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Now. Ruburt attempted too much last evening for one night’s work.

There is personal evidence to be obtained here that can be obtained in no other way. Ruburt has talked of some renewed work, and I heartily suggest that you concentrate strongly at doing joint out-of-body explorations.

In the beginning it will be up to Ruburt to aid you, and with concentration and application he can do so. I do not want this suggestion to go by the board, as it will if you simply file the session and ignore it. I would like this work to begin, and to continue throughout your lives as a joint effort.

For that matter you will be giving them additional energy and refreshment because of the experiments. The ideal will be to travel together. Ruburt already knows how to leave the body, using several methods from the sleep state and immediately before it.

This method simplifies things for you, since on those two nights you need only tell yourself that you will listen for Ruburt’s call. You will both learn added control by traveling together. You can also travel further in a cooperative effort.

Now if you make a habit of doing this, of giving these suggestions two evenings a week, you will ultimately be highly successful. I suggest that the two nights be together. Ruburt should try on these nights one of his methods as he falls asleep, and if that does not succeed, tell him to use the other methods that he knows from the dream state.

He can explain these to you again so that you know what to expect. I will give you additional data on those environments that you visit, so that your experiences are paralleled by session discussions throughout the years. To fully develop yourselves psychically, such experiences are necessary. They will also serve as themes in your work and in Ruburt’s if they are carried through.

Now then. You will not need too many experiences before your own confidence will allow you to leave your body without Ruburt’s assistance, but the joint traveling is still important. You can help and guide each other as you do in physical life.

You may visit your Miss Callahan, for example, as Ruburt has done. You may visit others now dead in those terms, with whom you were once acquainted. Generally speaking, such visits will involve you however with one main environment, so you could do that indefinitely, and we will want you to have more experience than that. (In Book 1, see Session 28 re Miss Callahan.)

It is a psychological structure, as I have explained, and you and Ruburt are both a part of it. Now you may take your break or end the session as you prefer.

I suggest that on the two evenings, Ruburt take a warm shower—not a hot one—before retiring. I also suggest contrary to Muldoon that you have a light (underlined) snack. Not a heavy one, but enough so the body is comfortable.

You should be comfortably warm, but not overburdened with blankets. (Long pause.) A note to Ruburt: he should keep a robe handy. Use one book for dreams, and leave it on his desk overnight. As a preliminary to the instructions I have given you, for 7 days he should give himself dream suggestions, and on several occasions, though not every night, tell himself that he will awaken after a dream and record it.