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(Jane suggested that I sit in on and record this session for the regularly-scheduled ESP class she held on Thursday evening, February 8, 1968. She seldom asked me to do this, since after supper on any Thursday I’d be busy in my studio at the back of the apartment, typing up my crude homemade shorthand notes of the session she’d given the evening before for just the two of us.

(And once again, as she’d done for the session of last December 28, she wanted tonight’s material to be presented as part of regular Session 393. I was glad to do it—and note that Jane’s class sessions usually are in marked contrast to those we hold for ourselves, for books or whatever in the future. As would be expected of a gathering, class sessions were full of energy and repartee and questions and serious thinking both with and without Seth.

(At times Jane and I have speculated about eventually publishing the class sessions—with the permission of those involved, of course—but have been so busy we haven’t tried to follow through.

(Jane’s voice was somewhat stronger and more forceful than usual, and quite serious.)

(Now Jane speaking as Seth, pointed to Connie.) One I have known vaguely in my own past. However you would not recognize me now, though I do indeed remember you. Now, you would not know yourself, for you were a small boy of three to four years old when I knew you, and I did not know you well. This was in Denmark, and your father was a baker. You had indeed a very short life, dying at nine or ten, of diptheria. You see, you are older than you knew you were.

(9:52. Jane came out of trance. The last lines above referred to a discussion Jane and I had earlier in the day.

(Connie Allison now told us that for many years she has had a fear of diptheria, strange as it seems. At break Lydia commented that she thought Jane’s delivery as Seth sounded Germanic. She also said that when speaking as Seth, Jane tended to use the same gestures and facial wrinkles shown in the portrait I have painted of Seth.

(Jane, as Seth, again pointed to Lydia.) His daughter then marrying a man called Lines, a merchant. Difficulties in the left leg from an old wound. Also difficulties with the right ear and teeth. An overreliance upon emotionalism then, and a headstrong attitude, little given to reason. This time an effort being made to right those characteristics.

(Here Seth refers to a discussion during break concerning some of the previous data; I cannot now pinpoint what was questioned. Jane thinks the O may refer to the name Rakes. One of the witnesses may remember, and space is left below for any notes.)

Manupelt. (Again my phonetic interpretation. Jane as Seth repeated the word.)

(“Thanks, Seth.” End at 10:55. Jane, as Seth, had delivered the last material, on time, rapidly and in an impassioned manner.