1 result for (book:tps2 AND heading:"delet session august 7 1972" AND stemmed:venic)
5/57 (9%)
Rochester
Venice
Loren
shuddering
woman
[... 3 paragraphs ...]
(In a recent deleted session, Seth told us that Jane’s symptoms deepened after she held a session for a friend of Venice McCullough’s a few years ago. The friend committed suicide, and Jane regarded the session as a failure. My question simply wanted to explore the relationship between the onset of symptoms before the psychic work, and the fact that a psychic “failure” had the ability to deepen them. While I could make intuitive guesses as to connections here, I preferred to hear what Seth had to say.
[... 11 paragraphs ...]
Now the affair with Venice’s friend involved the false prophet idea again. It seemed to Ruburt, with his understanding, that if his information was coming from a paranormal source, and that source was good, then it must also prove itself to be infallible, or he was a false prophet. He also felt accused by you, believing that if he was using his abilities really fully, as you wanted him to, then there would have been a way provided so the woman would not die.
He felt that the burden rested upon him, which of course was hardly the case. He also felt that Venice needed the proof of that woman’s complete recovery, and felt that perhaps his own doubts or fears prevented delivery of the particular information that might make the woman decide to live.
[... 3 paragraphs ...]
He was giving a good deal of time to our sessions. The woman’s session, to him, was to some degree a test of the material’s practical worth to someone in deep trouble. The woman’s death obviously meant that it did not pass. Again, he forgot the integrity of the personality. It must make its own choices, and may accept or refuse help given. The woman did not want the session, and had made a decision she did not intend to change. Venice’s will or anyone else’s could not stand against that.
[... 34 paragraphs ...]
(10:56. After the session I told Jane I thought Seth didn’t finish dealing with the question I’d outlined before the session. As Jane herself had done in discussing it, Seth spent much time exploring the second part of the question, relating to Venice’s friend, while not saying anything about the onset of symptoms before the psychic abilities showed themselves.)
