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(Pete surprised me by saying that he’d talked to Fred Kardon yesterday, here in town. Fred, he said, was on the defensive. Pete ended up getting mad at him—for Fred contradicted himself by saying that Jane required acute care, but that all the other facilities in town said they rejected her for that very reason. I don’t know whether I’m correct in this interpretation or not, but Pete said Fred was evidently trying to protect himself. So’s everyone else, I said. I told Pete about Fred signing that form on November 18, saying Jane didn’t require acute care.

(I kept the session in mind, so I didn’t go so far as to tell Pete to go all out and start suing everybody—although we’ve discussed litigation re the insurance. But what I want Pete to do is to thoroughly familiarize himself with all facets of our “case,” so that we can then make some intelligent decisions. I didn’t even tell Pete that, but will probably end up doing so. Now I don’t know whether to call Fred and get mad this afternoon, or what, considering the material in the session. The session may be acting as a healthy brake on my going too far, too quickly. If so, I’m grateful.

(I did call Pete at 9:00 AM. and outlined as best I could yesterday’s events. I’m to mail him all the forms and figures I got from Kim Evans. Pete said that at the moment he was as confused as I was. “These people all speak their own languages,” he said, “and if you’re on the outside you don’t know what they’re saying.” Too true.

(I went over to the Infirmary’s office with them after the meeting to get a bunch of papers Kim wanted to give me, because doing it this way would save me an extra trip sometime later. While there I expressed quite plainly my opinion that Jane and I were being manipulated, that I was getting mad at everybody. I wanted her to get that message, and told her Pete H. would be calling. She gave me a lot of figures I only partially understood. She also asked me about Jane’s assets. When I gave a rough estimate, she said that ruled out applying for something called Hill-Burton funds for payment toward the insurance bill, I believe. In other words, one has to be indigent before any help is offered, it seems.

Julie, Steve, and Pete—You should all read any books you can find concerning parapsychology and psychic phenomena. The more you read the more you will understand of Pete’s ability, and the more indeed that you can develop your own abilities. [...]

([Pete:] “Hi, Seth.”)

[...] To our friend Pete, and to Stephen and Julie.

[...] Ruburt has endeavored to speak to Pete and explain to him how his ability should be used and should not be used.

(Because I was impatient after breakfast this morning I called Pete Harpending’s office at 8:30. [...] Pete said that few such cases go to litigation—which surprised me a bit. [...] Then I gave Pete Mary Krebs’s phone number, in Utilization Review at the hospital; she determines the level of patient care, reviews medical records, etc. Pete said he’d call back. [...]

(I also told Pete that Andy Fife had told me that Jane had been rejected by the other facilities in the area, because in their opinion she required too much personal care. [...] I’d thought A. Fife mistaken yesterday, but he’d repeated the same thing to Pete, and gave him file and form numbers. [...]

(“Anyhow,” Pete told me, “I know it may not be easy, but I want you and Jane to not worry. [...] Pete wants Fred K. to write a letter, or something like that. [...]

(“Maybe you can light a fire under Fred about the letter,” I’d told Pete. [...] Pete hadn’t asked me for any files or records, as I’d expected him to.

([RFB & Pete:] “Good evening, Seth.”

[...] (Pause, gesture to Pete.) In this way, you switch from one set of probabilities to another, and in this case to your advantage.

[...] (Facing Pete.)

([Pete:]“Yes.”)

(This morning I called Pete Harpending, and passed on the information from Jane that Fred Kardon was out of town this week—on vacation in Florida. “Not bad, huh?” I told Pete about the prospective evaluation by the people from the infirmary a block away, and mentioned to him that Jane didn’t want to be moved. Pete told me that he’d called Mary Krebs back, or that she had called him, a second time on that first day last week—Friday. [...]

(Then Pete gave me some surprising news: Jack Joyce has gone out of business in Corning, and is working for a convalescent home down in southern Pennsylvania, I think Pete said. [...] Pete is going to ask Carnevale and Niles if they’ll do our taxes. [...]

[...] Fred hadn’t heard from Pete, she learned. [...] I’ll have Pete try to get in touch with him first thing in the morning. [...]

(When I called Pete back I told him about the Steve affair, and he said I should think twice before I cut out something that might give us extra income in the future. [...] Pete agreed with my reasons for cutting the affair short, though. [...]

(“Do you want to tackle one of Pete’s questions?”

(I had beside me a list of questions Pete had written out.)

(To Pete:) You did not know Ruburt nor Joseph in a past life. [...]

(“Pete wants to know if he’s sensed your presence since he’s been here.”)

[...] Session recorded for Pete.)

[...] (Pete’s brother.) We find a confusion in body chemistry, caused either by the diet itself at present, or alternating changes of diet. [...]

[...] (Eyes closed, smiling, Jane leaned toward Pete.) Now, my dear young man, quite innocently, you have made an early and understandable error. [...]

[...] Pete said the back condition mentioned could apply to either his father or brother. [...]

(Seth, much amused, leaned toward Pete. [...]

(Seth’s manner in speaking to Pete was, on the overall, quite restrained and serious, and the difference from his usual manner was quite obvious to the Gallaghers and myself. [...]

([Pete:] “Thank you.”

[...] (To Pete.)

[...] I plan to call Pete at 9:00 AM, and will take it from there. I’d told Andrew Fife that Pete would be calling him, probably requesting records, and that Fred Kardon may be called or asked for a statement, and so forth. [...]

[...] At once I thought of an appeal through Pete Harpending, of course, and a possible lawsuit. [...]

[...] He suggested I see Pete Harpending, our lawyer, right away, saying that we have a good case. [...]

[...] Nevertheless, I stopped at the post office on my way to the hospital to mail all of the information about the Infirmary and Steve to Pete. [...]

(“Sometimes,” I said as I talked with Jane after she’d had her lunch, “I feel like just saying the hell with it all and waiting ‘till something happens—‘till someone gets on us for money, or something—and then turning the whole thing over to Pete if necessary.” [...]

[...] I’d told Pete that I’d spoken with Kathleen Murdock—I think. [...]

(I told her about my morning’s activities—going to see Pete Harpending, decisions to ask Steve and Tracy for money, the $10,000 I gave the billing department of the hospital this noon on my way to room 330. [...] This morning I showed Pete Saul Cohen’s letter of late last week, re Steve’s idea for a Seth Production Co. When Pete called Steve this morning he learned Steve had sent his proposal to Prentice-Hall a week ago, so Saul should have it by now.

(Bill Gallagher, who was at the party also, wondered if Pete Tomoski. [...] Checking with Tom Hartley’s wife after the party, Jane learned for sure that Pete Tomoski does wear a toupee, being self-conscious of his baldness because he is a barber... [...]

[...] They are Don Simmons and Pete Tomoski, high school classmates of mine from Sayre, PA; I had not seen them for 33 years [1937]. [...]

(Pete and Don drove to Elmira from Sayre in one car; “together”, as mentioned by Seth.

[...] However, the hair portion of the data applies to Don’s friend Pete; whom, presumably, “Jane could offer nothing about.”

[...] She knows of Pete Harpending through a family connection, and I told her to feel free to call him. I’ll send Pete her name and number. [...]

[...] I hadn’t received any calls from Pete or anybody else, which I hardly expected anyhow. [...]

(At break Pete described the class experience in some very Sumari English.)

(To Pete.) Right off is much better than right on. [...]

(Sumari came through with a message to Molly, Pete, Bette, Phil, and Florence. [...]

[...] Note that Bill is also in California now—Santa Barbara—quite a distance up the coast from San Diego, where Pete lives. [Pete, at the moment as far as we know, is in the Hawaiian Islands.] Bill and Pete met once at our apartment two years ago.

[...] The intensity traveled; now it was located in the blue wine decanter given to us by our friend Pete from San Diego, California.

(To Pete Sawyer.) Some who are hiding behind words because they are afraid of the inner experience, that is quite available for them. [...]

(Pete remarked Seth’s accent sounded Indian.)

([Pete:] “Is each personality aware of itself and the other selves also, at the same time?”)

(To Pete.) Over here we find a connection with Iraq, a strong psychic ability and you hide behind words often, to avoid experience. [...]

[...] and you [Phil] never knew, never went back, and you’re meeting Pete K. now ...and I’m trying like hell to cut the emotion part out ‘cause I don’t want to get into...” [...]

(Janice said she felt Pete was that baby, and all three agree he was. [...]

[...] As we talked Jane said the idea may even have ramifications that may touch Pete Harpending, our attorney. [...]

(We haven’t heard from Pete this week, by the way, but Jane said she hadn’t expected to—that nothing will transpire business-wise until the new year is in.)

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