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[...] She was quieter than usual through supper and up until session time; although she said she wanted to hold the session. I suggested that we could go back to the old session routine of having a break halfway through, thus dividing book material from personal stuff that way, but she didn’t seem to think much of the idea, nor did it develop this evening.

(Even when the session was held, Jane’s delivery as Seth was for the most part rather quiet, comparatively subdued.

(The material that follows is from the 887th session.

Now: We may end up with a spontaneous session now and then, but I am going to close this one—and I do want you to remember creativity, for it can allow you to spontaneously change areas of your life so easily that you wonder it had not been done before. [...]

(I meant to note with yesterday’s session that on Friday I received from Blue Cross four notices of claim denial—for April—July, August and September. [...]

[...] At 4:01 she began reading yesterday’s session. [...]

[...] She did want to have a session. [...]

[...] And I will be glad to add to my comment (in the last session) of yesterday, concerning the ancient roots of the holiday season, if you will remind me later in the week. [...]

(Jane was so uncomfortable from the hot and humid weather last night that she didn’t hold the regularly scheduled session. [...] She promised a “short session” for this evening. [...]

[...] He began the session very quietly, and took many pauses, including a number of long ones, as the session progressed.)

[...] I was almost chilly in my cutoffs as we sat for the session at 8:30. [...]

End of session, with one point: These changes in Ruburt’s body are as magical as any precognitive dream in that regard. [...]

We cannot have a session until dawn. [...] You have, you know, done well with Ruburt since our last sessions. [...]

(Jane was ready for the session at 8:45, so we sat for it in our bedroom for extra privacy. [...]

(See the deleted session for July 19, 1972. [...]

—and we will begin part two of this evening’s session. [...]

(Usually, Jane said, she “forgets” as soon as the session is over, whether or not she had images while holding it; unless I ask specifically. Jane said that when she has images they seem so natural to her during the session that she doesn’t think of mentioning them later—they are on the way out as soon as the session is over.

[...] (Pause, one of many.) Ruburt need not worry that he has missed a few regular sessions. He has been exercising spontaneity, and paradoxically enough it is upon spontaneity that the regularity of our sessions depends. [...]

[...] I told Jane she needn’t have a session, but she was willing enough if Seth decided to. [...]

(Jane has had two recent, excellent and long sessions for her ESP class however, featuring both Seth and Seth II, and including new material.)

5. Seth’s concept of the moment point is implicit in his material as I quote it in Note 1 for this session. Also see the 514th session in Chapter 2 of Seth Speaks, and the 668th session in Chapter 19 of Personal Reality.

[...] She woke up often, and at such times was relieved to discover that she hadn’t been holding a session that I wasn’t recording. As it was, she laughed, the material was still “safe” — we’d get it at a regular session.

1. In several of the sessions he delivered in 1970–71 for Seth Speaks, Seth explained how atoms and molecules phase in and out of our physical system. See especially the 567th session in Chapter 16: “Now the same sort of behavior occurs on a deep, basic, secret and unexplored psychological level.” [...]

Since Seth mentioned predictions in connection with the photograph, this is a good time to present a few of the things he said in an earlier session about his own ability to predict, and about the subject in general. [...] From the 234th session for February 16, 1966:

[...] When I asked her why the session ended if both seemed able to continue, Jane paused, then said: “I know why we ended it.” She continued, that it was because the same intense focus was partially used in the session tonight as in the last two sessions; Seth didn’t want her to overdo it, just to get used to it. [...]

(See the last two sessions.) There are various ways in which Ruburt’s abilities can be used, and various purposes they can serve, according to circumstances and conditions. [...]

[...] (Seth promised to do this last session.) I prefer we wait a short time, since our friend is only too willing to return and speak his own piece, and Ruburt has had sufficient experience for a fortnight.

Though he does not understand what he does, he is learning control at other layers of consciousness, and he will be able to utilize his abilities far better in our sessions and in other experiments. [...]

[...] So once again I’d seen it happen: Jane had done very well with a session when she’d felt poorly beforehand. Although her voice had remained muted, her delivery had increased in vigor and emphasis as the session progressed. It was as though she’d acquired an infusion of energy from Seth—yet once the session was over she announced that she wanted to go to bed.)

[...] We didn’t hold our regularly scheduled session last night because we felt so miserable. [...]

[...] I suppose I’ll try to have a session tonight, if my voice holds out. [...]

Tonight’s session isn’t book dictation, but the large portions of it I’m presenting convey useful insights into our social behavior and social health—and as I show in Note 1, those states can include our interactions with animals.

(See the 9th, 15th, 17th, 69th and 80th sessions for material on our York Beach experiences. I believe that above Seth refers to the first three named sessions. These deal with events involving Jane and me at York Beach in August of 1963, preceding the beginning of these sessions by several months.

[...] The tests in the sessions have not bothered him at all to any important degree, except for a natural initial nervousness, and all in all we have been coming along well enough. [...] Of course he may make suggestions as he reads the sessions, but that is all.

(I had planned to ask Seth a few questions at the end of the session. [...] For material connected with the first question, see my notes on Lorraine Shafer, York Beach, and Dr. Instream on pages 289-90, preceding the 193rd session.

I suggest that you hold this question until our next session, as Ruburt is tired this evening because of his concentration upon the work which I have mentioned. [...] I will answer specifically at our next session.

(Jane remained seated, and spoke with her eyes closed, for the entire session. [...]

I see that we are holding two sessions in succession. [...]

[...] The matter of the physical body will simply be used in other gestalts, in the manner that I have explained in earlier sessions.

(Seth had something to say about psychic remembrance of earthly phenomenon as long ago as the 9th session, December 18,1963. [...]

[...] She decided to go back to reading yesterday’s session instead, though. [...] She kept going through the session, however, with an occasional nudge from me. [...]

[...] It is vitally important, I said, and her continuing improvement has the power to solve our other challenges, as I noted once some time ago in a session. [...]

[...] This morning I’d reread his brief passages in the session for December 3, in which he’d noted that the affair would be settled to our satisfaction. [...]

[...] She started to read yesterday’s session when Andrew Fife called at 3:12. [...]

(Jane had no special questions, beyond saying she hoped Seth would continue with material on Frameworks 1 and 2. She was very relaxed, and expressed qualifications about having s session; she did want to try, though.

(Before the session we discussed the one séance we’ve ever tried, and which is described in Chapter 3 of The Seth Material. [...]

(Once again I note that Jane’s physical improvements continue as described in recent sessions. [...]

[...] Jane now felt so relaxed that she didn’t know whether she could continue the session, or would even want to. [...]

[...] It will be remembered that Seth dealt with her husband’s financial activities in some detail in the 229th session. Seth has also called Marian an excellent telepathic receiver, and has dealt with some of her experiences, concerning the death of her husband’s father, in past sessions. See the notes on page 248; and the 100th and 101st sessions in Volume 3, for example.

(This reminds me that on page 58 of the 206th session, Seth briefly described what he usually “sees” of us, or any witnesses, during a session. Unless he narrows his focus and concentration to concentrate upon the present individual during a session, Seth told us he sees a composite image, an energy reality that is composed of past personalities, and in many cases also of future personalities that will be adopted by the inner self.)

[...] In the 212th session for November 29,1965 Seth discussed various measurements that could be taken from Jane just before, during, and after sessions by a doctor. Father Martin was a doctor before entering the religious life; he knows of the sessions but has not witnessed any or read the material. [...]

(The 34th envelope experiment was held during the session. [...]

My dear friends, I hesitate as always to end a session; and again, I could go on for hours. I promised you our party session and we will have it before long. [...] My regards are with you both, and with my usual deep regret I will end the session. [...]

I did not find it of much real purpose to give reviews during our sessions, particularly since new witnesses will come. There will have to be some method, and I leave this up to you, Joseph, some method of filling witnesses in on previous sessions. [...]

As far as witnesses are concerned, and as far as the wife is concerned, I would suggest that you meet upon another evening, when a session is not due to begin with, and leave the matter to Ruburt. [...] Nevertheless, the overall personality is what matters, and since Ruburt delivers the sessions I will leave the matter to him.

[...] Jim T’s thought was that his wife could take shorthand notes of the sessions. Since she was quite young, Jim T was also concerned about her interest in the sessions, since she had not had time to develop an interest in ESP.

[...] By the time session time approached Jane said she was too hot and tired to feel nervous, or anything else. [...]

[...] She maintained these qualities all through the session.)

I see that we are going to have a quiet session.

In all likelihood our sessions in this house are drawing to a close, but the house itself will be healthier for future inhabitants than it was before you came.

(We were most anxious to have a session Wednesday, as scheduled, to check the findings. We had company however at the last minute, so put off the session for a day.)

Now, my dear Joseph… You have also been jealous of Ruburt’s part in our sessions, and at times highly resentful, particularly of the attention he received when others were present. In the overall however while you were delighted on the one hand to have the sessions, you were jealous of the part Ruburt played.

As far as the sessions were concerned, he felt for some time that you demanded them, and on the other hand resented his part in them. You were also pleased with the sessions on quite another level, and on this level honestly accepted Ruburt’s part in them, although you still wished this part were played by yourself.

(On July 3 and July 5th, I held long pendulum sessions, trying to learn what subconscious role I have been playing in Jane’s symptoms. [...]

(4th Question: What’s that connection about a session? “Our sessions were discussed, or the item is closely connected to one used previously in our sessions.” See the interpretation of the session data on page 22. [...] The object for the 67th experiment was also a postcard, used August 29 in the 281st session, and was sent to us by Leonard Yaudes, who also lives in our apartment house. [...]

Our sessions were discussed, or the item is closely connected to one used previously in our sessions.

(“A connection with a session.” [...] Barbara, as well as her boyfriend Dick, played a strong emotional part in the envelope data for the 68th experiment, of August 29, 281st session.

[...] The teacher data above may refer to the 67th envelope experiment in the 279th session; for in that session the object was a postcard sent to us by Leonard Yaudes, who is a teacher.

[...] I also bought her three kinds of underclothes to try … Before the session we spent an hour or so watching the Democratic National Convention in New York City. We saw the first session, in which the Carter forces, who wanted a “closed” convention, defeated the Kennedy forces, who wanted an “open” convention.

There have been numerous fascinating bits of evidence in your own lives, apart from these sessions, though certainly to some extent stimulated by the knowledge you gain in the sessions. [...]

(9:56 P.M. As soon as she was out of trance I told Jane the session was an excellent one. [...] I’ve experienced these phenomena often in personal sessions, and each time end up resolving to do better next time — to see more clearly, to do all of those things that will easily and effortlessly bring the desired results. [...]

[...] We had a lively and beneficial discussion because of our feelings, though, so all in all the session is a very good one³. I want to arrange my approach to Seth’s latest book, Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment, so that I can quote part of this session in a note.)

(The session was a quiet one and was held in our small back room. Jane spoke while sitting down, with her eyes closed and in a rather rapid manner, throughout the session. [...] This manifestation reminded me somewhat of the deeper voice effect Jane showed in the 172nd session. In that session Seth stated that it would become natural and easy for Jane to speak in that manner.)

(When Jane began to speak again she was lying down; she had stretched out to relax for a moment after the regular session. [...] She had briefly used a prone position once before, in the unscheduled 129th session, witnessed by Judy and Lee Wright. [...]

(On the evening of August 5, Thursday, Jane and I mailed Dr. Instream a copy of the 175th session, held August 4,1965, and asked him to check the telepathic/clairvoyant information on pages 176-77. [...]

[...] See also the notes at the beginning of the 173rd session.

(So much has happened since the last private session was held a month ago [on May 7] that I told Jane tonight that I’d make no attempt to summarize it all here. Suffice it to note that, as I also told her as we sat for this session, that these last few sessions may be “the last gasp” before we seek outside help, or are forced to. [...]

(Jane had thought she might not be able to have a session tonight, but she began to feel Seth around soon after I began writing these notes, at about 7:30. She did well in the session, if rather slowly, but at the same time I became more upset and frustrated as Seth spoke.)

(Jane’s symptoms, especially her walking ability, have become much worse since the last private session was held—so much so that all of a sudden it seems to be a question of how much longer she can continue to make it to the john here in the house. [...]

(Jane now spends much time afraid that she won’t be able to manipulate in the john, so it seems that now is the time to go on to other modes of help than our own and Seth’s, I said—unless these last few sessions can help, unless they can add an understanding and/or stimulus that will bring her some relief. [...]