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On a conscious level you, Joseph, are much more given to regularity, and therefore more concerned when Ruburt shows signs of irregularity. It is however with him, as with you, the peculiar mixture of discipline and regularity with spontaneity that makes the sessions possible; and this quality in Ruburt, even of rebellion, that allows the sessions to continue.

This involves on his part not a conscious, but a subconscious change of habit. The new habit he has acquired very well. The psychic explosions that have been fairly regular with him in the past, have been minimized to some considerable degree since our sessions began. No one is endeavoring to tamper with his personality, however, and it is his natural reaction to turn aggression, when it arises, outward in some manner, while he is almost superstitiously careful that it not be directed at another individual.

This is with him a fairly healthy reaction, and less disruptive than he thinks. You have been distrustful to some degree concerning Ruburt’s fidelity to the sessions, precisely because the sessions have become important to you. Ruburt at this time would not dispense with the sessions, although it is true that he sometimes consciously resents the discipline involved in their regularity.

Subconsciously however, the very regularity is reassuring to him, since a fairly permanent pattern exists despite the flux and flow of conscious inclination. I am not going to give over a full session to these matters. However some comments will be helpful.

[...] She didn’t think there would be a regular session this evening. [...]

[...] There will be no regular session this evening, except for these comments that are meant to reassure Ruburt. [...]

[...] Those inner atmospheric “waves” have a certain regularity. [...]

[...] When you are having regular sessions, an occasional visitor will not annoy you, but such visits should be known in advance.

Now I suggest that our regular sessions for a while be held in one of your back rooms, (where my studio is), for two reasons. [...]

[...] I am now stressing, however, that the two regular sessions should be held, and I am saying this now knowing that Ruburt is able and willing to follow my suggestions.

[...] The unevenness in the timing of our sessions was a result of the fact that often three regular sessions were being expected from him, rather than two.

If Ruburt misses sessions and then feels guilty about doing so, little is gained and the regularity is also lost. I suggest therefore that you hold six weeks of sessions as always at your regular time, then feel free to miss a week with my blessing and your own, and then begin another six-week schedule.

This will allow for regularity, and also provide for some release from regularity. [...]

The regularity of our sessions is important. [...]

[...] But all in all the regularity should be maintained, and the suggestion I have given will allow both schedule and freedom from schedule. [...]

[...] I believe that you will note some rather significant correlations, if you find the time to carry any of these investigations through with any regularity. And the regularity will be very important.

[...] We know several doctors on a social basis, but for various reasons hesitate to ask one of them to perform these duties; we would also like to repeat these studies regularly, and could hardly expect a medical man to be available in this respect.

[...] The thermometer could also be used of course to test any temperature changes occurring in a regular trance state. [...]

[...] He would be much more apt to be discreet and dependable, and he is more or less outside the regular community in which you live, which could be to your benefit. [...]

[...] Nor is she yet back on a regular daily basis.

[...] This evening however Ruburt’s subconscious is in a rather chaotic state, and I shall not attempt now to carry on a regular session.

[...] In any case, you may possibly hear more of me in one way or another before our next regular session. [...]

[...] This was complicated by her self-questioning over the matter of control, and whether we should have nothing but regular sessions. [...] And of course by and large Jane is interested in regular sessions. [...]

(As suggested by Seth in the last regular session for April 11, Monday, Jane decided to skip Wednesday’s session for April 13, and possibly the following Monday’s for April 18. [...]

[...] I am personally not much enthused about such informal sessions, although Seth has said at various times that they can be beneficial in ways that regular sessions are not. [...]

(Omitted from the regular session copy to avoid any possible embarrassment to the Wilburs, Marilyn and Don, of Wellsburg, NY.

(An added note, omitted from the regular session copy:

[...] is that I’m also sending stuff out to some of the regular members in class who are working hard and to whom I dont have time to speak in class. [...]  I think that before we finish all the regular class members will be having dream experiences that are as vivid as what goes on in regular class. [...]

Now, my welcome to those who came for the evening, and I have a few remarks to make to our regular class members. You have met many strangers lately, both in the dream state and in regular waking reality. [...]

Now, our regular members will find themselves having more group class dreams, and when you do not have group class dreams, there is a reason for it. [...]

You are, as he is, wondering how you will do what you want to, on your part—your painting, the book, renewed regular sessions, and regular chores. [...]

[...] It was also the reason why he suggested beginning a session earlier (this evening at supper time), though he did not know this; and in any case what he suggested, on regular terms, was not really what he wanted.

[...] You may have noticed that often when you miss a regular session, I have held a spontaneous one in class.

[...] The sessions need regularity. [...]

[...] The psychic work with Ruburt has a strong spontaneous nature, and at times he resents, while he also needs, the regular schedules that you seem to require physically.

(This material is taken from the regular 621st session.)

(See regular 621st session, this date, for more re Timothy Foote, etc.

[...] Your remarks concerning the benefits of a regular job would bring the symptoms to a pitch, and did so as recently as a week or so ago.

[...] Nursery school seemed to offer a compromise between your idea of a regular job, and his own dislike of one. [...]

He felt his own respect and yours, he must take a job, and a regular one— and for the reasons given this had highly unpleasant repercussions that led to symptoms of immobility. [...]

[...] However we shall hold our regular Wednesday session to these same matters. [...]

[...] The session began at about 9PM and lasted until the regular time of 10:30. [...]

[...] Jane and I wanted Seth’s assistance in contacting Blanche, without Seth himself speaking, for we thought this would make the session too much like the regular sessions. [...]

[...] One of my concerns when Jane asked me to speak to Seth at the beginning of the session, was whether my speaking would bring on a regular Seth session, but this didn’t develop; and the method gave us both confidence for like experiments in the future. [...]

His regular classes cannot get larger. [...]

[...] It is only because you usually use your waking consciousness in limited ways that you do not encounter these clues with any regularity.

[...] This happens with some regularity, and to varying degrees, from fifteen to fifty times an hour, according to your activities.

[...] In the usual creative state of consciousness, the regular waking consciousness is suddenly supported by energy from these other areas. [...]

Our week just past had been filled with a desperate energy as we struggled to get settled so that we could return to “work”—to our arts—on some sort of a regular basis. [...]

[...] I became extremely busy after my wife came home, making what seemed like endless calls and trips about getting prescriptions filled, about trying out various kinds of beds and mattresses and chairs and hospital gowns, about insurance, about a commode, about having a speaker phone hooked up to our regular phone so that Jane wouldn’t have to hold the standard bulky handset to her ear. [...]

We’ve had no Seth sessions yet, either regular or private. [...]

[...] Since Seth had stated that unscheduled sessions would be the exception, Jane and I were waiting for the regularly scheduled session of tomorrow, Wednesday.

[...] John offered to leave, but I said aloud that we’d rather wait for our regular session time.

[...] However, Joseph, while I admit I came uninvited, and while I understand the reason for last night’s absence, I took it for granted that we would have our regular session this evening. [...]

[...] As Ruburt told you, I was here at the regular hour last night and aware of the happenings in the household. [...]

(The session is included in the regular series because of the voice effects; the fact that both Seth & his entity spoke; some new ideas from both entities; and because no regular session was held the next day, Wednesday, July 16.

[...] Trapeze performers, stunt men and women, race-car riders, and many other groups have a life-style that includes death-defying stunts on a very regular basis.

[...] It is true that these individuals do choose for themselves a carefully planned and regulated style of life, in which the threat of death is encountered personally and regularly; each day becomes an odyssey, in which death and life are purposefully weighed. [...]