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SESSION 500

(On Friday evening, September 5, we had as visitors Dick and Carol Crossed; Edward Gassner, 3664 Culver Road [14622], and Bernard Houlihan, 25 Ewer Avenue [14622]—all of Rochester, New York. No session was held. Ed Gassner offered to do work with Jane and Seth; he is a biologist, Ph.D.

(Jane exchanged phone calls with Betty Taylor [of Harcourt Brace, among other publishers] on September 8 & 9. Betty Taylor called Jane first. During the call she verified several of Seth’s points made during the 497th session. Briefly these will be listed here.

(In this session. held on Monday, Seth gave some data re Betty Taylor also. Jane called B.T. the next day and was given verification of some points by B.T. over the phone. Betty would like a copy of the data to study some of the other points. The results of this study will be included with a later session, which may be named here by number at least.)

Despite all your own tendencies to avoid such contact, you are bringing it about through our sessions, and the importance of the material—the inner self placing you in a position where such contact will come about. This is for your own good, and the same is true of Ruburt.

This does not mean that either of you need travel about in a constant flurry of lectures. It does mean that the psychic activity within the sessions carries its own psychic reality. It reaches out and draws others to you. (Pause.)

Miss Taylor and I will meet in any case. You will find her a welcome member among your friends. I suggest that again Ruburt invite her here, for she will come, and we will have a session.

(Apropos of the two phone calls involving Betty Taylor, Miss Taylor has expressed an interest in coming to attend a session.

(Long pause at 10:30.) There is another man who could share the program with him, the one mentioned in our earlier session (the 496th), that was thought not available. Ruburt would take the program away from Crosson quite without meaning to do so. Do you follow me?

The group may also be instrumental in the future in providing session-to-session transcripts of past sessions.

Now. The material itself will progress, with your assistance, along several lines. The out-of-body experiences will be a portion of your subjective training. My comments in sessions about these experiences will add up in their own manner.

I want you to take a break, but I want also to comment on the dream that has been bothering Ruburt, so take your break and we will continue briefly. At your next session I hope to get back to our material, but this is also legitimate and of benefit.

(This would be the second of seven revelatory dreams Jane is to have, according to Seth in the 492nd session. See the 499th session for material dealing with the first such dream. I am also to have a series of seven such dreams.)

We will then end our session. My heartiest regards to you both. There was an inverted quality about the dream, because you were looking at things from a different viewpoint.

(11:15. I explained my dream to Jane so she would have a basis for discussion, since we planned now to ask Seth to explain his above data in relation to the dream. Some of it could apply; I did not understand the reference to bed and bedroom however. I didn’t recall my brother Dick in the dream. Jane said she was too tired to clear the matter up this evening, so we’ll take it up next session.)