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[...] Jane said she’d better close out the session.

(Peggy Gallagher visited briefly during the session, to tell me that a camera I wanted to buy was on sale at a certain store.

(Jane called tonight at 9:35, just as I was typing the session.)

(This material is from the 660th session for May 2, 1973.

SESSION 660 (DELETED PORTION)

[...] At 3:30 she started reading yesterday’s session, and did fairly well considering her mood. [...]

[...] After finishing the session, Jane told me now that she’d also been very blue last night, and “really got scared” this morning at the pain in her side, “imagining all sorts of things.” [...]

[...] Besides being excellent advice, I’m citing the quote here because it triggered the opening lines of the session today.)

(4:45 p.m. I read the session to Jane. [...]

(Jane has really made an effort to recognize, study, and follow her impulses since Seth began emphasizing them two sessions ago in Mass Events. [...]

(For example, she spent Monday and Tuesday reading poetry she’d written before the sessions began [in 1963], wondering why she didn’t have the impulse to work on Heroics instead. [...]

[...] Until our sessions began, he followed the official line of consciousness, and though he railed against those precepts he could find no other solution. [...]

[...] See Note 2 for Session 805.)

(Jane and I had a long discussion before the session, etc.)

I told you in our last session that one member of a family could accept the symptoms for the whole family. [...]

[...] Except for our sessions there has been little freshness in your environments because you would find it, both of you now, threatening. [...]

[...] This was the end of the session, although Jane started out to merely take a break.)

[...] Jane had read the last session while she ate. [...]

[...] In one way of speaking you have (in quotes) “not yet” developed the proficiency, with sound that would now allow for the building of structures such as those we described in the last session.

[...] Jane and I would like to hold a session to learn more about this life, including who else we know was involved then, etc. [...]

[...] I’m perfectly willing to continue the session, though.”

(In Monday’s session Seth had started a discussion of Jane’s recent visitor, “Augustus,” who had shown definite signs of a subordinate or secondary personality. As we sat for tonight’s session Jane said, “I know what Seth’s going to call Augustus’s other personality: ‘Augustus Two.’” We were amused, thinking of Seth and Seth Two.¹ Now, Jane began speaking slowly in trance.)

(The session resumed, however, after I had put my notebook aside. [...] I didn’t write down what was said, and as usual ended up wishing I had — perhaps we’ll take the time to recoup it during a session.

[...] In between sessions I don’t feel aware of that usually, though I dream about it sometimes….”

[...] Thus the recorded session ended at 11:51 p.m.

Long before I finished my part of “Unknown” Reality, Seth and Jane had started their next book: The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression. I recorded those sessions, of course, while keeping up with my own work. [...] Yet none of those “outside” events were fully removed from “Unknown” Reality. They found their way into the pages, the sessions, somehow, even if only by feel or inference. [...]

(In the 82nd session, which was held on the evening of August 27, 1964, Seth said: “When man realizes that he, himself, creates his personal and universal environment in concrete terms, then he can begin to create a private and universal environment much superior to the [present] one, that is the result of haphazard and unenlightened constructions.

In one way or another all of Seth’s books are elaborations of that basic message, stated nine months after his sessions with us began in December 1963. [...]

[...] It’s almost impossible to describe the creative frustration I sometimes felt — for no matter how fast I worked to record the sessions themselves, noted our day’s activities, hunted down the references pertinent to a given discussion, I couldn’t truly keep up: Reality kept splashing over the edges of my notes. [...]

[...] Making ready for the session, I discovered that she was quite vehemently going over and expressing [to some extent] what she’d learned today. She didn’t know whether she’d have a session or not. [...]

(We sat for the session to see if it would develop after all.)

[...] The morning material is important, then, and should be appended to the session.

[...] Ruburt does not need to apologize to anyone for his less-than-perfect physical condition, nor feel that his physical lack of mobility—relatively speaking—casts aspersions on the sessions or on our work. [...]

(FOR SESSION 711)

(In the opening notes for the 711th session, I referred to Seth’s deliveries in ESP class on the previous evening, October 8, 1974. [...]

(In that class session Seth had much more to say about the dream city. [...]

[...] There, I hope, you will work at developing skills, in terms of the dream-art scientist (for instance; see Session 700 in Volume 1 of ‘Unknown’ Reality), and learn other professions than the ones you now know.”

[...] I decided to read Seven tonight instead of having a session. [...]

5. Drop work sessions for a while – read once or twice a week.

[...] The delivery of the material per se in our sessions, now, does not basically bother him. [...]

So sometimes you see in such periods he will put off sessions. [...]

When Venice’s friend committed suicide some time ago, this affected him deeply, for a session had been held and it did not stop the suicide. [...]

[...] In one of your own sessions at least encourage him to free associate, to say freely now what comes to mind regarding his feelings about the three Christs, and also ideas of the Anti-Christ. [...]

2. Jane learned on her own some time ago that a very moderate amount of alcohol goes well with the sessions. [...] We think Jane combines the resulting spontaneity with her natural psychic abilities in these sessions. She doesn’t begin tasting any beverage, however, until the session is under way.

(As we sat waiting for the session to begin at 9:20, Jane told me she’d just “picked up” the heading for Chapter Three of Seth’s book: “Telepathy and Belief Gathering” — or “Idea Gathering”; she wasn’t sure which. [...]

[...] I also believe that Jane uses its energy when we hear it in the house during sessions. [...]

SESSION 616, SEPTEMBER 20, 1972
9:28 P.M. WEDNESDAY

(The following material is from the 787th session.

He should read over, however, some old sessions, given on work and spontaneity. [...]

SESSION 787 (DELETED PORTION)

[...] And again, it is a story, and though I have never used this term before, in class or in our sessions, and though I do not want our friend over here in the elegant outfit to become angry with me (to Sue), I will tell you that reincarnation, in its own way, is also a parable. [...]

I hate to tell you this, and I cannot follow through in one evening’s session, but the idea of movement and the idea of time are not at all connected in reality. [...]

ESP CLASS SESSION, MAY 4, 1971
TUESDAY

(Note: Attached to June 23, 1970 ESP Class Session.)

ESP CLASS—FROM AN EARLIER SESSION

(This material is from the 648th session for March 14, 1973.

SESSION 648 (DELETED PORTION)

(The last session, deleted, for June 27, had helped both Jane and me—at least once more we’d started the painful process of searching for insights into our belief systems. [...] For myself, I listed the following before the session, as I’d promised Seth last time I would:

(One important notes I typed this session the next day, Sunday, of course. [...] They still continue “clicking in” as I finish this session, late Sunday afternoon. [...]

(3. More on Jane’s eyes, since I know she’s worried and frightened by that condition of strain, as Seth described it in the last session.

Practically speaking now, all of my suggestions should be followed, given in the last sessions, and they should be read again by each of you. [...]

(In line with doing things differently, no session was held last Saturday night because over the weekend we decided to give up the Monday–Saturday session routine we’ve followed for the last eight months, and return to our original practice of holding sessions on Monday and Wednesday evenings. [...]

(In Note 1 for the 817th session, which was held on January 30, I wrote that Sue Watkins had recently delivered the last of the typed manuscript for Seth’s The Nature of the Psyche. Actually, she had converted my original typed sessions making up Psyche into standard manuscript form for the publisher; I still have to do many of the notes for the book after I finish my work on Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality several months from now.

End of session.

(11:47 P.M. Jane’s delivery for Seth had become even slower toward the end of the session.)

[...] She felt very good after the session. Since these sessions had begun late last year, Jane and I had thought that there must be good reasons why we had taken this apartment, then lived in it for over four years. [...]

(This session was unscheduled. [...]

[...] Jane then stated that she felt Seth’s presence and that we could have a session if we wanted one. [...]

(Our cat Willy had been somewhat active ever since the session began. [...]