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(In the beginning the four of us sat on the floor, grouped around our coffee table and holding hands as suggested by Seth in the 125th session, and as we had done before. Jane spoke for some little time in a repetitious voice, as a way of inducing a relaxed state within us, but no phenomena of any kind appeared. Dim lights were on. We had been using our recorder earlier but were not recording these monotonous inductions, and as will be seen this was a mistake on my part.

(We became cramped physically. Jane’s voice also tired, so to relieve her I began to speak. Now Jane, Judy and Lee were prone upon the floor by the divan. Our idea was that our receptive state might make it possible for one of us to speak for another personality should one be present, or for another level of the self. I did not try to bring Seth into the experiment. I had been speaking for perhaps ten minutes, however, when Jane abruptly began to speak for Seth from her prone position. She lay flat on her back but soon sat up.

(This of course startled our guests, but they listened without interruption. Jane’s voice was quite loud and somewhat deeper than usual. Indeed, she displayed much more animation than she has for any of our regular sessions since she began to deliver the material from a sitting position. Her eyes remained closed now however, but she spoke much more rapidly and gestured often.

(Seth repeated several times that he felt in fine form, and Jane’s voice and manner so indicated. I asked some questions designed to keep the material on the level of reincarnational data, since our guests had done some reading on the subject. Seth said I had not known Lee Wright before, but that I had been “involved” with Judy in a past life. It was indeed in my Denmark existence, he said, “the life of which you are now so ashamed.” In that life Judy had been a man, and a sailor. This reminded me that Seth had given similar data for our friend Bill Macdonnel; he too had been a sailor in a Denmark contemporary existence, but as I recall I did not ask Seth whether Judy and Bill had known each other in that life. As it happens, Bill had been a guest also earlier tonight, leaving just before the session.

(Judy’s entity name was given as Rayuk, and Lee’s as Wonlin. While speaking Jane was now up on her knees, gesturing freely. Her eyes remained closed and she did not get up and pace about. Break came after 11:30. I had plenty of time to get the recorder set up. Jane resumed at 11:40 in the same rather strong voice, but at a somewhat slower rate.)

Our material has been excellent, but I have missed the emotional contact. Ruburt, because of the change in our practice, has been somewhat uneasy, and for this reason the more friendly atmosphere that he had enjoyed earlier had deserted us. The state which he has achieved this evening, with your help Joseph, allowed us to achieve that informality to some small degree.

We have everything in order now. He now, however, is a stiff old thing. I cannot make him move about as I would move now. We achieved this earlier but the conditions were different.

I would sit with you now as a friend at the party and converse, but it is a trifle difficult as you should understand. I am doing very well with him, however, and your two guests are doing very well themselves, considering the circumstances.

As you should know here, I do not speak in terms of payment, I do not speak in terms of suffering, of making up. I do not speak in terms of his being forced to make up. I speak in terms of his own choice. For his own development he chose to make up, because of a past lack of sensitivity, because of a certain exhilaration felt in those days in cruelty, and because in those days his emotions held no sway, but what he considered cold reason led him on. But this reasoning, divorced from emotions led him into his own betrayal.

This time we see the development of the personality. We see that balances have been made here, we see the emotions having stronger bearing upon the personality. We also see, as I mentioned in your own case Joseph, we see an attempt to overcompensate. As once he would not trust the emotions and does not trust his reason, this being an attempt to compensate. Indeed its purpose is a good one, but any compensation of this sort must be balanced by the personality itself in all cases.

(It will be noted that although Seth evidently wanted her to pace about, she did not do so. She was very active as far as gesturing was concerned, and her delivery was quite animated. But the closest she came to getting to her feet was when she rose to her knees while speaking.)

(February 1, Monday, 11:30 AM: I heard voices but forgot most of them. I remember the word “chlorine.” I saw a pinup lamp on an adjacent wall, where we have no wall. I saw a road with white guardposts and possible red lanterns. I saw this road as though I was traveling on it, heading straight ahead. It was a gray day. The sensation of forward movement was most definite, up and down low hills. I saw houses on both sides of the road in the distance, like our nearby village of Chemung.

(February 8, Monday, 11:30 AM: Good state achieved. Once briefly I saw a bright white light, as though it was approaching me. Upon opening my eyes after the experiment I lay staring at the walls of the room. I then experienced a definite feeling of “separation.” During psy-time, I had an odd physical-like sensation, as though I was ready to leave my body. But I believe I became alarmed and prevented this from happening.)