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(Jane began speaking in a rather unusual jerky manner, pausing after every couple of words. Her eyes were closed until otherwise noted. Her voice was stronger than usual, but not loud.)

The first such episode is bound to be somewhat upsetting. I would have intruded despite the fact that I was not welcome, but then I feared that to do so would confuse the issue for you.

Now, to avoid confusion, the girl is not a medium as, say, Ruburt is, according to your use of the term. I dislike the term. But the medium through which Ruburt traveled was the electrical and electromagnetic medium sent out by the girl’s highly-charged emotional condition.

The earlier drinks of course let down his guard, but it was the caffeine in the coffee that allowed the system to alert and direct the inner abilities on this particular evening. (Impatient gesture.) You should not be so fearful that you attempt to hold down the abilities. Neither of course should you let them be used indiscriminately.

I am speaking of the tendency in you both to completely (underline) disconnect the sessions and any direct psychic display from everyday life. You note I said only tendency. There are limits, of course. I am not concerned that you will set no limits, but a direct and sincere psychic demonstration is of great emotional validity to those who observe it.

This does not mean, again, that such demonstrations are overly emphasized, or a regular occurrence. It does not mean they should be indiscriminately adopted. But when they do occur they will in most instances have occurred for a reason, and will affect witnesses in a most direct manner.

(At 9:59 Jane took the envelope for our 71st experiment from me without opening her eyes. She held it to her forehead and paused but briefly.)

(Pause.) I am not sure, though I suspect male. The hand is not a typically male hand however, but more delicate perhaps. (Pause.) If you have no more questions I suggest your break.

(After break Seth said our own interpretations were correct. But we couldn’t be as specific as desired, and felt there were valid things left unsaid.

(“Small wavering blue lines. Something written by an old hand perhaps, with thin wavering lines.” Jane’s corrections on the object were made with a blue pen, which appears quite dark on the yellow paper upon which the poem was typed. Her corrections are small, but not wavering. The old and wavering data puzzled us, and we missed out here because we did not interpret the emotional charges involved, as Seth did.

(“A connection with woods.” Our own interpretation here is that woods refers to the literal Biblical Garden of Gethsemane, which is spoofed in the poem used as object. Jane says the actual garden was not a formal garden, a cultivated type, but rather contained olive trees, etc., and much growth of this kind. Seth’s blanket endorsement after break implies, again, that this is the correct interpretation.

(“Connection with a leaf or autumn.” See the data on page 55. As then, we think the leaf data here refers to the garden mentioned in the poem used as object. But also we think the autumn data here grows out of the swirling data on page 55, and Seth’s attempt to get Jane to give voice to frosting. The autumn data here could have grown out of the interpretation on Jane’s part of Seth’s frosting impression.

(First Question: Is this old hand male or female? “I am not sure, though I suspect male. The hand is not a typically male hand however, but more delicate perhaps.” Seth is correct, in that the old reference here does concern Bill Gallagher and his subjective feelings [the male], on the evening of his birthday party, for which the envelope object was written. Jane and I do not especially see any connection with the delicate hand reference however.