[...] She drank some water, remarking that as far as she could remember this was the first time she had ever so interrupted a session. Without checking each session, I agree.

[...] I will leave him in it, and close this short but most fruitful session. Wednesday’s session however will be a long and compact one. [...]

We will return to our regular sessions, and to a continuation of our discussions. You will both be better off however for this evening’s session, and I think you will notice an assured, calm, yet sure increase in Ruburt’s energies. [...]

[...] The upshot of all this was that by session time we had about decided to sign the contact.

(As noted at the end of the last session, I had two questions for Seth:

[...] As given in some old sessions, certain difficulties began when Ruburt tried to make his creativity fit the conventional work patterns. [...]

[...] The entire issue, however, involving both questions, I would like to save for our next session. [...]

Your own ideas suited your temperament, but many of them did not particularly suit Ruburt’s. Again, I will elaborate on all of this at our next session.

The session should be read carefully, and the sessions given to trust of the body emphasized, now, instead of, say, the work sessions—again for now.

(Questions had begun to accumulate since last Wednesday’s session, of course, and I made notes on a few of them. [...] It stemmed from his material in the session for June 5, when he said that “letting go” could have its frightening aspects for Jane, especially when she relied on such actions to improve her physical abilities like walking. [...]

[...] The material on variety is rather important, and also is connected with the fact that I suggested he forget the work sessions for a while. It is quite effective to read such sessions regularly, then to drop them for a week or so for other material, and go back to them. [...]

(No session was held Monday evening; we worked late instead, and did so on Tuesday night also. [...]

(At 3:40 Jane began reading yesterday’s session, and did very well indeed — her best yet with speed, and with both eyes open, whereas she usually has to close one or the other. [...] “Maybe your doing so well today is an outcome of the session for yesterday,” I said. [...] She was also eager to have a session today, and began it early.)

(Jane called early — before 9:00 p.m., as I was getting ready to type this session. An insight concerning my questions about the role of diseases came to me after supper, before I began typing this session, and I want to note it for possible future discussion. [...]

[...] She had been interrupted twice during her delivery: once to have her temperature taken — 98.7 — and once to be given vitamin C. I read the session to her. [...]

(“You’re talking about outside the sessions themselves.”)

[...] If he thought you looked tired, or at all reproachful or worried or bothered on a session night, he would feel that you did not really want to have a session. But he would cover this up, and if you were not out there with your notebook, he took this as a sign that you really did not want a session. [...]

[...] This session is prefaced with my notes of two pendulum sessions I held with myself. [...]

[...] The answers given by your pendulum also apply to my book, and to some (underlined) of our missed sessions in general. While you vigorously upheld the sessions, he still felt that to some extent, again, their success would undermine you.

(This is the regularly scheduled session for February 10, 1971. [...]

[...] See the last session. [...] If I indicated her pauses as in the last session, their frequency would mar the text.)

(See Volume 2, page 5 in the 43rd session for a brief explanation of the hand phenomenon. Also the 43rd and 47th sessions.

In our past sessions I have explained time distortions, and you are familiar with the spacious present. [...]

(See the 41st session for material on the spacious present.)

(See Jane’s account of her dream of this rooming, attached to this session. She thinks it’s very important, and Seth comments on it at the close of the session.

(At 8:20 PM Jane called and asked whether she should have a session—she couldn’t make up her mind. [...] “So I should have the session because it’s my responsibility to do it,” she said. [...]

(At 9 PM I was thinking of telling Jane to forget the session when she remarked, “I almost feel him around.” I don’t think we’ve ever “abandoned” a session once we sat for it, but was willing to do it if need be. [...]

(I’m still typing yesterday afternoon’s session. [...]

(John Bradley attended this session; most of the session contains material relating to him. [...]

Now, you shall celebrate with a Seth session. [...]

(Handwritten: “See Notes" Jane wrote after I typed the session.

(Jane’s handwritten note: “May 1968—John, in rereading a copy of this session, saw at once that the boy referred to as M J is M.J. Shuman—a child whose influence on his son he distrusts. [...]

(Jane was very relaxed before the session — and for a better understanding of her special kind of relaxation, see the opening notes for the 829th session.)

2. See Note 3 for Session 802, and Note 2 for Session 805.

3. After this session, I was rather surprised when Jane told me that the Jonestown tragedy was an emotionally charged subject for her, and that Seth knew it. [...] See Seth’s material on evolution and fundamentalism in Session 829.

Chapter 6 — headings as given last time (in Session 834).

[...] When I asked her if she wanted to have a session she said she would try, and let Seth make the decision as to whether she continued. [...]

[...] They will also be indirectly a help in our sessions.

This will be a brief session, incidentally, for rather obvious reasons. [...]

We will have a full session Wednesday.

[...] These sessions are fun. [...] So no session should be held because of a sense of responsibility.

(This material is from the 695th session for May 6 1974.

[...] Jane has had many welcome signs of improvement within the last week or two; I thought it best that she continue doing her own thing that way, with help from Seth at the end of the regular sessions.)

SESSION 695 (DELETED PORTION)

[...] She said, regarding her leg pain, that when she got it just before the session she felt like crying, but didn’t want to interrupt the session. [...]

(As Seth, Jane referred now to the Sumari language session we held on Wednesday, December 1, in place of the regular session. [...]

Now our sessions have always involved methods of perception, and the translation of inner experience. The sessions themselves deal with experiences that are basically not verbal but must be physically translated. [...]

(This material is deleted from the 599th session for December 8, 1971.)

(After holding a session on November 10, 1982, Jane went eleven months before her next one on October 9, 1983. [...] Now, starting at 4:00, I read her portions of some of the sessions she’d held since resuming them in October. [...] Jane did say that she wanted to have a session. [...]

(Pause at 4:27.) Reading some of the earlier sessions of this sequence also serves to remind you both of the progress that has taken place since those sessions began (on October 9, 1983), and therefore invite even newer improvements.

[...] Jane began reading yesterday’s session, and did quite well — better than yesterday. [...]

(4:29 p.m. I read the session to Jane. [...]

[...] She began reading yesterday’s session, not too easily — then quit at 3:20 for a cigarette. [...] I also gave myself the suggestions Seth had outlined in the session for January 19, concerning my eyes when they aren’t seeing as sharply as I know they can. [...]

(To help reinforce positive attitudes about the great days of change that are coming, I read aloud to Jane the personal parts of the sessions from January 13 to date. [...] It’s easy to let a good point slip away as the sessions pile up day after day — but those bits of information can always be retrieved through review. [...]

[...] Jane did much better now when she went back to reading the session. [...]

(Jane said she’d have the session early, so I could watch the Super Bowl, which was to begin at 4:30, but I said it didn’t matter all that much. [...]

(By “the other day,” Jane actually referred to the half hour just before the 686th session last Wednesday night, when she produced the dictation given in Appendix 5 [but also see Appendix 4, for the 685th session].

[...] Her material, however, wasn’t influenced by the news story, for just about a year ago Seth-Jane delivered a session for Personal Reality on the mixing of animal and man: the 648th for March 14, 1973, in Chapter 12. I’d say that this evening Jane elaborated upon that session — especially upon the impressions she gave then during the 11:30 break, on “animal doctors … a bridge between animals and human beings.” [...]

(FOR SESSION 687)

[...] We were both tired, but I wondered if this could turn out to be an episode like the one she’d experienced before the last session, when she dictated material on the various neurological actions, or speeds, that she sensed. [...]

During our next session I will go into this much more thoroughly, for the matter is not only interesting but extremely informative, and we shall spend a good part of our next session dealing with it.

(John Bradley, who has witnessed several sessions, was a visitor this afternoon but not a witness this evening.

(Again Jane delivered the material for the session while sitting down, and with her eyes closed. [...]

(For some material on the fifth dimension, see the 12th session in Volume 1.)

(Before the session this evening I wondered what effects Seth might be able to demonstrate, on a consistent basis, if a candle were lit just before each session, as a matter of routine, and then ignored as much as possible. The idea being that if it became part of the regular session routine Jane would forget about it, thus allowing any possible effects to come through without worrying about them. [...] When we were set up for the session, I placed a lighted candle on the shelf beside me, behind some books so that Jane could not see it. [...]

[...] We have now obtained a written detailed report on Peggy Gallagher’s trip to Washington, as compared to Seth’s material on Peggy in the last two sessions. [...] The material will be incorporated in a very early session, along with the material on the Gallagher’s Puerto Rico vacation of last October. I am leading up to the statement that Peggy detected a very clear example of bleeding through of data in the 214th session. [...] See Session 214.

[...] See my notes prior to the 206th session, pages 57-58. Both of these sessions were witnessed. [...]

(The 21st envelope test was held during the session. [...]

(Going back to the end of our stay-at-home vacation, on June 25 Seth-Jane began delivering a series of 10 sessions that we held on Monday and Saturday evenings for a change, instead of following our usual Monday-Wednesday routine. We finally decided to classify these sessions as private, or at least as not being work for Mass Events. [...] This realization brought up questions we’ve encountered before: Which sessions apply to a particular project, and which ones don’t? [...] We know that Seth will specify a given number of sessions for this book, for instance, yet we keep the freedom to consider adding other material.

(First, after holding session 805 we took a six-week break from sessions of any kind. [...] We had plenty of other things to do: I was still occupied daily with writing notes and appendixes for Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality; on June 4 Jane received the page proofs for Cézanne, and began correcting them for the printer; on the 14th of the month “our” contractor began converting half of our garage into a writing room for Jane, and adding a large back porch [see the end of Note 2 for Session 801]. [...]

(This 806th session is such an example. [...] For clarification, I also keep this in mind: Seth isn’t physical, as he defines himself, and that “energy personality essence” seemingly isn’t all that focused on the passage of time — as we are — yet way back in the 14th session for January 8, 1964, he told us that time “is therefore still a reality of some kind to me.” [...]

(This is the first session for Mass Events since the last one, obviously — but with an 11-week gap between the two. [...]

(I’m typing this session on May 23, 1985. [...] I think it’s the first time I ever skipped typing a session that way.

(How strange — here I am, typing another session from my notes, when I thought that part of my life was over — that I’d never have another session to type. [...]

(5:00 p.m. “Don’t be worried — I’m not going to go on with the session, but as he said, you always go back and change the past from the present — your focus point, you know — I know what he’s going to say next …” I said she was welcome to resume the session.

[...] In my original notes I had noted that today’s “session material was quite unexpected.”

(The following material is from the 789th session.

[...] End of session, unless you have questions.

End of session.

SESSION 789 (DELETED PORTION)