“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.

(“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 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.

(“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.

(“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.