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(John said the separation of elements or dates could refer to the political office he was asked to run for. Since the income would mean a loss to John, he thought it might be supplemented by his holding a sinecure of a job at the same time; said job being furnished by a member of the political organization. John said this is often done in political life.

(The assistant district attorney is Clint Smith. John said that the senior partner in Smith’s law firm is named Murphy—hence the M initial. He is closer to the 47-year age limit, and has whitish hair. He is fuller in the face than Senator Dirksen, as Seth states. Murphy is also a Republican, as Dirksen is. John met Mr. Murphy just once, briefly, he states, and has no idea of the man’s position in politics, his influence, etc. It is possible that Murphy influenced Clint Smith.

(John stated that his brothers-in-law live in Philadelphia and have no connection with John in Williamsport, or his political activities, etc.

This could however apply to the political situation, though I do not see how.

2. A note added several months later: I see now that I should enlarge upon Note 2 for the 715th session, in which I wrote that Jane “would initiate the transposition of material from Volume 2 of ‘Unknown’ Reality into Politics, since she was so intimately and enthusiastically involved in producing both books at the same time.” [...] In the early chapters of Politics especially, then, she both quotes and paraphrases material from Volume 2, beginning with the 714th session, which contains her account of her original inspiration for that work.

For example, Jane began Politics by describing how impatient she was, how “disconnected” she felt, because she hadn’t been inspired since finishing Adventures two months previously. [...] In Volume 2, now, the reader can note the many events Jane was actually involved in before she began Politics (on October 23), and see just how objective her perception of her activities was — or see, really, the demanding standards of creativity against which she constantly judges herself

[...] I thought it interesting that as I was completing work for Jane’s first book on aspect psychology, she was starting Psychic Politics, the second one in the series. [...]

[...] She’d already done some writing yesterday, for Psychic Politics, leading toward this view⁵; so whatever we learned through Seth this evening, we already felt reasonably sure that in usual trite terms Jane hadn’t been communicating directly with two such famous personalities. [...]

His political movements are being closely watched by one man in particular, but the interest is being caused by his ability to organize, rather than because the political movement involved is a conservative one.

There is an individual within the political organization who, all unwittingly, gives information to Philip’s superiors through a family in-law relationship. If Philip for any reason allows his enthusiasm for this political group to wane, this will reduce his chances for advancement within the company, for it will be taken as a mark of fleeting interests.

[...] He said that as far back as last January his suspicions had become aroused, when one of his superiors had mentioned John’s involvement with a political organization. John had not told anyone in the company about his activities in politics at that time. [...]

Philip’s connection with the conservative groups, politically speaking, will strangely enough have something to do with the promotion which can be later expected. [...]

(Jane, in an obvious state of altered or enhanced consciousness, not only outlined all of Politics today, but wrote four manuscript pages that will either go into its Introduction or Chapter 1. All of the material poured out of her in a most remarkable, unimpeded way — “… as though it was already finished somewhere else, just waiting for me to get it down. [...] Involved with Politics is her perception of another version of herself in a psychic “library,” from which, evidently, she is to acquire a significant portion of her new book.

[...] Paradoxically, her inspired reception of the material for Psychic Politics came about not only because of her innate knowledge feeling-tones, but because she gave that basic creative phenomenon expression in Politics.

[...] She’s calling it Psychic Politics. [...]

[...] She was still exhilarated from her work on Politics. [...]

[...] I think it might have been written by a political figure, though I’m not sure….”

[...] Yet certainly in these pages we have presented several pictures of social and political realities that are far from ideal. [...]

[...] The means, however, have helped erode that ideal, and the public interpretation of Darwin’s principles was, quite unfortunately, transferred to the economic area, and to the image of man as a political animal.

(Pause.) This is carried through in economics, politics, medicine, the sciences, and even the religions. [...]

2. In Chapter 2 for Psychic Politics Jane presents not only her library material, but quotations from the 715th session for “Unknown” Reality itself. [...] By late November, in other words, Jane had signed a contract with Prentice-Hall for the publication of Politics in 1976, and had also had time to do considerable work on its early chapters. We already knew that she would initiate some transposition of material from Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality into Politics, since she was so intimately and enthusiastically involved in producing both works at the same time: I first wrote about such an exchange in Note 3 for Session 714 (when indicating that she’d used portions of that session in Chapter 1 of Politics).

(In the opening notes for last Wednesday’s session I described how Jane had started her new book, Psychic Politics, that same day while she had been immersed in a state of high creativity; I added that at the same time she’d become aware of a slightly different Jane in a psychic library from which, it seemed, she was to get much of the material for Politics. [...]

[...] She compared her feelings with those heightened perceptions she’d enjoyed so much yesterday and Wednesday in connection with the birth of Politics. [...]

[...] [And added later: I remind the reader to see her own much-longer account of the whole experience in Chapter 2 of Politics.] )

[...] When they do so appear, their work may set a spark that brings about changes, but they seldom take joint political action. [...]

[...] Psychically speaking, the Sumari often very nicely arrange existences in which they are a minority — in a democracy, say, so that they can work at their art within a fairly stable political situation. [...]

[...] You will seldom find them in politics. [...]

[...] I can note later that Jane dealt more extensively with the whole episode in Chapter 18 of Politics — [and also that it’s interesting to compare our individual accounts of the same event, even though mine is much shorter]. [...]

[...] As we waited I explained to her a few things about the political fighting in San Salvador; I’d just finished typing the last, 930th session, wherein I’d referred to the attached news clippings about that country’s travails. [...]

[...] They will always love pageantry, for example, symbolism and excitement, so that their public political events will stress such facts far more, say, than your own. [...]

The political arena was the practical working realm in which those ideals were to find fruition. [...]

[...] For the first time the modern world realized its vulnerability to political events, and technology and communication accelerated all of war’s dangers. [...]

[...] Politically, many today believe that Russia is “the enemy,” and that therefore any means may be taken to destroy that country. [...]

(Long pause.) The environment in which an outbreak occurs points at the political, sociological, and economic conditions that have evolved, causing such disorder. Often such outbreaks take place after ineffective political or social action — that is, after some unified mass social protest — has failed, or is considered hopeless. [...]

In some historical periods the plight of the poor was so horrible, so unendurable, that outbreaks of the plague occurred, literally resulting in a complete destruction of large areas of the environment in which such social, political, and economic conditions existed. [...]

[...] Social conditions, political states, economic policies, and even religious or philosophical frameworks that foster such mental states, bring about a biological retaliation. [...]

The sight of the dying gave them visions of the meaning of life, and stirred new [ideas] of sociological, political, and spiritual natures, so that in your terms the dead did not die in vain. [...]

[...] I said some usual polite things in a usual polite voice and that was that. [...]

[...] They will usually seek fairly stable political situations in which to bear their children, as the Sumari will to produce their art. They demand a certain amount of freedom for their children, however, and while they are not political activists, like the Sumari their ideas often spring to prominence before large social changes, and help initiate them. [...]

[...] They deal primarily in the great play of exchange and interchange of ideas, products, social and political concepts. They are travelers, carrying with them the ideas of one country to another, mixing cultures, religions, attitudes, political structures. [...]

As Jane wrote at about this time in her manuscript for Psychic Politics: “So in house hunting I can almost feel the shape of my ideas and beliefs looking for their proper house.” [...] Politics, of course, contains extensive material on the same subject (as well as on our house-hunting adventures).

[...] They are interested in the outsides of things, social mores, the marketplace, current popular religious or political ideas. [...]

We’d intended to publish Volume 1 before Politics, but since Jane finished her book before I could complete the notes for the two Seth books (I found it necessary to do many of the notes for both volumes together), we decided to publish Politics first instead. [...] So it’s obvious, then, that Politics jumps ahead of “Unknown” Reality as far as a strictly correct publishing chronology is concerned.

[...] But in October, 1974, long before our move from the two apartments we occupied in downtown Elmira, Jane started her Psychic Politics: An Aspect Psychology Book; that book is the sequel to Adventures in Consciousness, and is to be published this Fall (in 1976) by Prentice-Hall, Inc. Politics is also mentioned in the Epilogue to Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality, and my first session notes on it show up in Section 4, in the second volume.

[...] When I note, for example, that Psychic Politics “is to be published this Fall (in 1976),” I know, of course, that by the time the first volume of Seth’s work is in print in the spring of 1977, Politics will actually have been on sale for several months. [...]

In Politics Jane also refers to certain blocks of material that first appeared in “Unknown” Reality, so I’ve adjusted the appropriate notes in the latter to account for their earlier discussion. [...]

[...] But she’s so creative that as soon as she is through with one undertaking she’s ready to launch into another; and this applies even though she’s been working on Psychic Politics outside of the Seth framework. [...]

[...] For a little while he discussed Jane’s Politics, our relationship with others through the mail and by telephone, and a different kind of “inner listening” that we’d become involved in. [...]

We finally rested from the sessions for most of July, although Jane continued working on her Psychic Politics, among other projects. [...]

[...] She hasn’t written on Psychic Politics for a couple of days because of her persisting relaxed states.)

Politics will be an even better book than he hopes, so he is not to worry. [...]

Fresh input was also necessary for Psychic Politics in the beginning, and so were all of the moving episodes.

[...] After breakfast Jane enthusiastically set to work writing about her new ideas; she plans to use them in Psychic Politics. [...] She may revise her copy somewhat before it appears in Politics, but I prefer to quote from her original notes:

2. See Chapter 3 (among others) of Jane’s Politics: “Models and Beloved Eccentrics,” as well as Note 11 for the 721st session in this Volume 2.

6. A note added a few days later: In revised form, Jane did soon discuss her material on “counterparts and four-fronted selves” in Politics. See Chapter 12.

You operate quite nicely politically, living in villages, townships, countries, states, and so forth, each with certain customs and local ordinances. [...] They are political patterns, invisible but highly effective. [...]

[...] A political problem might be altered by a natural disaster if political means fail. [...]

[...] We’ll turn it into power — political power. [...]

[...] Iran is an example for the world, in explosive capsule form, complete with historical background and a modern political one. [...]

[...] The intimate life of a person in one country, with its culture, is far different from that of an individual who comes from another kind of culture, with its own ideas of art, history, politics or religion or law. [...]

[...] The black woman followed nothing but her own instincts (and very vividly, too). I do not want to give too much background here, and hence rob our Joseph of discoveries that he will certainly make on his own — but (louder) the woman bowed only to the authority of her own emotions, and those emotions automatically put her in conflict with the [British colonial] politics of the times.

And added later: Jane presented my account of the Maumee episode, as well as portions of the 721st session itself, in Chapter 12 of Politics.

2. And eventually Jane did describe her day’s work in Politics. See the opening pages of Chapter 11.