SESSION 741

(“All I know,” Jane said tonight at 8:50, “is that I want to get back to the sessions again. I don’t care whether we get stuff on “Unknown” Reality, or personal material, or what. Just so we get going — I’m always nervous about starting things up again after a layoff….”¹

(She made her remarks after I’d read her Seth’s last session [the 740th for February 2] from my notes earlier this evening, I still don’t have it typed. Incredibly, that session is already six weeks old. We’ve been involved in so many activities since then that it’s difficult to decide which of them to refer to in these notes, and to what extent. Except for the few listed below, then, it may be sufficient to just state that we’ve been in our hill house for a month, and that after much hard physical labor² we’ve settled down enough to resume our natural rhythms of painting, sessions, books, and play. I have a room I’m converting into a studio, and one in which to work on this manuscript. And for the first time since we married 20 years ago [in 1954], Jane has a room to herself for her own writing — if she chooses to use it. So far she’s preferred to work before the picture window in the living room.

(In that big, intriguing house her whole psychic world — and mine — had begun to open up late in 1963; various aspects of that becoming are detailed in her different books. Yet when Jane left the Water Street apartments that day in March, she never looked back: When she’s through with something, she’s through with it. She’s remarkably free in that way. I’m the one who’s apt to become attached to old things, old places, to look back with a bit of nostalgia. Now as we waited for tonight’s session to begin, our 14-year-old cat, Willy, dozed on the couch beside me. At the same time our black cat, Rooney, who’d died in his fifth year, lay in his grave in the backyard of the house on Water Street.⁶

(Jane lit a cigarette and sipped at a beer. Then she took off her glasses. By the time she laid them on the coffee table between us she was in trance. Speaking as Seth, she began to very comfortably and easily deliver the next session for “Unknown” Reality.)

Dictation (quietly and humorously): The unknown reality appears [to be] invisible only because you do not accept it in your prime series of events. (See the last session.)

End of session.

NOTES: SESSION 741

1. Checking, I soon discovered that Jane had said much the same thing as we sat for the 708th session, following a three-month break in book sessions. See the opening notes.

4. Material (and further references) concerning production details for Adventures and Dialogues can be found in the opening notes for sessions 718 and 735. Also see Note 1 for the latter session.

5. Five months ago, in the 721st session, I noted Jane’s speculations “that ‘Unknown’ Reality might prove to be so long that it could go into two volumes — a probable development I hardly took seriously.”

6. For material on the death — and life — of Rooney, see these sources: in Personal Reality, sessions 638–39 in chapters 9 and 10, respectively; in Dialogues, Part 3.

7. Seth gave two blocks of material in Seth Speaks that are analogous to what he tells us here. In Chapter 7, see the 530th session at 9:30, when he discoursed upon our frequent projection of “replica images” or “pseudophysical forms” to vividly desired locations. In the 565th session at 9:30, for Chapter 16, he used the example of one’s possible responses to a telephone call to show how all “probable actions are equally valid,” no matter which one of them is physically actualized.

8. In Chapter 10 for Personal Reality, see the 675th session from 11:51. In Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality, see the 686th session from 10:37.

9. See Note 2 for Session 695, in Volume 1.

10. Among the sessions for Personal Reality in which Seth stressed that “the present is the point of power,” see the 657th in Chapter 15.

12. For one of the ways in which Seth explicates the idea that we’re blind to information — or beliefs — that we don’t agree with, see the 617th session for Chapter 3 of Personal Reality.

13. See Session 705 and Appendix 12.

14. In Volume 1, see Note 4 for Session 680, and Note 2 for Session 688.