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(No envelope test was held during the session.

(The session was held in our front room. Jane began speaking while sitting down and with her eyes closed; her eyes then began to open frequently after a few paragraphs of material. Her voice was about average, her pace somewhat slower than usual in the beginning. Her pace picked up considerably however as the delivery progressed, and acquired much emphasis. Jane began speaking at 8:58.)

I was quite pleased with the amount of quite specific material that I managed to deliver concerning our friend Philip, at our last session.

(This is the first time in many sessions that Willy has paid any attention to Jane during a session. In the early sessions he exhibited some drastic behavior at Seth’s presence and/or arrival. At times he would attempt to entangle himself in Jane’s legs as she paced about the room while speaking for Seth. At other times he seemed to exhibit plain panic, running to hide just before session time. Seth told us this was because the cat’s very acute senses detected his arrival on our plane. Willy, he said, would get used to his presence eventually and show no reaction; this has been the case now for well over a year.)

This event X becomes real then, in your terms, only when it is experienced or perceived by our conscious self. What about all of these other probable events, however? The only difference between them and event X is that event X was perceived and experienced by our conscious individual. In other words, were it not for this perception of the event X, it would still be as valid, or as invalid, as real or as unreal, as all the other probable events that were not perceived.

(Break at 9:29. Jane was dissociated as usual for a first delivery. Her pace had become fast but her voice had been rather quiet. Her eyes had opened often and been very dark. She had smoked.

(Jane said she was aware of Willy climbing up into her lap, and that the cat’s presence might have interfered with her delivery had he remained there.

(It was now time for the 34th Dr. Instream test. Jane sat quietly with her head down and her hands raised to her closed eyes. She spoke now with many rather short pauses. She was not smoking. Resume at 10:05.)

Ruburt will find incidentally that his book of poetry, the new and rather swiftly written one, will be published. He recognized the abundance of energy that was available to him as he wrote it.

The spontaneity that allowed him to deviate from his usual schedule is largely responsible for the whole book, for his original intention was merely to write a few humorous verses for out cat lover’s birthday. I will have a little more to say concerning this, perhaps, at our next session.

(End at 10:22 Jane was dissociated as usual. Her delivery picked up a little toward the end, and her eyes opened a few times. She said Seth was pleased when I said thank you.

(It was very interesting to watch Jane produce the above-mentioned book of poetry. It grew out of earlier suggestions, and I would say the end result represented a fine example of spontaneous creative power at its best. The poems are of high qualityindeed, and Jane felt certain from the start that they would be published. It is difficult to publish poetry in hard-cover.

(The book was then finished, and Jane spent part of the next two days typing up the version for submission to publishers. In addition she recorded the 10 poems originally done for Peggy on Tuesday evening, January 25.)