“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The day is warm — 33 degrees — and the snow and ice are melting. This morning I worked on the final copy of our 1983 taxes, and will mail them to our accountant Monday morning. I brought Jane’s eyebrow pencil to her at 330.

(3:15. Jane looked at herself in the mirror after she put on lipstick. She even smiled — “Since I’m supposed to” — and did well. I darkened her brows with the pencil, and she looked fine.

[...] It appears that the above is another reference to the art work Bill Ward sent me, since it contains grays done in pencil as well as black ink; the grays can easily look metallic when a certain density is reached, for the graphite in the pencils acquires a dull sheen, similar to an aluminum look.

[...] Jane had never seen the object; I obtained it today, October 24, from Marjorie Buck, the proprietor, when I bought pencils and paper stumps with which to do the job my old friend, Bill Ward, mailed to me over the weekend. [...]

[...] This afternoon, October 24, Marjorie asked me to locate the pencils and stumps I wanted in The Art Shop storeroom. [...]

[...] I asked if he could say a few words; she told me to get paper and pencil.)

[...] Frank comes in for a pencil; the symphony reaches a crescendo... [...]

[...] She also wants me to bring in an eyebrow pencil, so she can use that with her lipstick.

[...] Of course, the lipstick is an excellent idea, and the eyebrow pencil, so that he begins to care for his face as he used to. [...]

[...] 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.

[...] The pencil drawing below the actual envelope object is explanatory only.

[...] See the pencil drawing on page 72. [...]

(The print is on the whole darker than my pencil indication on the preceding page, and of much better quality. [...]

[...] Following the instructions in the book, I traced the outline of my hand in pencil while pressing the inked surface against the white paper. [...]

[...] To Jane the shapes of my fingers as outlined in pencil on the print, were steeple shapes. [...]

[...] Gaye had darkened her brows with the eyebrow pencil earlier this morning.

[...] I wrote the date in pencil on the object the day I found it. [...]

[...] My penciled date on the object shows I picked it up on May 5,1966. [...]

[...] I penciled in the date, May 5,1966, on the object the day I found it and thought of using it for an experiment.

[...] There are two sets of these horizontal lines, across the top and the bottom of the words Key Value, and when one turns the drawing over on the back—not shown here—is seen the dark smudges of my pencil as I prepared the drawing for tracing onto paper. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

(“with suggestions of motion”, again refers to my drawing rather than the actual envelope object; the motion, Jane said, of my pencil smudges across the back of the drawing, and to the slant of the words This Week’s above the key and star.

[...] (A long pause at 10:13.) An indelible pencil in Dr. Instream’s pocket, with black lead. The pencil with a brand name on it, something like Connecticut.

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

(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. [...]

[...] Then she told me to get the mirror, lipstick, and eyebrow pencil. [...]

[...] The object marked in the middle of the back, in pen or pencil.

(I neglected to deal with Seth’s next impression, “The object marked in the middle of the back, in pen or pencil.”

[...] My corrections on the object were made with pencil. [...]

[...] She finally told me that when she first looked at the envelope object during break, she read my penciled word “Man-a-me,” to the right of the poem used as object, as “Man-O-War,” which is the name of a very famous race horse. [...]

[...] I do not believe that the rings themselves are larger than a pencil—thicker, that is, but the circles inside are large. [...]

[...] In pencil I wrote the day and date in the right-hand margin of the object: Wednesday, May 4,1966. [...]

[...] Note that the word “top” is penciled on the back of the Bristol; this was done by me after the experiment, but before Jane saw the objects, as will be shown later.

[...] Note the top marking in pencil on the back of the object, as indicated on the tracing on page 189.

[...] The object was a pencil drawing I made of Jane this afternoon, without her knowledge. [...]

[...] The drawing is composed of thin pencil lines in part at least, and these could in the abstract represent small roads on a map, or lines like cracks in dry ground.

[...] I’ve started a small oil painting based on the “chute” portion of the dream for July 7. I’ve also done a pencil sketch of one of the heads in the photos of myself in the reincarnational dream of July 17, in case I don’t get to paint it. [...]

[...] I dated it May 5,1966 in pencil. [...]

[...] The object contains my penciled date, May 5,1966, representing the day I found it after Jane had discarded it. [...]