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(At 8:30 PM this evening our landlady, Marian Spaziani, and a friend of hers visited us briefly. Marian and her friend, Helen Dyer, both know of the sessions but have not witnessed any. Helen’s husband recently died after an operation for lung cancer; this evening Helen described to Jane a recent experience in which she felt her husband was speaking to her while she slept. Helen told us she has dreamed of her husband many times, but felt this particular experience was something other than a dream; she stressed its clarity, its reassurance and simplicity.

She is balanced on a thin line of normalcy at this time. I am speaking organically here. Despair and self-destructive tendencies can so alter the chemical composition that a malignant tumor could develop, again in the abdominal area.

The choice is hers to make. It should however be noted here that contact of this type, personal contact, does help. It has nothing to do with the particular abilities that are being used, per se. These operate quite as effectively through distance; and for that matter, though less often, through time.

(At times Jane gets “feelings” about the physical condition of an individual, whether it is a friend or someone she passes on the street. Sometimes these intuitions involve the approaching death of the individual concerned. She has felt other psychological states also, and now notes them down when they occur. These developments have been quite recent. A recent example involved her sensing the breakup of the marriage of a friend with whom I work, some two weeks before the friend told anyone. I had suspected nothing amiss personally.

(It was now time for the 19th Dr. Instream test. Jane’s pace was now again very slow. Although I could not see her doing so, her eyes must have opened a trifle to find the ashtray, since she was again smoking. She sat with one hand to her face, her head tipped down, speaking quietly. She took many pauses, some of them long. Resume at 10:06.)

He put himself back in time, seeing three photographs of himself, progressively further away from the present, in order to separate himself from the sort of information that he heard himself giving earlier this evening. So all in all he was not working at his best, and it can hardly be expected that he do so constantly.

(In the 197th session Seth suggested that I not wait for him to request an envelope test. In a recent session also he said it was not wise for such tests to be given at the end of a session, when Jane is tired. Hence I thought I had picked a good time to give her the test envelope. I did not anticipate that it would not be a good test because of previous information, or that it could interfere with subsequent tests.

We will at any time, Joseph, accept envelope tests, as long as they are given to me after the Instream material. There is indeed more that should be said along these lines, and perhaps at our next session we shall make certain points clearer in this regard.