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(The session was held in our back room and was a quiet one. Jane spoke while sitting down. Her eyes opened narrowly at times during the session. She was smoking as she began speaking, at a slow pace which grew faster as the delivery progressed.)

Now. It is not likely that I will be heard by anyone for some time in the way that Philip heard me speak. Again, the condition simply happened to be favorable. I have told you that all action is psychic action, but the terms used make little difference. All action does have an electromagnetic reality, which is usually not perceived by the physical senses.

The sort of things with which we are involved then often imply an interruption of action of this kind, and a translation or transformation of data from one range of electromagnetic energy to another. On those occasions when Ruburt has heard me more or less directly in his psychological time experiments, there has always been on his part a sound quite independent of himself, from outside of himself, of static. If you recall, on several occasions he was so certain of the static that he checked to see if he had left the radio on by mistake.

(This occasion was June 17,1964, was a psy-time experience of Jane’s, and also involved her receipt of information about John Bradley. See the notes in Volume 4, on page 274, for a summary given during the 190th session. Jane says she has had this experience of static from which a voice emerged three times, all during psy-time.

(Note also that Jane had this experience during what she first thought was a dream on October 15,1965. See the 199th session and the notes on her two dreams. Seth at the time told us the first “dream” was not a dream.)

(Break at 9:31. Jane had been dissociated as usual for a first delivery. Her eyes had been open at times. Her voice was average but her delivery had become quite fast.

(When Seth is speaking rapidly I find that I write rapidly in order to keep up, often without much awareness of what I am putting down as far as meaning goes. Because of this I occasionally miss out on asking what may seem like obvious questions. A case in point in the above delivery would be the passage where Seth states: “Now Ruburt helped me, though consciously he was not aware of this, because of the peculiar circumstances.” I would have liked this explained at the time. As it is it must wait for the next session.

(I had planned a question to mention aloud at break, however, and this was simply whether it would have been possible for me to hear the static and the voice at the same time Jane has on her few occasions, had I been present and close to her.

A small note here: my candle effect was quite legitimate the other evening. This sort of thing will almost always occur without Ruburt’s conscious knowledge for a long time to come. The reason is simply that conscious knowledge of such an effect would inhibit him, regardless of his best intentions, and the energy used would block the action or effect that I was trying to deliver.

I will suggest your break so that we may tune in on Dr. Instream on time.

A conversation, the conversation, turns to statistics. Dr. Instream thinks of us during this time however, and now they walk back toward the house. (Pause.) I pick up some connection with a box, a small box, that is in Dr. Instream’s possession, and that he may be intending to give to someone as a gift, containing pearls or something of that description. (Pause.)

I do not mind speaking to your young friends under good conditions; perhaps the recorder can be utilized at such times, and Ruburt can be put to work typing up any additional notes. The number of sessions will never get out of hand, and we shall always be highly discriminating before we speak to anyone, under any conditions.