(The following material is from the 727th session.

My last private session applies strongly.

[...] That is the end of the session. [...]

SESSION 727 (DELETED PORTION)

[...] Despite the sessions held now and then to help particular persons, and despite their incidents of extrasensory perception, the sessions remain focused primarily on the material. It is here we feel that the real significance of the sessions rests.

This session ran fourteen typewritten pages, and is so of one piece that it’s difficult to give excerpts, without including a good bit of background information. Here are portions of the last half of the session. [...]

Dr. Barnard was kind enough to write a letter to the publishers of this present book, giving his opinions and mentioning that session (Number 303). (More than this, he let me use his real name, rather than hiding behind a pseudonym.) In his letter he said: In the session “I chose topics of conversation which were clearly of tolerable interest to Seth and considerable interest to me, and which by that time I had every reason to believe were largely foreign territory to Jane. [...]

Our Monday and Wednesday sessions, where Seth develops the theoretical material, are still private, although a guest may drop in occasionally. Seth sometimes does hold a session for my ESP students on class night, and in class he deals with the practical application of the material.

On a more personal level, Jane herself naturally aborted a three-month-old fetus, less than a year after our marriage in 1954 (and nine years before she initiated these sessions). [...] He did remark some time ago in a private session that the miscarriage spontaneously came about because the personality inhabiting the fetus “changed its mind,” and withdrew from the physical world. [...]

(As we lay in bed after last Monday’s session, Jane told me: “I’ve got it — from Seth, I think: A really complete astrological chart would have to include not only the time of your birth, but that of your death.” [...]

(This evening, Jane had many thoughts and images before the session got under way. [...]

[...] Jane got up and walked around the living room, where we were holding the session. [...]

Now, the love that binds you all is a close, sometimes open… (words missed again)…that which is too much for him at this time… (and again.)… This sort of session is not primarily to tell you what you should do, Stephen. [...] The purpose of such a session is instead to help you develop, to grow in self-confidence and strength through making your own decisions.

I think there will be some time for such a joint session. However during our sessions I will look in on you from time to time, though I do not believe you will be aware of it.

[...] The session was recorded. [...]

There is much that you do not know regarding this kind of session, and the means to which it may be put. [...]

3. A note added five months later: For some of Seth’s early remarks about time, see the excerpts from the 14th session (for January 8, 1964) in Chapter 4 of The Seth Material. I quoted a few lines from the same session midway through the Introductory Notes for Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality (as well as after the 724th session in Volume 2), and considered some thoughts about our attempts to grasp Seth’s concept of simultaneous time. [...]

2. Two weeks after this session was held I added “[mental]” to Seth’s term, “the true physicist,” because he does refer to “mental physicists” in the next three sessions.

[...] See Note 4 for Session 681, and Note 4 for Session 688.)

(I finished typing last Wednesday night’s session after supper this evening; in fact, Jane just had time to read it before we sat for this one at 8:50.

(After this evening’s session, however, we decided we’d like to know why in Seth’s view Atlantis had moved from its long, if uneasy residence in our “historical past” forward into a future probable reality. We resolved to ask him to explain — but strangely enough, I note later, a month passed before we got around to a session on the subject. [...] Now I refer the reader to Note 11 for quotations from the session, the 747th, in question.)

[...] Early in that appendix, then, see the quotations from the 580th session for Chapter 20 of Seth Speaks, and from the 634th session for Chapter 8 of Personal Reality.

4. See Note 1 for Session 739, and Note 11 for Session 740.

11. I found it quite difficult to extract from the 747th session the material I wanted for this note on Atlantis, so interwound is it with closely related information on early man and animal kingdoms, the expanding-universe theory, archaeology, Jane’s other work, All That Is, and so forth. (Some of those topics have been discussed in earlier sessions or notes, but no such references are given here, nor is any new backup material offered.)

(We really wanted this session, although at 7:30 PM Jane was so far out of it that I didn’t know whether she’d make it or not. She said she’d try, and I hoped the session would come about.

[...] Jane is really bothered, though, and we trust that Seth was correct in the last session when he said this phase of Jane’s symptoms would soon pass. [...]

(Now here is a brief chronology pertaining to Jane’s symptoms from last Saturday, the day after the last session was held:

[...] We thought this added feeling of sensation might be the result of the last couple of sessions especially. [...]

(Bill Macdonnel witnessed the session. [...]

(Resume session 10:12.)

[...] Mark has been wanting to attend a session, and Ruburt did not encourage him. [...]

Now you may take a break, or end the session, as you wish.

[...] After a cigarette, and my doing some mail, Jane started reading yesterday’s long session, which I’d finished typing at about 10:30 last night. Before I went to the john I helped her hold the session papers on the left edge with her left hand—something I’ve been hoping she would become able to do, since it would add to her independence in reading. [...] This feat enabled her to bring the session closer to her eyes, so that she didn’t have to read with it propped up against her knee—she held the papers where she wanted them. [...]

(Jane read fairly well, and held several of the pages of the session in the same manner. [...]

(By 3:50, when she was reading the last two pages of the session, Jane said that already her holding the pages that way was almost automatic, though by the time she finishes a page her left hand is beginning to get tired. [...]

[...] I worked on mail and watched parts of a football game and an old Humphrey Bogart movie until Jane said she’d have a short session. [...]

(The following material is from the 792nd session.

[...] Try to follow the last suggestions I gave (in the deleted session for January 10, 1977) still more faithfully. [...]

End of session—and a fond good evening to you both—

SESSION 792 (DELETED PORTION)

(This material is from the 656th session for April 16, 1973.

[...] My words for Ruburt are enclosed within the session. [...]

Have Ruburt read this session well. [...]

SESSION 656 (DELETED PORTION)

[...] Jane started reading yesterday’s session, but didn’t do very well. [...]

[...] She finished the session, with my help. [...]

[...] No session or exercises yet. [...]

[...] I finally asked her if she wanted to have a session. [...]

[...] I was surprised that Seth suggested a break—a rarity in the sessions these days. [...] She was giving the session while sitting in her wheeled office chair. At that time of night she wasn’t about to use her typing table as a support while she “walked” from the living room, where we were having the session, around the room divider and out into the kitchen to get her smokes; instead she remained in her chair and maneuvered herself along with her feet. I told her the session is excellent. [...]

[...] [That total includes Mass Events, God of Jane, and the poetry book, all of which are yet to be issued.] In the private session for September 22—one of his series on the magical approach to life—Seth had told us that our work is “protected.” [...]

[...] Because of that relationship, this session fits very well into Dreams even though it’s not book dictation.)

[...] The mind’s powers are far greater than those generally assigned to rational thought alone, as per our last (private) sessions. [...]

Usually in these sessions only one inner sense is in strong operation, but as I mentioned in our last session, man does not trust anything which occurs to him or in him unless he is consciously aware of what he is doing, how he is doing it, and why. It bothers Ruburt, as he has said in my hearing, that often-times just before we begin our session formally he does not have a thought in his head. [...]

At another time we will have sessions dealing with evolution, and in these sessions we will cover the advent of clock time and its many ramifications. [...]

[...] The sessions had been very beneficial, giving me several days of freedom from pain after each session.)

[...] Then we began to sit quietly in preparation for the session. [...]

[...] But at lunch she told me she wouldn’t be surprised if we had a short session this evening. [...]

[...] Throughout the brief session her voice was normal and her pace slow. [...]

[...] This is not to be considered a regular session. [...]

[...] This short session would not even be necessary except that I was not sure if you would consider the suggestion as legitimate if I did not give it in a normal manner, or should I say a formal manner.

(Tonight Jane and I had another rather long discussion before the session, as before the last session, and once again our talk proved to be very beneficial. [...]

We will close the session. It is however a fact that I am so a part of him during sessions, that makes him doubt my independent existence. [...]

[...] The session itself therefore is an indication of his progress.

[...] I am so a part of him during sessions you see (smile), that he cannot observe me or my presence, and this is a source of irritation to him. [...]

[...] Since the first session on Seth’s book (the 679th) was held — and before we knew it was a book — I’ve been getting material on it in my sleep after each session. I’ve also done this on a few nights when sessions weren’t held. [...]

(As she often has following recent sessions, after the 685th session Jane discovered herself delivering Seth material in the sleep state. [...]

(FOR SESSION 685)

(Here in the last paragraph, then, is a pertinent clue, and one that Jane arrived at without asking Seth: She’s experienced such translation challenges often since beginning “Unknown” Reality — hence her talk before many of these sessions [from the 679th on] about attaining that “certain clear focus,” or “the one clearest place in consciousness,” before she began speaking for Seth.

[...] This actually represented the end of the session. It was one of the most difficult sessions I ever recorded; I told Jane that by its end I was barely able to write Seth’s words legibly. [...] As soon as Seth mentioned her feelings of inferiority at the beginning of the session, it was all downhill for me; I thought we’d done a reasonable job on encountering those with our pendulum work, but it seemed that they were still as present and active as ever. [...]

(No session was held on Monday night. [...] JP is to send us a transcript of the session, as well as an advance copy of his interview..

(I missed having Monday’s session delayed, since I had a couple of questions for Seth. [...]

(Before the session I explained that I didn’t think feelings of hopelessness had much to do with it, since if the background fears were dispensed with the body would automatically right itself, and those feelings would vanish. [...]

(See the 424th session of July 29, and the discarnate Van Elver’s suggestion that I not use sepia—Seth pronounces it say-pia—with too heavy a hand. This was one of the questions I asked tonight before the session.

(The evening was again very hot and humid, and Jane had been bothered by such conditions all day; but she wanted to hold the session as usual. [...]

(Long pause.) This session needs reading many times, for there are implications not at first obvious. [...]

[...] It is a good idea to read the questions before sessions, and when I have answers I will give them to you.

(Jane felt very relaxed before the session, as she had most of the day: “The first day I’ve had it made in a month,” she said. [...] She did want to have a session, though. After our meal I’d reread some of these late private sessions, and had planned to go over some of those from 1973, but various distractions prevented me from doing the latter. [...]

(As we sat waiting I read to Jane pages 4 and 5 of the private session for October 22, 1973—excellent material concerning the contrasts displayed by Jane’s parents. [...] The session and others dating from that time offers very good insights into Jane’s choice of actions over the years. [...]

Ruburt should read that session (for October 22, 1973) and ones immediately previous. [...]

[...] The sessions on work discuss the relaxation and work aspects thoroughly, and should not be forgotten. [...]