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I can drown out any noise, if necessary. Now give us a moment. (Pause.)

These are impressions. (Long pause, eyes closed, then open.) A death by drowning, rather than fire. A number, one three. Something seen but not reported, by a man owning or working in a small store that sells tackle; and either rents out boats, or did. (Pause.) He did not realize the implications, the immediacy, of an object pulled up as he pushed. This was in the gulf. The 13 mentioned earlier may possibly refer to highway numbers (pause) of a road running past the tackle shop.

A suggestion like: “If you go swimming too soon after lunch, you will drown,” is extremely dangerous, for it predicts behavior of a disastrous nature that would follow almost automatically after the first act is performed. Obviously, children who go into the water right after eating do not all drown. [...]

(Session addressed to Andrea Bergere, whose adopted son died by drowning last summer.)

(Usually we keep the records of her ESP class in a separate set of three-ring binders, but Jane wanted to insert this one as part of Session 393 in our “regular” sessions: She wanted to show Seth discussing a subject that was emotionally very important to a class member—Audrey Shepherd—whose adopted son had died by drowning last summer.)

[...] Traffic noise even at this hour was audible; when I told Seth he was in danger of being drowned out by the traffic noise, the voice immediately rose in strong volume, humorously, for a few sentences: “I will never be drowned out by traffic...” [...]

It is indeed, but I never was able to do so and at one time when I was pope I used to try very hard, and it always sounded terrible and even the altar boys drowned me out. [...]

You did not die by water, but it was a past reincarnational self and you nearly drowned and you were pursued by sharks, but you did not drown at that time. [...]

[...] You may, for example, sneeze or not sneeze, cough or not cough, walk to the window or the door, scratch your elbow, save a child from drowning, learn a lesson, commit suicide, harm another, or turn your cheek.

[...] I do not expect you to drown in that pool, for I have taught you how to swim, you see. [...]

[...] You did not set them like millstones about your neck, hoping ahead of time that you would drown.

[...] She was drowned in a flood in another country, not France. [...]

[...] Otherwise he’d come through so loud, so strong—if I could do it—that he’d drown out everything else.... [...]

Other fields do allow for greater complexity of psychic organization, and let me remind you again that such psychic organizations do not involve a blurring of individuality in some undefinable whole, as for example any drowning of consciousness in some gigantic, benign superconsciousness. [...]

[...] He was afraid they would drown him. [...]

[...] You think their powers so strong that all reason can be drowned within them.

This does not mean that they will not face consequences, but their self-approval provides a sturdy rudder that holds them often aloft, where most men might perhaps be drowning in the same circumstances. [...]

(To Joel.) Now, our friend here has taken his first steps from the diving board and his brave friend here is afraid that he will drown. [...]

[...] You do not set them for yourselves like millstones about your neck hoping ahead of time that you will drown. [...]

[...] Jane’s voice was average, so this meant that often I had to ask her to repeat a phrase because the various noises almost drowned it out. [...]

[...] His eldest sister who is your present mother had a picture of some sort, a miniature in a locket, but it was with her when she drowned. [...]