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(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(Pause at 10:06. Our cat, Willy, had been sick so we’d kept him with us during the session. Waking up now, he strolled over to Jane as she sat in her rocker speaking for Seth. He crouched, preparing to spring up into her lap. I called him; whereupon he chose to curl up beside me on the couch instead.

(Jane remained in trance. Later, she told me, Seth waited with “affectionate amusement” for the episode to resolve itself.)

(10:17. Jane’s trance had been good, her delivery even and rather quiet. “You know,” she said, “I thought this book was going to go longer, but I’ve got the funny nostalgic feeling that Seth’s going to end it real soon. I’ve got the shivers. I don’t know about you,” she laughed, “but I’d like to see it last another five chapters…. I felt the same way about Seth Speaks; the end always shocks me.” I told her that I thought Seth would close out the book tonight. I joked that we could ask for the title of his next one. “Oh, he’s got them stacked up to here,” and Jane patted the top of her head.

(A note pertaining to the material given just before break: In Chapter Nineteen Seth deals with reincarnation in a general sense, but he’s said little in this book about his psychic “connections” with Jane and me. There are references to such ties scattered through The Seth Material and Seth Speaks [see the 595th session in the Appendix of the latter] and we have a modest amount of unpublished information. But to explore the ramifications of reincarnation just as it involves the three of us, for example, would take a book in itself….

I am Seth. I speak my name joyfully, though names are not important. Then each of you speak your names with affirmation every morning.

(11:14. “Thank you. I think it’s very good,” I said. Seth-Jane stared at me quite soberly.)

(“Thank you very much, Seth. Good night.”

(11:16 p.m. Jane’s final book delivery had been quiet most of the time, and steady as usual. She was both surprised — as she remarked several times — and a bit disconsolate now that Seth’s part of the long project was through. Just a week ago she’d finished the first draft of her Introduction, so that too is underway. She had no feeling any more that Seth would do an Appendix, as we’d speculated about occasionally.

(“— but I can’t believe it’s over!” she said once again. “As far as I’m concerned the whole thing was effortless. It just came out of me, it seemed, while I was busy doing other things….” Which, while true, hardly considers her deep emotional and intellectual involvement with the book for the last ten months — or since Seth took up steady dictation on September 11, 1972, following the extensive delay caused by Tropical Storm Agnes.

(Jane and the members of her ESP class have worked with Seth’s book practically every week during its production, and she’s also read it while alone; still, she announced, “I want to go through the entire thing now so that I can see it as a whole.” I told her I thought she’d produced a fine work.

(A subsequent note, with some references: Seth’s closing remark about other books of Jane’s proved to be quite accurate. Even as we prepared this manuscript for the printer, two more of her works, Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time, and Aspect Psychology, were contracted for publication by Prentice-Hall. Portions of each one are dealt with in these chapters, and Jane also discusses them in her Introduction. I am to illustrate both.

(Dialogues, a book of poetry, is described in the 639th session in Chapter Ten. Aspect Psychology, Jane’s own theoretical work on psychic matters, is referred to in the 618th session in Chapter Three, among others. It was born out of her writings on Adventures in Consciousness, as mentioned in Chapter Twenty-one of Seth Speaks, and incorporates that material.)