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(The arrival of two unexpected witnesses made Jane a little nervous, but the mood passed rather quickly, she told me later. At 8:59 she was in the kitchen making coffee. She began delivery on time in a voice pitched little lower than usual, and rather strong. Her pacing was slow. Once again her glasses were off, her eyes very dark.)

(See the 81st session and the material on the God concept. By now, Jane’s voice had strengthened, although it was not any lower. But she spoke with much expressive determination, using many gestures and smiling often.)

Before any universe as you know it, or as I know it, existed, there was first a striving. To make this as simple as possible is difficult, since it has been simplified for me. In ultimate terms, there is and never was a beginning, Philip. This strains the intellect, and so I will say that in your practical terms, of which we have somewhat spoken in the past, there was what you may all refer to as a beginning, when strife and striving and a wish to be formed itself and gathered itself sufficiently together to form a contracted whole in which all possibilities were latent.

Far be it from me to reinforce my little atheist’s early catechism lessons. I must however substitute the word God for energy, but still say that energy always was and always will be.

(Break at 9:31. Jane was dissociated as usual. As soon as she sat down she put her glasses on. She resumed in the same strong and energetic manner at 9:36.)

(Break at 10:02. Jane was dissociated as usual. Again she put her glasses on at break, having delivered the above material without wearing them. My writing hand felt some fatigue.

(John and Bill, Jane and I engaged in a discussion of free will, and in an effort to make some points I was sure the material covered I again became aware of something that was becoming more obvious all the time: namely, that the material has now reached such a length, and has gone into so many subjects, some lightly and others deeply, that I for one can no longer keep all of it on prompt recall.

(Break at 10:46. Jane was dissociated as usual, really out, she said, as she has been all night. Bill Macdonnel left for home because his cold had tired him out. Jane resumed in about the same energetic manner at 10:50.)

I will here begin to close the session, though like Philip's universe, the sessions never began at a specific point in time, and Ruburt knew of them long before he paced this floor, though he was not aware of them. And they will end, or they will end in your terms, with your change of planes. But they will not end, and as we have known each other in the past and in the future and in the present, so these sessions exist in the spacious present, where time as such has no meaning.

(End at 10:58. Jane was dissociated as usual. See page 58 for a brief resume of the material involving John Bradley’s neighborhood in Williamsport, PA. Again, John said the initial V meant nothing in particular to him, but when he returned home he planned to do what he could to ascertain just what did take place three doors from his own place, to a woman with at least two children, or who is connected somehow with children. I suggested that a visit to his local newspaper back-issue file might be the easiest way to check.