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Then, last night, I stood at the window and looked out across the Walnut Street Bridge. [...] I felt myself walk beneath the signal light at the far end of the bridge and let myself continue on along the street. [...]

[...] This part of you is certainly as legitimate and necessary to you as a whole unit is, as the part who plays bridge or Scrabble. [...]

[...] Jane sounded awed, though, when she said that the Walnut Street Bridge would “go.” I was awed too, since the old steel bridge crossed the Chemung River less than half a block from us. [...]

[...] The next morning I walked over to the Walnut Street Bridge. [...]

[...] When the physical individual is trained along these lines however, he helps in this process, and a psychological framework, like a bridge, is erected that serves to connect the two personalities.

[...] See Seth’s psychological-bridge material on page 14.

[...] Perhaps because this is not necessary, the psychological bridge of which I have spoken is necessary in order to make my communications comprehensible to Ruburt.

[...] Then when she changed the patch on Jane’s nose, that protects against the hard bridge of her glasses, Phyllis discovered that the irritated and sore nose had healed itself under the patch, unknown to all, since the patch has been there a long while. She put on a new one, though, to protect the tender bridge of the nose while it heals even more. [...]

“Seth used Session 909 as a bridge between chapters 6 and 7 in Dreams. This means that now the session serves as a connective—a very effective lure, say—between volumes 1 and 2. Indeed, in retrospect it almost seems as though Seth, that ‘energy personality essence,’ planned it that way! [...]

[...] Now even in her position, she made efforts to get across to you, and bridges that could cross her own fear to you, but you were not able to meet her because you feared the chasm of despair within yourself.

[...] They are your bridge, not only to yourself but to your wife. [...]

(This appendix was inspired by two blocks of material Seth covered in the 711th session: Jane’s hearing his voice recently in the sleep state [see her own notes at the start of the 710th session], and the bridge personality she and Seth have created “between dimensions,” or between themselves.

[...] When that person is trained along these lines, however [as Ruburt is], he or she helps in this process, and a psychological framework, like a bridge,²² is erected that serves to connect the two personalities.

[...] Perhaps because this is not necessary, the psychological bridge is required to make my messages comprehensible to Ruburt. [...]

(In the 263rd session for May 29, 1966, Seth stated that eventually Jane would be able to entirely dispense with the psychological bridge linking the two of them, but she hasn’t attained that situation at this writing.

There are spiritual bridges but they are formed by individual personalities. Your father is forming a spiritual bridge. [...]

(Similarly, last night I stood at a window and looked out across the Walnut Street bridge. I visualized myself walking across this bridge, feeling the wooden flooring beneath my feet. [...]

7. In Personal Reality, see Session 638, bridging chapters 9 and 10, then Session 639. [...]

(Jane now began to gesture with her hands and arms.) It is as if there were two portions of a bridge, like a toll bridge or a drawbridge, and these two portions you see must meet. [...]

[...] The bridge arching over the lawn symbolizes another connective between that universe and my physical one. Jane doesn’t ask me to cross the bridge now. I think that the structure also stands for the ‘psychological bridge’ upon which she met Seth during her sessions with him. [...]

[...] A beautiful arching stone bridge was to my right as we talked and hugged. The lawn extending underneath the bridge was an extremely rich green — glowing and pulsing as though it was alive.

[...] I’d say that this evening Jane elaborated upon that session — especially upon the impressions she gave then during the 11:30 break, on “animal doctors … a bridge between animals and human beings.” [...]

[...] They change vibrations of which you are not aware, they add, therefore, to the psychological bridge of which you are all part when you are in this room. [...]

Now I provide you with a bridge, and I have told you this before. [...]

(When that meeting took place, Jane was in trance; off came her glasses; once again she’d met Seth on the psychological bridge the two of them had established when these sessions began, over a decade ago. [...]

[...] In this present volume, perhaps in an appendix, I hope to add excerpts from some of Seth’s unpublished observations on the psychological bridge linking Jane and himself. [...]

[...] To do this he felt he needed to exert caution, to emphasize his own doubts in order to make a bridge to those intellectuals who doubted, and yet maintain some freedom and spontaneity in order to reach those at the other end.

(I went on to tell her of my idea that arthritis, for example, bridged all historical gaps and cultures, and that its origin — I think — lay in the individual’s reaction to fear of motion, for a multitude of reasons. [...]

[...] [In them, incidentally, I mentioned the destruction of Elmira’s Walnut Street Bridge; the old steel span had crossed the Chemung River half a block from our apartment house. [...]

[...] You must make an emotional and psychic leap, and then you can look backward and see your connective bridges.

[...] She called to me from a car making a left turn off the Walnut Street bridge, by Water St. Jane & I were standing on the lawn by our apartment house. [...]

[...] To some extent the attempt on the part of science to consider such material may possibly bring about those qualities of true scientific intuition that will help science bridge the gap between such divergent views as its own and ours.