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(Long pause.) Now. Ruburt sent a message and it was received. I am referring to the visit of your friend today.

(Jim lives out of town and is now a traveling repairman for office equipment. He has witnessed a few sessions, perhaps two years ago. Today he told us that as he drove within about four blocks of our house, he received the strong urge to visit us.)

There is no way out of this, you see. You simply must realize that self-pity, in your terms, is highly destructive. Any charged emotional feeling will almost immediately be made actual. Now this gives you an advantage, you see, if you understand the principles. When you strongly desire to sell your paintings, my friend, you will do so. (Jane looks at me, eyes wide and dark.)

(Jane of course has no memories of Emma Martin as a young person. Any such episode as described by Seth above would have taken place probably more than 40 years ago. I am now 47.)

Now such associations have an electrical reality, you see, built within your system. Realization of these causes creates an opposing force that can neutralize the original. The words—“Father, I refuse to accept your hay fever for myself; though I once took it, I now throw it free from us both”—these words will help.

Now, dear friend. This information will help you.

Now. You realize that virility is hardly synonymous with a runny nose. You realize your masculinity. You are too aware now to allow yourself too many privileges in exchange for your symptoms, and you can therefore afford to relinquish them.

His appearance then reminded you of his appearance in hay fever season, and reinforced your own symptoms until they became a symbol of virility, since they were your father’s, and also a symbol of how a man could cry. You do not need such symptoms now.

(“The words ‘A fine form of a woman’.” Jane says this is a clear-enough reference to a remark Dick made when the group of three was sitting in the yard with their drinks, on the evening Jane wrote the poem used as object. Barbara asked Dick why he shouldn’t get married. Dick replied there was no reason he should, since he now sat with “two fine women,” both of them good looking; or words to that effect.

(First Question: Can you say more about the yellow square? “I have the image of a small, neat yellow square, in a lower right hand position.” By now Jane had lowered the envelope from her usual position against her forehead, and sat with it dangling by one corner from her right hand; her right arm extended forward and down over the arm of the rocker. It is possible the yellow object inside the sealed envelope had settled into a corner. But it was a rectangular rather than square object.