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TES6 Session 261 May 23, 1966 24/113 (21%) mirth serape sketch lawn party
– The Early Sessions: Book 6 of The Seth Material
– © 2013 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Session 261 May 23, 1966 9 PM Monday

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(The 56th envelope experiment was held during the session. The object was a pencil drawing I made of Jane this afternoon, without her knowledge. I looked down on her as she sunned herself, my viewpoint being the back row of the studio windows on the second story. The sketch took but a few minutes because she moved so frequently, and I was much amused at her restlessness; this mirth plays a part in the experimental results. The drawing is on porous paper with a slight yellowish cast. I placed it between the usual two pieces of Bristol, then sealed it in double envelopes.

(Before the session Jane said she had no idea of what Seth would talk about. She began speaking while sitting down and with her eyes closed. She had left a cigarette burning however, and her eyes soon began to open. Her voice was quiet, her pace quite slow.)

[... 12 paragraphs ...]

(Break at 9:25. Jane was out as usual. Her pace was a little better as the session progressed, although her eyes remained closed for most of it.

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One small interesting point here. Ruburt’s projection upon first looking over the Fox book was quite legitimate.

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However the window(smile, eyes open) you see, was a quite valid fabrication of his own. The projection was a projection. The window through which he ascended was a symbol necessary to him. The actual physical window was behind his head, you see, so he felt impelled to have a window in front of him, in order to get out of the physical house.

I found this amusing. The symbol was a highly valuable one however, obviously. You will both improve with practice. Because of your ideas, you see, you experience more difficulty in getting out of the physical house. (Smile.) Ruburt’s window image, had the experience continued, would have effectively done this for him. He did not have the confidence to imagine himself, you see, passing through the physical walls.

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(Break at 9:53. Jane was pretty well dissociated. Traffic noise from the open windows hadn’t bothered her. Her pace had been much faster. Her eyes had opened often and she had smiled often.

(It was now time for the 65th Dr. Instream experiment. As usual Jane’s pace slowed somewhat, and she sat with a hand raised to her closed eyes. Jane hesitated for a moment, saying that Seth was waiting for “just the right time” to contact Dr. Instream. Resume at 10:04.)

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(Break at 10:29. Jane was far out, she said. She wasn’t conscious of anything but the experiment, and her eyes remained closed through all of it. She had a few images during the experiment and these will be mentioned in place in the data.

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(“Mirth.” As stated earlier, I felt pronounced amusement while making the drawing used as the object. Jane moved almost constantly while posing unwittingly, and I had to work very rapidly while at the same time being careful she didn’t look up at the studio windows on the second floor and see what I was doing.

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(“Yet also a connection with an unpleasant event.” Jane said the unpleasant event was the fact that earlier two neighborhood children had been quite noisy and active running about our yard; she had wanted to go sun herself after lunch, but put off the expedition until the children had gone, by 3:00 PM. She wanted to go over the manuscript for her dream book, without interruptions. Also, the same two children had been romping through Jane’s freshly spaded garden out back, which did not cheer her up. The garden site is about 25 feet from where Jane sat while I sketched her.

(Jane’s dream book manuscript does not show in the sketch; at the moment I made the sketch the manuscript was invisible beyond her right side. Another book does show, as well as a glass of ice tea, a book of matches and a cigarette.

(“A rectangular card, with printed matter.” The object is on a rectangular piece of heavy, porous-type paper, similar to card stock. Jane said she had an image of the correct size and proportion of the object, and that Seth was trying to get this data across to her. She had no image of a drawing, or herself.

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(“An impression of many people.” Here Jane said she had the impression of a party, but decided to drop this line of association. This came from the mirth reference, she thought, and she was not sure the chain of association was correct. Sometimes it is left up to her as to what train of thought to follow. Again, Seth expresses uncertainty about the party-mirth connection in answer to my third question.

(“Connection with a tall man.” Jane’s father Del, who is 6’ 2”, gave us the serape Jane was sitting on when I sketched her this afternoon.

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(“A twist.” We don’t know. Jane was moving almost constantly as I sketched her, and her motions included many bodily twists and turns. This may apply, when considered with the next data.

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(“The impression now of looking down, from a high position…” This is an excellent description of my position in the second-story studio, looking quite straight down as I sketched Jane on the lawn. She was perhaps twelve feet below me. Jane had an image in connection with this data, which is explained below. At the time I made the drawing I wondered if Jane would sense the fact even though she didn’t see me. Jane paused noticeably before she continued.

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(This rock data and related data is a case where Jane decided to pursue her original impression of being up high. Often, she said, it is left up to her as to whether to so develop an impression. Sometimes she doesn’t know what to do. This time she followed up to some degree because she also had an image, of someone standing on high, looking down from some kind of rocky perch. She believes this image was distorted to some degree.

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(“A card, such as the kind sent out by organizations for invitations.” Jane had an image here, of a rectangular card of the kind that used to be sent out by an art gallery where she worked up until a year of so ago. This image card was the same size and proportion, she said, as the rectangular paper the envelope object is drawn on; she believes Seth gave her this data to reinforce that idea.

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(Jane didn’t have much to say about the map simile, but thought the ground crack idea pertinent. While sitting in the sun, smoking the one cigarette she had with her—it is shown in the sketch, which means she smoked it after I finished the drawing—she looked for a bare spot of ground against which to put the smoke out. In doing so she realized that the ground was quite dry, and that we needed more rain.

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(“Five or 6 for the month perhaps.” The drawing was made during the fifth month, May.

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(After the experiment, and after we had interpreted the data, Jane recalled one impression she had which she had not mentioned. The impression was “Star shape.” Looking at the drawing, Jane felt it applied to the radiating lines on the crown of the straw hat she wore as I sketched her. We think this legitimate for Jane uses such calligraphy in her paintings.

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(“Did Jane know I was making the drawing of her?”)

No. The invitation however did have some application, though there was some distortion. When you talked to Ruburt there was an implied invitation on his part, for he would have liked you to have gone down.

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