(Once again the session was held in our back room, and Jane spoke sitting down and with her eyes closed. She does not wear her glasses at all during sessions now. [...]

[...] See the last session. [...]

[...] It will be recalled that the Pipers witnessed the 73rd session [See Volume 2].

[...] Note also that she used this hand analogy to describe a pulsation in the 139th session. [...]

[...] The sessions didn’t come to a halt after all. With the arrival of warmer weather we did take an occasional break from psychic work, but for the most part the sessions were held regularly even though Seth was through with “Unknown” Reality. Some of them were private, but Seth also covered a number of interesting topics of a more general nature — material we’d like to see published eventually. (His comments in the 750th session as to why “Unknown” Reality was written, are quoted in the Introductory Notes for Volume 1.)

(I read the last part of Wednesday’s session to Jane from my notes. “I’ve got the nostalgic, uneasy feeling that he’s going to wind up the book soon,” she said, “especially after listening to that material just before the Atlantis stuff: I didn’t feel that way when I had the session, but I do now. [...]

[...] She still habitually referred to “Unknown” Reality as a one-volume work — even as Seth himself did in the session this evening — despite the decision made 10 days ago to publish it in two volumes. “I feel sort of sorry,” she continued, “because here the sessions will stop again just after we got back into them. [...]

We finally rested from the sessions for most of July, although Jane continued working on her Psychic Politics, among other projects. Then, in the 752nd session for July 28, 1975, Seth plunged into his next book: The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression. He’s well into it at this writing, and as Jane and I have planned things, the notes for it will be very short. [...]

(Seth promised to keep his voice quiet, which he did throughout the session. [...] Thus the first half of this session is summarized from memory, with no particular effort made to remember every point covered. I will try to recall just enough to lead into the second half of the session, which I recorded verbatim in my homemade shorthand.

[...] She also said that a few drinks before a session seem to help a great deal. Counting back, we decided she had had three beers in the course of the evening before the session, although they had been spaced out. Jane feels that alcohol somehow promotes a very beneficial relaxation on her part, for sessions.

(This session was entirely unplanned. [...]

[...] Jane said she felt Seth “buzzing around”, but since I had just caught up on my notes for the three other sessions this week, I begged off. [...]

(And once again, as she’d done for the session of last December 28, she wanted tonight’s material to be presented as part of regular Session 393. I was glad to do it—and note that Jane’s class sessions usually are in marked contrast to those we hold for ourselves, for books or whatever in the future. As would be expected of a gathering, class sessions were full of energy and repartee and questions and serious thinking both with and without Seth.

(Jane suggested that I sit in on and record this session for the regularly-scheduled ESP class she held on Thursday evening, February 8, 1968. She seldom asked me to do this, since after supper on any Thursday I’d be busy in my studio at the back of the apartment, typing up my crude homemade shorthand notes of the session she’d given the evening before for just the two of us.

(At times Jane and I have speculated about eventually publishing the class sessions—with the permission of those involved, of course—but have been so busy we haven’t tried to follow through.

(This session witnessed by: Carol Bliss, Sue Newman, Lydia Nesbitt, Jean Kluft and Connie Allison.

(During the 247th session Seth told Marian that Jimmy’s health was good. Seth devoted much of the 229th session to what he said were tax and money problems involving Jimmy. As stated at the time, Jane and I have no idea as to the validity of the 229th session. [...] In a recent session Seth said that probabilities might enter in with this data, but that is all we know. [...] In the 229th session Seth gave a March 15 date in connection with Jimmy’s supposed tax troubles.)

(After supper this evening young Don Wilbur informed us that he and his wife would not be able to witness the session as scheduled. The Wilburs are discussed in the 246th session. [...]

(After several sessions involving various kinds of personal material we hoped to get back to the theoretical kind. The session was held in our living room as usual. [...]

(After the session was over at 1:30 AM, Marian’s husband Jimmy arrived home from work. Marian told him about the session. [...]

Now you know that part of his deep love for you is reflected in these sessions. [...] The sessions among other things have always represented your combined love and trust in each other, and were generated by your experience as creatures, and your desire to look for personal answers; but more basically for answers asked by all of your race.

(This material is from the 640th session for February 14, 1973.

SESSION 640 (DELETED PORTION)

(The following material is taken from the 681st session for February 11, 1974.

His probable brain can only translate so much of this (tonight’s session) at one time.

[...] See the 681st session for additional notes here.)

SESSION 681 (DELETED PORTION)

[...] I should have added that before the session Jane finally got through the session for March 19 by herself, after some hard going, and that I had to finish reading the last session to her myself.

[...] I read the session to Jane after giving her a drink of water and lighting a smoke for her. “You ought to make a note,” she said, “that because of our conditions in the hospital the sessions are a lot shorter. [...]

(I said that the near-daily routine of sessions probably compensated for their brevity — but also that we let much time go by that we could use for sessions. [...]

[...] It was after 9:10 p.m. before I began typing this session.

[...] Jane began reading yesterday’s session, but found it hard going. She had some bladder spasms, and finally laid aside the session to have a cigarette while I worked on mail. She went back to the session at 2:56, doing a little better, and finished at 3:09.

[...] I was typing the session at 10:00 when she called with Carla’s help.

[...] Judy emptied Jane’s Foley, or catheter bag, Dorothy took her blood pressure and pulse, and Carla her temperature — 98.2. I did some more mail until Jane said she was ready for a session. [...]

Make sure, again, that you review portions of the sessions dealing with Ruburt’s condition. [...]

(See the preliminary notes for today’s session, that I typed this morning at the end of the last session. [...]

(Even now, I was sure that yesterday’s session had helped me moderate my own reactions to the latest events—and that was good, I told Jane. [...]

[...] I gave Jane yesterday’s session. [...]

(Jane did want to have a session, though neither one of us seemed to be at our best.)

2. The “officially accepted life” mentioned here reminded me that in the last (694th) session Seth used the phrase “your officially recognized idea of physical reality” in discussing the role probable events played in our world history. In the 686th session he referred to “official data” when he considered ancient man’s selection of certain mental and biological pulses as physical reality; later in the same session, he used the self-explanatory “official history.” In the 684th session he discussed our “official activity” when he compared our reaction to hunches and premonitions with our acceptance of normal psychological reality.

[...] Lately Jane and I have taken to requesting that he finish each session this way, until we’re caught up on some projects we’ve been letting go. [...]

NOTES: SESSION 695

1. Once again, see Note 4 for the 679th session.

(Seth hadn’t called the last session book dictation, nor did he so designate tonight’s material. Just as we did with that 840th session, however, Jane and I are presenting portions of this evening’s delivery in Mass Events because we think they should be published within that framework.

1. In Note 1 for the 840th session I cited an insight we’d recently obtained into the relationship between Jane and Seth, and mentioned how we’re always on the lookout for such clues. [...] Tonight, then, in the deleted portion of the session, Seth gave us insights into his own personality. [...]

Now: I said, in book dictation, I believe (in the 835th session), that the people of Jonestown died of an epidemic of beliefs — or words to that effect. [...]

[...] After discussing several other matters, Seth ended the session at 10:05 P.M. One of those “other matters,” however, led to Note 1.)

I know very well that there were evenings when I “should” have held our regular Seth session, but didn’t, for reasons also forgotten. [...] I knew that on session nights, Rob “lost” his work time on that project, and he still had to type up the latest book session on the following day, while all I had to do was … what? [...]

Many correspondents write, commenting on the dramatic element of the sessions, and surely the entire affair is a richly evocative psychological drama. Most people, however, don’t realize the time or work required to keep up with Seth’s seemingly endless creativity: the sessions to be typed, the various stages of manuscript preparation, or the simple persistence necessary, so that the sessions continue despite life’s normal distractions.

[...] Only the session notes taken by my husband, Robert Butts, tell me what particular daily events we were engaged in during the time of the book’s production. One thing is certain: On session nights I went into trance and, as Seth, dictated these chapters. [...]

[...] My continuing experiences, however, show me that Seth’s personality is stamped upon the sessions and his writings, and perhaps also upon my own consciousness, in unique ways.

(On Thursday, August 12 we received a letter from Dr. Instream that was somewhat puzzling to us; in the letter he did not mention receiving the copy of the 175th session, which we mailed on August 5. The session contained some clairvoyant-telepathic material, presumably referring to Dr. Instream or people he knows, that we were interested in checking out.

I will now close our session. And Ruburt should reread particularly the first portion of the session several times.

(It will be remembered that in the 140th session Seth suggested Jane avoid psychological time for a while, after she had unwittingly gone too far, too fast. [...]

(It was a very hot and humid evening and we held the session in our large front room, where we have a cooler. [...]

(This material is from the 657th session for April 18, 1973.

(11:21.) Now, for both of you: this material (the session) was given so that you could use it to clear up many matters, and also because of course it will help others. [...]

Tonight’s session should be read by you both and put into practice. [...]

There is material in the book that you have not had time to assimilate, but tonight’s session, followed together, will be of great value. [...]

(The “value climate of psychological reality” first mentioned in the [44th] session just quoted, is also dealt with through analogy in the 45th session. Portions of that material are given as Appendix 8 in Volume 1; in that session also Seth stated that “value expansion becomes reincarnation, and evolution and growth.” [...]

(Seth material on evolution is presented twice in the 582nd session for Chapter 20 of Seth Speaks — not only in the session proper, but from an ESP class delivery given a few days later, on April 27, 1971. In class, Seth discussed Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution,⁷ and that material, some of which wasn’t published in the 582nd session is the source for my second group of excerpts:)

3. In this 1964 session, Seth was several years away from any attempt to elaborate upon the vitality that “composes from itself all other phenomena.” [...] See sessions 504–6 in the Appendix of The Seth Material, and the 581st session (held in April 1971) in Chapter 20 of Seth Speaks.

[...] By the time he did so he’d been through with “Unknown” Reality for quite a while, but I was still working on the notes and appendixes for Volume 2. As I wrote Appendix 12 in particular I discussed with Jane the passages on naïve realism; soon afterward Seth began to refer to the subject during scheduled sessions, and one of them contained the excellent information below. (Only one part of that session is quoted, but eventually it will be published in its entirety as part of a Seth book.) Very evocative, to consider how consciousness chooses to manifest itself physically, in direct contradiction to the mechanistic beliefs held so tightly — and with so little humor — by those adhering to Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. From Session 803:)

As a general rule a spontaneous session will be an excellent one. [...] If however you consciously do not want a session, and express yourselves in this direction, then no session would be held.

(Again we held the session in our living room, as we used to do. [...] Jane had no idea of the material for the session before she began speaking, on time. [...]

I would like to make a few remarks concerning such spontaneous sessions as we have had, and particularly concerning our last spontaneous and witnessed session.

There are obviously many occasions when his condition is unusually suited to hold a spontaneous session, but when the emotional climate is not for one reason or another correct, or when other elements, practical ones to you, may prevent a session.

(We had been talking about those subjects just before the session, although I hadn’t planned to refer to them tonight. “Number fifty-eight: Are there any more Laws of the Inner Universe, other than those you gave in the 50th session for May 4, 1964?”)

[...] This would be not only before the sessions began, but before we even suspected such possibilities. The balance of the session is deleted from the record. [...]

(I asked the question because I thought Seth’s answer to number forty-six, in the last session, touched upon one of those propositions: “The Law of Infinite Changeability and Transmutation.” [...]

(To me): Now you early foresaw your part in these sessions, and our work. [...]

(It is January 4 as I begin to type this session from notes. [...] Another checklist will be included at the end of this session.

[...] Before the session she’d made remarks about it being significant. [...] But at first glance I thought a good case could be made for not opening the doors to psychic developments to begin with, going by the contents of this session so far.

(It also seemed that both of us had made the decision to confine the psychic work to sessions only, which I thought would at this time automatically shut down a lot of possible developments. I also felt there was a strong possibility the sessions themselves would go by the board unless Jane showed much improvement before too much more time passed. [...]

(“In its own way tonight’s session is as significant as the first session we had,” Jane said. [...]

The event could have been triggered by my internal perception of just a month ago, the day the 719th session was held. In Note 4 for that session I described how I’d seen myself as a very old man, and made a quick sketch of that vision; I added that the episode had in turn reminded me of observing my father as he lay dying in February 1971, at the age of 81. In the 719th session itself, Seth remarked that the interior view of myself represented “a ‘precognitive’ moment” in my present life that (obviously!) I have yet to encounter.

5. Seth meant his CU’s, or basic units of consciousness, of course, which he discussed in sessions 682–84 in Volume 1. See the 682nd session after 9:47: “These units can indeed appear in several places at once….”

10. See the references in the 718th session to Jane’s “fly experience” of last month — by myself in the opening notes and Note 4, and by Seth near the end of the session.

(The regularly scheduled session for last Monday night was not held so that we could rest.