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I will now end our session for your convenience, for I could continue yet for some time; and our best wishes to the Jesuit, who is about his holy way. [...]

Good evening to our cat lover.

[...] There has been a change in our sessions. [...]

[...] It has caused him to hold back in the development of his full writing talents, for these specialized creative abilities, the writing techniques, will come into their own now that the personality is more fully behind our work.

[...] She said she’d felt strange since supper; now she said she felt that we shouldn’t be so subjectively aware, now; but that we should be as our future selves, observing the present scene and our physical bodies as they sat in the living room, from the outside.

[...] Willy, our cat, asleep in a chair near me, wasn’t involved. The intensity traveled; now it was located in the blue wine decanter given to us by our friend Pete from San Diego, California.

[...] This head sat on our living room table across the room from the wine decanter. [...] [Pete, at the moment as far as we know, is in the Hawaiian Islands.] Bill and Pete met once at our apartment two years ago.

(At our usual supper hour of 5 PM, I thought I noticed Jane quieter than usual. [...]

[...] We form our day-to-day reality. We formed our past lives, and we form this one. And by solving problems now, we can make things vastly easier for our “past” and “future” selves.

There is no doubt, though, that a knowledge of reincarnational influences sheds invaluable light on the nature of personality and helps us to see our present selves with some perspective. The following excerpts from a reincarnational reading show the continuity and interrelationships that can be involved in the tapestry of the self we now call ours.

[...] This helps to add to our material on the subject, of course, but yet in the entire fabric of the sessions, reincarnation plays a comparatively minor part, as only one aspect of our reality.

Seth had often told us that when we’re finished with our lives here, we’re actually anxious to leave this existence. [...]

[...] Or we should be in the other and know ourselves in it; and finally, while we are in one reality, we should be able, even in it, to hold our knowledge of the other. In this way our whole selves achieve a freedom.

(Jane felt quite lethargic and sleepy as the day wore on, but did not believe this state had anything to do with our active weekend. [...]

I am going to suggest that our friend take a walk when we are finished here, a brisk one. [...]

What we are looking for here, and indeed one of the purposes of our sessions, is efficient use of various portions of the self in the perceptions of their own realities, and of an overall perception of each of the various portions of the self by the whole self, which transcends the others even while it is composed of them.

[...] That part of us exists apart from our concerns about careers or business, money, fame, the opinion of family, friends, or the world. It’s our direct connection with the universe … from which we emerge in each moment of our lives.

[...] In those terms, we each have our personal ‘God,’ and I am convinced that the universe knows us no matter who or where — or what — we are. I think there is a God of Mitzi, and a God of Billy, for each of our cats, and that each consciousness, regardless of its status, possesses this intimate connection with the universe….”

[...] That is the heading for our next chapter (9).

(To Davey.) I will turn around so that you can see me better, and now I will return to our friend Ruburt, and you are welcome to our class. [...]

(To Davey.) Now here we have a too early blooming of abilities before the overall personality was able to handle them, and we also have a great contrast in attitude for we have on one hand the determination to show up all fraud, and on the other hand, the fear underneath that our own experiences could somehow be fraudulent. [...]

I did it for our friend over here. [...]

Now I must make myself friendly to our two young ladies over here, and say good evening to you so that you will not think that I am some spooky thing that comes in the night. [...]

I mention it because this has at times been responsible for a break in our regular sessions. I am personally interested in returning to our own material, with personal data being given at your request and when I think it necessary.

Obviously, even if I could make it an iron cross that size would be incredibly heavy to hang from our ceiling. [...] The cross now hangs easily and lightly in a corner of our living room.

[...] It was brought on because our cat Willy, decided to jump up in Jane’s lap as she spoke in trance. [...]

[...] Our studies and any true expression of the inner self, should lead to a joyous encounter with reality and the everyday moment, out of which eternity is spun.

(Jane said that when “he” asked for a pause, in our time, while giving the data about coordinates, she thought that Seth might be called in to explain this material to us in our terms. She said she felt that “his” abstract idea behind or beyond the term coordinates, was far removed from our earthly experience.)

[...] He is much more aware of our relationship however than you are of your relationship to him. (Pause; well over one minute long.) Your time is required… These communications change me as they change you, for they are action on both of our parts. [...]

[...] Our friend, our dear bewildered Ruburt, has had a time of it, and I suggest we end the session. [...]

(Jane seemed to speak for this personality, who is still nameless in our terms, quite easily. [...]

I meant to point out at our last session the multitudinous ways in which our sessions are related to the events of the world. [...]

[...] Perhaps that idea can give you some glimmering of the ways in which the daily events of your readers’ lives are changed as a result of our sessions. [...] That is a kind of qualitative event that in its own way cannot be judged or ascertained, and it presents a certain kind of emotional evidence—a living knowledge—that is transmitted to others, and is in its way more valuable than any scientific treatise that might validate our work.

[...] He should also read the last few of our sessions, and I have listed my suggestions this evening for his more convenient use.

[...] I outlined the thoughts Jane and I had about the fund she suggested for our medical expenses. [...]

[...] We finished our discussion about the fund idea at 3:15. [...]

[...] Our early evening hour passed as usual until I was getting ready to put on my jacket to leave. [...]

[...] “Seth says things happen to us according to our need at any time. [...]

[...] In our work, if he allows himself this same freedom, the intellect will also be convinced of our validity.

(Tonight Jane and I had another rather long discussion before the session, as before the last session, and once again our talk proved to be very beneficial. [...]

[...] Both of us felt we were on strong solid ground here, and that our insights this evening probably concerned the last problems to be dealt with in the banishment of symptoms.

[...] One very large portion of the personality is totally committed to our endeavors. [...]

“Usual memory is as much a sifting process as it is anything else, in which experience’s intensity varies — sometimes ‘alive’ neurologically and sometimes not — just to focus our consciousness in one probable action or series. (As I type I add: We forget anything not pertinent to our selected series of probable actions. [...]

[...] Next it flows into our probable (physical) reality (which itself changes all the ‘time.’) We inherently possess separate pockets or pools of experience (biologically valid among the cells’ characteristics), sidepools where information collects for processing before flowing into the ‘official pool of consciousness.’

[...] Past motion and acts still go on, not recurring — it’s hard to explain — but those past actions are still exploring other probabilities, while our nervous structure focuses us in the one (physical) probable reality we’ve chosen. [...]

“These ‘past’ probabilities are not fleshed out in our terms, but they’re brilliantly focused in their own life. [...]

[...] As I see it, our only hope lies in getting our minds off the whole thing, as happened last Saturday night. [...] Each of us has a copy on our workroom wall. If we apply what it says, it will be our salvation.

[...] She likes them better, she said, and so do I; at this time they seem to fit our situation. [...]

[...] Your added encouragement at the end of the evening, resulting in our session, was of great benefit. [...]

[...] As soon as Seth mentioned her feelings of inferiority at the beginning of the session, it was all downhill for me; I thought we’d done a reasonable job on encountering those with our pendulum work, but it seemed that they were still as present and active as ever. [...]

(The session was held in our back room. [...]

[...] To some extent it can never be captured, but we shall capture enough of it for our purposes. [...]

And now, if Ruburt worries that he does not carry his share of the work load, because you spend so much time typing our sessions, then the work of typing the dream experiences, both his and your own, shall be his. [...]

I have only one small point to make here before we have our appointment with Dr. Instream.

[...] It was David Butts again—telling me that since our talk last week he’s been free of the rather obsessive thinking about sending and receiving telepathic messages involving a certain female comedy star who appears on a late-night TV show. [...]

(In our first talk I’d suggested to David that he write us a letter describing his attraction to this woman, and he called today to say that he was mailing such a missive, after rewriting it a couple of times. [...]

[...] Naturally, I had no idea whether telepathy was involved, but had attempted during the first call to explain our ideas of such possibilities. [...]

[...] I was a bit surprised to hear he’d been so free of the feelings so quickly after our talk. [...]

[...] We had plenty of other things to do: I was still occupied daily with writing notes and appendixes for Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality; on June 4 Jane received the page proofs for Cézanne, and began correcting them for the printer; on the 14th of the month “our” contractor began converting half of our garage into a writing room for Jane, and adding a large back porch [see the end of Note 2 for Session 801]. All of that building activity was much noisier and more disruptive than the work had been for the front porch, and forced some changes in our schedules, including more night work, as we manipulated around those distractions.

(On July 9 we received from Prentice-Hall our first press copies of Volume 1 of “Unknown.” [...] In mid-July our friend Sue Watkins¹ began typing the rest of the final manuscript for Psyche; Jane had managed to help me out by finding the time to prepare the first five chapters for the publisher, but since we were both so busy we asked Sue for assistance. [...]

(Going back to the end of our stay-at-home vacation, on June 25 Seth-Jane began delivering a series of 10 sessions that we held on Monday and Saturday evenings for a change, instead of following our usual Monday-Wednesday routine. [...]

[...] What were Jane and I doing all of that “time” — that nearly one-quarter of a year of our physical lives?

It is advantageous to take our opportunity when possible at such times. I have been strict concerning our schedule, since conditioning must be set up, and while we always allowed for some spontaneity, it was necessary that Ruburt develop greater efficiency in his handling of the trance state.

(Again we held the session in our living room, as we used to do. [...]

I would like to make a few remarks concerning such spontaneous sessions as we have had, and particularly concerning our last spontaneous and witnessed session.

I can indeed arrange our evening in such a manner that your traffic will bother us not a bit.

(Long pause at 9:10.) But that our fears lead us, so that at times we’re almost bound to interpret such events as life-threatening, and that’s why we called the doctor, of course. [...] I feel Robby and the house and our entire existences supported in the same way—and this, I know, is part of the magical feeling that Seth talks about. [...]

(Jane first became aware that something was wrong with the finger at 2 PM or so Thursday, as we were finishing an interview with Peggy Gallagher about our experience in the 1972 flood in Elmira. [...]

[...] I’d called the Bumbalos, our neighbors across the street, for help, but they were away. [...]

[...] We’ve learned that Dr. K. is an extremely conscientious person, but our way of thinking is quite outside of hers. [...]

[...] This is to our advantage; and it is also to our advantage, when witnesses are present, when those witnesses have the peculiar qualities which are of benefit.

[...] I wish you both a fond good evening, and as always I enjoy our sessions. I feel quite benign this evening, and enjoy our solitude. [...]

[...] She then received the brief message from Seth, to the effect that our ideas of practicality are often hardly practical.

(Tonight’s session was again held in our living room. [...]

(This unexpected little session was Jane’s first upon our returning to Elmira, NY from Marathon, FL. [...]

(The page proofs for Seth Speaks were waiting for us upon our return. [...]

[...] I will have more to say as I continue at our next session, with personal material already begun. [...]