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SESSION 289

(During break we engaged in a spirited discussion ourselves, then broke it off when we realized this might influence the session itself. The discussion concerned the spontaneous affair of last Friday, September 23, which Seth has referred to this evening often.

You may take a break and we will begin on some other material. If you have any questions concerning this evening’s session, I will be glad to answer them. Otherwise after our break we shall leave the subject for now.

Our own sessions have been most unemotional for some time. I have been concerned with the material for one thing. For another, there is the nature of the voice, you see.

Expectation will help you here however if you use it. In these sessions we are translating basic realities into verbal terms, no mean accomplishment. Some evening however, perhaps we can have a session in which more emotional rapport is possible.

From my standpoint some limited sessions, with strictly selected witnesses, are perfectly acceptable. I am not necessarily suggesting these, you see. (Long pause at 10:20.)

Now, if you have no questions we shall end the session.

(See my dream of September 17 in my dream notebook. Jane and I had discussed this before the session. The setting of the dream was the same—my studio—as the dream of August 20, mentioned on page 69. In the first dream I had found myself outside the studio windows, but not falling. In the second dream I had refused to leave the safety of the studio, which is on the second floor, for fear of falling. It seemed to me to be a clear refusal to project.)

(Front of the empty envelope used as the object in the 290th session, the 72nd experiment, for October 3, 1966.)