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(The following material is from the 784th session.

End of session. [...]

Since it is late the session is finished—and yet because I am not finished, I will send each of you energy, information and revelations while you are sleeping that will be useful in important ways whether or not you consciously remember them. [...]

SESSION 784 (DELETED PORTION)

(Last night Jane decided to try holding the evening’s regularly scheduled session tonight for a change. [...]

This session will also be brief. [...]

End of session and a fond good evening. [...]

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[...] I didn’t realize until the session was over that this was the second heading Seth had given for Chapter Ten. [...] [See the material near the end of the 637th session.] Resume at 9:52.)

Now: The young man, an assistant to a famous doctor, wrote and requested a session (on November 13, 1972). [...]

[...] The spontaneity of such sessions do indeed seem to present psychiatrists and psychologists with a map of the psyche. [...]

As mentioned earlier (in the 621st session in Chapter Four) there are, simply speaking, two schools of thought in current favor.

[...] The last session, for November 6, has helped me considerably, and I reread it each morning. [...] At the moment I paint in the mornings, with an absolute trust growing out of the last session plus what I know and feel about Framework 2, and that’s it. [...]

(Jane said that she’d felt like having a session several times recently, but that obviously I didn’t since I’d fall asleep on the couch, and so forth. But tonight, when we wanted to have one to get back on the ball, she said she didn’t have any feeling for a session at all.

This session should be of excellent use, really, to both of you—and remembering the playful nature of creativity will help Ruburt get back to his book. [...]

[...] End of session. [...]

(No session was held Monday, since Jane needed to rest. She was very sleepy and relaxed before the session this evening also, but she wanted to hold it. [...]

(Jane told me that had the session continued, Seth was going to say that Patty Middleton’s visit last week had been incipient from the time we met her in Philadelphia, in September, 1970. [...] This confirms my own speculations about the timing of her visit; see the notes prefacing the 573rd session in Chapter Eighteen.

SESSION 574, MARCH 17, 1971,
9:26 P.M. WEDNESDAY

(Jane’s interest in these possibilities began to grow after I described the 570th session in Chapter Seventeen to her — it will be remembered that Seth suggested I do this — and my progress was accelerated through Patty Middleton’s visit a week later, with her information about alpha states.)

(It will be remembered that in the 194th session Seth promised to discuss in the 195th session our cat’s rather frequent if brief bouts of illness. Since this was not done however, I mentioned it to Jane before this evening’s session. [...]

[...] This has come to be something of a characteristic pose for her lately during the sessions; I do not recall seeing Jane ever use it outside of a session.

[...] The worry referred to above concerns Jane’s interest in her ESP book; it took her publisher some time to let her know he was reading it, and as seen in the 195th session Jane finally telephoned the publisher to get the final okay on the book. Many sessions ago, as many as a hundred or more, Seth told us that animal pets would reflect the psychic health and concerns of their owners.

(Many sessions ago also, Seth told me that my Christmas doldrums stemmed from something that happened to me many years ago. [...]

(Tonight’s session was held in our large front room. Jane felt good as session time arrived, and perhaps for this reason Seth spoke at a somewhat slower pace than usual. [...]

[...] It might be noted that during the session, while Jane held the envelope in her hand, my tracing-paper drawing was in the same room with us, although I was unaware of this until after the session. [...]

(A short unscheduled session took place last night, Sunday, February 27, after our guests, the Gallaghers, had left. [...]

[...] She spoke without a break until the session ended. [...]

(No session was held yesterday, Sunday, January 8. However, there are several events from yesterday that I want to summarize here.

(First is my dream of the night before, which I described to Jane in case she had a session and Seth wanted to comment. [...]

(Jane had a good day, although a bit of a problem trying to read the session from the day before. [...]

[...] She tried reading previous sessions, and after taking a break in-between, did manage to get through them, but it wasn’t easy. [...]

(We’ve held only three private, or deleted, sessions since Seth came through with the last regular one [the 885th] almost six weeks ago. I just wish I could present those sessions here, for in them Seth gave us much valuable information—not only about ourselves [including Jane’s somewhat impaired physical condition, her “stiffness”], but about the myriad interchanges occurring constantly between our inner and outer realities, or Frameworks 1 and 2, as he calls them. [...]

[...] Jane and I have watched these effects steadily increase since we held the 885th session. [...]

[...] Jane had also expressed a strong desire for some personal information in the session.)

[...] After giving some material for Jane, Seth ended the session at 10:32 P.M. “I had no idea he was going to do it that way,” Jane said. [...]

Jane felt tired and harried as we sat for the session at about 8:50. She’d just finished reading the last 25 of the 48 fan letters that had arrived from our publisher this noon; she’d wanted a little time to relax and write a few notes before the session. [...]

(10:26 P.M. “Jesus, I was so exhausted before the session, but I really had the feeling that we were getting some good stuff,” Jane said as soon as she was out of trance. She hadn’t taken a break during the session, either. [...]

[...] End of session, and a fond good evening.

First, though, they’re to visit still another member from class who lives in a nearby town: He has tapes of some early class sessions that Jane had forgotten about; copies of the tapes will be made. [...]

(Before the session I had asked Jane if Seth could give me some more data on the art and gallery material begun in the last session. [...]

[...] (In the last session.) This may refer to 72nd Street, and Fifth Avenue.

[...] She said traffic noise had bothered her at the session’s start, until Seth had me turn on the cooler. [...]

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

(Indeed, Jane and I had both been strongly aware that Seth was evidently doing something with respect to time, during the last few sessions. The peculiar thing is that while the session is underway neither of us is aware of any change. [...] Yet during a session Jane while talking steadily, nevertheless pauses often, and I am no longer pressed to write at top speed to keep up with her.

[...] We spent the time remaining before the session was due in discussing the flash Jane had received from Seth, concerning her dream about Miss C., and then in sitting quietly for a few minutes.

[...] The session actually began at 8:55, when Jane rose and began to pace and dictate. [...]

(Jane had asked Miss Callahan about Frank Watts soon after our first session, of December 2/63.)

[...] I feel Seth around but every time I think of having a session I start doing something with motion....” [...] I told her the motion was to come first, since that’s what the sessions were supposed to help her achieve.

[...] Jane did well, reading yesterday’s session aloud. [...]

[...] A minute later she started the session.)

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[...] After lunch she told me that Toni, whom I’d mentioned last session, had discovered a “bladder stone” in her Foley when she emptied it in the middle of the night. [...]

[...] At first Jane had trouble reading yesterday’s session, but did better as she went along. [...]

[...] “That was rather interesting about the minerals,” I said, and read the session to Jane. [...]

[...] Right after the session Jane initiated more leg motions. [...]

The collection will include our family trees; my father’s journals and photographs; Jane’s and my own grade-school, high-school, college, and family data; our youthful creative efforts in writing and painting; the comic books and other commercial artwork I produced; our early published and unpublished short stories; my original notes for the sessions; session transcripts, whether published or unpublished, “regular,” private, or from ESP class; tapes, including those made in class of Jane speaking for Seth and/or singing in Sumari; our notes, dream records, journals, and manuscripts; our sketches and paintings; Jane’s extensive poetry; our business correspondence; books, contracts, and files; newsletters about the Seth material, published in the United States and abroad (independently of Jane and me); the greater number of letters from readers—in short, a mass of material showing how our separate beginnings flowed together and resulted in the production of a joint lifework.

[...] She was quieter than usual through supper, although she said she wanted to hold the session.

NOTE: SESSION 887

SESSION 887, DECEMBER 5, 1979
9:17 P.M. WEDNESDAY

[...] I told Jane before the session tonight that I couldn’t give her much of any sort of answer to her questions about the chants or the Sumari development in general. [...]

[...] I am giving you some highlights this evening, but not having a long session. [...]

The morning session involving the songs led him into a new kind of perceptive experience or trance state, in which he has not been before involved, and that will serve most beneficially in this and other areas and developments in the future.

And you can have private sessions whenever you want, and you can know they are always available.

[...] That adds to the richness of the material, for you bring to the sessions not only your own experience, but the sensed experience of others. [...]

(10.30.) I hope to give you more sessions on the nature of events, in a package, so to speak, though Ruburt will have to be at his best since the concepts are so difficult verbally.

[...] My last session was in a way—in a way—the result of Ruburt’s begrudging decision to “take time out to read the book.” [...]

End of session, unless you have questions.

I had only begun speaking for Seth a few sessions earlier. Before the eighth session, all replies came through the board. [...] The session was held on the evening of January 2, 1964 and lasted three hours. We locked the door and closed the blinds but always left the lights on for the sessions. [...] Here is a brief excerpt from that twelfth session:

I have described those early sessions elsewhere, but here I’m including, instead, a poem that is a dramatic, intuitive statement about my feelings at the time. [...] And it was in the middle of the eighth session that I began to speak for him. Almost from the beginning, however, I did anticipate what the board was going to “say,” and the poem is as valid as any strictly factual statement I could make about those sessions — if not more so.

In the meantime, we held our board sessions twice a week. [...] Often these sessions lasted until midnight. [...] Most of the first ten sessions dealt with reincarnation and included some fascinating material on Rob’s family.

[...] The assassination of JFK took place just after our sessions began. [...]

(Jane and I were both tired by session time. Jane had no idea of what Seth might discuss in the session. [...]

We will now close our session. [...]

[...] She now looked and felt better than she had before the session began.

(Copy of my letter, used as the object in the 70th envelope experiment, in the 285th session for September 12,1966.)

(This is our first regularly scheduled session since July 14. [...]

A building where they have jam sessions is next door, or nearby. [...]

(All of the data in this session is very good, very accurate, incidentally, summing up nicely feelings, intuitions, hunches, etc., that I have had. [...]

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