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[...] Given the improvements that Jane has been showing since this series of sessions began, I’d say that both of us have moved much closer to that dedicated and joint desire to see Jane much better, as Seth mentioned on the first page of tonight’s session. I can note that I can see that time approaching, and that Jane feels the same way.)

(Tonight before the session we reread the deleted session for August 1, in which Seth had given some very optimistic forecasts for improvements on Jane’s part. [...] Not, however, Seth’s prediction that a vast improvement in Jane’s eyes would show up in a week to 10 days.

(This prediction was coupled with Jane’s use of the hot towels on her knees—as Seth has suggested she do often in the recent sessions—and which Jane has largely ignored. [...]

(Jane’s eyes had been better the last couple of days, yet not nearly as much improved as we wanted them to be.

1. Last summer, through the mail, Jane and I had our own encounters with Dr. Camper. Those events are too complicated to go into here, but Jane is devoting considerable space to them in her own God of Jane.

[...] Now Seth gave a few paragraphs for Jane, then said good night at 10:10 P.M. Even with the many pauses she’d used this evening—most of which I didn’t indicate—Jane’s delivery had often been quite intent and meaningful. [...]

[...] He gave me a knowing, half-smiling look while delivering this paragraph, for it was obvious that his material was related to a note I’d shown Jane today—one I’m finishing for Mass Events. In it, I’m trying to deal very simply with both the uncertainty principle and the complementarity of light, among other tenets of physics. [...]

[...] Such interchanges among Jane, Seth, and me—and among books—often take place.

(I got to 330 at 12:05, just as Jane was taking her Darvoset. [...] Jane also ate little, except for several cups of iced chocolate milk. [...]

[...] I read the session to Jane at her request. [...] Probably my own attitude and mood today, of course — yet the session could have been any one of a similar kind that Jane had given in the last ten years. [...]

(At 2:30 Jane began having panic attacks, just as she’s been doing lately. [...]

(Jane seemed to feel and speak much better after the session. [...]

(Jane relied on her impulses and Framework 2 for her decision—actions that she would have probably found very difficult to carry out earlier. [...] Oversoul Seven is also involved in some fashion, especially the movie aspects —for when Jane called Eleanor Friede to offer her Emir, Eleanor told Jane she was about to call her about Seven, the call having to do with possible motion picture connotations, through a well-known screenwriter; that is the kind of event intertwined with the whole affair; nor have Jane and Eleanor contacted each other for probably a couple of years.

[...] Jane’s ability to deal with others is obviously better. [...] I don’t think it any coincidence that Jane contacted Eleanor, who is the editor for Dick Bach, who is a counterpart of Jane’s. [Jane first called Pat Golbitz, but Pat was out of her office—so Pat doesn’t get to see Emir first.]

[...] Tam called Jane to inform her that Eleanor called John Nelson [which Jane already knew] —but that Eleanor and her screenwriter friend had the money to do a movie for Seven. [...] Clare Townsend of 20th Century-Fox called Tam today and asked about seeing the manuscript of Jane’s second Oversoul Seven book, which Jane has just begun typing. [...]

[...] Jane has withdrawn Emir from consideration at Prentice-Hall, and in back of that decision lies a story too complicated to recite in detail here. [...] Jane feared the book, which she regards as the beginning of Oversoul Seven, would be lost in a tiny printing. [...]

(Jane was full of restless, positive energy this afternoon and evening. I viewed it as a helpful expression, and wondered if it was connected with the letter she had received from Harry Edwards, in England, last Friday, August 9. In the letter Edwards told of a program he had begun, to send healing energy to Jane.

(Jane talked to Don Wollheim of Ace Publications on the phone today, and he requested that she send him her book on dreams. Before the session I showed Jane the list of questions we had compiled from recent sessions.)

(At 8:55 PM Jane had the impression of the name, Alice Prentice, as that of the deceased high-school classmate of mine, who was now dead, that I had helped astrally. [...]

(At break I told Jane I also had a teacher named Miss Prince, but am unsure now of the grade she taught.

(Tonight after supper I took Jane to the chiropractor for treatment of her stiff neck. Before the session I spoke aloud to Seth, asking him for straight answers to my questions about Jane’s symptoms lately. On June 5 I held a two-hour pendulum session of my own, concerning Jane’s symptoms, and received some revealing answers about the role I have played in them. [...]

(Jane’s signing a “contract” to work next winter was a point that completely escaped both of us when her symptoms became aggravated. [...] It is actually merely a piece of paper, and the agreement it contains can be terminated at any time by either Jane or her employer.

(Practically as soon as I finished speaking to Seth, Jane’s eyes closed. [...]

(Jane had voiced these thoughts while getting supper this evening; it was the first time I had heard her speak this way. [...]

(Tam wrote Jane on January 2, 1973, asking for some material on his dream of the night before. In distorted form he picked up that Jane and I had decided on January 2 that Adventures in Consciousness would not be written or contracted; that in daytime working hours Jane was to go full steam ahead on her own writing, etc. Jane called him on the morning of the second of January. [...]

[...] Jane’s trance had been deep, her delivery rapid and intent. [...] “All right, all right,” Jane said to the invisible Seth. [...]

[...] On the day it was held, January 10, Seth said there wouldn’t be any more great trouble for Jane through the tooth symptoms. [...] The tooth symptoms have hung on, perhaps not as severely; they frighten Jane a good deal. [...]

(Jane had the “tooth bit” in a rather distant way, briefly after breakfast and after supper today. [...]

[...] Jane was dissociated as usual. Bill received a nine-word sentence of Jane’s during delivery, before she voiced it. [...] Jim stated that the personal information about himself was correct, although neither Jane nor myself had any knowledge of these things, having met him but briefly on a few occasions some months ago.

(Jim’s friend was unable to come, but Jim, Bill, Jane and I began to discuss Seth at about 7:30 Friday night. [...] Jane and I feel that we cannot rush her development, nor do we have any desire to, so the letter left us somewhat at a loss; we finally decided to let events take their course, and send the A.S.P.R. any data in which they might be interested, when, if ever, it manifested itself.

(At 10:25 Jane abruptly handed to me a paper and pencil and pointed to the table. [...] Jane began to dictate then in a strong and somewhat deeper voice, pacing rather energetically. [...]

[...] Jane was fully dissociated. Jim felt more comfortable now, his chills had abated; my hand was okay; and Bill had a list of perhaps two dozen instances wherein he had known beforehand what series of words Jane would use to present certain thoughts. [...]

(Yesterday, 6/16, Jane and I bid a last farewell to Dee Masters and her husband, who left for a resort in Vermont for the summer. Dee had been Jane’s director at the art gallery for about 2½ years. Last Saturday, 6/13, Jane and I had attended a cocktail party for Dee, and Seth referred to this event briefly in the 62nd session.

(At this moment, by coincidence both Jane and John lit cigarettes. Jane smokes often during her deliveries, yet has little memory of doing so. Habit operates here to perfection, since while delivering material Jane will pick up her package of cigarettes, shake one out, light it and puff away, without losing track at all of her material.)

[...] Jane’s father is visiting us for a few days. [...] Jane experienced no discomfort of any kind as session time came and went. At session time Jane, Del, Midge [his companion] and I were visiting our landlord and his wife at their farm in Pine City.

[...] Jane was dissociated as usual. During break Jane, John and I discussed the above material, wondering what transpires when the three of us with our different viewpoints looked at the same object, for example our TV set; did we all see the same object?

[...] I still felt much better, and thought that Jane did too. [...] Jane was quiet as she sat at the card table in the living room while I worked. [...]

(Appearances can be deceiving, though: After lunch Jane told me that her feelings of panic had returned [see the session for November 7, for instance]. [...]

[...] Jane’s voice trembled. [...]

(“Maybe if you’ll let me mutter on,” Jane said, with nearly a laugh. [...]

[...] This was more to save me work in finishing up notes than because of any tiredness on Jane’s part. [...]

(Jane has been back on a regular schedule of psychological time now for a while, on the restricted twenty-minute schedule set by Seth. [...]

(Jane’s cold still lingered to a lesser degree. [...]

(Jane had no idea of the material for the session beforehand. [...]

(I also asked if Seth would comment upon the postponement by Gallery magazine, this month, of their interview with Jane, scheduled for January 23, a class night. Jane received a telegram from Richard Kearns a few days before the 23rd. [...] Even though Jane received a second telegram a few days ago, again promising the letter.

[...] I asked if Seth could comment on the fact that F. Fell had canceled, or postponed, the appearance of the paperback edition of Jane’s ESP Power. We’ve learned this is the case through various people who have written to Jane—they had written the publisher. [...]

(In mid-February, Richard Kearns finally called Jane, to tell her he’d been fired from Gallery. [...]

[...] Seth’s naming a good number of class members as counterparts came as no great surprise to Jane and me — but it did make us more than a little suspicious at first. [...] Then, in the 726th session, Seth named Jane and me as counterparts of each other. [...] Jane’s feelings were pretty similar to mine, when Seth named three students as her counterparts: Sue Watkins, Zelda, and “the young man from Maryland….”

(Our suspicions entered in, however, when Jane and I realized that between us [and including each other] we were personally acquainted with nine counterparts: All but one of them [Alan Koch] were class members. As Jane wrote:

(My counterpart, Peter Smith, and I are both professional artists; we’re roughly of an age, with strong interests in other forms of creativity, such as writing, and in myth and fantasy.¹ A number of the similarities and differences between Jane and me should be obvious to our readers; she also does quite a lot of painting. Both of my other class counterparts, Norma Pryor and Jack Pierce, are themselves of a younger generation than Jane, Peter, and I. Jack writes novels, as yet unpublished. [...]

(Jane’s own counterparts, Sue, Zelda, Alan Koch, “Maryland,” and myself are all committed to the dissemination of Seth-type ideas, either through professional writing, classes, and/or lecture appearances that extend from one end of the country to the other.

(Jane ate a good lunch. A nurse’s aide brought us a copy of the regular menu, compared to the one for soft foods that Jane has always used, and we discovered that there isn’t all that much difference between the two.

(Jane looked at herself in the mirror today after lunch — the second day in a row that she’s done so. [...]

[...] Jane began reading yesterday’s session, and obviously did better than she had yesterday. [...]

(3:20 Jane finished reading the session aloud, and did very well at it, especially toward the end. [...]

(During this part of the impromptu session Jane’s voice became very loud and strong at times; it did not match the effects of the recorded 170th session, but came close once or twice. [...] Jane’s eyes were open for the most part by now, and she, or Seth, often looked deliberately at me, knowing my embarrassment. [...] At times Jane got to her feet and tipped her head back, as she had done in the 170th session. At these points Seth would remark about using such a position to attain more power, and would talk about how impossible such an effect was for Jane to attain normally.)

[...] What follows is Jane’s own reconstruction of the session, made two days later; for this reason I think it interesting, aside from its intrinsic content, in that it reveals that Jane was able to recall quite an amount of what she said while in the trance state.

[...] Jane was on her knees before the recorder; we had found a strong passage. [...] Jane’s voice was strong from the beginning.)

(As often happens when witnesses are present, Seth was in a fine and frisky mood; there is no doubt that a witness or two will produce what appears to be abundant extra energy on Seth/Jane’s part. [...] Jane appears to be swept up, fully involved in the role, and thoroughly enjoying it. [...]

[...] Jane was dissociated as usual. [...] Jane and I both tried to fill him in rapidly on the inner senses, but surprisingly between us we had trouble explaining them. [...] And yet, as Jane observed, sometimes under these conditions the material that comes through from Seth is excellent.

(In a further effort to relax, Jane worked on a painting of her own until 8:30 PM. [...] After the glaring distortions of last session Jane had decided that she must relax, witnesses or no, so as the time for the session approached the radio still played, and we played with Willy, our cat, and exchanged banter with John.

[...] While Jane continued to pace about the [...] Jane continued without a break.)

[...] Jane was dissociated as usual. [...] When Jane began dictating again her voice was quieter. [...]

10:07 P.M. Once Jane was out of trance, I told her that most of Seth’s material since break can also be considered book work, including his hint about his own reality. He’d alluded to her notes a little more, but I was disappointed that he hadn’t developed two particular thoughts Jane had picked up from him today. [...]

3. Seth’s material in this paragraph reminded me at once of Jane’s own early, intuitive concept of the moment point. [...] I wrote that at the age of 25, nine years before initiating the sessions, Jane expressed the moment point in her poem, “More Than Men.” [...]

(As she enthusiastically noted in her journal recently, Jane has had “loosenings all over” of her physical symptoms. [...]

She’s just as enthusiastic over having organized the rest of her God of Jane. [...]

(At supper time this evening I told Jane that tonight she was going to  start dictating a new book for Seth, the “energy personality essence” for whom she speaks while she’s in trance — and that she was going to do the notes also. I’d record the “sessions,” adding times, dates, and the barest sort of other material, so that Jane could build up her own notes around those ingredients. My idea here was that as soon as I had a session typed from my original “shorthand,” Jane could add whatever she wanted to about her trance states, feelings, or ideas, while the session circumstances were still fresh in her mind.

(So it seemed that we were about to get underway with another excellent production from Seth, with Jane’s considerable — indeed vital — help. I understood that she might be a little concerned about his starting a new book on such short notice; but on the other hand, I had no doubt at all that Seth — and Jane — could do it. [...]

[...] Jane finally admitted earlier today that she’s had only seven sessions since then because she didn’t want to make too much extra work for me while I’m busy with the complicated notes for that book. [...]

(Jane said very little when I sprang the idea of a new book on her during the supper hour. [...]

[...] Jane still has on hand the contracts for Mass Events and God of Jane waiting for these to be straightened out: amended with Tam’s promised “superamendment” that’s supposed to protect us in the rights departments, paperback covers, and all the rest; jacket copy, etc. Prentice-Hall even wanted to have Jane sign contracts giving them the right to take money from Mass Events to pay for God of Jane. [...] I for one am in favor of taking a stand, as Jane well knows, but as I’ve told her, I don’t expect her to go along. [...]

[...] I thought I was doing something by working hard on that book, to get it underway in an organized fashion, I told Jane as we sat for the session—so what happened? [...] This would involve holding the sessions, but letting Jane herself do any work about producing books for the market. [...] I believe that Jane at last understands that I’m quite capable of reacting that way, that I would refuse to indefinitely put up with our present kind of hassles with Prentice-Hall, or any other entity. [...]

[...] even though Jane suggested one. [...] The urinary problem still plagued me no end, and tonight the pressure was heavy; hence, I gave in and asked Jane for help. [...]

(During last week Jane told me she’d picked up that my troubles had been set off by the death of Bill Crowder on October 2. Betts didn’t write us about the death until we received her letter of the 25th on the 26th—which date being the day before I became ill. I hadn’t paid more than normal attention to Bill’s death, I thought, beyond feeling sympathy, and speculating with Jane about the money he must have left. [...]

(I read my two questions to Jane as we waited for tonight’s session to begin. [...] Actually, Jane had grown very relaxed since suppertime; so much so that she’d considered skipping the session. [...] Jane sipped from a glass of wine. [...]

(See Appendix 10 for a summary of Jane’s psychic work in connection with “the affair of the missing person,” as we came to call it. [...] I’ve added a few quotes from Jane and Seth to the appendix material.

(On Wednesday, March 27, we received from Jane’s publisher the page proofs for Seth’s second book, The Nature of Personal Reality: A Seth Book.¹ No session was held that night. [...] We disliked interrupting our creative rhythms in that fashion, although in the meantime Jane kept ESP class going as usual, coming through as Seth and as Sumari within that context. [...]

(On Friday morning March 29, I told Jane that sometime during the previous night I had awakened with the certain knowledge that I’d just finished having two dreams at once. [...] Neither Jane nor I remembered hearing of, or experiencing, what I’ll call double dreaming. [...]