“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I remembered very little about the bow, yet subjectively I was sure it had been taken from a greeting card of some kind. I work for a greeting card company, but did not remember seeing other ribbons like it there in particular. I did not recall the card the ribbon came from, nor why I had removed it—if I was the one who had done so. I hoped Seth could fill us in on the details. The bow was in poor condition, and I assumed I had carried it home in a coat pocket sometime last winter.

(I used the ribbon as object not only because I wanted to get its background for myself, but because this lack of at least conscious knowledge on my part would simulate the circumstances surrounding an object furnished by someone else.

(“I have the impression of a circular shape, with a smaller square in the center. The square much smaller than the circle.” As stated the ribbon had somehow become much flattened out, but before this the two bows would be circular in shape. As the tracing shows the knot between them is squarish, and quite small.

[...] The object was two sections of a red ribbon taped to a piece of heavy Bristol board. I found the ribbon in the bed of our cat on about June 20. [...] As it developed Jane was somewhat hard- pressed to identify the ribbon, did so eventually, and with Seth’s verification. [...]

[...] As stated I picked the red ribbon used as object from the bed of our cat on about June 20, with little idea of its history. [...]

[...] The ribbon arrangement on the Bristol of course is an X shape rather than parallel; both shapes are geometrical. [...]

[...] Bill Ward’s artwork arrived in a large rectangular package, but contained no tissue paper and bore no ribbons or string; it was instead sealed with tape. [...] Jane thinks she may have received accurate-enough data from Seth about a package, and constructed perhaps the ribbons herself because that is symbolic of packages. She used blue ribbons perhaps through a distortion of the blue pertaining to the envelope object.

(“A rectangular package, covered with white tissue paper, and divided in fours by a slim blue ribbon.” Jane had an image here. She saw mentally the four divisions, and had the feeling of blue—of a white package with blue lines or ribbons dividing it.

[...] A rectangular package, covered with white tissue paper, and divided in fours by a slim blue ribbon.

And a very distant connection with a child’s hair ribbon. A wide band sort; this applies to the child’s ribbon.

I pick up the number seven, and this could refer to the age, that is, of the child who wore the ribbon.

(We probably will never check on the data referring to a child’s hair ribbon, the child’s age, etc.

[...] And an A, with a large family and a particular picture of the family, old, three girls with large hair ribbons, two boys, several years older, picture taken on porch steps very early 1900’s. Perhaps in a city B or the name begins with B. And a sister, a career woman before this was general practice.

[...] And an A, with a large family and a particular picture of the family, old, three girls with large hair ribbons, two boys, several years older, picture taken on porch steps very early 1900’s. Perhaps in a city B or the name begins with B. And a sister, a career woman before this was general practice. [...]

[...] In the meantime the pesty fleas continued their household tyranny and all of this was somehow wrapped around a ribbon of excitement as we watched the Democrats and Republicans battle on the news just before we left for our respective work rooms.

[...] The material is not for those who would deceive themselves with pretty, packaged, ribboned truths that are parceled out and cut apart so that you can digest them. [...]

This material is not for those who would deceive themselves with pretty, packaged, ribboned, truths—truths that are parceled out and cut apart so that you can digest them. [...]

[...] Among other things containing ribboned letters from a foreign land. [...]

[...] It was part of a medal; Jane had polished it the day before, and removed the ribbon.

(Tracing of the ribbon used as object in the 63rd envelope experiment, in the 273rd session for July 18,1966.)