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Yesterday he allowed some of these feelings to arise only because he was so miserable. (While we were in Sayre; Jane was doing the washing; mother was cooking dinner, etc.) He remembered you and the pendulum, and having none there instead allowed submerged feelings up. You should know what they were. (Jane told me about some of them at the time; which I thought an advancement.) He was scandalized and outraged. Sundays were the days he could not escape his mother. There was no school, no excuses to get out. It was a day of encounters with her—her two-hour bath, the preparation of meals, and the wild hope that he could escape after supper for a few hours.

Fifteen years of that at one end of the scale, he thought, and ten or fifteen in the middle with your mother on Sundays. His loyalty as you know is binding. If he thought she had been a great mother to you then your Jane’s feelings would not be so strong.

(I would say that all of this marks definite learning on Jane’s part. If she will just keep it up….)

(9:45. True, Jane didn’t express those feelings to me in those terms, but she let me know she was quite upset, etc. Resume at 9:52.)

Your own discussions, and the improvement in your relationship as I told you, in one way is responsible for your latest developments in our sessions, and I include the Sumari—the songs, and the statement. (That I wrote to Jane on December 31, 1971. Jane is still deciphering this.)

(“Is this in Italy?” I didn’t know whether to interrupt or not. Seth/Jane had a little trouble with the word frescos, as though it was unfamiliar to her. She knows the word, however.)

(Rembrandt copiously achieved this effect in his later works, especially the last ten years or so of his life. I don’t believe Jane knew this in those terms. I am well aware of it, and want to use effects similar to this in my own work, and have done so at times in past works. I haven’t discussed it with Jane, though, just considering it a technical problem involved in the art, as I would suppose she would work at writing a paragraph, etc.

(All of this is very acute artistic information, and embodies the use of good technique even today. Again, I don’t believe Jane knows these things consciously. The varnish data is very good, also the fresco material. Many frescos were ruined in those days through poor techniques. Quality control was not what it is today re paints, varnishes, etc.)

(10:38. This proved to be the end of the session. I wanted to learn more, but we were both bleary. Jane’s pace had been average with this material.

(Perhaps I carried out some of my experiments with painting the outdoor sculpture in Denmark, where winter weather must be considered, after visiting Italy. While I discussed the Florence, Italy, data with Jane after the session, Seth returned very briefly re Rembrandt:That is why he went to Florence—to see the sculpture there. Perhaps after my return to Denmark from Italy I did some experimenting re painting sculptures, and then passed this information on to Rembrandt?

(A note added 31 years later, while I prepare this Volume 2 of The Personal Sessions for publication. As gifts for me because of my interest in their great creativity, Jane “tuned into”, on her own and without Seth, excellent books on the artist Paul Cézanne in 1977 and on the philosopher William James in 1978. Both works have been published.

(Several years later Jane gave me another gift—a book on the artist Rembrandt van Rijn. This hasn’t been published—but will be in the later volumes of The Personal Sessions. I’ll explain the circumstances of her producing Rembrandt when presenting the first passages of the book.)