“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(See the tracing of the envelope object, and its accompanying drawing, on pages 313-14. We did not ask Seth to clear up each point in the data, so give below our own interpretations. As stated, the key drawing made by my boss was the actual envelope object. This is on thin white paper. The drawing on tracing paper was made by me, from instructions given to me by my boss, and is a schematic drawing to be traced onto Bristol board for final artwork.

(As can be seen, much of the envelope data given by Seth was transposed from the actual object to my own tracing-paper drawing. It might be noted that during the session, while Jane held the envelope in her hand, my tracing-paper drawing was in the same room with us, although I was unaware of this until after the session. It reposed in my jacket pocket in our front room closet; I had brought it home several days ago, then forgot about it, not having worn the jacket since. Both drawings were made about two weeks ago. Jane hadn’t known they even existed.

(“The color white background”, might be taken as a reference to the white paper the envelope object was drawn on, but Jane said that once again this referred to the tracing-paper drawing I made. Tracing-paper is a pale translucent gray or off-white color, but not really white as this typing paper is white.

(“Somehow cluttered, or full, and empty toward the outsides.” On the original tracing-paper drawing my pencil smudging on the back shows through easily, and gives the drawing a cluttered or crowded look in the center. By contrast it looks bare toward the edge of the circle. This is an effect I noticed at work while making the tracing, but the illusion disappeared on the finished art.

[...] This image trace is a lingering manifestation, an imprint within your system, a part of its reality, and is held within it as you might for example retain an idea in your mind long after the idea has been expressed physically. As a painting that is destroyed physically may still be retained in your mind, so in the reality of the physical system a trace remains, an image trace of the camouflage structure that enclosed a given personality.

[...] A personality communicating with your system, who was once a part of it, can make use of this trace image. The trace image is not his consciousness however. His consciousness is aware of the trace image, and on occasion can utilize it.

[...] The individual would seem to disappear with no trace remaining.

[...] However, some trace of that personality remains in that camouflage reality, quite literally, as what you might call a ghost image.

[...] Within that system then it leaves a life-trace. When you think in terms of reincarnation it seems that one tracing exists before the other, but the entire “chart” exists at once, with all the individual life-tracings.

(Long pause.) Since these offshoots or life-tracings each come from your entity, they are connected psychologically and in terms of electromagnetic energy patterns. [...]

[...] This represents the multidimensional entity that is both apart from and yet part of the separate life-traces. [...]

There are traces in your present experience of your probable selves, even as there are signs in each individual of all the great talents shown and developed so flamboyantly by a few. These traces can be brought into your experience to enrich it. [...]

[...] In the same way, following your own “trace” experiences and characteristics, you can discover those “probable” abilities that are yours, and uncover to some degree the nature of probable actions open to you for physical materialization.

(See the tracings of the object on page 309. [...]

[...] See the tracings on page 309. [...]

[...] See the tracings on page 309. [...]

(“Connection with a letter or note,” See the tracings on page 309. [...]

[...] See the tracing on page 206, and the notes on page 207.

[...] Don took the picture of the ceramic cat as it sat on a brick wall cutting across grass as indicated in the tracing on page 206. [...]

[...] See the tracing.

[...] As can be noted on the tracing, Marilyn’s ceramic cat is composed of round or circular components. [...]

[...] See the tracing on page 289. [...]

[...] Her pace was good, her voice a little stronger than usual, and with a trace of her brogue. [...]

[...] See the tracing on page 289. [...]

(Tracing of the black and white photograph used in the 11th envelope test, September 29,1965, in the 194th session.)

[...] The “absent” portion of the self cannot be traced through brain patterns, though the point of its departure and the point of its return may show a particular pattern. The “time out” itself, however, will not be detected in any way, the tracings showing only whatever characteristic pattern was being given immediately before departure.

(An EEG, or electroencephalograph machine, traces brain wave patterns on graph paper.)

Within any given twenty-four hour period, then, traces and aspects of all of your other experiences appear in their own way. [...]

The adventures of your simultaneous selves, again, appear as traces in your own consciousness, as ideas or daydreams or disconnected images, or sometimes even in sudden intuitions. [...]

(10:42.) The physically attuned conscious mind in your now cannot handle those staggering probabilities while maintaining a sense of identity, yet there are conscious traces within your daily thoughts that are the psychological representations of such knowledge.

[...] Therefore you artificially form a situation in which overall traces must be made. [...]

[...] See the tracing on page 72. [...] The tracing is drawn with the same blue pen, my own, that was used to write on the object. [...]

[...] The N and Norcross indicated in pencil on the tracing signifies a blind embossed trademark on the envelope flap, but Seth said nothing about this either.

[...] See the tracing on page 72, and the notes describing it and its circumstances on page 73. [...]

[...] The tracing on page 72 is made with the same pen used to produce the writing.

(The 47th envelope experiment was held during the session, as noted by the tracing on page 91. [...]

[...] She tried tracing out the image on the tabletop with a forefinger, but could get nothing beyond the idea of circles being involved.

[...] They have only left your own system, and you have no method presently to follow the traces of their trails.

(See the tracing of the object on page 91, and the notes on page 92. [...]

[...] I have learned I can do without it, but taking the drug removes the last of the lingering traces. [...]

[...] See my tracing on page 250. [...]

(Tracing of the photographic negative used in the 7th envelope test, in Session 187, September 13,1965.)

[...] It will however leave a trace. This does not necessarily mean it will leave a trace in your consciousness. A trace in electromagnetic reality, where it can then be activated by anyone when certain conditions are met, or are favorable. [...]

[...] See the tracing on page 101. [...]

(See the tracing of the test object on page 101. [...]

(Tracing of the quarter of a paper napkin used in the 20th envelope test, of December 6,1965, in the 214th session.)

[...] Your thoughts, all of your thoughts at this moment, to you seem to come and go without a trace and yet they leave traces that you do not see, nor perceive, nor even sense, and yet if you quietly examine your experience, if you listen to the universe, you can begin to perceive some of these realities and that is what I want you to do. [...]

(Reduced tracing of my pencil sketch on transparent tracing paper. There are pencil rubbings on the back, so the sketch can be traced. [...]

(See the tracing of the envelope object on page 301. [...]

[...] The object has a border, as can be seen in the tracing. [...]

(Tracing of the pencil drawing on white paper, used as the object in the 36th envelope experiment, in the 236th session for February 28,1966. [...]

(See the tracings of the object on page 258-59, and the notes on page 260. [...]

[...] As can be seen from the tracings on page 258-59, the envelope object is half gray on the front, and over two-thirds gray on the back.

[...] The lines of type indicated in a pen line on the tracing are actually printed in a heavier, boldface block lettering. [...]

(Tracings of the black & white Polaroid photo of myself used in the 32nd envelope experiment, in the 232nd session for February 9,1966.)

[...] The whole pattern was made up of lines and white spots which do not show very well in my tracing. [...]

[...] See the tracing on page 162, and the description of the object on page 163. [...]

[...] On the original many small white interstices show that are not visible on the quick tracing. [...]

(Tracings of the matchbook cover used as the object in the 55th envelope experiment, in the 260th session for May 18,1966.)

(Slow at 9:43.) These coordinate points — absolute, main, or subordinate — represent accumulations or traces of pure energy, minute to an extreme if you are thinking in terms of size — smaller than any particle of which your scientists know for example, but composed of pure energy. [...]

[...] While they are traces or accumulations of pure energy, there is a great difference between the amount of energy available in the various subordinate points, and between the main and the absolute points.

(See the tracing of the envelope object on page 171. [...]

[...] See the tracing of the object on page 171. [...]

[...] Tracing of the pencil drawing of Jane, used as the object in the 56th experiment.)