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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.

(The recorder was not on, and I was not taking notes. I thought the session might be short and decided to rely upon my memory for a reconstruction. I soon regretted this, for Jane talked rapidly, in high good humor, and at some length. She took a break eventually, and I then set up the recorder. What follows then is a brief summary of the first half of the session, based upon our memory, and a verbatim transcription of the second half.

(Seth expressed much pleasure at being able to speak in a natural manner, without dealing with the usual philosophical and complicated subjects that make up most of the sessions. My own thought, as soon as he began to speak, was that I had made a mistake in method, since his appearance was a complete surprise to our guests. Seth reinforced this by saying that in the future I should be careful if I did not want it to happen again. Jane and I now like to prepare witnesses beforehand, since the material has become so lengthy and complicated that it is increasingly difficult to explain briefly.

(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.)

At one time these two were brother and sister. At this time, 1602, in England, the man committed an act which put him greatly in his sister’s debt. He was from a good family. He was however cruelly-natured in many respects. It was a time when such cruelty was indeed accepted, and sensitivity was hardly a way of life.

(Here, Seth of course was referring to Lee and Judy.

Manheuton. Part of the family had been from France. I am not clear on all of this. He owed gambling debts. It was because of these gambling debts that he wronged his sister, and it was because of that wrong that they now once more have come together at a different relationship.

There was difficulty with the left foot at one time. There was at one time difficulty with the forefinger of the left hand.

(Unfortunately, we are unable to distinguish here as to whether Jane pronounced the word forefinger, or the two words, fourth finger. Her diction was not quite clear enough on the tape for us to distinguish between the two. The question arises because after the session Lee Wright said that as a youngster he had injured the forefinger of his left hand. Indeed his finger bears even now a scar near the tip. Seth’s use of the phrase “at one time,” could refer, we suppose, to either a past life of Lee’s, or an earlier period in his present one.

I cannot now. It was a locality rather close to Wales. There was mining nearby. I believe that there was a family crest; I think two dragons, the image of Saint George, and a shield on the crest.

(End at approximately midnight. Jane was quite well dissociated, she said; about the usual state she has been attaining recently.

(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.)

(February 5, Friday, While getting supper in the kitchen this evening, I heard Lee Wright’s voice, although I could not understand what he said. I heard his southern accent clearly. He was not visiting us.

(February 7, Sunday, 10:45 PM approx.: While trying our seance with Lee and Judy Wright, I had a quick impression that a man stood to one side of me. He wore I believe a dark suit of some kind. It was not Rob or Lee, and Judy sat opposite me on the divan. When I turned quickly to look there was no one there. No one else saw it, upon my questioning.

(February 10, Wednesday: While resting briefly just before noon, I saw a woman in some kind of ski outfit, in the lower branches of a tree. Just as I wondered what she was doing there, she fell. I did not see her face. She was about average in size, perhaps a little larger than me.)