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(No session was held Monday night because Jane was so relaxed again—that is, I’d thought that was the reason, but more about that later. [...] “I don’t even want to have a session tonight. [...] She still sat in her usual place on the couch, and following a suggestion I’d made the other day she decided to try having the session from that position. [...]

He is having this evening’s session at least partially out of his sense of responsibility—because he thinks he should, and because he thinks you think he should. He must, or should, feel free to have the sessions—to have the sessions. [...]

(Actually, I learned as we talked, Jane had called me for a session Monday evening, but I hadn’t heard her. [...] But she said when I didn’t answer she decided to let the session go. [...]

[...] Jane’s delivery from her new position on the couch had been steady and emphatic until she slowed down noticeably toward the end of the session. I told Jane it was an excellent session and that she’d done well. [...]

The response of relaxation after the first session in fact helped set the stage for the better functioning that Ruburt noticed in various areas of the body this evening. [...] In the second session you were tired at the time—tired rather than, say, relaxed yourself. Nevertheless the suggestions you gave at that session allowed particular muscles a further but unnoticed relaxation—also contributing to the neck release Ruburt felt this evening.

[...] The effects she felt are described in the notes for the December 5th session. [...]

[...] Jane doesn’t know which suggestion session —or all of them, say —brought about what effects. [...]

Now: you had a delayed reaction in the first session to some degree. [...]

(As it developed tonight’s session was a short one. [...] The young couple mentioned in the 184th session live downstairs, and I also work with them. [...] I relayed the information to Jane at noon, and suggested she decide whether she wanted to hold a session with the idea that it might be interrupted.

(Shortly before session time Jane told me she had the thought that dreams and astral travel, or the astral body, were somehow connected. The session was held in our small back room. [...]

Ruburt prepares himself in certain ways for our sessions. [...] When there is question as to whether or not a particular session will be held, it is more difficult for him to make these preparations.

(Jane’s first thought was to skip the session, but as the party downstairs got under way in a quiet fashion, and we were not called upon as 9 PM approached, she decided to hold it as usual.

(The night before this session was held Jane suggested that each day we read over a session, or talk or review some notes, as a way to give ourselves a “pep talk” and to lead us into the day. So the day of the session, after breakfast this morning, we reread the deleted session for January 7, 1981, which is a very good one. And this morning—Tuesday—I read last night’s session to Jane from my notes, since I didn’t have it typed yet.)

(Jane had been restless during the session, but felt pretty good now. I thought the session contained many good things. [...] I typed half of it Tuesday night; but Tuesday morning, in keeping with our idea to ground ourselves in new ideas each day, I read the full session to her from my notes.

(This is the first session Jane has held since giving the deleted one for last January 7. Once again, she was very uncomfortable as she sat in her chair across the coffee table from me. Earlier today—as she reaffirmed now—she’d said more than once that she wanted to “get back to the sessions, no matter what,” or how she felt. [...]

(As I finished it this evening, however, I can see now that the session is even a better one that I’d thought. [...] She planned to try for a session this evening, she said, as I went back to my typing.

[...] The latest was in the 143rd session. See the notes preceding the 138th session for a partial list of such predictions. I will endeavor to compile a complete list of specific statements, by session number, and attach it to a succeeding session.

(In the 92nd session, of September 28, 1964, Seth predicted the sale of this specific book by name. [...] In the 104th session he gave details we think may refer to the offices of F. Fell in NYC, involving a red chair, certain individuals, etc. [...]

[...] See the 140th session. [...]

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

I will indeed end the session, knowing that the session adds to Ruburt’s reassurance, and that the session alone, on its own, releases certain kinds of highly beneficial energy. My fondest regards, and my interest, or inclination toward the both of you follows you, whether, say, we have a session or not. [...]

(Today Jane and I were very busy—so busy we were quite late with the session. This morning I typed Saturday night’s session. [...]

[...] She surprised me at about 9:15 by saying she might try for a session, since by then I’d thought it too late. She said she was doing the same thing she did last night before that session: getting scared, lapsing, while at the same time she tried to get comfortable on her backside. [...]

Again, this will be a brief session, but I will be quite sure you receive the material that you want and need. The organization of the material comes almost in packages, you might say, hopefully to be delivered at the best possible time, so have Ruburt keep his eye out for sessions in the day sometimes, at least for starters (as I have suggested also). [...]

(Although this is a private session that Jane and I are filing separately from “regular” material, we’re also presenting it in Mass Events because of the many insights Seth offers into individual and mass events in general, and into our personal realities in particular. In fact, without those qualities of ours that Seth touches upon this evening, I doubt that the Seth books — indeed, even the sessions themselves — would exist. So in that sense this session contains more of those insights into the how and why of the Seth material that we’re always searching for. See my comments in Note 1 for sessions 840 and 841.

(The session really grew out of several insights that Jane herself has voiced since giving last Wednesday night’s book copy. Following several of those verbal comprehensions, she experienced very pleasant relaxation effects of the kind I described in the opening notes for the 829th session. [...]

(With much humor:) I hope this session benefits you both. End of session, and a fond good evening.

(10:35 P.M. “I didn’t know he was going to go into all of that,” Jane said, after I’d told her she’d given an excellent session. “Maybe that’s why I felt so uncomfortable before the session: Part of me knew Seth was going to talk about us. [...]

(Last Wednesday night’s regularly scheduled book session wasn’t held because we had unexpected visitors after supper. They left late enough so that Jane decided to skip the session, even though earlier in the day she’d written notes on material that Seth had mentally informed her he’d cover.

(Tonight, Jane repeated an idea she’d started talking about before holding the 861st nonbook session just a week ago: She thinks Seth is in the process of finishing Mass Events. “Not in the next couple of sessions, but he’s heading that way. [...]

Then in the 861st session itself — which was not for Mass Events, as stated — Seth briefly mentioned the material on ideals and impulses he’s been giving in recent book sessions. [...]

(Jane and I have had two most pleasant surprises since Seth gave the 860th session on June 13. [...]

[...] I was in a very deep trance the night of the session, which deepened as the session continued. [...] I had thought when the session was over of suggesting we do this, but I was exhausted even though I knew I was having trouble snapping out of the trance.

(The Seth voice did come through to some considerable extent in the last portion of the session addressed to Pat’s students. While the voice was not as unique—as low in pitch or as resounding, as it has been on some occasions—it was definitely apparent at times during the session and sometimes it was quite startling. [...]

(The night of the session it literally swept me along toward the end and I want to make these comments while the affair is fresh in my mind. [...] During this session, part of it at least, I seemed to be viewing a classroom, presumably Pat’s; at first I looked down upon the room from above, then moved to a vertical position, searching for a particular seat. [...]

(The session was particularly interesting from several standpoints as far as I was concerned.

[...] As session time approached she felt a little nervous, yet not very much. [...] But again, as soon as the session began he calmed down and began to doze in a chair.

(Thinking this point over after Monday’s session, I did not recall Willy making any fuss, except for the one time detailed on page 211, during the session.)

[...] She said she could feel Seth leading up to this point through the last session. She also still felt it would be a short session. [...]

(See the 64th session, page 172. [...] Again now, she walked over to our couch and squatted down upon one arm of it as she had done in the last session. [...]

(Shortly before the session was due I mentioned that I hoped Seth would clear up the discrepancy concerning the date of his birth. It was given as 1486 in the last session. We think it should be 1586, to tally with material given in various previous sessions.

(Jane ended the session with a smile. [...] As I took her dictation I was wondering just how we would go about speaking with more than one entity at a session. She then answered my thoughts in closing out the session.

I have told you that this will be a fairly brief session, and so it shall. [...] This has been an excellent session. [...]

(Jane was somewhat tired before the session began, and had no idea of the material that might be covered.

We will have an extremely brief session, as I can see, for various reasons, no important ones, we are falling short for this session. [...]

(Jane said the above is the kind of material she would have blocked in earlier sessions as soon as she felt it coming up, although occasionally she has allowed it to come through. One instance of such data checking out concerned the Provincetown and Bill Macdonnel material of the 68th, 75th, 82nd, 83rd, and 84th sessions.

(For data on my other sensations and some visions, see the following sessions: 22, 24, 26, 27, 65, 145, 146, 163, 169. Nor do these include the enlarged hand sensations that Jane and I have experienced during sessions.)

(Once again the session was held in our quiet back room. [...]

As in Volume 1, notes are presented at session break times as always, but I’ve indicated the points of origin of what would ordinarily be footnotes by using consecutive (superscription) numbers within the text of each session. Then, I’ve grouped the actual notes at the end of the individual sessions for quick consultation. [...] For the most part, then, these approaches keep the body of each session free of interruptions between break designations.

I hope these Introductory Notes have prepared the reader to take up “Unknown” Reality in the middle, more or less, with the 705th session. But as I wrote in introducing Volume 1, whatever comments I make along the way will explain Jane’s trance performances from my view, as best I can offer them — her behavior while she’s “under,” the varied, powerful or muted use of her voice as she speaks for Seth, her stamina and humor in sessions, the speed or slowness of her delivery. But above all I try to help the reader appreciate the uncanny feeling of energy and/or intelligence — of personality — in the sessions, as exemplified by and through Seth; conscious energy, then, taking a guise that’s at least somewhat comprehensible to us, in our terms of reality, so that we can understand what’s happening.

[...] I wrote in the Introductory Notes for Volume 1 that Jane began delivering “Unknown” Reality (as we soon came to call it) in the 679th session for February 4, 1974, and finished it with the 744th session for April 23, 1975. [...]

[...] Seth himself always referred to “Unknown” Reality as one unit until we reached the last session. [...] There are no chapters per se. As Seth explained in the 743rd session: “This book had no chapters [in order] to further disrupt your accepted notions of what a book should be. [...]

(The following material is from the 790th session.

[...] This session might as well have been given the day after the last one as far as I am concerned.

[...] The sessions are as timeless as you know yourselves to be. [...]

End of session—and there are some good hints in there. [...]

(Jane’s ESP class for Tuesday evening, February 25, took place the day after the 739th session was held, and was her last one before we began preparing for our move to the hill house. [...] During class I read aloud Seth’s material from the 738th session on the Grunaargh family of consciousness,¹ which Sue had tuned in to during the 598th session for November 24, 1971. [...]

“When I first mentioned the family name, Grunaargh (as Seth spelled it out for us in that session over three years ago), I knew that its members had something to do with printing, or the promulgation of printed material. [...] However, after that session my impression ‘grew’ in such a way that I knew this family had something to do in a more direct way with the printing process — with the fascination of putting ideas down on paper through the use of typefaces that would, as much as the language involved, express the ideas behind the words themselves. [...]

(FOR SESSION 739)

“When Seth listed the families of consciousness last January,³ but didn’t include the Grunaargh, Rob asked him about it in the 738th session. [...]

[...] These 510 sessions, then, are exact copies from the verbatim transcripts I made in my homemade shorthand while Jane spoke for Seth; I added notes and comments while typing the material after each session. Over half a dozen years we filed the typed sessions in 44 three-ring binders. The sessions in one of the volumes published by Rick are accompanied by my drawings of the objects used in the series of “envelope tests” we conducted, both for ourselves and long-range with a well-known scientist, over some 11 months.

[...] Also, even though I’d been so intimately involved with the Seth material from the very beginning, for example, I didn’t fully comprehend the volume of just the session material that we’d accumulated over a total of 21 years. Let alone the bulk of Jane’s other work: her poetry, novels both published and unpublished, her other published books, an unfinished autobiography, the records of her ESP class sessions, her journals and paintings, her singing in musical trance language, Sumari, her never-ending correspondence. [...] Rick’s publication of The Early Sessions, then, is a very important advance in the marvelous journey of discovery that, I think, each one of us is inevitably involved in, that each one of us has chosen to create, in whatever way and for whatever purposes.

I’m tremendously pleased that Rick Stack, the proprietor of New Awareness Network Inc., is publishing the eight-to-ten-volume set of The Early Sessions. These books consist of the first 510 “sessions” that my wife, Jane Roberts, delivered for that well-known “energy personality essence”, Seth, after she began speaking in a trance or dissociated state in December 1963. [...]

I asked Rick to correct spelling, to delete the few notes I inserted in succeeding years, and to keep the presentation of the sessions uniform in the use of roman and italic types, punctuation, parentheses and brackets, dashes and hyphens, and so forth. [...]

(I urged her to try for a session. [...] “I sort of feel him around more, like we could have a session after all, you know?” she said at last. It would be her first session on her side, her second in the hospital. I still felt the hope engendered by the first session, on October 9, and wanted to keep that impetus going. [...]

[...] All afternoon she’d complained that she wasn’t doing anything: no Seven, no session.... [...]

[...] We will indeed begin a series of sessions, although they may be briefer than our usual ones. [...]

[...] Jane did okay for a first session on her side, I told her as I lit a cigarette for her. [...]

[...] When Jane and I wonder about Seth’s seeming availability, we mean the scheduled Monday and Wednesday evening sessions, an occasional appearance at one of Jane’s ESP classes, and an occasional dropping in at an unscheduled session, perhaps on a weekend, etc.

(Sue Mullin was a witness to the session.

(For a while now Jane and I have been considering the question, aloud, of Seth’s availability to us whenever we choose to hold a session. [...]

[...] As to my availability at your sessions.

[...] I think that her experience with inner sound after the session represented her interpretation of the information Seth gave on feeling-tones, some two years ago; see the 613th session for Chapter 1 of Personal Reality. There are certainly deep connections between Jane’s apprehension of her true tone, and Seth’s statement in that session that each of us possesses certain qualities of feeling uniquely our own, “… that are like deep musical chords.” [...] I also think that Jane’s sensing of her true path reflects her understanding of Seth’s subsequent remark at 10:16 [in that 613th session]: “The feeling-tone is the motion and fiber — and timbre — of your energy devoted to your physical experience.¹¹

3. A note added later: Jane used certain portions of the 714th session in Chapter 1 of Politics, while making her own points there. Since it’s obviously part of “Unknown” Reality too, however, the entire session is presented in place in Volume 2. The same reasoning applies to the material each of us contributed at session’s end.

11. Of interest here are a few excerpts from a personal session held just a year later, in October 1975. During the session Seth discussed inner sound in connection with Jane’s own physical symptoms. (In Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality, see the 679th session before 10:31, and Note 8. The quotations below are also related to the material on inner sound, light, and electromagnetic values in Chapter 5 of Personal Reality.) Seth, at 11:07 P.M.:

(There were clear-cut connections between her creative performance today and her reception of the outline for The Way Toward Health last March; see the notes at 10:45, as well as Note 8, for Session 713; and in Volume 1, see Appendix 7. But there was even more creative expression to come through Jane this evening, not only in the session itself of course, but after it, as I try to explain in the concluding notes.

(The following material is from the 881st session. Before the session I’d expressed the hope that Seth would have something to say about Jane’s frequently-very-relaxed state today.

(Pause.) These sessions themselves involve the highest levels of creative productivity, at many, many levels, so he should refresh himself painting or doing whatever he likes, for that refreshment adds to his creativity, of course. [...]

End of session and a fond good evening.

(This marked the end of the private material, and Seth ended the session shortly at 9:56 PM.)