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SESSION 119

(John Bradley, of Williamsport, PA, visited us yesterday. He has witnessed several sessions. He could not attend tonight’s session but left with us a question concerning transubstantiation; John wanted Seth’s comments on the literal results, if any, of this Catholic ceremony.

(Jane has been reading Jung for the last few days. This afternoon she told me she thought Seth might talk about the self-conscious inner ego. As session time approached she had no idea of what her procedure would be—whether she would sit, stand, pace, open or close her eyes, etc. She was still worried also about the time element when her eyes were closed, and we agreed that I would ask for breaks if it seemed the monologues might carry past the customary half-hour limit.

(It will be recalled that in the 83rd session, August 31, 1964, [in Volume 2], Seth commented on the work of Freud and Jung, and mentioned some of the distortions Jung’s work in particular contains.)

At death on your plane the ego merely changes the focus of its awareness. We have come through very well this evening, and I will here end our session. My fondest wishes to you both. We will take up the question of transubstantiation, as asked by our friend, at a not distant date.

(End at 10:29. Jane struggled to keep her eyes open. She was well dissociated, she said, and for some minutes after the session ended remembered only the last sentence she had delivered. Her voice had been loud, her diction clear. She had been very restless in her chair, ranging from an upright sitting position to a practically prone one.