“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(My Aunt Mabel lives around the corner and two blocks down the street from us. When Jane and I went for our leaf-gathering walk in October of 1965, we picked up the maple leaves in our collection beside Aunt Mabel’s home; this is the section of the street where the maple trees grow, and one of these leaves made up tonight’s object.

(The 47th envelope experiment was held during the session, as noted by the tracing on page 91. The object was a faded maple leaf that Jane and I had picked up, along with others, on a walk last year, probably in October 1965. I subsequently made a watercolor drawing of this leaf and another. As will be seen the object led to some data that is somewhat difficult to evaluate, but Jane and I believe it legitimate.

(Seth gave a few impressions connected with the object, the maple leaf, itself, at the beginning of the data, and at the end when I asked him to name it.

(“Connected with the object: The impression of a pile, or pyramid of small things like stones perhaps. The shape of an ice cream cone. A pyramid shape.” As noted, Jane coupled this data with a large gesture of a triangular or pyramidal shape. See the tracing of the object on page 91. The maple leaf is roughly of a pyramid shape.

[...] It was getting cloudy; I told her I hoped Frank Longwell was at the house, planting the red maple while the young fellow from school was mowing the grass. [...]

[...] As I pulled into the driveway in back, I saw that Frank had planted the red maple. [...]

[...] The rich green lawn sloped down to the great maple and the sumac trees lining the road. [...]

[...] I told him the red maple he’d help plant in the back yard had evidently died but he said it may not really be dead.

[...] One of the delivery men from Sears recognized Rob and I at once as a couple he had known briefly in the sixties, when we often visited with the Maples (old friends who — again — we haven’t heard from in 20 years) who he had lived downstairs from.

[...] He says he lived downstairs from our old friends, Atalie and Lydia Maple who moved away in the mid-1960’s.

[...] We agreed on the location of the Crimson King red maple in the back yard; Frank is to plant it tomorrow afternoon, and bring the young fellow with him to mow the grass, which is some six inches high. [...]

(Tracing of the maple leaf used as the envelope object in the 47th experiment, in the 250th session for April 11,1966.)

The word maple comes to mind. [...]

[...] You are all children in one way playing beneath the maple trees, dreaming in the long twilights of your adult state even as your adult selves now seemingly so independent would not know what to say to your childhood selves if you met them; but within you the childhood self must also grow, and allow it its growth. [...]