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(“A motor.” A reference to the motor of our tape recorder. Jane said this is tied in with the last reference: “Something beats like a motor,” in answer to my third question.

(“A forgotten item.” I left my favorite pen at the Gallaghers the night we recorded the 170th session. Peggy found it later and returned it. I am attached to that particular type of pen, finding them easy to take the notes with for sessions.

(“Something spilled.” Both Jane and I have vague memories of something being spilled at the Gallaghers’ that evening, when the 170th session was recorded. We believe it was a drink. We will check with Bill and Peggy.

(“A door which is dark, or opens into darkness.” Jane and I had the same thought, independently, before mentioning it: that this impression referred to the layout of the Gallagher’s house, where the 170th session was recorded. The session was held in their living room. A hall opens off this and leads back to the kitchen. Other rooms open off the hall on either side. Usually when we visit there we see a light on in the kitchen.

(I recall that on the particular night of the recording session, we did not want to be interrupted. Therefore we had the curtains pulled in the living room, and all other lights out. Thus the hallway leading from the living room to the kitchen was dark. Since we did not ask Seth we cannot be sure our interpretation is correct.

(“Circular shapes. Perhaps four heads.” Four people were present when the 170th session, represented by the envelope object, was recorded: Jane and I, and Bill and Peggy Gallagher. Four heads of course could have referred also to coins or cabbages. I knew four people were present at the 170th session. I did not think I would be giving Jane information when I asked my first question, pertaining to elaboration of the four heads data. As far as she was concerned, I could have picked either a bit of data I knew to be wrong, or about which I knew nothing, as well as something that was correct.

(“Give us a moment. Four heads came from the impression of circle shapes. Here interpreted as being connected with four people. Perhaps at a table.” Seth/Jane gave this data in answer to the first question, and it is more specific in that people as such are mentioned. None of us sat at a table however during the recording, or the evening; the Gallaghers do not have such a table in their living room.

(“Something beats like a motor.” Jane said this use of the word beats reminded her of the hum of the motor on our recorder. We didn’t get enough information here, but she believes it a reference to the recorder motor rather than a reference, say, to our car.

Then I have a few personal remarks which you may or may not include in the records, as you prefer. From now on I will give such information at the end of a session, because you can delete it if you want from the record.

(In the 232nd session for February 9,1966 Seth suggested that a portion of a session a month be devoted to our psychic and physical circumstances. He agreed with my suggestion that we try the first session after the first of each month. We haven’t been this faithful but have decided to make stronger efforts here. There will thus be more deletions in the future. None of this evening’s material is cut. I regard it as illuminating and a good example of the way Seth presents such material. On but two or three occasions in the past we have eliminated personal material from these records. This material is on file and available to anyone studying these sessions.

(As stated I fell ill with the virus in March 1965. I was also troubled by a virus in 1964, sometime between January and March; I was not in the habit of noting such things in the sessions then, so have no accurate record. I remember that I was sick three times that winter, each time to a lesser degree. The first two episodes cost me work time of several days each. I do not remember having any thoughts, at any time, connecting my illnesses to the polio vaccines.)