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(“An actual replica, or something happening all over again, as a commemoration.” This is good data, and refers to the Dominican Seminary article on page 12. Among other things the article describes how the seminary leader, Father Fernandes, will organize a pilgrimage of Americans to Fatima in May 1967. The group will also assist at the inauguration of a chapel at the seminary at Aldeia Nova, which will be finished early next year. The article then states: The date happens to coincide with 50th anniversary celebrations at Fatima, when the Pope may possibly preside.

(See the article indicated to the upper left on page 12 of the full sheet, page 153. The article concerns the efforts of a priest to build a seminary in Portugal. The priest’s order, the Dominicans, had been expelled from Portugal in 1834, and was readmitted in 1940.

(“Connection with a monstrosity, as of a monstrous building, perhaps old Victorian. The first impression was of monstrosity, the rest is interpretation.” See the article indicated to the upper left on page 11 of the full sheet from which the object was torn, page 152. This concerns the prison population of Portugal’s prisons, and the prison system itself. Discussed in the article is the building of a network of modern establishments, to “replace a few big antiquated prisons,” etc. Other references include such phrases as “prisons were of very low standard,” etc.

(As stated, the object is an article taken from The Saratogian of September 1950. [...] The object concerns the election of Jane as president of the Day Students Council in her junior year, and the photo at the top of the article shows Jane and the other three female members of the council. [...]

[...] My interpretation involves the article on the back of the object. [...] 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 object for the 77th envelope experiment was a copy of an article from The Saratogian, the daily newspaper of Saratoga Springs, NY; it was printed in September, 1950 and was saved by Jane as a souvenir, and also because she wrote it. [...]

[...] At the risk of repetition: There were two articles concerning Mrs. Berry in the paper. [...] Just above Peggy’s article the other article was printed. [...] The second article also included another photo—this one of a man who was also elected with Mrs. Berry. [...]

(Jane had of course seen the article used as object in this evening’s paper. [...] This photo was included in another article; the photo was centered above the middle column of the object. At the time I prepared the envelopes I thought of including the photo with Peggy’s article, but decided against it at the last minute.

[...] It was a newspaper article by Peggy Gallagher, published in the Elmira Star-Gazette and Advertiser on May 4,1966; today. [...] It appeared on the same page of the newspaper, just above the center column of the object itself, but was attched to another article about Mrs. Berry.

(Yesterday, in the magazine section of a leading metropolitan newspaper, Jane and I read a long article on the evolution of ancient man — “ancient” here meaning “true man” at least 2.5 million to 3 million years old. Aside from the question of whether “evolution” in ordinary linear terms has been scientifically proven [concerning which point Jane and I have many reservations], we were drawn to the article because we thought its “factual” information might eventually supplement some of Seth’s material for “Unknown” Reality. [...]

(Portions of the article in yesterday’s newspaper, I should add, dealt with the recent discoveries of skeletal fragments in East Africa that indicate the coexistence of several varieties of ancient man and preman; the latter being creatures who looked rather human but whose brains, it is believed, remained apelike. This part of the article is approximately in line with the material Jane came through with some hours later. [...]

(While watching television last night we periodically discussed the trite thinking embodied in the article. [...]

(Here Seth refers to an article by Donald Hebb, a Canadian psychologist, who wrote in Psychology Today for November, 1978 about the decline in his own cognitive abilities. [...] The article is on file.)

(Another point I want to mention in connection with Seth’s material earlier in the session on psychology: His reference on page 3 to “evolutionary science” stems probably from our reading lately an article on Robert Jastrow, an astronomer connected with NASA. [...] The article, in Penthouse for November 1978, is on file. [...]

[...] A few mentioned the articles in the Village Voice.

[...] Originally I tore the article out of the paper. [...] The bottom of the clipping was also rough, and I clipped it evenly with scissors before filing it; this was before I thought of using it as object; Jane of course knew I saved the article because it pertained to Bill Macdonnel. As it happened my clipping the article along the bottom made it fit just right between the usual two pieces of Bristol, and into the double envelopes.

(I found other copies of the article after the session. [...] Some of the data is self-explanatory when checked against the article.

[...] We had saved the article because it dealt with our friend Bill Macdonnel, who has witnessed several sessions. [...]

(A note: the way things “work” … On Thursday morning—the day after this session was held — Jane and I saw the three young men referred to in the newspaper article on a well-known variety show. [...] The TV host never referred to the fact that the three youths were actually members of quadruplets — that a fourth brother had died at birth, according to the news article. [...]

(Just before we sat for the session Jane finished reading my account of my “light of the universe” experience of last Sunday evening, September 21, and my account of the experience involving … clairvoyance … precognition … that I’d had at naptime today, involving my idea for a novel and an article in tonight’s Star-Gazette, Elmira’s daily newspaper. [...]

If you had first read the article of which you have been speaking, and then in a semi-dozing state created your idea of a novel, replete with the characterization of the mother, then you would say that cause and effect were involved.

[...] My ideas had been triggered by an article I’d read yesterday in a recent Science Digest article, which I’ll file: At first glance, I’d told Jane later, the article seemed very good. [...]

(One of the letters, from a doctor in Canada, referred us to an article in Scientific American in which a discussion of the many-worlds view of quantum mechanics clearly vindicated a number of Seth’s ideas. We had the magazine on hand but I hadn’t noticed the article, in the December/81 issue. [...]

(Yesterday I received in the mail a copy of a long article that Sam Menahem, a psychologist in Fort Lee, New Jersey, has written for a summer issue of Reality Change. I took the article in to 330 today so that Jane could read it. [...] She liked the article, and agreed that her work would continue to grow in influence.

[...] Last Friday evening was connected with a stranger, in that a stranger, Georgia Mae Fields, wrote the article on table tipping in the November 1966 issue of Fate Magazine. The comments and instructions given in the article dominated the evening, certainly. Jane had been especially aware of the article since the previous Wednesday, October 5, when she first read it and decided to use it on Friday evening.

[...] Jane read the article aloud to us, then Bill, Don and I tried tipping the table first. We sat at the south end of the table and made the vacant north end rise as we chanted away, per instructions in the article. [...]

[...] As stated, the last time we sat at the table, [Jane, Bill, Don and myself] we did succeed in tipping it in the correct manner, according to the Fate Magazine article. [...] We wouldn’t know about any other agencies being involved, as the magazine article says is possible.

Things will break loose after the Time article. [...]

(Time article postponed a week, presumably to Monday, October 30, 1972. [...]

(Sunday, February 2, 1969, a group of articles and photos, totaling a full page and a half, was printed in the Elmira Star-Gazette. [...]

[...] (Peggy G.) Our friend Ruburt learned something from that article, in that a simple presentation works very well.

I will thank our friend personally for the work that went into the article.

(At 9:00 she told me she thought Seth would discuss my questions #5 and 6, about black-and-white thinking, and touch upon “that article” about micro metal-bending, or psychokinetic metal bending. I was surprised to hear this, for even though I’d been quite interested in the article I’d forgotten it for the moment. [...] She’d read the article this noon at lunch when I called her attention to it. [...] I’m attaching a copy of the article to this session, for Seth came through with some unique insights concerning healing and micro metal-bending, or PKMB.)

(Apropos of the above, I quote briefly from an article in the New York Times for May 9, 1968, written by Walter Sullivan and datelined May 8 from Cambridge, Massachusetts. However, Jane and I did not see the article until the day after tonight’s session; note that this session is held on the same day the article was published. [...]

(The article concerns the drug supply available in plants, and the paucity of our knowledge about this vast field. [...]

[...] The article is on file.)

[...] Yesterday Jane and I reread an article I’d filed last September, then forgotten about: In the area surrounding a certain village in the Dominican Republic, 38 girls have turned into boys at the onset of puberty. [...]

[...] [Indeed, these animals are so sensitive to disease of any kind that they must be raised under sterile conditions.] Jane was very upset by the article and mentioned it to me several times.¹

Ruburt read an article about the development of a strain of mice without thymus [glands]. [...]

(My questions had been rearoused because of an article I’d read a few days ago in a scientific journal; in their piece the authors explained that a certain significant percentage of women can develop cervical cancer from contact with a virus carried by the sperm of males who haven’t had vasectomies — or who haven’t been sterilized, in other words. [...]

Ruburt today read an article about gifted children — their background and development. [...]

[...] In the second place, however, referring to the article, that is not what happens to begin with — and I am somewhat at a loss to explain, simply because of certain invisible assumptions that it seems to me you must necessarily make.

All of this referred to an article dealing with a Dominican seminary founded in Aldeia Nova, Portugal, in 1943. [...] The given date was correct, and the article goes on to tell about a young priest, Father Fernandes (F and R—the abbreviation for “Father” is Fr.), who was on a mission in this country to get funds to modernize the seminary. [...] The article states that the seminary includes, among other things, its own farm, vineyards, and vegetable and fruit gardens. [...] The article speaks of the three children who saw the apparition at Fatima, and Seth mentioned a child.

Other impressions dealt with another article headlined “Portugal Shows Dip in Prisoners.” [...] The article also stated that Portugal has the lowest per capita income in Europe. [...]

[...] Besides all the sales, there were four articles on the large section. [...]

[...] We’d expected to see a long article on DMSO in the paper, written by Peggy Gallagher, but it wasn’t printed: Over the phone today Peg told Jane the article was put off until next weekend because of space limitations. Peg has interviewed many local doctors—and others—about the analgesic properties of DMSO, and we want to read the article before trying the product ourselves. [...]

(In The New York Times tonight I read an article, with pictures, of the Mars probe currently underway by our Mariner spacecraft. Dr. Carl Sagan of Cornell University was quoted in the article. Dr Sagan was also quoted in Otto’s article, regarding the ancient Sumerian-Akkadian legends and UFO’s, to our surprise. [...]

[...] It contained an article by our friend Otto Binder, entitled “UFO’s Own Earth and All Mankind” This article touched upon many ideas we are interested in, and quoted astrophysicist Fred Hoyle, among others, re the ownership of the race idea. [...]

(At least, I told Jane tonight after I’d remembered that I’d forgotten to clip the article for my predictions file, we know where the article is on file, where it can be located if necessary: at the newspaper office. [...] We’ll keep a lookout for any follow-up articles on the subject, but I suppose it will die like any other item in yesterday’s news. [...]

[...] Then I realized I’d goofed: Last Saturday, our local paper had carried a short article to the effect that a psychic we’d heard of had predicted recently that Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia would obtain the Democratic nomination for president, after a deadlock between Carter and Kennedy developed at the convention. I read the article and called it to Jane’s attention. [...]

[...] Thirteen days later, Jane and I were most intrigued to read an article in a national publication in which researchers show, after eight years of tests, that not only do women do most things as well as men — they actually outperform men in many areas, both intellectually and intuitively.