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—and open our quiet session.

Our last session proved to be a most beneficial one. [...]

[...] It is only natural that you carry this over into our sessions, preferring that they be held without such contact. [...]

[...] It might be added here that at the time of the visit of Jane’s father, on the night in question Jane had, as she was explaining some of the Seth material to her father and Midge, felt definite emotional “nudges” from Seth to hold a session, whereas upon the occasion of our visit with Bill and Ida in Rochester, she had not. [...]

[...] I can tell you that our work and the stability of our sessions has been of great aid in keeping the symptoms under some control. Had this happened before our sessions the difficulty would literally have been most severe, with other bad physical symptoms.

Now occasionally the ego has risen up in our sessions, but to no alarming degree. [...]

I will close our session unless you have questions, or prefer that I carry on.

The ego has to a large extent accepted them already, as is shown by the results of our test data, for which the ego’s cooperation is necessary.

[...] This would take into account our physical time system, etc. [...]

[...] (Pause.) I need not be entirely focused within your dimension in other words, but I am focused sufficiently to meet our appointments.

A certain portion of my reality is therefore available to you during our appointed times, and the bridgework of which we have spoken is always available; and using it Ruburt can call upon me on other occasions.

[...] This does not necessarily mean, on either of our parts, that such a call will always be met by an affirmative answer, or that contact will be made.

[...] She’d also been picking up from Seth through the day some quite amused comments on a variety of subjects we’d mentioned, ranging from “carpets and health” to the “nature of the law, the connection between the law and ideals and their actualization; the reactions of Tam Mossman to our feelings about Fate Magazine,” etc.

(Last Thursday night our guest was John Beahrs, a psychiatrist from the Seattle, Washington area. [...]

“The importance of definition” is our heading for this evening—at least for a starter.

[...] The law, Prentice, health, the poor and nationalized medicine, our ideals—and start doing it from any point you wanted him to.”

Usually in these sessions only one inner sense is in strong operation, but as I mentioned in our last session, man does not trust anything which occurs to him or in him unless he is consciously aware of what he is doing, how he is doing it, and why. It bothers Ruburt, as he has said in my hearing, that often-times just before we begin our session formally he does not have a thought in his head. [...]

[...] We sat at the board; as soon as our fingers touched the pointer it spelled out Seth’s greeting.

[...] This is our 24th session, and I am still trying to give you the answers.

[...] In our attempts here in these sessions you hardly know what the camera is.

[...] I thought our frame of reference wasn’t large enough. [...] So could the idea of reincarnation, and of counterparts, I added —three situations not considered within our ordinary contemporary scheme of things.)

(Pause.) Get our friend some Pall Malls....

A note to our friend Susan: she is overly identifying as a woman who happens to be an individual, instead of as an individual who happens to be a woman —and therefore finding herself involved in quite unnecessary dilemmas.

[...] Change our knife image now into an imaginary rocket ship, so that our dissection involves many more dimensions. [...]

[...] In our further discussions concerning the nature of electrical reality, we will also come closer to an understanding of those pyramid gestalts of which I have spoken.

I am going to end our session. [...]

(Jane had asked Miss Callahan about Frank Watts soon after our first session, of December 2/63.)

[...] Jane was fairly dissociated, she said, except when she paused in her pacing to look out one of our living room windows. [...]

(“Are any of these type planes aware of us, our plane?”)

(“Could our plane vanish?”)

[...] “That’s the key to our new method of living,” I said, quite enthusiastically. “That’s the key to our salvation right there.” [...]

[...] What with the visit and our talking, Jane didn’t eat a whole lot of lunch. [...]

Many good things will be found in Volume 2. Perhaps I can intrigue our readers by giving Seth’s headings for the three sections it will contain. [...]

[...] Thus the combined actions of the families of consciousness make our world as we know it.

[...] That material makes an excellent ending for Volume 2. For Jane and me, our house-hunting adventures were an intensely interesting journey through a complicated skein of probabilities. [...]

The reason should be apparent; if you consider for the sake of analogy, you may think of our fifth dimensional space once more. Your universe of positive matter is but one portion of the stuff of reality or energy as it is temporarily apparent, instantaneously, at one point within one of our imaginary cubes.

My connection with you is obvious from our previous discussions. [...] We developed according to our own abilities. [...]

[...] During break Jane, John and I discussed the above material, wondering what transpires when the three of us with our different viewpoints looked at the same object, for example our TV set; did we all see the same object?

Now, may I please return to our discussion of matter, since the matter matters so strongly. [...]

(Our cat Willy was injured, evidently by a car, a week ago. [...]

[...] He believes in our work, and that, I tell you, is the most important element of all as far as a publishing house is concerned.

We will still have our session when we get our recorder.

[...] Compare a thought, an original thought, with our original landscape. The problem would be then the same problem with which our artist was concerned.

Say for example that our individual “A” wanted to transmit this thought to “B”. [...] Our imaginary artist could not rip the landscape out of the earth, or bring it to his studio. [...]

Likewise, our individual “A” cannot rip the thought out of the context of his own inner electrical system. [...]

Our next session then will be concerned further with the nature of action, and I will speak concerning the complexity of what may appear to be a single action.

[...] I for one haven’t had any such feelings, since from the very beginning of our relationship I’ve always felt certain that in Jane I’d found the ideal mate—an achievement I’ve considered most fortunate, one I’d hardly dared dream I’d manage to do. Looking back, our meeting and getting together seemed the most natural and inevitable things in the world; how could I improve upon that? [...] No wonder I say to her that we’ve paid too high a price for our achievements. I want to see her able to manipulate like other people, of course, and to have her achievements also; that things haven’t worked out that way so far can’t but help have a profound effect upon my feelings, hers, and our relationship, which I’ve always taken absolutely as being as solid and enduring as the elements.)

(Our difficulties made themselves known with a vengeance when I pushed Jane into the bathroom in her chair after 10:30 PM: because for the first time, she failed to be able to get up from her seat on the john, and back to her chair as I stood waiting. [...] I couldn’t reach her to help from the other side of the chair, because of our bathroom’s architecture. [...]

[...] We thought possibly the animal reference concerned our occasional use of pepper acorns, which we used to grind ourselves. Jane has remarked that these remind her of bird feed, which we put out on the roof beside our kitchen windows. [...]

[...] Seth returned and helped us out on a few connections, but in the meantime we made our own.

[...] Our interpretation was not right. [...]

[...] On the McCormick pepper can, factories are mentioned as being located in Baltimore, MD, and San Francisco, CA, thus south and west from our Elmira location.

[...] I’m still surprised, I guess, that even after all his efforts, Seth can creatively come up with fresh approaches to try to help us—this time through our examining our worlds through our personal experiences. [...]

[...] Those ideas, mentioned earlier, even inhibit the free creative flow of our books into the world to some extent, for you do not have as clear a channel as possible.

Never compare the sale of our books to the sale of other books. [...]

[...] I often wonder at the great difference between Seth’s thinking and ours, yet fully agree that the three of us are closely involved. [...]

(At 8:30 this evening we got our answer. Stuart was back at our front door. [...] Yet he’d walked the two miles and more to our house from the YMCA, I thought ironically. [...]

[...] Our young man believes this.

Any purpose is better than none, and any intended personalized threat is better than an existence in which no life is important enough to be individually threatened, so these imagined threats serve to convince our young man that his life must have meaning or purpose—otherwise others would not be so intent on destroying him. [...]

The latest of course is the fear of cloning, but our young man does better than any fear-mongers, for he has the personal cloning people in their eerie vans with antennae, chasing him through the streets. [...]

[...] I ended up discouraged, I’m afraid, for much in it about Jane’s symptoms, and our joint reasons for allowing them to linger, still applied. [...]

Our books will become even better read. [...]

[...] Taking probabilities into consideration, there are cultural movements involving the western world as it tried to form a new philosophical stance, and our books may well provide a highly valuable alternate position for people—again—between the passionate beliefs systems of religion in many countries, and the overly objective dictates of science. [...]

[...] (Pause.) If you are mentioned in an unfavorable light by people who are fanatics in one way or another, then it shows that you are (underlined) making inroads, and that our books are (underlined) being read enough by the followers of a particular doctrine to make the leaders of such doctrines uneasy.

[...] She’d just finished reading the last 25 of the 48 fan letters that had arrived from our publisher this noon; she’d wanted a little time to relax and write a few notes before the session. However, that pile of letters means that people are reading our books, and for that we’re grateful indeed. [...]

So far in our discussion, then, we have an inner self, dwelling primarily in a mental or psychic dimension, dreaming itself into physical form, and finally forming a body consciousness. [...]

(Pause, one of many in here.) Thus far in our discussion, we still have only an inner self and a body consciousness. [...]

[...] All four are dear friends of ours too, of course, and want to see us.