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(The session was held in the front room. Jane spoke while sitting down and with her eyes closed. For much of the time she held a hand to her face, her head down. Her voice was quiet and she paused frequently.)

You have also communicated with me in this manner, Joseph, for your edification. You may if you wish suggest that you will remember some of these conversations, and then you may be able to do so, to some degree. (Long pause, eyes closed.)

Your course is a wise one. I foresee some family difficulty in your younger brother’s situation. Not in his immediate family but in his wife’s family. Perhaps a connection with the new house—its inhabitants, or with those closely connected with it.

Later still, a dress shop, and then a restaurant, as the neighborhood deteriorated. Then, all new buildings. You were portly. The church was near the water, and it was visited on occasion by sailors. (Many pauses, some of them long. Jane’s eyes were closed and she was very restless.)

(Break at 9:58. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes remained closed and her pace was slow. She was aware that she was very restless. Jane said that during one of the longer pauses she felt Seth trying to get at the name Nostratious from the earlier note data. We thought Nostratious Elmo a most peculiar name. In an earlier session Seth told us Jane had been a medium in her Boston life, and that she had misused her abilities. This could account for the mention of a professional name above however. See page 86 in Volume 1.

(It was now time for the 61st Dr. Instream experiment. Jane’s pace was once again broken by short pauses as she sat with a hand raised to her closed eyes. Resume at 10:09.)

(Break at 10:29. Jane said she was well dissociated. Her eyes had remained closed through both experiments. I had the feeling that she hadn’t wanted me to ask questions, particularly. When I hesitated she called for break.

(“The words unholy alliance come to me here.” The whole of chapter five, from which the object comes, concerns the close relationship between dreaming and waking life. We see the idea of alliance here, but not unholy particularly. Seth might have been spoofing us a bit, or it could be a slight distortion. My notes indicate nothing out of the ordinary in Jane’s delivery at the time.