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(Dr. Instream would like us to ask Seth why he stopped at York Beach, since he had never been there before. For our part we want to know whether Dr. Instream understands that he was in York Beach on the same night a photo of York Beach was used in a session, or whether he remembers reading about York Beach in previous sessions.

(Last week we received Dr. Instream’s letter of September 13, in which he wrote that he would like to try straight clairvoyant communication with Seth on Monday and Wednesday nights at 10 PM. Dr. Instream also noted that on the evening of August 23,1965 he and his wife stopped overnight at York Beach, ME, while traveling. It will be remembered that Jane’s second envelope test was held on the night of August 23, in the 180th session, and that the test photo featured Jane on the waterfront at York Beach. I took the picture in the summer of 1964.

The Instreams did not consider going to York Beach. Neither was their visit a complete coincidence, although it might seem so. All experiences have an electrical reality. Your experiences at York Beach had such a reality, and having met you, not Dr. Instream but his wife unconsciously picked up this connection, and responded to it.

(During break I asked Jane to discuss why I picked the particular photograph of York Beach to use in the test for August 23. At the time I made up the envelope the Instreams were already on their way to York Beach; I wondered what lines of communication had been open.

[...] On August 9, Wednesday, Jane was invited by telephone to appear on the Burke TV show in New York City. On the evening of August 15, Tuesday, Jane and I were having supper at an outdoor restaurant, The Californian, at 7th Avenue and Broadway in New York City. At 7:30 PM, we were approached by Merle Cratsley of Odessa, New York, an old friend.

[...] In capsule form: The data given in connection with a Boston trip, with New York City not heard from yet by us; yet events during the New York City trip, a couple of days after the Boston trip, bear a close resemblance to the data. [...]

(The brief session was held in the office of Jane’s publisher, Frederick Fell, in New York City. [...]

(Merle did not know we were eating there, but did know we were in New York City, having been so informed by phone by his wife, with whom I work in Elmira. [...]

[...] Afternoon—all that hassle about the nutty bunch in New York call Tam—going to send him Bed. Got upset about the New York thing—forgot Seth’s “prime data” thing. [...]

The man and the woman in the York Beach dancing establishment, sitting across the floor alone at a table. [...]

[...] Speaking about the problem you mentioned, because your aggressions are fairly well controlled consciously, and because in the present your creative energies are in the realm of your subconscious, at this stage they can be, and often are, used to create unhappy image personality situations such as at York Beach. [...]

[...] I remembered that we had today also received a Christmas card from the owners of the hotel where we had stopped at York Beach, Maine: Ocean House.

(“Seth, why did I make Jane get up and do the twist with me in that dancing establishment at York Beach?”)

“The man and woman in the York Beach dancing establishment … were fragments of your selves, thrown-off materializations of your own negative and aggressive feelings … the images were formed by the culminating energy of your destructive energies at the time. [...]

In late 1963, some months before our sessions began, we’d taken a vacation in York Beach, Maine, hoping that a change of environment would improve Rob’s health. [...]

Seth’s explanation of the York Beach affair made intuitive sense to us. [...]

Then when the session resumed, Rob asked the question that had been on our minds since Seth first mentioned the York Beach images. [...]

[...] All of the reunion participants live in the New York City and New Jersey area just across the Hudson River. In his letter Wendell does not name the town or city in which the reunion, at a restaurant, took place, but from following data Jane and I surmise it took place in New York City.

[...] The envelope object is postmarked Ridgewood, NJ, which lies on the outer rim of the commuter towns attendant to New York City. The letter the object contained, however, was written by Wendell at his home in Edgewater, NJ, which is just across the Hudson from New York City. [...]

[...] Driving into New York City by tunnel from New Jersey, I remember a long curving tunnel lit by strings of lights. [...] If he drove to New York City by private car, he would presumably head south and take the first tunnel he met—the Lincoln.

(Perhaps ten minutes before the session began, I showed Jane an article I found in the New York Times for October 3,1966. [...]

[...] The object was torn by me from pages 11 and 12 of the New York Times’ first news section for Sunday, November 6,1966. [...] I did however know the object came from the New York Times. [...]

[...] It can be seen that election day sales are mentioned in large type on both sides of page 11 and 12 of the New York Times for November 6,1966. The New York State elections were due the next Tuesday, November 8, and included the governorship contest.

[...] Most of them were of the New York Times, daily and Sunday. [...]

(This procedure left me knowing only one thing about the object: that it came from some section of the New York Times, date unknown. [...]

(This was our first session since returning from vacation in York Beach, Maine. [...]

[...] 18, while we were dancing at the Driftwood Lounge at York Beach, which is the hotel bar where we saw our projected fragments, described by Seth in the 9th session [in Volume 1], page 43.

(For the record, we reached York Beach on Monday, Aug. [...]

[...] However, by the time we left York Beach, I had tried to suggest to my subconscious, in line with the material we have obtained to date on the value of expectation, that the car would consume less oil than on the outward journey. [...]

[...] Feinberg sponsored a law bearing his name, and possibly is, or was, a New York State legislator. [...] Evidently he is connected to New York State in some official capacity.

[...] Jane wrote it, since she had a part-time job with the newspaper while attending Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. [...]

[...] The news article concerns the Feinberg Law, which spells out the intent of the New York State Legislature in the Education Law, concerning the removal of any school employees for treasonable or seditious acts. [...]

[...] The whole tone of the news story about the Feinberg law and the Education Law of New York State concerns the protection of civil rights, and protection by the Constitution; but without using the constitution as a hiding place for subversives, etc. [...]

[...] There are two men in particular in New York who would be more than willing to show and handle your work—both connected with galleries.

(“Does his gallery advertise in The New York Times?”)

(Humorously:) I have not read The New York Times lately. [...]

[...] At the moment however they will center chiefly about New York City galleries, names, etc.)

[...] Marleno knew about your experience at York Beach, and because of circumstances in her own life she visited the general territory. An emotional connection with the sessions did have quite a bit to do with her particular visit to York Beach, however, and there was on her part a subconscious knowledge that Dr. Instream had been there also. [...]

(See the 9th, 15th, 17th, 69th and 80th sessions for material on our York Beach experiences. [...] These deal with events involving Jane and me at York Beach in August of 1963, preceding the beginning of these sessions by several months.

[...] For material connected with the first question, see my notes on Lorraine Shafer, York Beach, and Dr. Instream on pages 289-90, preceding the 193rd session.

(“Do you want to say a few words about Lorraine Shafer being in York Beach the same week in August that Dr. Instream was there? [...]

[...] Lorraine now told us that she too had been in York Beach, ME, during the same week that Dr. Instream had been there. Dr. Instream had stayed overnight in York Beach on Monday, August 23; Lorraine had visited the town on Saturday afternoon, August 28.

(It will be remembered that our 2nd envelope test, held during the 180th session, was held on August 23, and that it featured a photograph of Jane at York Beach. [...]

[...] We find no reference to either Lorraine or York Beach in the 182nd session. [...]

It seems that our friends are congregating about York Beach, does it not?

[...] If you were from a foreign land and asked one person to give you a description of New York City, you might take his or her description for reality. The person might say “New York City is a frightful place in which crime is rampant, gangs roam the streets, murders and rapes are the norm, and people are not only impolite but ready to attack you at a moment’s notice. [...] If you asked someone else, this individual might say instead: “New York City has the finest of museums, open-air concerts in some of the parks, fine sculpture, theater, and probably the greatest collection of books outside of the Vatican. [...]

[...] Interior traveling is no more subjective, then, than a journey from New York to San Francisco. [...]

[...] The other might have no such knowledge, and say instead: “I take a plane at such-and-such a place, at such-and-such a time, giving New York City as my destination, and if I take the proper plane I always arrive there.”

Now if you read such books you may often program your activity along those lines, in the same way that a visitor to New York City might program experience of the city in terms of what he or she had been told existed there.

SETH’S IMPRESSIONS CONCERNING THE GALLAGHER’S TRIP TO NEW YORK.

[...] In New York now, and across the country, it is difficult to find objective work that is not highly stylized or sentimentalized.

[...] This material refers to some remarks I had made earlier, about trying to list galleries in New York City that I thought might be interested in my type of art, judging from their advertisements.)

(I told Jane however that we should get some material on a matter broached to her by letter last week by Reverend Crosson, re a speaking engagement in New York City later this year. [...]

(Whether or not we visit Reverend Crosson this summer at his camp in the Berkshires, in Massachusetts; and whether later in the year Jane speaks in New York City at a meeting of the Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship, with Reverend Crosson.)

(At 8:45 tonight Jane said that Seth was going to talk about the York Beach apparitions we created at that resort in the summer of 1963, while on vacation there, in Maine. [...]

Now, as to your York Beach images. [...]

The emotional charge provides the pattern, and the impetus for creation, and in the York Beach affair and like situations, it provides for the actual projection or externalization itself. [...]

(“While Jane and I were contending with those pseudoimages we had created at York Beach, in that crowded dancing establishment—did others in the room know what was going on?”)

11 AM–12:30: (Sheri calls about New York Post centerfold.)

(Could these have been the York Beach couple? [...]

Vague something about York Beach couple — are they happier now on an inner level? [...]

[...] The York Beach couple! [...]

Seth told us that such images have a definite reality, but we certainly weren’t prepared to hear that someone else encountered our York Beach selves in a dream! [...]

[...] On a nighttime street in a city, maybe New York, a shot rings out. [...]

(“What about those fragments you said Jane and I created at York Beach, Maine, last August? [...]

[...] What if Jane and I go to York Beach in Maine again, and meet those fragments we created; what will happen, if anything?”)

(I asked the above question because the apparition material of the last session had brought the York Beach episode to mind.)

[...] You could have begun serious painting in New York, and if you had done so, you would have also continued and done well in commercial work.