“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(“Something upside down, or difficult to tell the top from the bottom.” To me, this referred certainly to the pepper shaker, as I turned it upside down while shaking into the envelope. The shaker itself is modern in design and is filled from the bottom.

Something upside down, or difficult to tell the top from the bottom. A rooflike shape. Something stands on rocks. A face.

(“and perhaps a target.” We were correct here, in thinking target referred either to the hole in the bottom of the pepper shaker, or the hole in the McCormick can itself. This hole is covered by a red plastic plug.

(“The impression of fine, finely patterned edges. Blacks and whites.” Again, the pepper itself. When Jane opened the double sealed envelopes, she found the pepper had settled in a loose line at the bottom of the inside envelope; thus it formed a fine patterned edge, which also consisted of black and lighter colored grains even though the pepper is called black, in actuality less than half of it seemed to be black, literally.

(“Black, rather clear lines, one on top, bottom, and two sides. Vertical, that is, vertical lines, on the top and bottom, and horizontal on the sides.” [...] I also wonder if some of this data might refer to the black lines formed by the printed matter on the object, and its neat-appearing edges, top, sides and bottom.

[...] Black, rather clear lines, one on the top, bottom, and two sides. [...] That is, vertical lines, on the top and bottom, and horizontal on the sides.

(“Copy in the center of the bottom of a paper item.” No matter which side of the envelope object was facing up, there would be copy in the center of the bottom side. [...]

[...] Copy in the center of the bottom of a paper item. [...]

The impression again of the rectangular or square shapes in a series at the bottom, across the bottom (gesture), surrounded by darker areas. [...]

[...] The impression on the object, on the lower bottom, of very small rectangles or squares, (pause) one after another—bright, but outlined in darker color, as perhaps a transparency of some kind.

[...] There is such a comparatively large empty rectangular area at the bottom of the object on the back: a boxed-in area for a price to be inserted. [...]

(“The impression on the object, on the lower bottom, of very small rectangles or squares…” On the back of the object is the phrase “Side-opening loading-port for easy rapid-load.” [...]

[...] Bill was inspired to ask Seth whether it would be possible to locate Indian artifacts on the lake bottom; he had long been curious about this.

[...] This applied particularly when she was trying to voice descriptions of the geography of the lake bottom. [...]

[...] Both he and Peggy verified Seth’s information about the changes in silting on the lake bottom; Jane was highly gratified to learn that Seth was correct. [...]

STARTING OVER FROM THE BOTTOM UPWARD.
THE WILL TO LIVE

The next chapter is to be entitled “Starting Over From the Bottom Upward. [...]

2. Imagine that each card is a little different in shape or size from the one below it so there is a progressive change from the bottom of the stack to the top. [...]

[...] The large number at the bottom is in red; the back of the bill is blank. [...]

(The object is printed on bright yellow paper in dark blue ink, with the large serial number at the bottom in red. [...]

[...] See the interpretation of the “two women and a man” data at the bottom of page 120. [...]

(Seth referred to flowers toward the bottom of page 118.

[...] Something—pressure in my head maybe keeps changing—the bottoms of my feet feel woozy; they throb gently; so does my neck; my breath deepens, ears feel funny—was going to walk around the house or do some other writing but for now at least I’ll have to go along with... [...]

[...] “Like even if I give one that’s at the bottom, like a brick at the bottom of a building, I know the ones up at the top of the building.”

[...] On the page 11 side of the object there is a sequence of numbers: 189.95 at the bottom of the illustration, and one: 18, 14 ½ to 22, at the bottom of a box to the left of this on the same side.

[...] To the far left of the page 11 side of the object is the bottom section of a help-wanted ad by Macy’s in New York City. [...]

[...] On the page 12 side of the object, at the bottom, are three lines of small type containing many New York City phone numbers and addresses. [...]

[...] Note that the object was torn from the bottom portion of the newspaper page, thus placing the date, November 6,1966 of course above it.

Pretend that your life’s experience is a page of a book that you write, read, and experience from top to bottom, left to right, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph. [...]

(Long pause.) You read yourselves from the top of the page to the bottom, or from what you think of as the beginning to the end. [...]

1. Right foot breaking loose inside; can feel bones bottom of foot when walking; put weight on it in a new way; and it moves with the knee. [...]

[...] Last night when I helped her off it onto the bed, we discovered that she had soaked the cushion under her bottom for an area eight inches or so around—something she hadn’t done before. [...]

[...] The same impression could result from the fancy box at the bottom of page 3.

(The word “framing” appears at the bottom of page 3, and is itself enclosed in a fancy frame, but evidently Seth wasn’t referring to this.

[...] Perhaps, also, the box at the bottom of page 3 of the object could be called a border.

(Jane continued, gesturing with the object held vertically: “This way, the impression of a long line, approximately down the center, or a thin dark object”, refers we think to the stem of the milkweed drawing on page 1 of the object, running from top to bottom. [...]

I have the impression of two dark horizontal lines, one rather toward the top and one rather toward the bottom. [...]

[...] “I have the impression of two dark horizontal lines, one rather toward the top and one rather toward the bottom.” [...]

(When the envelope is held in the horizontal position, the spine of one of the leaves is above the other, or one toward the top and the other toward the bottom. [...]

[...] My attention seems drawn to a bottom dresser drawer, of dark wood rather than light. It seems to have clothes but with a portion of the bottom of the drawer showing between, and somewhere in there a small notebook of some kind, or photographs that mean much to her.

[...] To progress is supposedly to ascend, while the horror of religious punishment, hell, is seen at the bottom of all things.

[...] This is like saying that because an apple has a top, it must have a bottom — but without any understanding of the fact that both are a portion of the apple. [...]

(“With this I feel I’m at the bottom of the panic—that this material represents the last involved elements. [...]

[...] “That’s really the rock-bottom thing in stuff like that....” [...]

[...] There’s a top that opens or a bottom that opens, or a room that opens from either side. [...]

[...] In addition, Jane also has tooth trouble—one of her bottom teeth is loosening....)