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SESSION 39

(Seth made this session very brief, since Jane and I were quite tired by the time it began. We had changed our schedule, and our earlier hour of rising has made itself felt by session time. We did not really feel like holding a session, but tried anyhow because we did not want to break the routine.

(We were back home from visiting company for supper by 8 PM. At 8:15 Jane lay down for a nap, and upon awakening at 8:45 experienced her sensation as described on pages 309/310. While she was telling me about it in the few minutes we had before the session was due, she did not appear to be nervous.

(Although Jane had slept she was still tired. While she was talking to me our cat Willy lay purring on her lap. Abruptly at 8:57 the session began. Jane stood up, dumping Willy to the floor. She began to dictate in a fairly strong voice; her eyes darkened as usual. And Willy began to tag after her as she paced back and forth.)

Never have I been so eagerly awaited, and met with such high hopes that I will call off the session.

I understand your weariness. I will under the circumstances give you a short session. However, as yet it is not a good idea to miss a session. You cannot say that I am rigid, since I will try to take your circumstances into consideration.

I had planned to go into some material concerning this particular portrait, as a camouflage construction, but here for now I will merely mention this in passing and go into it at our next session.

There is something else I wanted to mention briefly. It is that the sixth inner sense, of which we have spoken briefly, can be likened in some respects to the instincts of the inner self. This will be discussed also at our next session.

What I am actually giving you this evening is an outline for our next session, since you are not up to par this evening. Now, the strange sensation experienced by Ruburt just before this session was a taste of our seventh inner sense, but only a small portion. It represents enlargement or an opening up and extension. This operates in two directions. The purpose of the enlargement or extension I will discuss at the next session. It is of course an enlargement or extension of the self, and a widening of the boundaries of the self, and therefore of even conscious comprehension.

I have said little about these tissue capsules. However they will also be held for the next session. I do not want our sessions ever to become a chore. However I do prefer that their regularity be maintained and I am perfectly agreeable now and then to making them briefer, due to circumstances. You will find that in these few pages I have given you some new ideas. It is possible that we can make up for any lost time on your part in the future, with a few brief sessions when you are in tiptop shape.

Your lovely old pussycat really sensed my presence this evening. I came in so to speak extremely strong, because I knew that the session would be brief, and I did have this material to give you. He just didn’t know what had happened to his Ruburt, that is all.

In any case, again my congratulations to you, Joseph, upon the two counts I mentioned, and I would suggest that you both get a good night’s sleep. I am also in hopes that our next session will be a full one.

I will end the session now, and you cannot say that I am unsympathetic in any way. I am not necessarily disturbed, either, at the brief session. Your limitations are far greater than mine. Sleep tight, but again I do look forward to our sessions, and dislike saying good-bye so soon.

(End at 9:27. Jane had no forewarning that Seth would come in so strong to begin the session, she said. She was immediately fully dissociated, although she remembered the trouble with Willy. She said that one moment she was talking to me, and the next she was on her feet dictating.

(It might be added here that on my daily trip downtown, taking Jane to work at the gallery, I mailed the first 38 sessions of the Seth material to the American Society for Psychical Research. This session, the 39th, will begin Volume 2.)