“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(“An initiation, not completed.” The object is the first half page from the first draft of chapter five of Jane’s dream book, and thus would be something begun or initiated, but not completed. There can be extensions here: Not completed could refer to the whole first draft of chapter five, or to the whole dream book itself. Also, perhaps, initiation could be linked to the suggested experiments for the reader to try, as mentioned in the headings. Jane’s idea is that this data refers to the dream book itself being started but not completed.

(The TV screen entered the data because Jane used an analogy in the first couple of pages of chapter five of the dream book, involving a TV screen; she mentioned it quite extensively on two pages. The analogy does not show on the half page used as object. It begins on the bottom half of the same page—but not in the first draft of chapter five of the dream book. It is found instead in the second draft; rewriting the chapter, Jane then inserted the television screen analogy to help make some points clear.

(See the copy of the envelope object on page 142. As stated it is the top half of the first page of chapter five of the book on dreams that Jane is writing. This was the first draft. Jane had thrown it away and I rescued it from the wastebasket in my studio. It is written on yellow paper; the notations were made by a pen with the same color ink as those on the copy. I wrote the date in pencil on the object the day I found it. It was folded once before going into the sealed double envelope. The back side of the object is blank.

(“A star shape. Something round, again, with spokes leading outward, but rather prominent.” Jane immediately thought of this diagram when she read over Seth’s data. It is on the back of page 112 of the first draft of chapter five of the dream book. Jane believes that she quite possibly made the diagram on the same day she typed up page 80, which was used as envelope object. Page 112 was used in the final version of chapter five, fortunately, and so was not thrown away. I had not seen the diagram before. It is one Jane made to help her see clearly certain points involving the whole self, and waking and dreaming states. There was much handwritten copy beneath it. Jane located the diagram immediately after this session. She said it is the only one she made for the dream book; she has the habit of making many notes on her manuscript, but very few diagrams of this kind.

[...] She had never seen my penned note bearing the date and identifying the brand of beer, Draft Beer. [...]

[...] Jane and I furnished wine, so did the Gallaghers, and the Wilburs brought two six-packs of beer—one of Draft Beer, the other of Carling Black Label.

[...] Seth didn’t help us out here and I neglected to ask him to after break, but in view of later data Jane and I believe this applies to the design on the Draft Beer can, furnishing the cap used as one of the envelope objects. [...]

(In regard to the Minneapolis-Milwaukee data above, it should be added that the Iroquois Draft Beer can that furnished the cap used as object in tonight’s experiment, did not come from Milwaukee or anywhere in the Midwest. [...]

(The object for the 70th envelope experiment was the first draft of a letter I wrote tonight, to a local dentist. [...] Jane had not seen this draft, or even the final copy of the letter, although she knew I was writing it this evening. [...]

(See the copy of the first draft of my letter on page 31. [...] Tonight’s object is a first draft of my reply to his letter, and is dated September 12.

[...] As stated, Jane did not see either the first draft of my letter, which was used as object, or the final copy, which I had sealed in an envelope. [...]

(This morning, in between calls from my brother Loren and his wife, and Mrs. Austin’s son about delivering the laundry, I worked on the first draft of a letter to Maude Cardwell at Reality Change in Austin, Texas. [...]

[...] I read the rough draft of the letter to Maude Cardwell to Jane, who really liked it. [...]

[...] I worked on Dreams this morning, and also did some quick rough work on a first draft of my own letter to be sent to those who give us money.

[...] There were no drafts; the session was held in our small back room, and the windows were closed.

[...] Since the windows were still closed and there were no drafts, I could not account for the flame’s height. [...]

[...] Smoothly however, so that we are able to announce it ahead of time, to show that other conditions are not working such as drafts and so forth. [...]

[...] Jane usually wrote several drafts for her “own” books, but spoke her books by Seth in final draft form.

(Drawing of a draft beer can. [...]

[...] I see a large, sort of beefy man with a red face, sitting at a piece of furniture like a drafting table, carefully cutting out these characters. [...]

[...] A candle nearby that is protected from draft for the first such session.

[...] They straighten out the first draft (humorously) so that you do not have to do so many revisions.

(After they left I had an hour to do some typing on the second draft of the letter to Maude Cardwell. [...]

3. Actually, Jane began the final draft of her manuscript for Adventures in Consciousness: An Introduction to Aspect Psychology, earlier this month (February, 1974). [...]

[...] Right now she’s working on the final draft of Chapter 5 of her own theoretical work on psychic matters, Adventures in Consciousness.

(The object for the 71st envelope experiment was the first draft of a poem Jane and I wrote for Bill Gallagher’s birthday, which fell on Friday, July 1st. [...] This first draft was typed on yellow paper; I folded it as shown to insert it in the usual double envelope, after sandwiching it between two pieces of Bristol. [...]

(After In Search Of ended on TV at 2:30 Jane read the draft of my note for session 896 for Dreams, in which I wanted to know whether she’d ever willed herself sick [as I had] when a youngster, in order to avoid something I wanted to get out of doing. [...]

[...] (Amused and emphatic): And this is indeed [a] first and final draft.

[...] I was drafted into the Air Force in 1942, during World War II, and repaid the loan over my three years of service.

[...] At either the 3/4 or the one-inch level, the flame burned very steadily, for there was no draft. [...]

[...] The candle was some three feet away from her, and well away from any draft possibly created by her breath, for instance.

(Notes: Today Jane called Tam about the continuing hassles over the disclaimer for Mass Events, and learned several important things—among them that the legal department is now “drafting” a letter to us, explaining their position in the matter. [...]