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SESSION 232

(The 32nd envelope experiment was held during the session. The object was a black and white Polaroid photo, taken of myself by a coworker in September 1960, at my desk at the Artistic Card Co. in Elmira. The older individual in the left background of the photo, Ezra Havens, figures in the envelope data, also. The friend who took the photo caught me by surprise during a lunch hour; hence my position in the act of stretching, and the startled expression.

(For the record: In the 227th and 228th sessions Seth discussed the book of poetry Jane produced so quickly by using suggestions for abundant energy, and told us the book would be published. Jane had also finished the first third of her book on the Seth material itself, and felt it ready to send out.

(The session was held in our front room. Jane began speaking rather slowly, with pauses. Her hands were raised to her closed eyes and she was not smoking.)

Now, I wanted to make a few remarks concerning the unscheduled session which occurred.

(This would be last Sunday’s unscheduled 230th session, during which Jane gave data on our life spans and those of Bill and Peggy Gallagher. It developed that some of this material was distorted.)

There is a fine discrimination used in our sessions. There is indeed a tuning into, a reception of frequencies. Now it is extremely difficult to lock in here. There is a pulsation always occurring. It is difficult for Ruburt to maintain steadily that particular reception of frequency, and within certain limits there is sometimes a slipping in and out, so that now and then Ruburt’s personal subconscious is allowed to intrude. This is what happened the other evening.

(Break at 9:06. Jane’s eyes opened and she was out of trance. I too had been aware of the traffic noise, although I had pulled our kitchen window closed, I thought, before the session. I now latched it tightly, which helped, and pulled the curtains over it to further deaden the sounds.

(Seth began talking about pulsations in the very early sessions, the 12th among others. He added more material on such frequencies along with the data on the inner senses, by the 50th session; then elaborated further in the material on the electrical universe, given in the sessions from 122 on. See Volumes 1 through 3.

Information received must however be sifted through the subconscious. We are managing now in such a way that our material survives without undue coloration from the subconscious. The whole process is a complicated one, but the very act of holding the sessions is of great benefit to the organism as a whole. For the vibrations and frequencies which are received in order to make our communications possible, are also most beneficial in themselves to the human and psychic system.

(Before the unscheduled 230th session of last Sunday, Bill Gallagher had surprised Jane by telling her he thought she possessed healing ability. Seth discussed this ability in the 185th session, and he referred to it briefly in a few others.)

(See the 228th session.)

In his previous poetry, as a rule, Ruburt was not reaching deeply enough. I wanted to make these comments, and do suggest that at least a portion of a session a month be concerned with the state of your psychic and physical circumstances, for there are possibilities here from which you are not yet fully benefiting.

(“How about the first session following the first of each month?”)

Now. Some of the information that I gave you in our last session, concerning the portions of the self, seem rather alien, I am sure. Do not forget however that you are not even aware of many portions of the self that you know intellectually do exist. So it is not so strange to imagine other portions of the self with which you are not at all familiar in any conscious way.

(This discussion began in the 41st session. See Volume 1.)

(“A five six.” Note that Jane, or Seth, pronounced these numbers as five six, rather than fifty-six. Nevertheless I felt five six referred to the age of Ezra Havens when the photo was taken in 1960. As stated, Ezra died in 1964. Inquiring at the plant the day after this session, I learned that he had been 60 when he died; this of course made him 56 in 1960. Ezra had a history of heart trouble and his death from this was not unexpected.

Now we will shortly end our session.

I would add here, once more, that during our sessions your physical organism is automatically allowed greater healing abilities. It is easier for the physical organism to utilize energy in order to make any desirable adjustments.

(“Why do I sometimes feel sleepy during sessions?”)

(“Does this effect apply to anyone witnessing sessions?”)

Now I shall close the session or continue as your prefer.

(Tracing of the wedding announcement used in the 33rd envelope experiment, in the 233rd session for February 14,1966.)