“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane had some images and these will be mentioned in place. This is a case where Jane had seen one of the two items making up the envelope objects very recently—the beer can cap, on Friday, October 7, three days ago. She had never seen my penned note bearing the date and identifying the brand of beer, Draft Beer. See pages 86-88 for tracings of the two envelope objects, and the beer can. I might add that Jane saw the beer can cap only in a casual way. There were quite a few lying about our living room Friday evening. Our candle was not lit until late that evening. When I picked up a cap to blacken in the flame I thought this would focus Jane’s conscious attention on this particular one, but she told me at break tonight that she hadn’t noticed my heating the cap, or else had forgotten it.

(“Placed fairly high on the item. Perhaps to the right, and small.” Jane said this was a reference to the position of the cap-ring against my note, while the two items were sealed between the two Bristol stiffeners and in the double envelopes. She had an image of their position while giving this data. It will be remembered that by this time Jane held the envelope in her lap; earlier she had held it against her forehead as she often does. To the right is a rough indication of the position she refers to, and which she was able to verify to some extent as she opened the envelopes at break. Remember the note was actually folded over the cap, like a sandwich; evidently the pressure of the two Bristol stiffeners and the two envelopes held the cap in the same position relative to the note.

(I blackened the cap in the candle flame in order to tie the evening’s activities more closely to the cap, for the beer had been consumed during the table tipping. As stated I held the cap in the flame without pretense, before everyone, but of course told no one why I did so. Nor did anyone ask. It also developed that Jane did not notice my doing so.

(“Gray, black, white.” Jane suggested these connections: The gray, or aluminum, color of the metal cap; the black section of the cap I heated in the candle flame; the white paper upon which I wrote the date and other data concerning the cap.

(Tracings of the beer can cap, and my note, used as the objects in the 73rd envelope experiment, in the 292nd session for October 10,1966.)

(Backs of the beer can cap, and my note.)

[...] One of these from a six pack supplied by Don Wilbur on the evening of Friday, October 7,1966, furnished the cap used as envelope object for the 73rd experiment.)

Now my dear friend—(staring at me, Jane tapped with her foot on the coffee table between us) your hats, your caps... [...]

[...] He wears a hat, and I stick to caps...There must be something here I’m missing, though.”)

He has worn caps much like the one you wear, and for many years they hung in the back porchway. [...]

(I now remembered father’s caps, once Seth mentioned them. [...]

3. A mad-cap driver definitely.

[...] The myth of the great CHANCE ENCOUNTER, in caps, that is supposed to have brought forth life on your planet then presupposes, of course, an individual consciousness that is, in certain terms, alive by chance alone.

All answers obtained through the Ouija board, and later through Jane’s dictation, are in caps. [...]

(Seth talked about teeth tonight because of my visit to the dentist today, in an effort—apparently successful—to save a front capped tooth which had suddenly begun to act up. [...]

[...] The assistant mechanic told me there was something wrong with the filter cap and that it could not be tightened sufficiently to prevent an oil leak. [...] Watching the assistant, as he struggled to tighten the cap, I had the distinct feeling he didn’t know too well what he was doing, and that the amount of force he was using could strip the threads and really delay the trip if a new part had to be found, then replaced. [...]

[...] The impressions themselves are in caps, and directly beneath the correctness or incorrectness is noted.

[...] They are in caps, followed by interpretations.

[...] Further restorative, “positive” capping is planned.... [...]

[...] He added that if we heard a loud thudding noise on the roof tonight, it meant that an animal had managed to dislodge the stone cap on the chimney. [...]

[...] The letter M in caps here.

(“The letter M in caps here.” [...]

(When I walked back downtown to the station at 5 PM to pick up the car, I was dismayed to be told that the mechanic there was having much trouble replacing the oil filter cap, that it persisted in leaking no matter how much force he used trying to tighten it. I was afraid the threads on the cap would be stripped; if the part in question had to be replaced, it meant dismantling the steering gear on our particular make of car, and thus a delay starting our vacation until next week.

[...] I was dressed in colorful summer sportclothes and wearing a cap. [...]

(Quotes from Seth that follow, in caps as usual, are not verbatim for the most part, but close approximations. [...]

(Jane believes circumvention can also relate to these interpretations: the circular effect obtained in the photo on the object, by the placement of the four girls, as shown on page 168; and the word GLOBE in caps in the ad in the lower left corner on the back of the object.

[...] He always wore a cap, however. [...]

[...] Indeed, I didn’t even feel like taking the cap off the pen. [...]

[...] The picture on the postcard used as object contains many small circles, mainly the flowers as noted above, and the small circular designs, also apparently flowers, on the blouse and cap of Mother Goose. [...]

[...] His acquaintance wore a cap with an anchor symbol on it, although we do not regard this as being what Seth referred to.