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“In our experiments, often, I will give him an impression, and he will automatically translate it into visual terms … There is sometimes at his end a last tug and pull, so that the vocal mechanism will finally speak the correct interpretation. Of course Ruburt’s own associations are used by me, up to a certain point, to lead him to the proper subject or image … When we are successful there is a divergence from his associations so that he says the correct word, even though for him personally it may be the wrong word.

28. Seth’s remarks here are actually an extension of a long discussion on individual beliefs and spontaneity that he’d initiated in a class session two weeks ago: “Now, my words will not, I hope, be used to begin a new dogma. My dogma is the freedom of the individual (my emphasis). My dogma is the sacrilegious one — that each of you is a good individual. There is nothing wrong with your emotions, or feelings, or being. When you know yourself then you are joyfully — joyfully — responsive, and, being joyfully responsive, you can carry your society to the furthest reaches of its creativity.”

31. “In late 1963,” Jane wrote in Chapter 2 of The Seth Material, “some months before our sessions began, we’d taken a vacation in York Beach, Maine, hoping that a change of environment would improve Rob’s health. The doctor didn’t know what was wrong with his back and suggested that he spend some time under traction in the hospital. Instead we decided that his reaction to stress was at least partially responsible, hence this trip.”