“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane began speaking in trance, while sitting down and with her eyes closed. Her voice was deeper and stronger than usual, her pace good. Eventually her eyes began to open.)

I told you at one time that birth was a greater shock than death. Some personalities react strongly against the enforced dependency. Others embrace it gladly.

(The “object" was, as stated, common black pepper. I shook a small amount of it into an envelope, sealed it, then placed this between the usual two pieces of Bristol board and sealed the sandwich in another envelope. No writing was involved. Jane said that as she held the envelope to her head she did not hear anything move within; nor did she shake the envelope, etc.

(The pebbles data could also stem from the tin can of pepper used to fill the plastic shaker with which I filled the envelope. Jane located the pepper can in the kitchen. It was a McCormick product. On it were the words “Pure Ground Black Pepper," etc., pebbles and ground being related.

(“J A B.” Seth helps out on this later. Our interpretation was not right. We thought the J B might refer to Jane’s initials, but in this case couldn’t account for the A since Jane has no middle name.

(“Something stands on rocks. A face.” Here Jane had an image—that of her face, small, as she stood on some rocks and near water. She was not sure in the image, that she was near an ocean, particularly. The face she saw was not that in a photo, but herself, alive. Seth explains this later.

(As we finished going over the data, Jane then remembered that as she was giving it she was going to say something about the implication of motion being connected with the object; for reasons unknown she didn’t give voice to it. Perhaps the motion referred to my moving the shaker as I put some pepper in the envelope, etc.

The photograph connection. Now. I tried to give the impression of salt, to bring Ruburt to salt and pepper. He interpreted this however in his own way, as saltwater, and the photograph was taken by the ocean, with rocks and sand, and the sand, you see, was picked up because of the grains.

The target. A poor interpretation, applying to the necessity of filling the hole of the shaker; and the red symbol on the can was meant here.

Those who strive high must know what they do, and understand the effects of not working hard enough, of not allowing themselves sufficient freedom. Apparently he could learn no other way. It will be an object lesson for the rest of his life, but it was not thrust upon him, you see.