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(This really surprised me, since for some months I’ve had the idea that my own reluctance to use photographs was a weakness on my part, when it was obvious that they’d add considerably to the books. But my reluctance was based, I thought, on my resentment at Prentice-Hall over their handling of art work; I really didn’t want to let the photos in question out of the house, for fear they’d be lost, etc. This in spite of Tam’s assurances some months ago that they’d be handled with care, etc. I still think my reaction here is valid. But I missed out on the connections involving my mother, disclosure, etc.

(Jane’s intellectual reluctance to wholeheartedly accept the sessions and all they implied.)

[...] Before he was reluctant to do so as clearly as he did this evening. [...]

[...] Even Ruburt’s intellectual questioning and often deep reluctance was known in advance, and adapted to aid in the work involved.

(10:00.) It goes without saying that on much deeper levels there is no reluctance on Ruburt’s part, or the abilities would not have developed in this fashion. [...]

Some new developments should also occur in our sessions, as our reluctant medium finally comes to terms with me. [...]

I had some pertinent remarks to make this evening, and since Philip (Seth’s entity name for John Bradley) is indeed a friend, I shall feel free to make them, although they are somewhat of a personal nature, and directed to you and our reluctant medium.

[...] reluctance or even—resentment! [...]

[...] (Pause.) Only who is reluctant now, Joseph?

[...] If one is not reluctant then the other one is. [...]

[...] Nevertheless I’ve managed, as I always do, to speak with some clarity through your collective reluctance, prejudices and barriers. [...]

[...] The results of the dream that I told you would occur, have, in the awakening, so to speak, of the left side of the body relatively—that is, that side was more reluctant before.

[...] Yet I was also aware of the same kind of reluctance I’d felt in the sleep state last night; as if I was trying to do something … difficult, or translate information that was more distant than usual from our ordinary concepts. I almost felt stubborn, like a reluctant child, wanting to do the thing but not wanting to make the effort at the same time. [...]

So in the beginning particularly you may be the one to take the initiative at times, for he may be reluctant, you see—a symptom of the habit. [...]

[...] When he feels the reluctance however he should try to discover why and not ignore it, stay home and cower, or force himself to go out, denying the feelings that he has hidden. [...]

[...] Yet your attitudes jointly can telepathically tempt them to Ruburt’s books—or help reinforce their own reluctance.

Like the woman who was suddenly appalled at her recovery (from Hodgkin’s disease), you might find yourself suddenly faced with your own reluctance.

(Eventually, and very reluctantly, since I considered it a sign of a major failure, I ended up carrying her physically from the john to her chair—rather awkwardly but not with as much trouble as I’d anticipated, yet also feeling a bit of a strain in my lower back. [...]

[...] They express your reluctance, of course, and outrage against the situation. [...]

[...] Gradually the sun disappeared behind heavier and heavier clouds, yet the rain seemed most reluctant to show itself. [...]

[...] Maybe through the graces of Framework 2, the course we’re following, if reluctantly, isn’t so bad after all at this time. [...]

[...] I was quite reluctant to do so, since I felt it was better to continue with the board, and to accumulate a written record which might serve as a basis for other types of experiments at a later date.

(As stated, I had to be dragged into this event by Jane and Bill, and went along, finally, quite reluctantly.

Reluctantly, I agreed with Jane that she’d better not answer the letters. [...]

Frank, however, takes it for granted that there must be some resistance on the part of the body, that it will be reluctant, and this is not the case.

[...] Your beliefs however tell you that reluctance is involved, and such a condition will result according to beliefs. [...]

On your part also then there was a reluctance to react to annoyance in a normal natural manner, and this is why the situation built up. [...]

[...] I hope peacefully for this evening—I go reluctantly, but I do not leave quietly. [...]

As to my being your child (amused), I am somewhat reluctant to say ma-ma or da-da. [...]

(The first day after Jane got the call, we thought of all the reasons we didn’t want to do the show—including the material on the show and Susskind in Daniel Logan’s book, The Reluctant Prophet. [...]