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SESSION 928, NOVEMBER 12, 1980
9:19 P.M. WEDNESDAY

(Since Jane held the 922nd session a month ago, she’s given five more nonbook regular sessions. Small portions of three of them contain Seth material for herself.

As for Jane: So many physical changes had taken place in her body today, she was so “out of it” by suppertime, that she didn’t know whether or not she could even have a session. She’d mentioned this morning that Seth might resume work on Dreams, and because of that feeling spent part of the day reviewing sessions for the book. After supper I got her iced wine—at her request—and started these notes while we waited to see what happened.

Actually, my wife has become pretty much housebound. She’s spending her time with the sessions, working on her book of poetry, and painting. For a long time now I’ve been doing it all in the outside world. I’ll summarize the central challenge of Jane’s life, and of my own, by presenting in Note 1 the private, or deleted, portion of the session she held last Monday night. We’ve been quite discouraged at times lately, yet Seth has had a different story to tell. Our struggle, our challenge, and one that’s most difficult for us, is to understand his material as much as possible.

(10:13. After expressing a couple of reassuring thoughts for Jane, in line with his private material for Monday night’s session, Seth said good night at 10:15 P.M. “Listen, I came so close to not having this session,” Jane said. Her delivery had been very slow but more intent than usual, and she was surprised and pleased: “How about that? I’ll be damned. I looked the book over today, but I didn’t expect anything on it before next week. I didn’t know I’d get anything to do with Christ. I’ll bet that’s why he didn’t say it was book dictation until the end of the session….”

“I thought it was [book] dictation right away,” I laughed, “but I didn’t ask.” Jane hadn’t sensed any nervousness before the session, as she often does when knowing she’s about to resume work on a book project. She felt much better now.)

NOTES: SESSION 928

1. Here are my notes for the private portion of Monday evening’s 927th session:

We realize that all of those bodily changes are positive things. I told Jane before the session that her arms are definitely straighter, for example. This afternoon, “off and on for almost an hour,” as she put it, her eyesight had improved remarkably as she sat working at her desk. She’s missed walking with her typing table lately, yet her steps from her chair to the couch often have been much steadier and better balanced, even though she’s still bent way over. When I suggested that tonight’s session be about her, she replied: “He’ll just say the same things.”)

“Now,” Seth said when he resumed the session at 10:13, “Ruburt’s body is trying to right itself. When he lies down, it is trying to straighten out. Nerve patterns are being reactivated, circulation patterns reinforced, muscles contracting and expanding in their own exercises, right now, in a concentrated, rather intensified bodily commotion. You are used to thinking of any bodily commotion as disruptive, and put it in the worst possible light because your backgrounds have given you little experience in such situations—you, Ruburt, or anyone else—largely in your culture.

“End of session. A fond good evening.”

(“Jesus, I ought to go in trance more often,” Jane laughed after she’d ended the session at 10:20 P.M. “I wasn’t aware of how I was sitting or anything. I was the most comfortable I’ve been all day….”)

3. In this Chapter 9 of Dreams, once again see Section C of Note 7 for Session 920.