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(Because of illness on my part this is our first session since March 22; thus we missed the regularly scheduled sessions of March 24, March 29 and March 31. This is the longest gap in the flow of the material since the sessions began on December 2, 1963. Both of us were eager to resume. Jane remarked last night that the enforced layoff was making her rather nervous. It was, she said, the same kind of nervousness she used to experience before each session, during the early months.

(Jane has not been experimenting with psychological time since Seth suggested she stop at the time of her prolonged trance state of March 15.

(Lying in bed in a drowsy state last night, Jane received the following items, she believes from Seth. She woke me to tell me about them:

(Once again the session was held in our secluded back room. Jane spoke while sitting down, and with her eyes closed. She does not wear her glasses at all during sessions now. Her voice was quiet, her initial pace rather slow. Her delivery speeded up as the session progressed, and her voice became somewhat louder.)

(Jane delivered the above paragraph with a broad smile.)

(Break at 9:26. Jane was dissociated as usual; that is, she had achieved a good state. She smiled as she ended the monologue.

(I finally reached the point where I told Jane, the day before this session was due, that I had decided to stop reading the New York papers so thoroughly. I found it a sad experience to read about the race situation, Viet Nam, the conditions of life and crime in New York City, etc., although of course I realized that much of this news meant something was being done about some urgent problems.

(For some other examples of the psychic power of negative expectations, see the 9th, 15th and 17th sessions, involving Jane and me at York Beach, Maine. Also see the 17th and 66th sessions for material on the death of our dog, Mischa.

(Jane had begun the session rather slowly and softly. As it progressed her pace speeded up and her voice acquired more volume. She resumed in this manner at 9:34.)

(Break at 10:01. Jane was dissociated as usual. The pace of the dialogue had been quite fast, and Jane’s voice had acquired some volume. She resumed at the same fast rate, although in a quieter voice, at 10:12.)

(Just before tonight’s session I told Jane I hoped Seth would clear this matter up. See the 133rd and the 135th sessions. The 133rd session also contains a list of previous sessions in which Seth has dealt with Miss Callahan to varying degrees. Miss Callahan, a retired schoolteacher, was also acquainted with Frank Watts. It was Jane’s initial contact with the Frank Watts personality, through the Ouija board, that led to these sessions. F. Watts has been dead perhaps twenty years, and is one of the personalities making up the Seth entity.

(This information came through, I presume, because earlier I had been joking with Jane about making up the sessions we had missed. I doubt if it is possible; our daily routine is busy enough now.

(Jane now gave a broad smile.)

(Break at 10:36. Jane was well dissociated. Since we had missed three sessions, I thought we could continue a little longer.

(Our host of visitors during my illness was another subject we’d hoped Seth would discuss this evening. From March 24 to April 2, Jane and I received a total of 21 visits from 16 different individuals. Of these 16, 7 had witnessed sessions. Some of the visits lasted for hours and left Jane very tired.

(Since the visitors began to appear on the first day I was in bed and within a matter of hours, Jane and I soon thought it more than coincidence. We had 4 visitors the first day, 3 the second day, 5 the third day, 4 the fourth day, etc. Moreover two of our first four visitors, Sonja Carlson and Louis D’Andreano, were from out of town.

(My younger brother, William Richard, also from Rochester, NY, was a visitor on March 28. He is custodian of the second carbon of these sessions, and witnessed the 89th session. Another visitor was Bill Macdonnel, entity name Mark, and several times a witness. On file I have a complete record of the 21 visits Jane and I received.

(Jane now resumed at an average rate of speed at 10:43.)

(End at 10:58. Jane was well dissociated. She said she retained an awareness of the gist of the material given during her first monologue, but that in successive monologues she lost all idea of what she had said.

(Jane had told me that during my illness she hadn’t felt Seth around. There were times during my illness when I had an actual feeling of disbelief at the steady parade of visitors. I did not see them all. I soon became aware that I felt better after talking to the ones I did see, and once I realized this I rather deliberately tried to capitalize upon this apparent exchange of energy. Sonja Carlson visited us twice; almost at once I understood the negative character of her thoughts, and decided not to let it bother me. I was concerned about Jane bearing the brunt of this, however.)