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FEBRUARY 22, 1965 9 PM MONDAY AS SCHEDULED

[...] Overall our schedule will be maintained, but we do not want rigidity, merely the spontaneity that comes, and the freedom that is achieved within discipline.

[...] He will not allow the rambunctious portion of his personality to upset our schedule, but because he trusts all this subconsciously, he will not be as disturbed as you are if a session is missed.

AUGUST 5, 1964 9 PM WEDNESDAY AS SCHEDULED

[...] And once again, as in the 75th and 76th sessions, 9 PM came and passed, and she did not begin dictating as scheduled. [...]

[...] He could, conceivably, act with no discipline, but he could also conceivably deny himself any freedom at all, and hide within schedule and habit.

[...] I am not speaking of schedules. [...]

[...] You can quite properly decide, if you want, how many hours you want to devote to given activities, but do not think of schedules, but instead of the flow of timeless energy into time. [...]

[...] If the two of you stick together, there will be no problem, and particularly if you view this not as a schedule but as a way in which you want to mix time and timelessness, and merge the “two lives” that each of you try to live in the one life. [...]

[...] Jane had a head cold, and we had a session scheduled for the weekend for Claire Crittenden and Pat Norelli.)

[...] You have the freedom to add varieties to your schedules, to alter some of the time in which you work, but you do not take advantage of that freedom.

[...] I said that was an excellent sign, for it showed the body was starting to move out of its safe schedule of doing movements at just one time of the day. [...] If such signs keep up, I may have to alter my own schedule a bit to give her some time for movement after supper, say, before I leave. [...]

[...] He likes a change of pace, alterations in schedule—changing his hours, for example—two or three times a year, works well for him when he allows it.

[...] But if he seems afraid it is because he fears, in an exaggerated manner, that if given freedom he would want you, and you would consider this disruptive, of work and schedule.

[...] In the 358th session for August 2, 1967, Seth stated, after mentioning Jane’s speaking engagement at Star Island, off Portsmouth, NH, scheduled for Saturday, August 12: “A meeting on Ruburt’s part with an old forgotten acquaintance;” and “The possibility of an unusual Seth session.”

(At the time of the 358th session we did not know Merle was scheduled by his company to be in New York City; nor could he have known where we would be eating supper at that particular time. [...]

[...] Left alone, you would both have altered your schedules simply because creative work enjoys variety. [...] But you would have felt free to follow the inner scheduling.

[...] It will find its own schedules, but your joint ideas of work hours were meant to fit in with a time-clock puncher’s mentality, and not your own.

(Actually my concern was over some kind of accident to Armstrong after he & Aldrin had left the lunar module or landing craft—this I believe is scheduled for 2:17 AM Monday, according to [this morning’s] Sunday paper.

FEBRUARY 8, 1965 9 PM MONDAY AS SCHEDULED

(Due to illness, the witnesses scheduled for this session did not appear.

(Volume 2 will be marketed a few weeks in advance of Psyche, of course, as it should be, even though because of press scheduling the much shorter Psyche was printed first. [...]

(Last Wednesday night’s regularly scheduled book session wasn’t held because we had unexpected visitors after supper. [...]

[...] Having to do with a relative, and a variation in usual schedules, daily schedules. [...]

NOVEMBER 17, 1965 9 PM WEDNESDAY AS SCHEDULED

JANUARY 26, 1966 9 PM WEDNESDAY AS SCHEDULED

The spontaneity that allowed him to deviate from his usual schedule is largely responsible for the whole book, for his original intention was merely to write a few humorous verses for out cat lover’s birthday. [...]

[...] Here is a schedule of events:

SEPTEMBER 21, 1964 9 PM MONDAY AS SCHEDULED

I am not suggesting for example that five sessions, or four, be held in a week at this time; only that sincere requests should not be automatically denied because they do not fall within the scheduled time. [...]

[...] Then 3 weeks of no meditation; a month of half-hour meditation, followed by a week of no meditation; and for a year a daily schedule of no more than a half-hour meditation period, these periods to be regular however.

Within your allotted time schedule try to give yourself more freedom. [...]

Your renewed work schedule will automatically refresh it, and it is already gathering more energy and vitality.

NOVEMBER 2, 1964 9 PM MONDAY AS SCHEDULED

It is of course true that within our rather rigid schedule we miss some excellent occasions for sessions, as far as Ruburt is concerned. [...]

At some still rather far date, the present rigidity of our schedule may give way to a more spontaneous framework. [...]

Now if, and this has occurred, Ruburt finds his abilities unusually attuned, and circumstances are advantageous, it is perfectly legitimate to hold a session, though it is not a scheduled one. [...]

MAY 17, 1965 9 PM MONDAY AS SCHEDULED

I will here again suggest that Ruburt return to a definite scheduled psychological time habit. [...]

(I also asked if Seth would comment upon the postponement by Gallery magazine, this month, of their interview with Jane, scheduled for January 23, a class night. [...]