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(Jane resumed after a break, and her trance deepened considerably. Later she said it was her deepest trance ever. Jane began to speak in a halting manner, her voice dwindled, and she called my name as if in supplication. She lay on the floor on her back. She called me once again; as I went to her she burst into tears; her crying was strong and highly charged; it seemed obvious she was responding emotionally to an experience of Barbara’s of an early age; Jane seemed to have attained a state beyond words. It took some time for her to come out of the trance, with what little help I could offer.

The development of abilities was necessary, and will show regardless of the particular way in which Ruburt may choose to use the abilities. The choice lies indeed with you both. It took a strong, remarkably strong, set of emotional conditions before Ruburt allowed himself as much freedom as the other evening.

The initial perceptions were picked up by the inner senses. A journey through time and space was involved. The medium through which Ruburt traveled was the emotional charge thrown out by the girl.

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.

Without the experience itself these particular abilities would not have developed—that of course or another similar episode. The same sort of development would not have been initiated here in a session for some time, simply because the emotional conditions would not be met. We can use the development however very well.

And I can tell you, though neither of you may be pleased, that the incident taught the cat lover and the Jesuit much, and through direct experience. You might call it a visual aid. (Smile, forceful manner, eyes open wide.) You only learn emotionally. If you do not learn emotionally, you do not learn.

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.

(Seth gave us a little help after break, and although this was brief it filled in a good deal on some of the data we had been unsure of. For convenience’s sake it is better to include Seth’s later data along with our own interpretations, made during break, since emotional charges explain much concerning the material. For more detailed information on how the emotional charges influence Seth’s envelope data, see the 286th session.

(“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.

Our Jesuit felt very old on his birthday. It was that emotional feeling that was picked up. The swirling was to have led Ruburt to frosting, and did not. There is no need to go into the rest of the data. Your own interpretations are correct.