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(No envelope experiment was held during the session.

(The session was held in our front room. Jane began speaking at a slow rate, her eyes closed, her voice average.)

Generally, for the first time, you and Ruburt are bringing the world of books to these people, the young people, for the first time. Your own artistic endeavors have influenced the young woman who was here this evening. You have completely changed and broadened their conception of what adults are like, at a time when they found no mutual correspondence with the adults that they had known.

Both of you also benefit by the encounters, and it is of course up to you to direct the relationships along the lines that are most fruitful. This after all presents no difficulties, since they will follow your lead. The gift given you this evening was given in a wordless attempt to express appreciation.

I do not want to take any more time with this discussion. But I did want to impress you with these facts. The relationship between you and Ruburt also gives the young couple the basis upon which to build their own life together, and such a basis was quite necessary for them.

(Break at 9:22. Jane was dissociated as usual for a first delivery. Her pace had begun to pick up finally. Her eyes began to open and she sipped at wine.

(The new book is titled The Expansion of Human Consciousness. Jane wrote the outline for it in less than an hour, and says the process of intuition responsible for it was much like that which led to her production of the book of poetry discussed in the 227th and 228th sessions in Volume 5.

(Break at 9:55. Jane said she was well dissociated. Her pace had been fast, her eyes open often and very dark.

(It was now time for the 52nd Dr. Instream experiment. As usual Jane sat with her eyes closed and her head bowed to one hand. Her pace included many pauses; they were short for the most part however and her pace was on the whole good. Resume at 10:06.)

(Break at 10:25. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes had begun to open occasionally after the impressions for Dr. Instream, and her pace had quickened.

(Jane began speaking in an active manner again, and her eyes opened almost at once. Her voice was, briefly, quite loud when she resumed at 10:31.)

(Jane paused and closed her eyes. Both of us had almost forgotten that we wanted Seth to help us locate the little three-legged pointer that goes with the Ouija board. Last weekend we had discovered the pointer was missing, and had been trying to find it ever since.

(We haven’t used the Ouija board for perhaps two years. It will be recalled that the board helped these sessions get under way, in December 1963, but it was soon dispensed with when Jane began to speak the material. The pointer’s loss however was quite embarrassing because the board did not belong to us, but to our landlord, James Spaziani. We never did get around to buying our own.

(When we discovered the pointer was lost, I remarked to Jane that now Jimmy would probably want the board back. Two days later, Jimmy visited us and asked us if he could take the board back; he and his wife wanted to experiment with it. They had never used it after Jimmy bought it. Jimmy now told us it had been on his mind in recent days. Jane and I looked for the pointer again while Jimmy waited. We didn’t find it and all three of us ended up embarrassed. Jane and I decided it was time to ask Seth for help.)

Low. A connection with magazines or papers. An earlier connection with the top of your filing cabinet, Joseph. I believe that it is in a dark rather than bright place. I suggest that you try your back porch. In any case at one time the object was between papers.

(I was sorely tempted, but concerned lest Jane be tired. The situation was like having a book before you that you were very interested in, yet you didn’t open the cover.

(End at 10:51. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes had opened often and her pace had been faster. She ended the session with a broad smile, and explained now that she’d had a strong feeling of rapport with Seth. He would, she said, be only too pleased to speak to us and be of help; he would speak now for hours, Jane said, were it not for the work involved on our parts.)