[...] Before the session I’d torn a page from the New York Times for June 22, 1977. [...] I attached the ad to this session, but lost the ad later.

(The session started much later than usual Saturday night, since we slept too late during our nap. [...]

[...] I gave up on the session. [...]

(As we sat for the session on Sunday night, I read last night’s material to Jane. [...]

(Jane wanted Seth to discuss her panic feelings tonight, although she didn’t seem overly enthusiastic about a session either. When Debbie showed up and the time approached 9 PM, I thought Jane might choose to pass up the session after all. [...] Jane agreed, saying DJ was ready to leave, and we held the session after all.)

End of session. [...] End of session unless you have an important question (elaborately.

(Jane didn’t feel particularly like having a session last night, and the time just passed without our holding one.

(Debbie Janney visited unannounced for an hour after supper—all the time Jane would give her—hence the later start for the session. [...]

(The day after the last session I wrote down a question for Seth. [...] I had the question partly because of something she’d said herself before the last session—and which I’ve now forgotten—and partly because I didn’t believe that most people were able to deal with such procedures in their daily lives. [...]

End of session. I bid you a fond good evening—and again, remind you that session events are also taking place at other levels of activity. [...]

[...] I read it to her as we sat for tonight’s session, and she agreed it was a good one.)

(“I don’t really feel like a session,” she said at 8:20. [...]

(4:57 p.m. I read the session to Jane while she had a smoke. “There’s a lot to think of — that’s a powerful session,” she said. [...]

(It’s hardly a coincidence, then, that one of the questions I had for Seth today, and had added to yesterday’s session, concerned her right leg and why she wasn’t straightening it out. [...]

[...] At 3:15 she began reading yesterday’s session, and did well, her best in some days. [...]

(I explained to Jane my mental saying, “Sorry, Mom, but I don’t have time any more for your shaky beliefs or ideas,” as it had spontaneously grown out of Seth’s comments about why my right hand is shaky, in a recent session. [...]

[...] This would be a sign of the spontaneous change Seth mentioned in a late session. Then the day after this session was held, Frank returned at noon with literature on what stove units are available, prices, et cetera, so the discussion proceeded further.)

(I for one think the session of great benefit. [...] Seth’s insights in the session carry further the various hints and clues I’ve uncovered by using the pendulum at different times—in a not very efficient way, I’m afraid, considering how much the situation has bothered. [...]

(“Home, sex, power, you and the driveway, hay fever, the impulsive selves that we were talking about earlier tonight”—these are all words dictated to me by Jane abruptly as we sat waiting for the session to begin. [...]

[...] Then Jane dictated the words quoted above, saying Seth would probably cover them in tonight’s session. [...]

[...] I was most interested tonight as Seth discussed the implications of the letter, along with two thoughts Jane had picked up from him a week ago Monday, on the day she held the 915th session: “Alone, reason finally becomes unreasonable. [...] I wrote in the closing note for the session that I was disappointed because Seth hadn’t brought up those two points in the session itself.)

(No session was held Monday night so we could rest. [...] However, this evening she thought of having a short session.

[...] Now Jane delivered some material for us, then ended the session at 9:57 P.M.)

SESSION 917, MAY 21, 1980
8:49 P.M. WEDNESDAY

(We’d postponed last night’s regularly scheduled session until Thursday because Jane had a dental problem [relining,] to resolve—but then tonight after supper she decided to have a session now “because you don’t know what might happen tomorrow....”)

To some extent tonight’s relatively brief session should remove senses of urgency on your parts, or of self-criticism, that make you question when or how can you “learn to make” the magical approach work in any specific way—that is, why can you not learn to make the approach work in, say, helping Ruburt’s condition in a faster, more effective fashion? [...]

(Now very slowly—that is, with many long pauses until the end of the session, eyes closed often:)

End of session and a fond good evening (smile again). [...]

I do not know if Ruburt is less nervous before a session when you do not use the board, or more nervous. After so many sessions I would think that he would be reassured.

One of these nights Ruburt will get his because I will alternate a few sessions of regular material with a few sessions having to do with his present family.

(Again this session took place without the board. [...]

(Jane’s voice during delivery tonight was a little stronger than usual throughout the session. [...]

[...] She ended the session on a note of heavy humor. She was now quite tired, and remarked that for the state she was in at the start of the session she had to be “out, all the way,” to be able to give any session at all. [...]

(At 8:50 this evening Jane had no idea of the material for the session tonight. She was very tired, in fact more so than I knew, and secretly she hoped for a short session. [...]

[...] Although she had been very tired before the session began, she reported that she now felt fine. My writing hand felt no fatigue as yet, although it had been a rather fast session so far.

(In line with the material of the last session, Jane had been studying her dream notebook with renewed respect, and I had resolved to begin one without yet doing anything about it. [...]

(As soon as Seth mentioned Jane’s “deeply mystical nature” in the 679th session, I thought of some personal material he’d given us six months earlier. I’ve slightly rearranged excerpts from that session for presentation here:)

(FOR SESSION 679)

[...] I wrote the first tentative notes for it shortly after the 679th session was held, in February, 1974, with the idea of adding to them later if necessary. [...]

[...] So that expression would come through poetry also with its “psychedelic” experience, regardless of specific sessions….

(See the 361st session for August 16, 1967. Above, Seth refers to the brief session Jane held in the coffee shop of the Paramount Hotel in New York City, for Raymond Van Over of the Parapsychology Foundation. In this little session she spoke with Seth “just below the surface” in a crowded room, without attracting attention, and delivered for Raymond Van Over some excellent data which he verified on the spot. This was her first experience with this type of session. [...]

(The following manner of delivery was a new one in the sessions. [...] There seemed to be an actual effort involved in her speaking—something quite foreign to the sessions. [...]

(Peggy Gallagher witnessed the session. [...]

[...] There has been a change in our sessions. [...]

(Rewritten November/2000: The vision grew out of Seth’s saying in the deleted 382nd session, on November 27/67, that I’d do well-known painting of Bill Gallagher. [...] See session 584 in Seth Speaks, held on May 3/71.)

[...] We more than made up for missed sessions by the recent developments. [...]

[...] In a very recent session Seth told Jane to send the manuscript to a publisher beginning with an L or V. The book had already been rejected by Viking, the only V in her index of publishers. [...]

You may take a break or end the session. [...]

[...] This also has to do in our own private sessions, with Ruburt’s slowness and difficulty getting out of the chair—to show you that he is paying for the success of the sessions.

(This material is deleted from the 580th Session for April 12, 1971. [...]

[...] You may take a break, or end the session as you prefer.

[...] This is a humorous reference to my putting a new seat in Jane’s favorite Kennedy rocker—her session chair, etc.

(Jane had no idea of the material for the session as time for it approached, but she was not nervous as she was last session. [...]

(Many sessions ago Seth stated he did not like the term, astral body, but said nothing else about it. See the 40th session, [in Volume 1].)

[...] Certainly the sessions are not as long as they used to be. [...]

[...] Some of our past sessions, particularly those explaining the initial appearance of matter, will set you clear, and you will see that the explanations I gave you then would have to involve such elementary telepathic communication between cells.

In the foregoing chapters, I have taken excerpts from many sessions in order to present Seth’s views on various topics. This appendix is included for those readers who would like a more complete look at individual sessions, and a clearer idea of the way in which the material was originally given.

For this reason I’ve chosen three full, though brief, sessions, and portions of several consecutive recent ones. This presentation shows Seth’s way of weaving one subject through another as he inserts new discussions and information while building on past sessions, and points up his method of using Rob’s and my own daily experiences as a launching pad for his own material.

The evening’s material has come to a natural breaking-off point, but we have also reached some subjects that we have not discussed in previous sessions, and tonight’s session can serve as a preparation for later information. [...]

[...] In one session, Seth discusses Jung’s concept of the unconscious. [...]

[...] These feelings lingered throughout the day, though they seemed to be about gone at session time. [...] We didn’t discuss the dreams or the crying experience, or even read a session after breakfast. [...] She plans to type them for this session.

[...] Jane called me at 8 PM for the session. [...]

[...] Copies of them are attached to this session. [...]

(I’m caught up typing last week’s sessions. [...]

[...] I got a few things done, missed out on some others, and Jane did a few exercises and had a little session. [...]

[...] I called from 330 at 4:01, during Jane’s break in the session, and again failed to make any meaningful contact. [...]

(After eating a good lunch, Jane tried reading yesterday’s session aloud—and did quite well—much better than she did yesterday, of course. [...]

(Earlier she’d told me that she was both disappointed and impatient with her progress since we’d started this group of sessions on October 9. She’d wanted her decubiti healed in a week, she said, and to be sitting on the edge of the bed by now. [...]

(Louder, and in answer to our talk earlier:) I am quite willing to hold as many sessions a week as suits your fancies. A point: I told you that the sessions must be fun—that is, creative, exploratory, and as free as possible – and, I add, not only for you but for me as well. [...] End of session. [...]

(The following material is from the 855th session.

(I told Jane that I’d long given up trying to hammer out my next writing project, as Seth had mentioned I was trying to do in one of these recent deleted sessions. [...]

SESSION 855 (DELETED PORTION)

Our next scheduled Seth session was for the following Monday — another day high in the 90s, and I found myself anticipatory and hopeful: Would Seth discuss some of those issues? I felt again that an entire new “package” of session material was coming our way — and I wanted to be able to put it to practical use. See the second session, with an edited version of Rob’s notes, deleting only highly personal material.

[...] So we were back at the sessions again. [...]

[...] And that somehow the Seth sessions were as natural and right as the summer evening.

¹See note 4 about Mary, in Session Three. [...]

Now: a brief-enough session.

[...] My last session in particular mentions those issues. [...]

Last week’s session should be read often by both of you, so that you make certain leaps toward emotional comprehensions that you need.

(10:00 P.M. “I almost have that sickly feeling I get after some sessions,” Jane said.