“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Your stomach began to bother you when you considered whether or not to use photographs. (On Sunday, when I bought an album to keep them in.) You have the idea of how the book can appear, a model that exists in your mind. Use the model, but let it be a flexible one, in which your ideals work with the material at hand, molding it. Do not exaggerate, however, so that the ideal seems to be a perfection that cannot be attained given the conditions.

There is also a connection with your family’s photograph albums in general, and I have a suggestion to clearly give your father credit as photographer. Otherwise, regardless of what you say you thought, your mother would take my explanation as given.

(“I thought of the photo connection when I first bought the album, and told Jane what I had in mind. But I got off the track with the pendulum. I never got a clear idea of what bothered me. I didn’t ask the right questions; I knew this when my stomach kept bothering me. I finally got so confused I stopped trying to use it.”

[...] Unless you realize this, some of your “dream albums” will make no sense to you.

[...] There is some finesse required as you learn to interpret the individual pictures within your dream album. [...]

[...] Perhaps the object has been in a book or album. [...]

(“Perhaps the object has been in a book or album.” [...]

[...] Connection with a photograph I believe, or other object with triangular corners that photographs usually fit into in an album.

(“Connection with a photograph, I believe, or other object with triangular corners that photographs usually fit into in an album.” [...]

[...] She saw these photos quite clearly, she said, and knew that two of them were in our album, and the third in a file of her own. [...]

[...] We have photos of buildings in our album, of course, but no specific building or location comes to mind.

The Butts family albums contain numerous photographs of my father as a young man, many of them self-taken with the aid of a timer; he poses with a variety of automobiles and motorcycles through the years before his marriage to my mother in 1917, and afterward, too. [...]

[...] (Later I found several old photographs of it in one of our family albums, and was reminded that in those days the streets had no curbs.) Even today I can recall most of the families, and their children, who’d lived in the immediate area. [...]

[...] There were family pictures in an old album showing him proudly standing next to one when he was courting Rob’s mother. [...]

9. On facing pages in our album, Jane and I have a pair of large, rather formal photographs of ourselves that we’ve often joked about. [...]

[...] The numbers three seven, and diagonal marks on the four corners of a rectangular piece of paper, connected perhaps with a photograph album.

(The photograph of me, taken and dated by my father [Robert Sr.], has been kept in one of the Butts family albums for 53 years. [...]

[...] As a wedding present he created an album of the ceremony that Jane and I treasured. [...]