“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The object for the 77th envelope experiment was a copy of an article from The Saratogian, the daily newspaper of Saratoga Springs, NY; it was printed in September, 1950 and was saved by Jane as a souvenir, and also because she wrote it. It describes her election as president of the Day Students Council for Skidmore College, in Saratoga. See the rough copies on pages 168 and 169.

(As stated, the object is an article taken from The Saratogian of September 1950. Jane wrote it, since she had a part-time job with the newspaper while attending Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. The object concerns the election of Jane as president of the Day Students Council in her junior year, and the photo at the top of the article shows Jane and the other three female members of the council. They wear the “uniform" in style then—blue jeans.

(“Connection with a mountain. Or high peak. And a triangle.” Jane, again, says this is a reference to her election as president of the Day Students Council—it represents her top achievement in college, as far as honors went, she said.

(“Four events, closely related. Perhaps mentioned in the note. Or four people connected with one event, mentioned in a note.” Seth is very close indeed here, since the article on the front of the object deals with the election of four women to the Skidmore College Day Students Council.

[...] In 1963, Jane talked to a class conducted by Mr. Clauss, at Elmira College, subject poetry. The college connection arose recently, because Jane also applied for a teaching job there, as well as in the Elmira school system.

[...] Jane said this refers to the fact that in order to keep the job as a substitute teacher she must begin taking 6 credits a year at Elmira College, after she has taught a total of 40 school days. [...]

[...] Piccadilly Square, London, England, might refer to the fact that a professor at Elmira College, with whom Jane would like to work as an assistant, teaches English Literature and specializes in Victorian English. [...]

[...] Another reference to the fact that Jane must begin taking 6 credits a year at Elmira College, after she has taught in the public school system 40 days. [...]

[...] The school was the college again, you see, and the academic community that had already rejected him as a student in the past. For a while he should have nothing to do with the college.

(“Concerning episodes like those with Elmira College, and the monks and the monastery: How come Jane doesn’t take steps to protect herself in advance from such implications?”)

Now when I gave the session for our lady of Venice, I spoke as an authority, as myself, and there was no representative of the college present. [...]

Now on one occasion he did very well, although he picked up strong ideas from you of a negative nature, and this incident, in time, was connected with the college affair. [...]

[...] He finally broke away from the church—running to college—a college considered by the church at the time as communistically inclined, antireligious, and so forth.

His survival in college, since he had a scholarship, was dependent upon toeing the mark, and even then he refused to do so; and was quite unceremoniously kicked out on his independent ass.

[...] I have probably mentioned before that in college Ruburt would cross the street often rather than meet a group of students. [...]

(Interestingly, my informant about Fred, who was probably connected with the Mansfield College in some way, had been in the town only since 1971. I described to him the house in which I was born, situated directly across Route 6 from the old college buildings. [...]

(As referred to in the last deleted session, Saturday evening we were visited for a half hour or so by Scott and Helen Nearing, who were participating in homesteading workshops at Mansfield State Teachers College for several days. [...]

^* In 1965, in response to my letter, an older and very respected parapsychologist — “Dr. Instream,” Jane called him — invited Jane and me to attend the hypnosis symposium he was to conduct at a New York State college. [...]

(Jane and I attended the Hypnosis Symposium at Oswego State University College at Oswego, NY, on Friday evening, July 9th, and on Saturday and Sunday, July 10 and 11, at the invitation of Dr. Instream, codirector. [...]

[...] Jane and I answered Dr. Instream’s questions as well as we could, and made an appointment to attend his Monday morning class at the college. [...]

[...] The third man is a psychology instructor at the college, perhaps in his late thirties. [...]

[...] We also bought two books by Dr. Instream at the college bookstore Monday noon.

[...] Last year one of my students was taking a psychology course in the local college night sessions, and with the professor’s encouragement, she frequently discussed Seth and our ESP classes. [...] She wanted to record it and play it for the college class.

Not too long ago, a young psychology professor called and asked me to speak to his class at the local college. [...]

Then Seth addressed the members of the college class for whom the recording would be played. [...]

[...] My student played the tape during her next college class, and since it ran longer than the allotted time, the psychology professor and some of the students went to her house later to hear the whole tape and discuss it.

[...] This was very similar to my experience of July 9,1965, at Oswego State University College in Oswego, NY. [...]

(At Oswego, I was awakened by a party of college students in a nearby residence hall. [...]

[...] 1947 oldest sister went to college. [...]

(On July 20, Jane and I received a letter from Dr. Instream, in which he mentioned the possibility of a session with another doctor at Oswego State University College; the other doctor also wanted to consider the study, within limits Seth may feel advisable.

[...] I am trying to tell him about the college position, but for the moment I am unable to. [...]

(This concerns a teaching position Jane has been seeking at Elmira College. [...]

[...] Seth spoke about some of the benefits in the recorded session he gave for the college psychology class. [...]

[...] They are too anti-establishment to be college textbooks, but in their way far too reasonable to be considered eccentricities — in the same fashion, now, that the Parker books are.

[...] It tries to fly ahead with avant garde ideas, while at the same time protecting its flank of college textbooks. [...]

[...] The fear of dentists has to do with an episode when he was in college, and the dentist came to visit his mother. [...]

It was the only thing that set him apart under welfare conditions, the mark of distinction that got him to college by the skin of his teeth, and it was, he felt, what made you love him. [...]

(A note here: Seth told Pat that she had a strong interest in history which could be utilized along with a writing ability; then Pat told us that she majored in history in college; we just took it for granted she majored in English since she teaches it.

[...] He had not gone to college. [...]

[...] At the same time he did not consider trying to go to college, to get a scholarship or whatever, to better his knowledge in the field of his choice. [...]

This class was composed of college girls. [...]

[...] A surviving soul seemed part and parcel of the adults’ nonsense I’d thought I’d escaped, thanks to a college education, a quick mind, and a fine dose of native rebelliousness. [...]

[...] Jane and I leave Elmira this Friday, July 9, to attend the Hypnosis Symposium at New York’s Oswego State University College on July 9, 10 and 11.)

[...] Yet the college [Elmira College] still found itself with many of the dispossessed needy at its doorstep. [...]