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SESSION 233

(The 33rd envelope experiment was held during the session. I trimmed down the front page of the wedding announcement of my niece, placed it between two pieces of Bristol and sealed it in the usual double envelope. It is printed in black and the reverse side is blank. It has a blind embossed border as indicated.

(On the evening of February 2, during the 229th session, Seth said: “You will get no appreciable amount of snow, I believe for ten days or so...” See page 254. Seth was correct. Indeed, we began to receive our first appreciable snow within three hours after the ten days were up. This was a very heavy wet snow that began shortly before 1 AM Sunday, February 13; it continued until dawn, accumulating about an inch, then turned into a very heavy soaking rain that lasted all day Sunday and on into the night. Jane and I were quite conscious of the prediction Sunday because we had to be traveling. I had been keeping track of it in the meantime, however, and noted that we received a few very light dustings of snow during the ten day interim. Actually, the weather has been so warm that most of the heavy snow received two weeks ago has melted.

(Saturday night, February 12, Jane had a vivid dream that she believes to be significant, and hoped Seth would discuss it this evening. It is included later in the session.

(The session was held in our front room. All windows were shut tightly, and the traffic noise was not a problem, although it was audible to some degree. Jane began speaking while sitting down, at 9:01. Her eyes were almost immediately open. Today was Valentine’s Day. Jane had been in a good mood, and so was Seth. Jane smiled broadly as she opened the session.)

(Seth began to talk about the simultaneity of basic reality in the 41st session, which dealt with the spacious present. see Volume 1.)

(For an idea of the complexity implied here,in Volume 3 see the 88th session, in which Seth goes into the structure of the subconscious to some degree.)

(In the 222nd session Seth asked Jane not to smoke during tests. Sometimes seriously but more often humorously, he has gone into the reasons behind Jane’s smoking in these sessions: 31, 32, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 222.

Its data will agree when taken within its own framework, but this will be the only clue visible at first sight. The probable self, as far as I know, has not yet been reached in any hypnotic experiments. It has been glimpsed however, but not recognized as a separate part of the self, in dream recordings given in analytic sessions.

(Seth has mentioned psychic gestalts before, and has given bits and pieces of information on them, along with data on the general heading of the God concept, in these sessions: 31, 66, 81, 95, 96, 97, 146, 147, 149, 135, 151, etc.

A disagreement here somewhere, in connection with two men. This is not the disagreement that Dr. Instream spoke of to you and Ruburt when you met. (Pause at 10:15. See Session 169 in Volume 4.)

(“An initiation, and a bringing together of fragments.” We thought this of course a reference to Linda’s marriage. The use of the word fragments here, by Seth, led us to think that reincarnational motives might be involved in the marriage; but I did not think to quiz Seth about this when he resumed. In the very early sessions Seth began to use fragment as a reference to each physical personality manifested by the entity.

(See the 204th session, page 39. In this case Seth used the method to pinpoint a raise John received from his company.)

(As mentioned in the notes for the 232nd session, page 269, Fate Magazine wrote Jane concerning an article on the envelope experiments. She has now written the first draft for the article. We suppose Seth’s rather cryptic note above means the article will sell if Jane sticks to the way she has planned.

(End at 11:01. Jane was well dissociated, she said. Her eyes had opened often, and halfway through the delivery she had opened her glasses, as if to put them on. Her pace had been good but her voice had sounded tired. Now she said she did feel tired at the end of the session.)

(Tracing of the envelope front used in the 34th envelope experiment, in the 234th session for February 16,1966.)