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(The session, brief as it was, gave me an odd surge of hope—because of the news involving Sheri and healing, and because I hadn’t expected the session. [...]

[...] Evidently her body needs this kind of rest, what with the increased movements and so forth; I haven’t tried to get her to have sessions, thinking the obvious greater relaxation is more important, no matter how much I would like to get more information from Seth. [...]

(Tonight, then, I was quite surprised when Jane roused herself enough to tell me that she wanted to have a session, no matter how brief it was. [...]

[...] I took it to mean that more effort was required for the session, or at least that her current physical situation resulted in a changed delivery. [...]

(Since holding last Wednesday’s 872nd book session, Jane has given two more sessions. [...]

(“I’ll tell you one thing,” she said as we sat for tonight’s session, “I don’t have an idea in my head…. [...] Nevertheless, we knew that Seth would soon finish Mass Events; he’s been very neatly summing it up in recent sessions.

(Over two years ago, in Note 2 for Session 801, and in the opening notes for Session 805, I described our decision to add the writing room to the house. [...]

End of session. [...]

10:20 P.M. I told Jane that the session is excellent. [...] “Anyhow, I feel better after the session than I did before it.

“But tonight I had the feeling after the session that it’s a real full one—that I really got to the heart of something,” Jane added. [...] The last session didn’t give me that feeling, but when I read it, it was fine….”)

[...] She wrote it on November 7, 1979, almost a month before delivering Session 886 for Chapter 2 of Dreams (in Volume 1) on December 3. I suggest that in connection with the poem the reader review the opening paragraphs of that session.

[...] The time of the great masters in the fields of painting and sculpture is a case in point (humorously and louder)—so you see, I am getting to one of your favorite questions,² and we will continue the discussion at our next session.

[...] He began this in the 800th session for April 4, 1977, following my questions noted in the 796th session for March 3, 1977. Seth does discuss the question tonight, and rather than break up this session by making it half regular and half deleted, I’ve inserted the proper notes in the 796th and 800th sessions to refer the reader to this deleted session. [...]

One more remark: you may take a session night if you want to, to review these sessions. [...]

[...] “I’m scared,” she said as we sat for the session.

(2. I repeated to her the question I’d come up with about Dialogues at the end of the last deleted session. [...]

(Just before the session Jane told me that Seth could give us what she called The Christ Book at any time. In last Monday’s deleted session Seth had included a section on Jerusalem, which I’ve included in the records as the 678th session for September 3, 1973. [...]

We will begin with personal material, and the continuation of your own sessions. [...]

Either take a break or get our friend a beer, or both, but the session is important....

[...] There has been some improvement physically however since we began the latest group of sessions; but spasmodic.

(Shortly before the session I showed Jane copies I had made of material Seth gave very early in 1964—just after the sessions began; the nine Inner Senses, taking up nine typed pages, and the eleven Basic Laws of the Inner Universe, taking up seven typed pages.

(I did this because in the last session Seth said he would resume his discussion of theoretical material at any point we chose. [...]

(She began speaking in trance as usual however; her start was late because of her lethargy; she “hung around” a bit waiting to see if a session would be held. [...]

[...] (Jane briefly picked up the material mentioned before the start of the session.) Since you are naturally interested in your own physical system, we will deal thoroughly with the methods by which reality turns itself into camouflage. [...]

(The last two regularly scheduled sessions due, for Wednesday, August 17 and Monday, August 22, were not held because of my own illness.

(In the 278th session for Monday, August 8,1966, Seth said: “An event in a week and a half, that will be beneficial for you both.” [...]

[...] And again, your purposes will be served if you make a habit in our sessions of asking me to check into immediate probabilities as far as health is concerned.

We will have a short session if you prefer, for your convenience.

(I explained to her, as we waited for the session to begin, my dilemma about Note 6 for Appendix 22—my feeling of time wasted after I’d spent a couple of days writing it very carefully—only to have it fall apart at the last moment because I’d forgotten to deal with one crucial point. [...]

[...] Ruburt should read our last session particularly, once or twice a week, for it will reinforce your pendulum work.

[...] Trust your nature, and then you will see that what you consider mistakes are simply insights that come out of place, so to speak, and that has to do with your remarks before the session.

I am closing the session early. [...]

[...] As I said in the notes for the deleted session of January 3, 1972, the script appears to be “The Sacred Script of Regulations.” Seth changed the word regulations to covenant, however, in the January 3, 1972 session.)

(The session was held in apartment 4, across the hall from our living room. [...]

[...] Any time you want to record a session and have it typed up, then I will deal with recordable material.

[...] We have been having some deleted sessions lately also.)

(My two pendulum sessions, and Jane’s responses to the second one, are referred to in the next session.)

(This is the regularly-scheduled session for Feb 3, 1971. [...]

[...] The remarks Ruburt made just before session are all pertinent.

[...] The repression of fears was latched onto for the reasons given in a recent session—the habitual syndrome—do you recall?

I will shortly begin to divide our sessions between personal material and other kinds. I want to commend you both, however, for utilizing the material in these later sessions, and I remind you to follow your own lists in the sessions.

(Much damage resulted in Elmira from the storm described in last Saturday’s deleted session. [...]

(Jane said her eyes were feeling much better, although “full of moisture,” and that the copying work she did on James, following Seth’s suggestions in the last session, went well. [...]

(Today had been probably the hottest of the year—well into the nineties —although as we made ready for the session the temperature had dropped to some degree.)

[...] I told Jane the session was very good. [...] The thoughts stemmed from my rather somber mood before the session. But the session was very good, I saw, and at the same time I felt a renewed hope.)

(I’ve finished typing last Monday’s session, and have 5 pages done on Tuesday’s, so were in good shape now with only Wednesday’s to do. Each morning after breakfast I read a session to Jane. [...]

[...] Jane was also a bit depressed after reading my notes for Monday’s and Tuesday’s sessions, although she already knew their contents.

(She called me for the session at about 8 PM, although it was later than that before I was seated opposite her and starting on these notes. [...]

[...] No matter what her feelings may have been before tonight’s session began, Jane’s pace and delivery had been much more animated and energetic than it usually has lately. [...] Evidently it had been inspired by our conversation after the last deleted session, about Seth’s material on animal-man and man-animal. [...]

This will be another brief session. The reason for the brief sessions, relatively speaking, has to do with the exercise of the jaw areas, which is being executed in precisely the best fashion, but not being overdone.

[...] Once again she felt somewhat disoriented, and once again I suggested that she forego the session. [...]

—and a few remarks to clear up some issues in our last session.

[...] “I didn’t feel too much with it before the session,” she said. “Maybe I got tired this afternoon, working on the Intro for ‘Unknown.’ I’ve had messages from Seth the last few days about the book stuff for the session tonight, but what we got doesn’t fit any of them…. [...]

[...] See, for example, Note 2 for Session 801, and the opening notes for sessions 804 and 821.

(With many pauses:) Dictation: The physical universe is the result of idea construction, as Ruburt perceived in the experience mentioned in the last session (at 11:10).

End of session, unless you have questions.

Thus, I opened up several years ago to ask Rick to publish the nine volumes of The Early Sessions through his New Awareness Network, Inc. And now, I open up even more to his publication of The Personal Sessions series. As this group of sessions slowly accumulated, often as “deleted” or unpublished portions of “regular” sessions, Jane and I took it for granted that since they were personal they would stay that way. Every session is obviously personal, since Jane delivered them all, but now I’m encouraging the overall intimacy of these personal sessions to seek their own intimate freedom—and of course I know that doing this will not only help others, but me too.

Apart from my questions and speculations, I think it significant that Jane had waited until she had produced the first 207 sessions of the Seth material, over a period of a year and 11 months, before she really began to allow Seth to come through with outright personal material about her—as if first the two had to learn to know each other that well by bridging not only space but our historical or camouflage time. This opening volume of The Personal Sessions begins with an excerpt from Session 208, on November 15, 1965. During the nearly two years before that there were very sporadic mentions by Seth about Jane’s challenges, usually occurring as brief interludes that we deleted from the published sessions. Of course, neither one of us ever considered the possibility that many years later these personal sessions would be published.

[...] When I finish these volumes of personal sessions I’ll be publishing with Rick Stack’s New Awareness Network the transcripts of many of those always hilarious, incredibly active, crowded and loud meetings: full of Seth sessions, member dialogues and repartees and questions that erupted in those weekly classes that Jane held in our apartment’s small living room. [...] Usually on class night, Tuesday, I was secluded in my studio at the back of our second-floor apartment, typing from my notes the session Jane had held for the two of us the night before; then I’d be caught up for the Wednesday-night session to come.

Yet every so often in this series I’ll be including sessions that are also of more outgoing subject matter—more like the sessions in Jane’s published Seth books. Later volumes of The Personal Sessions will also include a whole book that Jane delivered for me on the great l7th-Century Dutch artist Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn. [...]

(Jane said she wanted to have a session even though it was getting late. She also said she wanted to read over some of the later sessions: “Because I need them.” [...]

[...] Jane started to read yesterday’s session. [...]

(“Do you want to answer my question from the session yesterday, about the reason for the kitten in Jane’s experience?”)

[...] I reread the session to her after supper. [...]

[...] Jane started reading yesterday’s session while I did mail. [...] Jane went back to reading the session — still not good.

[...] I finished reading yesterday’s session to Jane.)

— and I can really only restate yesterday’s session.

(4:33 p.m. I read the session to Jane. [...]

SESSION 702 (DELETED SESSION)

(The following material is from the 702nd session.

[...] So reassure him as per this session, and as much as possible have him concentrate upon other things.

(Heartily:)End of session.

(The second half of the session was held for Alma Priestley, of Clearwater, Florida. [...] Before the session Jane reread an earlier letter from Alma Priestley, and the carbon of her answering letter in June, 1971.)

(The first part of the session was held for Al and Gertrude Laux of Columbia Crossroads, Pennsylvania. [...]

(In all the sessions Jane has given, this is but the third time that Seth has referred to past-life connections involving historical figures. [...]

SESSION 607

Jane held Session 900 for Chapter 5 of Dreams, in Volume 1, some 20 months ago. In Note 1 for that session I described a most vivid dream experience—one in which, Seth told me in the session itself, I had viewed the many-faceted light of my own being and of the universe. [...]

Jane’s delivery for Seth was hardly fast this evening, but still she paced the session quite a bit more rapidly than she had the one for last Tuesday night. [...]

(After giving a few paragraphs of personal material for Jane, Seth then ended the session at 9:47 P.M.)

NOTES: SESSION 937