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(Mrs. Lorraine Shafer witnessed tonight’s session. She was introduced to the Seth material by John Bradley, who has witnessed several sessions and read much of the material himself. Lorraine took her own shorthand notes of the material. She has also offered to do some typing for Jane and me.

(Since Jane began to achieve a deeper trance state, and to speak while sitting down and with her eyes closed, she has become much more sensitive to interruptions. For this reason we have been holding recent sessions in a protected back room. This room is too small to hold three people comfortably however, so for the session we moved back out to the living room. Most of the sessions have been held there. We chanced interruptions but none developed.

(Jane was a little nervous before 9 PM. Once again she spoke while sitting down and with her eyes closed, and in a voice somewhat stronger and faster than usual.)

(See Volume 2, page 158 of the 63rd session, of June 17, 1964. I doubt if this data would be entered on the record had not Seth mentioned it without prompting. It concerns the husband of a friend of Jane’s, and an involvement with narcotics. The couple no longer live in Elmira. Several Elmirans keep well informed concerning them, and one Elmiran happens to work in the same out-of-state town in which they live.

(This morning Jane learned through this individual that the husband in question has been involved with narcotics, to the extent that it was treated in the newspapers at the new location. Jane and I have not seen these published reports.

(Seth/Jane obligingly spelled out the name at my request.)

(Break at 9:34. Jane was dissociated as usual. Lorraine told us that her first name was Meredith, and that her mother in naming her Meredith Lorraine intended to call her Mary Lou, but never did so. There is a similarity here to the entity name, Marleno.

(Jane resumed in a slower manner and a somewhat deeper voice at 9:45.)

(Jane gestured and smiled broadly, turning her head toward me even though her eyes remained closed.

(Break at 10:22. Jane was well dissociated as usual. She spoke at a rather rapid rate comparatively, yet took some long pauses.

(The first part of the following material was delivered with many pauses, some of them long. When Jane sat down again and entered the trance state, she remained quite motionless, with her eyes closed, for over a minute before she began at 10:29.)

(Jane now took a very long pause. It will be remembered that Philip is the entity name for John Bradley, who first mentioned the sessions to Lorraine. Lorraine told us later that she was not consciously aware of the existence of the sessions before John told her about them. She also said the number fifteen had no particular significance for her as far as she was aware. Seth mentions a period of fifteen years, however, in connection with past lives for her. See page 319.)

(As usual, I didn’t want Jane to become fatigued. Seth had been building up to a state of high good humor, however, and I regretted passing it by. Truth was, though, that I was getting very tired also.)

(End at 11:05. Jane was well dissociated. As the session ended she sat still, with her eyes still closed. It became apparent that she was having trouble opening them. She finally made it. “He didn’t want to go,” she said.

(End at 11:11. Jane was fully dissociated, she said, “really out.” But as the session ended her eyes opened promptly.)