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(At supper time this evening I voiced my opinion of the tactics of Jane’s publisher, Frederick Fell, in no uncertain terms, with the rather obvious implication that Seth could comment upon the situation should he care to.

(I planned no envelope test for this session, thinking that the test material on the Gallaghers in Puerto Rico, and on Dr. Instream, would be enough for one session. I was more interested at the moment in having Seth finish his analysis of Jane’s two dreams, which he began last session, and made it a point to say so just before the session tonight.

(Last Monday noon, October 18, our friend John Bradley visited us while making his rounds as a traveling drug salesman. He was too busy to witness Monday’s session, but promised to visit us on Tuesday evening, October 19. During the day on Tuesday, John had to attend an important business meeting of his regional office in Binghamton, NY, perhaps sixty miles from Elmira.

(Remembering her success in clairvoyantly tuning in on Bill Gallagher as he made his business errands on the evening of October 8, Jane decided to try the same thing with John on Tuesday. The difference here was that John had no forewarning of Jane’s efforts, since she didn’t get the idea until after he left us Monday. See Session 196 in Volume 4 for the Gallagher material.

(At 8 PM Tuesday, Jane wrote down 13 impressions, all dealing with John Bradley’s supposed activities. She was ironing at the time, and pleasant music was on the radio. She wrote the impressions in an offhand manner, she said, without straining; she had no idea at the time as to whether any of them were correct. John arrived from Binghamton perhaps three quarters of an hour later. Going over the list with us in the course of the evening, he confirmed 10 of Jane’s impressions as correct. Some of them were quite striking.

He thought the clothing was on sale, that it was cheap at the price, but it only seemed so because he did not know that he had already paid for it. Here he found an excellent jacket which he realized was his own from a previous season. The jacket was green and warm. It represented what will seem like a new ability to him, when he will shortly discover it in himself.

He will however then realize, or he should realize, that this ability was his in a past life, but unused, and is now awaiting him. It will bring both warmth and confidence, and will give him protection.

In his dream he is also aware that these people like him, and that in some manner he has been acquainted with them in the past. This also brings forth feelings of rediscovery and joy that accompanied the dream. The persons involved were good friends indeed in a past life. They were images of the men whose voices spoke to him in his earlier dream, when he was so frightened; and when he leaped so gracefully from the banister, I was the one who extended an arm to assist him.

The separate building of apartments represented possibilities in the more distant future. Ruburt is not ready for them yet. The one room into which he looked for example was not vacant, or ready for him in other words. The ability represented by the jacket however represents the fairly immediate future.

(Jane said she hadn’t consciously connected the voices in the first dream with the olive-skinned males in the second dream. She well remembered the young man who gracefully assisted her off the banister in the second dream. He had, Jane said, exceptionally beautiful and smooth olive skin. He was not very tall, but short, slim and well proportioned, with dark hair. Jane doesn’t recall this young man’s features specifically, nor for that matter the features of any of the other males. She remembers the fact that they were all smiling, and their smooth olive skins.

I believe this evening our Dr. Instream is a little late. In any case he is not ready for us yet. (Pause.) A car stops, and he gets out of it.

He has been with other people, rather formally dressed. He has had drinks at a public establishment this evening, perhaps the Howard Johnson’s which you visited; and an affair at the college.

I think the car is a Buick. (Pause at 10:05.) He makes an evening visit to his office, and perhaps has coffee in the cafeteria. He speaks to a man in the hall outside the cafeteria. There is some confusion in his mind as to whether or not he can be with us in time, and his thoughts dwell on the matter.

The man he spoke to in the hall is somewhat of a nuisance to him, in some way acting as some kind of impediment.

Dr. Instream also thinks of a telephone call he is expecting. He is in his office late. The phone call may have to do with his wife. She drives him home, I believe. He is inside his house.

He smokes on the verandah. There is a brief disagreement between his wife and himself. He goes to his room and tries to contact us. He thinks of a knife.

Believe it or not, Ruburt’s letter was a surprise to him. He will feel hurt, but cover this with a cosmopolitan manner.

He has been away because of family difficulties.

(On the spur of the moment I began to concentrate on having Seth tell me more about this man. I was not sure whether he referred to this man as being part of my dreams, of whether he meant this unseen man existed physically.

(Dream # 1; Monday night, October 18: In color. I was showing a young man in his early twenties some things about drawing. He was blonde, a man I did not know. Deep voice, straight hair, white shirt sleeves. He had a drawing board to which he had fastened a sheet of rough watercolor paper, and carried this around with him. I saw that he had covered the paper with fine-line figure drawings and portraits, in pencil and pen. This is an unusual way to work on watercolor paper. Good drawings, and I still remember one profile head in line, quite clearly.

Ruburt wants to say a whistle, so we will let him say it. This is a result of the train connection on his part. He is doing very well.

Had you asked the two questions mentally without letting Ruburt know they were significant, you should have received your answers. This is simply because this sort of thing is fairly new with him, and so he was on guard. Later it will not matter.

We will therefore close our session. My best regards to all. And from what our Mr. Gallagher is doing at this moment, I must say that I think he would make a poor Jesuit indeed.