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(Last night in ESP class, Jane had an experience with a personality who called itself, and the rest of us, Sumari. This afternoon I dropped in to talk about this incident with Jane & Rob; in the course of the conversation we decided that I should bring the tape of that class to their apartment this evening, stay on for the session, and record it and type it up.

(It had been snowing all evening and I had some trouble driving in from Pine City. Besides that, my recording of the Sumari personality was poor and I had to stop at Fred and Pete’s [class members] to get their tape, and I didn’t arrive at Jane & Rob’s until 9 PM. We played the two tapes—Jane was especially interested in the chant that preceded the Sumari’s short speech—until 9:20. Jane had written this chant down during an Alpha experiment in class; when she started to read it to us, she suddenly wailed the words as loudly as I have ever heard even Seth’s voice go:

(To Rob:) We will begin with an explanation of your experience last evening. And our record-keeper over here (me) will also understand what you are doing.

(9:59. During break, we discussed what had been said and then somehow got to joking about a reincarnational drama-scene that Rob and I had played out a few months ago, in which he had apparently been a teacher of mine and an exasperatingly thorough record-keeper. Jane had. just made a remark that sent me convulsing with laughter when Seth came through again, loudly and emphatically:)

Now, who is taking the record this evening and who has been taking records for class? And enough said in that direction.

(“Could you repeat that again for the record?” I waited, and Seth came through again, loudly.)