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SESSION 183

(For what it is worth, earlier in the afternoon I had been wishing I had a model handy, for I felt like doing some quick sketches as a relief from the constant oil painting. It is difficult for me to get models when I have the time to use them. For some other material on my visions, see the 22nd and 47th sessions, in Vols. 1 and 2.

(I had prepared a test envelope to give to Jane during the 181st session, of August 25, but did not do so because of the short session. When the envelope was not used I did not mention it to her, but saved it for tonight’s session. It contained part of a calendar page for April 1965. I came across the calendar beneath a stack of books and on the spur of the moment decided to use it for the test, wondering whether this type of cut and dried subject matter would have as much emotional pull for Seth/Jane as the subject matter of the first two tests. See the 179th and 180th sessions. Jane was out of the house when I prepared the usual double envelope.

(The session was held in our small back room. Jane began speaking while sitting down and with her eyes closed. Her voice was quiet and she used pauses, although her pace picked up considerably as first break approached.)

I had told you that I had considered giving you a night off. Instead, we had an extra session.

(Bill and Peggy Gallagher witnessed the unscheduled session, the 182nd, on Saturday August 28. The Jesuit tag has come to be a standard one for Bill, and quite a humorous one in Seth’s view.

(During the session Seth gave an accurate psychological account of Bill Gallagher’s mother, according to Bill. She is now dead, and Jane and I never met her. Bill has told us very little about her, other than that she was an arthritic cripple like Jane’s mother is. Three points in particular were quite authentic, according to Bill. Seth stated that his mother “was fascinated by numbers,” loved the color blue, and was inordinately fond of flowers. After the session Bill Gallagher told us his mother had been a bookkeeper, was buried wearing a blue dress—blue was her favorite color—and that she was indeed very fond of flowers.)

(For some related material concerning time, intensities and moment points, see the following sessions: 149, 150, 151, 152.)

(Our bed is in the small back room we usually use for sessions. During break Jane sat on it while she smoked a cigarette. The break was rather long, and Jane had started on her second cigarette. She was still on the bed when Seth came through again. Jane has yet to speak from the prone position for any amount of time. She came close to it this evening, leaning back upon an elbow quite often.

(Among many others, see the 92nd, 93rd and 94th sessions in Volume 3.)

You may take a break or you may end the session.

We cannot cover everything I had in mind for this evening, or this session would run well over its ordinary allotted time.

This material this evening will be extremely useful and practical to you both. We will discuss it more thoroughly in another session.

I will give you a few sentences concerning your vision. Or you may take a break, or I will save it for the beginning of our next session.

(The very first sessions dealt a good deal with reincarnation. Jane and me did not ask for this kind of data; it just came that way through the Ouija board and we accepted it at face value. Frank Watts, it will be remembered, was our communicator; the present Seth entity did not announce his presence until the 4th session, when he superseded Frank Watts.

(In the 3rd session, December 6,1963, Frank Watts told Jane and me that we had lived lives in Mesopotamia, our first, in the 4th century BC. Frank Watts and I were females, Jane was a male, our brother, and his name was Seth.

(In the 54th session Seth went into considerable detail in explaining the construction of entities. He could not give us this information earlier, he said, because we would have leaped to the conclusion that he was Ruburt’s [Jane’s] subconscious mind; this is not so. As everything else does, entities constantly change. To quote Seth: “Ruburt is not myself now, in his present life; he is nevertheless an extension and materialization of the Seth that I was at one time... He grew, evolved and expanded in terms of a particular, personal set of value fulfillments... He is now an actual gestalt, a personality that was one of the probable personalities into which Seth could grow. I represent another, I am another.”

(Seth then continued to explain how I am also an offshoot of that early Seth entity. Thus Jane, myself, and our present communicator, Seth, are related psychically; it is this that makes our sessions possible, according to Seth.)

I will now end an excellent, rather lengthy session. I do suggest that you study this material carefully this evening.

I would here like to make a suggestion, that tests be given to Ruburt fairly close to the middle of a session, rather than at the beginning or end.

Perhaps 1965, and a road. I will now end the session.