“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(“I pick up a very distant connection with Wisconsin, which I do not understand”, puzzled Jane, since she had no idea of what this could mean. I thought it might be a reference to the fact that my brother Loren, who wrote the test letter, is a model railroad fan. The magazine Model Railroader was, I thought, published in Wisconsin. There is a strong connection here because Loren has contributed articles and photographs to this magazine for many years. A trip to the newsstand to check verified my idea; Model Railroader has editorial offices in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Jane was especially pleased at this because she knows nothing of the hobby, or the magazine or its address. It took me two days after the session to come up with the connection with Wisconsin myself.

(“Also a connection with something like a flag.” More speculation: many of the symbols of the various railroads are designed in a flag shape, and Loren has made drawings of some of these symbols for publication, I believe, in Model Railroader.

(“and with objects seen from above.” This is speculation: Loren’s model railroad layout is built at waist-high level in the cellar of his home in Tunkhannock, PA. Thus while standing before it one looks down upon the small models of trains, etc.

[...] We could tell there was a railroad nearby, but it was so dark we could see nothing. [...]

[...] Railroad reminded her of a river, very narrow, that ran nearby.

[...] Virginia’s father had worked for the railroad’s business office, and it is likely that this emotional connection conditioned her to be interested generally in the railroad.

[...] On June 20, for example, Virginia Mallery, one of my students, told our class the following dream: “I saw freight cars on the ground by the railroad viaduct. [...]

[...] We were living in Sayre, Pennsylvania, a middle-class railroad town in which I’d grown up, which lies only 18 miles southeast of our present home in Elmira, New York. [...]

A distant connection with railroad tracks or parallel lines that certainly resemble them. [...]

[...] This was the railroad connection, an interpretation of the parallel lines. [...]

(At suppertime tonight we read a newspaper article about a 27-year-old man from Philadelphia who’d committed suicide in our area by having himself decapitated by a railroad train. [...]

[...] As a child, one of his tasks was to pick coal along the railroad tracks in winter.)

It’s an old, predominantly lower-middle-class railroad town that used to derive much of its importance from being a junction point for several major lines; yet it’s also the site of a well-known hospital and clinic that has continued to grow. [...]

A road, a highway or a railroad, a group of people and something pulls away. [...]

[...] All of us went through grade school and high school in Sayre, a railroad town in northeastern Pennsylvania: Our father settled his family there in 1923 when he opened an auto-repair and battery shop. [...]

[...] His passion was railroading, and after his retirement he and his wife traveled extensively by rail.