen the object, or needed it, since shortly after November 8,1966.

(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.

(“A capital G.” See the copy of the object on page 216. The name Gladys H. Austin is seen in the upper right-hand corner of the memo slip; in capitals.

(“Green.” Jane said that strange as it seems, green reminds her of lettuce, and lettuce in turn reminds her of Gladys Austin, whose name appears on the object. Jane doesn’t know why, but when she met Gladys for the first time she thought of lettuce. Jane considered the possibilities in rhyme, since she is a poet: Gladys, lettuce, etc., as perhaps calling up such an association.

(“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.

(“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.

(“Orange, and a blemish.” As stated, the paper the object is printed on is of an orange brownish color that is quite novel and attractive. The blemish data could be a distortion, resulting from the fact that the orange paper is printed upon with a darker brown ink.

(“A note and a sender who is not feeling well.” This is very good data. The note refers to the memo page used as object. It was written by Gladys Austin on November 8, at a time when she was not feeling well. She described this to Jane in some detail, explaining that the JCC had been so busy recently that the staff had been working weekends also. Jane remembers that Gladys also worked the weekend following—November 12-13, and then took Monday, November 14, off because of fatigue.

(“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 arrangement that has similarity to a calendar page. A small calendar page.” Subconscious memory evidently plays a part here. Jane said the memo page used as object is much like ones she saw when she worked for an art gallery a few years ago. It was a book arrangement, with a calendar on one side and the memo pages opposite. She thought at first that the object might also come from such an arrangement; upon close examination, however, we can only tell that the object came from a pad that was bound at the top of the page; the edge there is slightly roughened, as though torn loose.

(“A bill.” Jane believes this data is connected with the three-dollar data to come below. A bill here refers to art supplies Jane picked up on the way to work at the JCC one day, and charged to the JCC. Gladys Austin, whose name is on the object, makes out the checks to pay bills.

(The items, paste, scissors, etc., for the class came to about three dollars, and were charged to the JCC. Thus Gladys Austin, whose name is on the object is connected with this data, since she makes out checks to pay bills for the JCC, etc.

(“One large dark numeral or initials, towards the top, perhaps in a corner.” Excellent data. See page 216. The large capital M of the word memo is in the upper left corner of the object, printed in a dark chocolate brown.

(“Something with depth and dimension suggested—that is, the object. The feeling now, about the object, of something transparent, or that opens up without actually opening up.” As stated, the object was folded once upon insertion into the double envelopes. See page 216, and the indication of the horizontal fold used. The object also bore earlier crease marks from a vertical fold. The folding here could give rise to the transparent, depth and dimension, and opening-up data, 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.

(1st Question: Can you give me a date connected with the object? “The number four.” As stated, on Friday November 4, Jane called the JCC the first time about the teaching job. There could be other interpretations. Jane started the job on November 14, for instance.

(“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.

(2nd Question: Can you elaborate on the capital G? “No. Ruburt now thinks of Grumbacher.” See the data on page 221. It is stated there that the capital G refers to the name on the memo pad used as object, Gladys H. Austin, etc.

(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.

(4th Question: What material is the object made of? “Paper, but with a fabric feel.” The object is of paper. See page 216. It is a smooth paper however, and we don’t know where the fabric idea came from.

(5th Question: How about color? “Some we have mentioned. Dark. Like a photograph; in shadow but for this fabricky connection.” No connections. The chocolate brown ink printed on the object is dark; perhaps this gave rise to the dark photo data.

(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.