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SESSION 186

(It will be recalled that in the 185th session Seth gave me some tips on how to help my hay fever through suggestion upon retiring at night. It has been a rough season and I was very uncomfortable over the Labor Day weekend. I had been using suggestion at various times through the day; trying Seth’s method, I noticed an amazing improvement at once. I slept well the night of the 6th, and sneezed but five times the whole following day. The improvement has maintained itself, and soon now the season will be over. I can truthfully say the change in my condition has been magical. I am on a much-reduced dosage of my prescription antihistamine. I have learned I can do without it, but taking the drug removes the last of the lingering traces. For some reason, the suggestions given before falling off to sleep are very potent.

(Ever since mailing in the finished manuscript of her ESP book Jane has been very restless. She is very eager to get to work on her next project, but keeps struggling among many ideas, notes, etc. I suggested to her that she skip tonight’s session if she felt so nervous, but she decided to hold it regardless.

(I had prepared the usual double test envelope earlier in the day, but doubted it would be used if Jane was not in a good mood for the session. This time I cemented a collection of used U.S. postage stamps, still on original paper, to a folded piece of white paper. See my tracing on page 250. I sandwiched this paper between two pieces of bristol board to prevent identification by touch, and slipped the assemblage into the usual two envelopes.

(The session was held in our small back room. Jane began speaking while sitting down and with her eyes closed. Her voice was average, her pace good. She used a few pauses.)

I do not know how long our session will be. We will have to discover what we can do here. I will direct some remarks personally to Ruburt.

(As in the 183rd session, Jane began to speak after break while sitting upright and cross-legged on the bed. She was still out of sorts and restless. She sat with a hand to her eyes, her head down. Her eyes were closed, her voice quiet. The pace was slower now, with more frequent pauses. Resume at 9:28.)

(Another long pause. The pace was getting to be so slow that I expected the session to end at any moment.)

(Jane regarded the test results as very poor, at first glance. I didn’t know what to think. Some of the information applied at first glance; other parts of it, I thought, were impressions attached to the test objects themselves, as in the 185th session.

(“After the session began?”)

I am going to close. However, I will see that all in all we have not lost out. Ruburt should remember that his reaction is a normal one. Our next session will indeed be a full and excellent one. My heartiest wishes to you both.

(End at 9:54. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes remained closed until the end of the session, her voice quiet. Seth said no more about the results of the test, and in view of Jane’s state I thought it best not to query him about it tonight.

(Perhaps a later session will clear up some of these points.)

(Tracing of the photographic negative used in the 7th envelope test, in Session 187, September 13,1965.)