“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

As a species you could just as easily have smelled color rather than viewed it, you see. These portions of the brain, once activated, then allow you to switch sense impressions from one sense mechanism to another, you see.

(Searching for a word evidently, Jane rolled this one off quickly. This is my interpretation of it. I asked her to repeat it.)

Something by proxy. (Pause.) Music or Muzak. Connection with a mission or missionary. One eight four one. One seven three one.

Orange, and a blemish. Four plus one, and an initial explosion, or first-time happening.

An unforeseen circumstance involving three or three dollars approximately. One large dark numeral or initials towards the top, perhaps in a corner. (Pause.)

(“1841, 1731.” No connections; unless, as Jane speculates, these figures are an attempt to get at her wages from the job at the JCC. The job is a part-time one and Jane is paid twice a month. The figures vary, consequently. Jane’s pay statement for November 30,1966 for instance shows a total of $36.00. 1841 and 1731 added together total 3572.

(“Four plus one," No connections.

(“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.

(“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.

(“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.

(“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.

(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.

(3rd Question: How about several occurrences with a star? “Toward a starred event.” We are not sure. Jane’s idea here is that starred event could refer to her liking the job after a good deal of trouble finding one that proved suitable.

(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.