“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] After the experiment was over, Jane opened the envelopes containing the test object; then I went back to the studio, and from the hidden section I picked out the page from which the object had been torn. It turned out to be pages 11—12 of Section One of the Times for Sunday, November 6, 1966.

Refer to the illustrated section for reproductions of the test item and the page from which it was torn. Both sides of the test item contained portions of advertisements that were tied in with election day, yet the words “Election Day” didn’t appear on the object itself at all—only on the whole newspaper page that had lain on a high shelf of Rob’s studio bookcase.

The date of the paper was at the top of the page, of course. [...] These same models are also the figures Seth mentions, and as you can see from the photograph of the page, the women’s faces give a skull-like impression, with their hair pulled back. [...]

[...] How had Seth picked up the information about the entire page, when only a small section of it was in the test envelope? [...] Seth hadn’t first given impressions of the envelope object itself, then neatly moved on to deal with the entire page; he had shifted back and forth between the two, as if viewing both at once. [...]

[...] Colors on the front and back of the object are indicated to some degree on the tracing on page 16. [...]

(See the tracings of the object on page 16. [...]

[...] But see supplement, page 25.

[...] In back of the statue of Mother Goose is a dense, dark green pine forest, as indicated on the tracing on page 16, as well as several trees nearer the foreground. [...]

(See the tracing of the actual object on page 319, and the copies of the greeting card on page 320-21. Notes pertaining to both are found on page 322, and will be developed as we run through the connections we make with the envelope object. [...]

[...] See page 319. [...]

(The greeting card represented on pages 320-21 figures in the envelope data, and so is shown also. [...]

(My own note, bearing the time and date, shown at the bottom of page 319, was clipped to the envelope object. [...]

Please note that in a few instances, page numbers are mentioned in the text for the purpose of cross-referencing material. These page numbers apply only to the page numbers in the trade paperback version.

Now even when Jane delivers an answer via Seth that may be five typewritten pages long, she never repeats herself, loses track of what she is saying, uses the words “uh,” “er,” etc., or changes in any way what she had said. [...]

(A note: as of now my original single and/or double spaced typewritten record of the Seth material is 4,636 pages long. Sessions 449 and 450 take up the last 18 pages— hence Roger’s references to numbers in the 4,000 category.)

(See the tracing of tonight’s envelope object on page 71 and the notes on the next page. [...]

(Wendell uses the numeral 2 to indicate the second page of his typed letter. [...] The numeral 2 appears once on the first page of the letter.

[...] See the “twice” and “negative” data on page 77, and the listing of Wendell’s use of the numeral 2 on the second page of his letter. [...]

(Wendell’s letter of May 26 is two typewritten pages long, and at the moment we do not plan to include a copy of it with these notes. [...]

(See page 141 for a copy of the envelope object, and the notes on the next page. [...]

[...] See the “three people” data on page 147, and the G and J data on page 148. [...]

[...] See the copy of the object on page 141. [...]

[...] See page 141.

[...] See page 255. The second image was of the target shape also mentioned on page 255.

[...] See the rubbing of the envelope object on page 250, and the notes on the next page.

(The envelope object for the 62nd experiment was a piece of cream-colored burlap; it shows up dark on page 250 because of the method of reproducing it. [...]

(From the first data, page 255: “Pointed flower or star shapes. [...]

[...] See the tracing of the envelope object on page 327. [...]

(The print is on the whole darker than my pencil indication on the preceding page, and of much better quality. [...]

[...] See pages 319-20 for notes on this, in the 236th session, and Seth’s comments. [...]

(See the tracing of the envelope object on page 327. [...]

(The 39th envelope experiment was held during the session; see the tracing of the AAA membership card used as the object on page 1. Some interesting and hilarious results were obtained in the connections made by Seth/Jane.

[...] See Volume 5, page 277. [...]

[...] See Volume 1, page 172 for a description of my first experience with this sensation, which was at first frightening to me, and accompanied by visual internal data which was quite vivid. [...]

(See the tracing of the envelope object on page 1. As stated it is a membership card in the AAA, purchased by me on August 14,1964, and good for one year. [...]

[...] See the 33rd session, page 262. [...] See page 17, Vol. [...]

[...] While trying psychological time, Jane again experienced the feeling she has likened to ecstasy, and described so thoroughly on page 66. [...]

[...] See the 46th session, page 30.

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. [...] But other quite as legitimate “yous” may write, read, and experience the same page backwards, or read each letter downward and back up again, as you would a column of figures. [...] Still another, vaster you might be aware of all the different methods of experiencing that particular page, which is your life as you understand it.

(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. [...]

[...] He returned at 11:23 with a page or two for Jane and me, and then ended the session at 11:45 P.M.)

[...] The page pertains to the 76th envelope object.)

(Back copy of the newspaper page.)

[...] See the 104th session, pages 125-6. Jane has yet to receive word of a sale of any kind.

[...] She has not met two other executives there who have taken some cognizance of her work, and we now speculate that the situation described by Seth on page 126 might apply to Playboy. [...]

[...] See page 77. [...]

(Note that this relates to the ideas Jane had during her trance experiment of November 4. See page 116.)

A torn page of a pad or notebook, with numbers written on it, either for the Jesuit (Bill) or in his handwriting.

[...] Bill tore a page out of his notebook to write down the addresses of people we met.”)

A page number 397 connected with him. [...]

[...] See my indication of this by use of the word top on the back of the tracing on page 189. I determined this as explained low on page 193. [...]

(Seth added more as a result of the second question: “and strongly connected with something that opened, as a letter could open to another page.” [...] Once again Seth brings in the writing connection, previously described on page 196. [...]

[...] A connection with a note, I believe, or a card that opened, with writing or copy on an inside page. [...]

(Pause.) I have the impression, holding the object this way, (again the same gesture) of a rectangular object, a card that is connected with a picture, and strongly connected with something that opened, as a letter could open to another page.

(See the tracing of the envelope object on page 20. [...] On page 24 Seth stated that when Jane receives images, the psychological framework between Seth and Jane is operating; in these instances Seth is not giving Jane envelope data by way of concepts, directly and telepathically. [...]

[...] See the tracing on page 20. [...]

[...] See Seth’s psychological-bridge material on page 14.

(“A connection with a turnabout”, refers we believe to our accepting the ticket from Leonard’s friend—see page 21—then not going to the affair.

[...] See the copies of the objects on page 51, and note the copy on the back of one of them, above. These cards are mentioned on page 40 of the 243rd session; this gave me the idea of using them for an experiment. [...]

(See page 18 in this volume, and page 275 in Volume 5.

(See page 280 for a description of my first experience involving strong visual and bodily data while in the waking state. [...]

(See the tracings on page 51-52.

(Note: Jane’s trance data mentioned another newspaperman besides Bill G. —i.e. Tom Page. Page not involved in the Watkins episode, but Kendall, another newspaperman, was. [...]

[...] See the tracing on page 178, and the notes on page 179.

[...] My second question asked for more on the wavering lines impression discussed on page 185. See the copy of the object on page 178. [...]

[...] See the interpretation of an unpleasant event on page 184. [...]

(Jane did not have this image when she gave the “rectangular card” data interpreted on page 184.