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(On page 177 of the last session Seth mentioned a recent vision of mine, and promised to discuss it further this evening. Since he does so I will now describe it in some detail. It took place in December, as I lay in bed suspended in that pleasant interlude between waking and sleeping; I’ve had other visions while in this state, incidentally.

(Seth referred to this bewildering multiplicity very early in the sessions, and dealt with it rather extensively in the 12th session of January 2,1964, in his first explanation of what he calls the fifth dimension. He has told us we could never cover even a portion of the numberless fields bordering even our own; some will be explained as they impinge upon our own in various ways; Seth also has mentioned his own ability to travel through a few other fields. See Volume 1.)

In your particular state of consciousness on that particular evening, your attention strayed beyond your ordinary fields of perception. You perceived an inhabitant of another system. There was indeed a quite unusual point of contact reached; most unusual indeed in that you not only perceived this individual, but he also perceived you.

You did not break it purposely, but the other individual concerned was bewildered, and to some extent frightened, and he withdrew. You were indeed quite willing to strike out physically. It was this emotional reaction that was felt by the other individual, and the other individual had no idea what this emotion was.

You could just as well have tuned in, so to speak, on any one of the numberless other such systems. The individual within this particular other system, however, has a different sort of psychological makeup than your own. He is not as capable of intense concentration within as large a perspective as that possessed by your ego.

Its general field of awareness however is much larger than any with which you are familiar, and he has a greater control and focus within this larger generalized field than you possess in your comparable generalized field of perception. His dissociated states, for example, make up a much larger portion of his perception, and they are more vivid than mankind’s generalized dissociated conditions.

Because his range was so large, your dissociated conditions simply met more easily than otherwise. However, once his attention was centered here, he turned his conscious attention to full focus upon what he perceived. Nor did he perceive your physical form as you know it. But he picked up fully your emotional recognition and fear, and these were translated or perceived by him in his own fashion, so that to him you appeared as a mass of varying colors, and as movement of severe intensity.

The individual was also bewildered however because he was able to perceive you in what you would call both your future and your past, as well as your present.

He perceived that a portion of you was bound, however, within your present time, and this was almost incomprehensible to him.

You are not alone in this however. You have had no other experiences where contact was recognized both by you and the other individual from the other system, however; and he takes what he learned as part of himself now.

I do not know how it would serve you if I tried to describe the sort of plane which he inhabits. And since we are dealing in words some of the information simply would not make sense to you.

I believe he lost a scarf, navy blue. In any case, whether it was lost or found, I see a navy blue scarf on the chair by his desk, in his office. Now; that is, in his office now.

A letter today from a man in the Midwest, or a letter about him. The man is on in years. He has two daughters, and is known for grumbling.

(The rest of the test data appears to be all of a piece, and can be connected with a young friend of ours with whom I used to work. Two years ago the friend enlisted in the Marines and was sent to Alaska. He returned to Elmira over the holidays on furlough. I met him twice but Jane did not see him at all. She did listen to me talk about him, of course.

(Jane also said that when the information “An engagement,” etc., came through, it represented Seth’s effort to put her on the right track. She had our Marine friend in mind during the test, and he was engaged to be married at the time he went into the service. He is now married and a father.

Long enough, however, to make a few comments. Ruburt was not particularly at his best this evening, simply because he was somewhat upset over your reaction, Joseph, to the car episode.