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SESSION 24

(After supper we set out to buy a tape recorder. We did not return to the house with it until 8:30, then looked it over until 8:45. Then we began to sit quietly in preparation for the session. As usual Jane began to get the jitters. We sat at the board; as soon as our fingers touched the pointer it spelled out Seth’s greeting.

(“Good evening, Seth. Now why does Jane still feel nervous before each scheduled session?”

(Jane dictates:) I explained this matter to you before. She is always slightly dubious and somewhat doubtful before a session, as she has explained herself, since she is the one through whom I speak. The inner senses are not accustomed to operating so freely and this upsets that all-present ego, and would seem sometimes to drive it to distraction.

Usually in these sessions only one inner sense is in strong operation, but as I mentioned in our last session, man does not trust anything which occurs to him or in him unless he is consciously aware of what he is doing, how he is doing it, and why. It bothers Ruburt, as he has said in my hearing, that often-times just before we begin our session formally he does not have a thought in his head. And then my excellent dissertations begin, if you will forgive a touch of egoism on my part.

Ruburt wants to know where the words are coming from. He still wants to know if I am part of his subconscious—and I must admit I do find such an idea appalling—and he wants his answers given to him in a manner which his conscious mind can understand. This is our 24th session, and I am still trying to give you the answers.

It is as if I was operating on one of many channels, and I am still in the process of teaching you to operate the other dials. When you grow in proficiency, and I certainly hope you will, then much greater dimension will be given to these sessions, with your help. You are getting now something that corresponds to one thin wispy signal, or one tinny distant sound, or one clouded foggy image. In the future as I said the dimension will grow. Your own inner senses will add greater reality than you can imagine at this point.

There is an inner sense, dear Joseph, that in a vague manner corresponds to your own inner images. That is, you use this inner sense quite inadvertently in your visions, except that as a result of your lack of consistent training you see these but dimly. Nor can you maintain them for long. You are of course familiar with the difference between the early movies, the stills without sound, the grotesque jerky motions, and the latest Technicolor achievements, with whatever embellishments have been added. In our attempts here in these sessions you hardly know what the camera is.

It is true that the difference is beyond words, that is the sense apparatus that you are trying to use, is much different than the outer apparatus with which you are familiar. The inner senses however give much stronger impressions than ones given by the outer senses. When we really progress in our sessions, you will have results that are as real as the outer camouflages that you take for granted.

That is, you will achieve the counterpart of sight, sound, smell, touch, embellished by inner counterparts of width and existence. You have trouble now with the duration of your inner visions because you are trying to transpose them according to physical camouflage time, and this is going about it in the wrong way to begin with. As I mentioned earlier in the last session, you have at your command even now an inroad so to speak, and a relatively accessible one, in what is termed psychological time.

(Break at 9:26. Jane’s voice had been normal during this monologue, nor did it change during the balance of the session. Her hands now felt very cool; she said that briefly they had felt heavy or fat again, but the feeling disappeared along with her nervousness. Her pacing was quite fast however when she began dictating again. Resume at 9:29.)

At another time we will have sessions dealing with evolution, and in these sessions we will cover the advent of clock time and its many ramifications. It is without doubt one of man’s tragedies, and it arose in large part out of this unpredictable dualism that befell him.

(I took my pad over to our high, old-fashioned TV set. It made a good desk. I stood up to take Jane’s dictation for the rest of the session.)

(Jane had hypnotized me twice recently. The sessions had been very beneficial, giving me several days of freedom from pain after each session.)

This time however there was a remembrance of panic, but that is all. Actually you opened the door out of desire, stimulated by our sessions and out of curiosity, but you were still scared to death.

This is going to be a rather brief session comparatively. One note I wanted to make: As I have said, psychological time is a natural connective to the inner world. Though you experience days or hours within the framework of psychological time during the dream state, and yet do not age for a comparable amount of physical time, so as you develop in your use of psychological time you will be able to rest and be refreshed within the framework of psychological time while you are consciously awake. This will aid your mental and physical state to an amazing degree, and you will discover added vitality on the one hand, and a somewhat decreased need to sleep on the other.

You may take a break or you may end the session. And don’t say I haven’t led you on a merry chase tonight, for when you reread the material you will see that I have. I cannot stress too strongly the benefits you will receive by using psychological time as I have told you. You know now what it is and how to use it to advantage. Not only will it help the physical and mental being on your plane, but it will enable you to meet the whole self.

Since you both are tiring I will end this session. The one point I would like to make, first, is this: Conscious fear is usually the main hindrance as far as data from the inner senses is concerned. Therefore, a realization that these senses belong to you and are quite natural will help you avoid the otherwise unavoidable, almost automatic closing off of such data by the consciousness.