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(The 704th session was held a week ago. In it Seth gave the heading for Section 4, just before finishing his evening’s work with a few minutes of personal information for Jane and me. He’s remarked more than once that he’ll close a session by dictating the heading for the next chapter, or whatever, “so that Ruburt [Jane] knows what I am doing. It gives him confidence.” But I’d say his procedure also helps satisfy Jane’s spontaneous impatience about learning what’s coming next in the material.
(The telephone started to ring. I jumped. Once again, I’d forgotten to turn off the bell before the session began. As Seth, Jane stared up at me.)
5. Seth’s statement here reminded me of my question about the consciousness of our species, as noted at the end of Session 699, in Volume 1.
[...] Finally, the humor of the whole situation got through to me: As some have very clearly noted, in the biological and earth sciences especially, circular reasoning often predominates: The theory of evolution is used to prove the theory of evolution.
(This presentation from the 44th session shows clearly just how much of his philosophy Seth had given Jane and me by then. [...]
[...] It seems to me that he combines certain aspects of naïve realism with some of the objections to it; see the 625th session for November 1, 1972.)
Science Convinces Me of Magic