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(This is our first session since December 15,1965. The rest was our longest since the sessions began two years ago, and did us both much good. We were ready to go back to work, although Jane confessed to some feeling of nervousness as session time approached. But she did well. She had no urge to speak for Seth during vacation.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(Early in the sessions Seth began giving us lists of the inner senses and the basic laws of the inner universe. Value fulfillment, or the value climate of psychological reality, is the first basic law of the inner universe; Seth presented it in the 45th session in some detail. See Volume 2.

(Since the test object was picked by someone other than me, I had thought that some of Seth’s connections might be difficult to trace, and it appears to be the case here. Since the part of the data we can judge is pretty much on the ball, we think it reasonable to assume that the rest of Seth’s data may be equally good. Jane was pleased by the test.

(As stated before Jane was somewhat nervous this evening, resuming sessions and tests after the vacation. As soon as she gave the initial M, in the beginning of the data, she thought of Lorraine’s entity name, Marleno. Jane caught herself at once, she now said, in order to prevent possible distortions growing out of this thought. She said “To hell with it,” to herself, relaxed, and kept on speaking for Seth. She completely cut off her own associations; this ability to discriminate, Seth has told us, is very important, and will grow steadily on Jane’s part.

(Jane had no idea as to why Seth referred to a box again. She told us she enjoyed the test involving a more impersonal object, in the sense that I did not choose it. However Jane was as much aware of the emotional charges surrounding this object; she felt that she was quite aware of the emotional disturbances involved in a hospital stay in this particular case.

(I thought the information clear enough, and quite important. Not wanting Seth to continue in this fashion because of the hour, I picked another question. Sitting across the table from me, Jane appeared ready to continue beyond closing time.

(Jane opened her eyes. Since Seth did not go into my latest vision this evening, I’ll save a description of it for next session. The last vision of mine that he discussed took place on August 30,1965, and is dealt with in the 183rd session. It was of the head of a man I had known centuries earlier in a previous life, according to Seth.)

(Here Seth refers to Lorraine Shafer, who had to leave at last break. He also did well with Lorraine during the last session she witnessed, the 195th of October 4,1965, delivering quite a bit of information on Lorraine’s past; she verified much of it. See Volume 4.)

(“Good night, Seth.”

(End at 11:09. Jane was very well dissociated, she said, even though her eyes had been open at times. She said Seth could have continued indefinitely; Seth had her in a “low” state that seemed to require hardly any of her own energy, Jane said. She now felt very good. The dryness had left her throat; she thought it the result of nervousness at resuming the sessions.

(Miss Callahan is an elderly retired school teacher who lives in the front apartment.Her memory has been affected by a series of small strokes. Seth has considered her in earlier sessions, and she was also the subject of some of Jane’s first recorded clairvoyant dreams. These took place at the beginning of Miss Callahan’s illness. Seth discussed the progress of her troubles for a while in succeeding sessions, apparently accurately. Jane is still very solicitous for Miss Callahan’s welfare.

(In addition, Miss Callahan is the only person we have located who taught Frank Watts’ children in grade and high school; Frank Watts was the first personality Jane contacted in these sessions and was soon replaced by Seth. According to Seth Frank Watts had a high regard for Miss Callahan as a person and as a teacher. Miss Callahan however, cannot remember Frank Watts; only that she taught some “Watts children”. See Volume 1 for Callahan and Watts material.)