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SESSION 219

(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.

(See the tracing on page 169 for the test object for this evening’s envelope test. It was furnished by Lorraine Shafer, who witnessed this session. Details will be presented in the body of the session, as they developed. The last session witnessed by Lorraine was the 195th, of October 4,1965. See Volume 4.

(The session was held in our large front room. Jane began speaking while sitting down. Her eyes were closed, her voice a little stronger than usual, and her pace quite good. She smiled as she began. Her voice was rather dry.)

Now. If you will recall our early sessions dealing with value fulfillment, let us now consider what I prefer to call a moment point. This moment point, as you know, refers to any given present instant. If you are thinking in terms of Dunne’s theories, then start out with this moment point as it is seen in time one by self one.

(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.

(See the following sessions for details on moment points: 149, 150, 151, 152.)

(During break Lorraine asked if we still conducted envelope tests. When we said yes, she told us she had brought a test envelope with her. Moreover, it was one I had given her myself when she witnessed the 172nd session of July 26,1965. Handing her the two envelopes and the two pieces of Bristol, I had asked her to pick a test object, seal it up, and give it to me the next time we saw her, without telling me what the test object was. She had picked the test object last August, then mislaid the envelope and forgotten it; in addition I hadn’t asked her for it.

The vacation has done you both good however, and your energies have indeed replenished themselves. I have some slight trouble with Ruburt when sessions are not regular. However this effect is fleeting, and as always I bear with such things in my usual manner.

(Besides the sessions on moment points, see those on the electrical field and on action—too numerous to list here.)

(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.

I will discuss this more thoroughly, perhaps at our next session so as not to keep you this evening, for I do not believe that I have quite made myself clear.

I did not know that you would tempt me with such a question at the end of a session; and you have no one but yourself to blame, if the session continues longer than you would have it.

(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.)

(“Will you continue this discussion in the next session?”)

(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.)

(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.)

(Tracings of the sales slips used in the 25th envelope test, in the 220th session, January 5,1966.)