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(No envelope test was held during the session.

(Bill and Peggy Gallagher were witnesses to the session. As usual the presence of witnesses fired Seth up. His delivery was more active and quite fast from the beginning. Jane’s eyes however remained closed. For much of the session she sat on the edge of her chair, leaning forward with her hands clasped together. She began at 8:58.)

You will need to use your wits carefully, for secondary realities will often appear to be primaries. I mentioned earlier that it might seem that walking, for example, was a primary, since it appears that you walk in your dreams. You also walk in the waking state, and you can actually walk, and also appear to walk, in the trance state. Nevertheless, walking is part of the primary of motion.

(Break at 9:10. Jane was dissociated as usual for a first delivery. Her eyes had remained closed, her pace had been quite fast and expressive. She resumed in the same manner at 9:28.)

(Seth broke off his material to introduce this bit of humor because Bill, sitting perhaps five feet away, was leaning forward and staring intently at Jane as she spoke. Smiling, her eyes still closed, Jane now shifted her chair so that she did face Bill squarely.

—after a dream of much activity? I was not inquiring after your welfare. However, I am glad that you are in good condition.

(Break at 9:48. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes had remained closed. Her pace had been fast throughout, her voice somewhat stronger but not loud by any means.

(Our session was being held in our front room. Up until now none of us had noticed the traffic noise past the front of the house; but now that a test was to come I became conscious of it. Later Jane, Bill and Peggy concurred.

(Here Jane began to describe the shape of the clock in the air with her hands, as she spoke with her eyes closed. Since she was so definite about the clock’s shape, I made a quick drawing of my version of her description. This of course caused me to miss out on a few words of her verbal account, so I took the chance and asked her to repeat her description. This is the first time I have asked her a question during a test. She responded without a sign of bother or irritation, and her second description was the same as the first, as near as I could tell.

I also am of the impression that he received a letter today from a previous woman student, having to do perhaps with references that she was requesting. (Pause.)

One of the women in this gathering wears a large blue or gray brooch (pause) that I believe he has noticed. (Pause.) He has been or very shortly will be, informed of a change in his teaching schedule that he did not expect or anticipate, having to do with the morning hours of Tuesday and Thursday, I believe, though I am not certain of the precise two days. The change was not expected. (Pause.)

(Break at 10:11. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes had remained closed; her pace had picked up considerably toward the end of the delivery. She told me my question did not bother her; also that she saw the clock she was describing pretty clearly. She was aware of the traffic noise.

(When Jane began speaking again her pace was once again fast. Her eyes were closed, her voice average. Resume at 10:20.)

(At an earlier break, Bill had mentioned to me, while Jane was out of the room, that he believed Jane was right-handed but that Seth used predominantly left-handed movements. I hadn’t noticed this, but told Bill Jane had talked at times of being left-handed as a child; I told him I remembered Jane saying something about being made to write right-handed in school.)

(The pace was now even faster, and occasionally I omitted a word in the notes to keep up; this did not alter any meanings. Seth was most amused and pleased at the exchange. Jane sat with her eyes still closed; her movements and facial expressions were active.)

([Bill:] “I was curious as to what you would say.”)

It does indeed, though the face does not fully adopt my own expression. First of all, as far as the hands are concerned, to be left or right-handed has to do with inner mechanisms and brain patterns that come first, before the motions of the hands. Characteristically, I operated in certain manners that resulted in the primary use of my left hand, when I was focused within physical matter.

(Seth/Jane now turned toward Peggy, who had been sitting quietly by. Jane’s eyes were still closed, although she was smiling. It will be remembered that Seth has strong subconscious abilities.)

(The most obvious instance of a change in Jane’s features occurred in the 68th session, and was witnessed by Bill Macdonnel and myself in full light. This was very definite and easily seen. See Volume 1.)

Now we are speaking of something aside from Ruburt’s features. When he is off guard, as he was when Philip was present, then we can achieve very much.