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SESSION 206

(An impromptu unscheduled session was held last Friday evening, November 5, for a group of young people. No notes were taken, nor were they intended according to Seth, but I want to note a few points.

(One question concerned what Seth actually “sees” when he is confronting a witness, and he answers this briefly in tonight’s session. I would like to note one physical effect that took place. There was a lighted candle on the coffee table before the group, and as Seth was speaking the flame increased noticeably in height. I called the witnesses’ attention to the effect. All windows were closed since it was a chilly evening, and the air was quite still. The enlarged flame lasted for several minutes, then gradually subsided. The flare-up of the candle flame was sudden, not gradual.

(The same effect took place during the 182nd session, which was witnessed by the Gallaghers. Seth stated then, as he did last Friday, that he was at times able to produce such effects when Jane, or Ruburt, was not alert and consequently on guard.

(No envelope test was held during the session this evening.

(The session was held in our back room and was quiet. Jane spoke while sitting down and with her eyes closed for the most part. Her voice was quiet, her pace fairly good, although with pauses.)

This will be a fairly short session, and I will go easily with you this evening because I have kept you so busy.

(Philip is John Bradley’s entity name. See the 204th session. Jane and I were certainly hoping Seth would go into John’s experience, whereby John heard from Seth, more deeply.)

There is however something else that I would like to take up immediately. It had not entered my mind to explain it to you earlier. In most instances, or at least in many instances, I do not see the particular physical image of a witness to a session; but indeed as you described it, I see what you may call a composite image, an energy reality that is composed of past personalities, and in many cases also of future personalities that will be adopted by the inner self.

(Seth dealt with this problem to some extent in the 194th session, when he spoke concerning the article on dreams in The New Yorker magazine for September 18,1965.)

The picture may also have flowers in it. She has a hat on; and you may take a break, or end the session as you prefer.

If Philip did not already have a familiarity with me in these sessions, it would have been very difficult for me to have made my voice clear to him. It also happened that I was speaking in warning, and therefore his own subconscious was willing to let the contact take place.

Now we can as you prefer, Joseph, go more deeply into this now, or at our next session.

(“We’ll make it next session then.”)

(Once again, Philip is John Bradley’s entity name. In a general way, we believe contact between John and Seth took place between four and five weeks ago. We did not quiz John about this when he witnessed the 204th session, but will do so next time we see him.