“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

There are indeed financial changes for the better about to happen on your part. These is a further financial connection to occur within six months, I believe. (Long pause.)

Connection with an encounter. The number 6. 6 PM, 6 as a date, we shall see.

A connection with greed—a grasp. With an article, an article of clothing. A four plus one, and an initial—initials—I believe three, J A B. (Pronounced almost as a question.) Masculine. Playground. Squares. Toreador. Rectangular with stripes.

A call. The color black. Four numbers. A one and a nine. A date. Perhaps 1963, and a scroll of sorts. Connection with three people and a fourth, separated.

Horizontal lines (envelope still to forehead horizontally) with a small square. Piccadilly Square. A city. Very distant connection with something like Cincinnati, Ohio.

Four seven one. A center upright. Six again, I do believe referring to time. An address and a connection with wood. With a momentous occasion of some kind; not usual  occasion. Somehow different.

The color yellow. Numbers or mathematics. Nine. An object having to do with a knife, and a pen. Sharp and pointed. A room with something missing. A C and a J. And an abstract design. Metallic connection, and warmth.

(“What’s that connection with greed or grasp?”)

I am not sure. Holding onto, reaching out toward, with some urgency. An unassailable position. A Q. A great deal of fuss. A small rectangular object, perhaps of metal, with numbers upon it. Such as, for example, a small license plate, that would carry numbers and notations, and be metallic and connected with travel. And the color orange and black, and an automobile perhaps.

No. I am saying that the image I see gives me this impression. It may or may not be the actual object, but seems to be strongly connected with it. And something raised up from a surface, as something embossed.

A connection with several circular shapes, rather oval.

No. (Pause.) I simply see the large capitals J A B, and do not know their precise meaning. Perhaps four connected here.

Future events. Connected with past events.

Ruburt here has a phone connection, of course.

(“What’s that toreador connection?”)

A red and violent connection. High activity connected with a male, of repressed violent tendencies, in the situation.

I do not know. Connection with a past incident at about that time, and a seeming connection with a 1967 incident yet to occur. February and October. And a foreign element of some kind.

That was a result of a square impression. But this also has to do with a connection out of country.

A long locomotive, and a connection with a note mentioning time.

(This proved to be the end of the session although we did not realize it at the time. We made our own connections however as usual.

(“Connection with an encounter.” Jane said this is definitely a reference to her first day of teaching, October 11,1966. The object is from the paycheck for this day’s work. Jane said that although she liked teaching, the first encounter with a class is one to be remembered. She has had odd jobs teaching in the past, but never in a school system, in a formal classroom, etc.

(“A connection with greed—a grasp.” Jane took the teaching job for the high pay given; this is the main reason she accepted it. It is the highest paying job she has ever had, $25.00 a day.

(“A four plus one”, No connections in particular, although there are several fours and ones on the envelope object. There are also fives. But no 41. Speculation.

(“and an initial—initials—I believe three, J A B.” Jane believes this refers to herself, and if so it is a strong connection with the object of course. Jane has no middle name now; her name used to be Dorothy Jane Roberts but she dropped the Dorothy when we were married 11 years ago. She chose the saint’s name of Ann however, as a Catholic girl at about age 12. But she puzzled over why the A would crop up now, since she never uses it. Nor did she particularly.

(“Masculine.” No connections.

(“Toreador.” We made no connection here, but a legitimate one developed during the question-and-answer period.

(“A date. Perhaps 1963, and a scroll of sorts.” We believe this data goes together, although there is a date, October 27,1966, on the object. The scroll we think of as symbolic of education or school. In 1963, Jane talked to a class conducted by Mr. Clauss, at Elmira College, subject poetry. The college connection arose recently, because Jane also applied for a teaching job there, as well as in the Elmira school system.

(“Connection with three people and a fourth, separated.” Too vague. Jane said one interpretation could be that we know three other teachers personally; the fourth, separated, would be Mr. Clauss whom Jane met twice perhaps a couple of years ago. I have never met him.

(“A city. Very distant connection with something like Cincinnati, Ohio.” A possible distant connection: At the end of her second day of teaching Jane was given a ride home by a next-door neighbor who is also a teacher. The neighbor is from Ohio, but not Cincinnati, which could account for Seth’s reference to “something like” Cincinnati. In addition, the neighbor had just returned to Elmira from a trip to Ohio, so the Ohio thought was mentioned in the conversation more than once. City is also mentioned on the object itself—City School District, etc.

(“Four seven one.” No connections, other than the many numbers on the object.

(“Six again, I do believe referring to time.” Another reference to the fact that Jane must begin taking 6 credits a year at Elmira College, after she has taught in the public school system 40 days. Thus there is a time connection.

(“An address and a connection with wood.” No connections.

(“The color yellow.” No connections.

(“Numbers or mathematics.” The object contains many numbers. A mathematics connection that is possible: a friend of Jane’s who is also a substitute teacher told Jane that she had a lot of trouble trying to teach the “new mathematics.”

(“Nine.” No connections.

(“An object having to do with a knife, and a pen. Sharp and pointed.” These data seem to go together. Jane recalled a connection with a pen, but nothing for a knife. She made a special effort to always have a pen with her when teaching, since she required one so often.

(“Metallic connection, and warmth.” Both sections of this data are dealt with in answer to the first question.

(1st Question: What’s that connection with greed or grasp? “I am not sure. Holding onto, reaching out toward, with some urgency. An unassailable position. A Q. A great deal of fuss.” As stated, this data applies to Jane’s taking the teaching job, and her grim determination to keep it at all costs. She felt it urgent that she do so. A great deal of fuss was involved, also. We saw no particular connection for Q.

(“A small rectangular object, perhaps of metal, with numbers upon it. Such as, for example, a small license plate, that would carry numbers and notations, and be metallic and connected with travel. And the color orange and black, and an automobile perhaps.” All of this refers to Jane’s taking a taxi to the various schools in town, whenever she was called. I was not available to take her, having already left for work except on the first occasion. The taxi she used was orange and black.

(2nd Question: Are you saying this is the object? “No. I am saying that the image I see gives me this impression. It may or may not be the actual object, but seems to be strongly connected with it. And something raised up from a surface, as something embossed.” More on the taxi-auto connection regarding Jane’s teaching, from whence comes the envelope object: Probably the multitude of numbers on the object also related it closely in the data to the license and auto ideas. By asking this question I hoped to lead Seth to be more specific about the object itself.

(4th Question: Can you say something about the initials J A B? “A connection with several circular shapes, rather oval.” Here Seth was still considering the previous questions pertaining, Jane thought, to the automobile or taxi idea.

(5th Question: The oval shapes are related to J A B? “No. I simply see the large capitals J A B, and do not know their precise meaning. Perhaps four connected here.” See the J A B data at the bottom of page 146. The question was an attempt to get more data on them. We see no connection with four here, particularly.

(7th Question: What kind of events? “Future events. Connected with past events.” This could apply to the object, since this employee pay record has boxes or spaces on it for the entry of moneys toward retirement, savings bonds, credit union, etc., for steadily-employed teachers. Jane had no entries in these spaces. Later note by Jane: Unknown to us at this time I was to end up with another teaching position, in answer to an ad I had not yet read.

(8th Question: What does that call and the color black refer to? “Ruburt has a phone connection, of course.” Jane had to have a phone put in for the teaching job, since she would be on daily call. She insisted on a black wall phone, in the face of the company’s efforts to sell her more expensive colored phones, etc. We regard this as good data.

(9th Question: What’s that toreador connection? “A red and violent connection. High activity connected with a male, or repressed violent tendencies, in the situation.” This is also good data, and related to the envelope object in that it refers to an event taking place in Jane’s classroom on her second day of teaching. [The object represents Jane’s first day of teaching.] Briefly, a very violent scene was enacted before Jane and her class. A male teacher entered with a young male student in tow, and literally threw the student across the classroom in a violent fit of anger. The bout resulted from the student’s misbehavior in the hall.

(11th Question: What’s the 1963 mention? “I do not know. Connection with a past incident at about that time, and a seeming connection with a 1967 incident yet to occur.” See the 1963 data on page 147. As stated the date could very well refer to the time Jane lectured a class at Elmira College on poetry. The connection would be the teaching activity as related to the envelope object.

(“And a foreign element of some kind.” Jane now said she thought this data somewhat distorted, and that by foreign she meant something new and strange to her, rather than literally out of the country. Yet Seth appears to think the Picadilly connection, next, a valid one.

(12th Question: You mentioned Piccadilly before. “That was a result of a square impression. But this also has to do with a connection out of country.” See our speculations regarding the Piccadilly data on page 147.

(“A long locomotive, and a connection with a note mentioning time.” We saw no obvious connections with locomotive. The object is concerned with a specific amount of time; although not a note, it is printed, and the printing conveys a message in detail.