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(But he did drive home. As he walked out to his mailbox he felt certain the letter was there. It was; it did confirm that he had been given a raise by the company. The raise was totally unexpected, he told us. John wondered whether Seth would comment upon the experience.

Now in the affair of the raise, you picked this up, Philip, first of all telepathically from the mind of your superior. You were also aware of it however clairvoyantly. In your mind’s eye you literally saw the letter and read its contents, though you were not aware of the actual action as it occurred. The original decision however was made somewhat previous to the meeting which you attended, but it was at that time not yet definite. And your behavior at the meeting reinforced your superior’s decision, and made it certain.

It was not however your general behavior that made this difference, but a particular remark which was addressed I believe to the meeting at large; and which was a tip-off to your dissatisfaction, and which in some way was aimed particularly, he believed, at your immediate superior.

Perhaps we can get the specific remark, perhaps not, but if we do we will slip it in.

I am not here referring in particular to any affair that might prove embarrassing. I am referring to an affair... Give us a moment... of a family nature that has not yet developed, but that will develop shortly.

Permission, and a very airy attitude indeed. I am however enjoying myself. I will let you all take a break. No one is tired but Joseph, for I have kept him going at a steady rate indeed.

The conversation had to do with policy on the company’s part. But not only generally on a high level, but policy as it filtered down through the hierarchy; and a particular policy, a way of treatment.

You see, in a full session dealing with an individual, I can interweave material. Ruburt cannot follow me then and he cannot block me then. He does not indeed block me on purpose, but the results would be the same.

This is a general-enough statement, but at the last meeting he had cause to wonder about it even more.

The family situation is not immediate, this week for example, but it is developing.

I told you that you would have other telepathic or clairvoyant experiences. I did not say however that you would be able to read tomorrow’s headlines today, so you need have no such fears. Your ego is a sufficiently well-developed one so that you need not worry but that it will set up acceptable blockages, and shield you.

But then, Ruburt has heard my voice and did not recognize it. For I do not speak like this under normal circumstances. I did not mean to intrude.

(I might mention here a situation that John, Jane and I, and Bill Gallagher have long been aware of. This is the fact that John, Jane and Bill all have mothers who were, or are, bedridden with arthritis. Bill’s mother has died. Quite a while ago Seth remarked that this fact is one of the reasons John and Bill were drawn to the sessions; but he has not elaborated.

(John had his hat and coat on, and left at 9:56. Jane said Seth was extremely well tuned in on John tonight; she hoped that he would be able to return this evening while things were going so well. Jane also said she felt that Seth had more information on John’s mother, but that she had blocked it.

(John did tell us the event happened about a month ago. This places it in time a couple of weeks before we saw John last time, during the Binghamton meeting affair. But then John hadn’t witnessed a session, and the voice episode had slipped his mind, two weeks ago. John heard the voice in a dancing establishment called The Elms, in Elmira Heights, which is a small town adjacent to Elmira. Jane and I have been there once, many months ago.

(This thought comes to me: Quite a few sessions ago Seth remarked that an event would occur which would bind John, Jane and I together. I searched briefly for the remark but did not locate it.

(It was now time for the 13th Dr. Instream clairvoyant test. Jane resumed speaking with her eyes closed and while sitting down. Her voice was good; her pace was much faster while giving this material than in any of the previous sessions. She used but a very few brief pauses. Resume at 10:01.)

Again a candle, but a tall one, and a floor with many designs, as of diamond shapes. I am sorry Joseph that the recorder is not going, as I feel restrained and could speak more quickly.

Perhaps this is a scene from the novel or an opera, for now there are two very tall candles, with golden holders and many shadows. (Pause.) And the entrance of a male character. Perhaps a deathbed scene, but I do not hear music, and it would seem that music would be connected with an opera. But the scene is macabre.

The hypnosis experiments have not been productive these last few days for Dr. Instream, though they may have seemed so. Again a snag develops, which may or may not yet appear to him. There is something that holds him back, that he knows but does not realize that he knows.

Now, separately, I sense a framework, as of a house that is not yet fully constructed. It may have to do with a young relative of his (pause), or close friend, or someone connected with him. The house is on a hill. The framework is there but it is open, with the walls not yet constructed completely. (Pause.)

For she is grasping in a way that is gluttonous and disastrous for those with whom she comes in contact. There is a reaching out, but a reaching out which is not for the good. Again, I am not speaking in terms of any kind of morality as it is socially understood. I am speaking of emotional health, and of demands.

It would appear that all bars are long and narrow. There was a particular decoration however at the center of the bar.Ruburt now thinks of his Green Pastures, but this is his idea not mine. We will mention it in passing. It clears the air.

(The Green Pastures is the name of another bar in town. Jane and I have been there a few times, but not recently. As stated earlier, Jane and I visited The Elms, the scene of John’s adventure, once some months ago. We did not enter the bar however, but stayed in the dancing room of the establishment; thus we have no knowledge of the bar, what decorations it might have had, etc.

(John said the conversation he was involved in was innocuous enough, at least on the surface, but that when he head the voice speak to him within he became more cautious. He has not seen the woman or been to The Elms since.)

We will say no more concerning the family situation for several reasons, which you shall undoubtedly know in good time. The sister of which you spoke is indeed involved, but not in the precise manner in which you imagine.

This is not the case, for your own expectations are the actions which mold what you call the future, and it is never static and never definite; for you can change it at any moment, as any action changes any other action. You are always free to act, but every action changes that which is acted upon, and you constantly change your so-called future; and the events that I see may indeed be changed at any time.

There is a house, not in the western section of town, the third or fourth house in the middle of a block, in which she dwells. She would have used you quite unconsciously. But in many ways she is very strong, and you would have been driven to return. My words were a warning, and I do not warn without reason, and I do not cry wolf.

(John told us at break that he wasn’t sure either, but that he thought the woman was a Catholic.)

You have nothing to do with making the movie, nothing to do with the plot or the characters, yet you can see the ending, and from the action you know what the developments will bring. You in no way affected the developments within the action; nor were they predestined, but worked out by the characters involved.

You are merely apart from them, and able to switch backward or forward as you wish. Now we are speaking of a planned movie, with a plot. Now however consider another analogy, where action envelopes and changes within a different dimension. I can look in on it and see its progress, but the action develops as it will, and is free.

One dream can change the development of a personality, and change his physical course. To those of us not within your system, we can turn into that dream, pick it up in other words. But the dream is not predestined, and the dream develops because of the personality involved.

But you have on a subconscious level all the knowledge and experience of your previous selves upon which to build. Your dreams are free from the restrictions imposed by your ego, and your dreams affect your daily life much more than you know. For situations appear in them that affect your actions, and these are elements from your own previous selves. This is a large subject; but though I can tell you some things about your future, the future is not predestined, and subconsciously you are well aware yourself of what will happen, and all human beings are.

(John now told us that he knew the name of the woman in question, but did not give it to us; we requested that he wait on this.

The house is in the northeastern section, but to the west of the location in which you met the woman.

Again, you see, you did not have to hear me, and you did not have to listen. But because you heard me and because you listened, the probable future was changed.

(John also told us later that he felt the woman herself was the one who was 27; certainly not over 30, in his opinion. Her male companion was older, John said, but he did not know by how much.

I am able to look from a different perspective, but still I see only possibilities. And on that particular evening I saw a possibility that was not attractive.

There may be a secondary interest in a game like tennis, but I do not see anything else in that line. I feel a connection with bowling, but believe this to be a mistaken conception, perhaps on Philip’s part.

(John identified the second man described by Seth as a Mr. Dudley, and said that like Bill Driscoll, Dudley is a good salesman. Dudley has brown nondescript hair, is older than Driscoll but not bigger, and plays tennis and handball. Dudley used to play golf, John said, hence Seth’s gesturing as though acting out a sport which required some kind of hitting or swinging instrument.

(John thinks Mr. Dudley’s sales are on the way up, also, but has seen no actual figures on which to base that estimate specifically. Dudley also sometimes wears glasses. Jane felt Seth had wanted to give this information earlier but that she blocked it.

(Since the hour was late, John told us the name of the woman discussed by Seth: Judy Fuller. Later we found a June Fuller in the phone book, but this Fuller does not live on the correct street, either. Either Judy Fuller does not have a telephone or it is under another name.

There is more pertaining to our friend Philip, but for several reasons we shall let it lie for now. The reasons have to do with my judgment rather than any fear of distortion.

However our friend has developed his abilities in ways that he will not be able to close off, and that is after all not so terrible indeed. He shall not be reading tomorrow’s newspaper today, but he shall be more receptive to communications from the inner self, and his own ego shall be better informed, though this will not necessarily make it any happier.

Now we think of an episode—I will avoid the word affair—a particular episode occurring a while back in connection with Philip’s daughter, in her bedroom or by her bed. I believe late at night, perhaps when she was ill, but in connection with strong feeling on his part.

I hesitate to use the word oath or vow, but something along these lines. Perhaps a promise would be more fitting as a word to describe what I am thinking of.

We then bid you all a most fond and affectionate good evening. We may indeed end up with another session before Monday, but if so we shall see to it that you do not write up all our notes. I do my best in my own way to look out for all of you, and yet I am also limited as to my actions within your system. You must often read between the lines when I speak. Subconsciously you pick up more than you realize, and subconsciously you make preparations for events of which you may be consciously unaware. I cannot spell all things out, and I would not do so if I could.

(Jane and I do not usually use the recorder for sessions because it doubles the time involved in transcribing notes. We realize spontaneity is important, but our time is limited. We have considered holding just one longer session a week, in which the recorder could be used. Jane prefers two sessions a week personally, however, and many sessions ago Seth also said he preferred more than one session a week.)