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(Pat could offer no confirmation concerning H B. Pat also said that two women were in her honors class when she played the tape; one of these being a Radcliffe student teacher. Pat also played the tape for a girl friend of hers outside of school: Ellen Tabb, and Ellen’s friend, Adrian, a male. This makes a total of three women and one male who have heard the tapes besides Pat, whereas Seth names two men and a woman.

(Pat is due to visit us briefly on her way to her home in Pittsburgh, PA, on Saturday, April 15. On March 25th, she recorded the 329th session, with the intent of playing the tape for her honors class in high school. She has written us since then that the tape has been played. Seth had delivered an excellent lecture to the class, in two parts. See Volume 7.)

(Nor, evidently, is Seth referring to the two adults sitting in on the class the day the tape was played. Although he states that “Others have heard it,” my interpretation is that this reference is to Ellen Tabb and Adrian. This interpretation results in one man and one woman hearing the tape, versus Seth’s mentioning of two men and a woman.)

(“How did the tape of the 329th session for go over for Pat Norelli’s class in Boston?”

(Recently Jane was told that a complete set of class tapes, with transcripts was being offered by someone on the West Coast for around $255.00 for 55 of them—$5.00 or thereabouts a tape. [...] We think the quality of the tapes must be very poor. [...]

[...] The tapes are not artistically produced. They are not tapes of quality in that regard. They are tapes of quality in another regard, and they cannot be reproduced forever.

[...] If you wanted to make money from the tapes, you could have. If they make money from the tapes, you do not make less.

(“How about those people selling those tapes? [...]

(Jane had been much surprised at hearing her voice, as Seth, as it was taped Monday, July 19, for Dr. Instream. [...] She also was uneasy in that she felt Seth was too harsh at times; she worried about the reception Dr. Instream would give the tape, since Seth spoke in no uncertain terms. I thought that Dr. Instream’s reception would be perfectly fine, and that in this tape Seth, and Jane, had made their points just as they wanted to.

[...] I worked until almost 9 PM transcribing notes from Monday’s taped session, then upon reconsidering told Jane it was okay with me if she wanted a session. [...]

(The session came about after Jane had played portions of the tape of the 170th session for the group. This is the tape containing the strong voice effects and was recorded for Dr. Instream. [...] Playing the tape was an attempt to answer some of their questions, and in this Jane and I were following Seth’s advice of the 246th session. [...]

[...] Seth came through after some of the stronger voice effects on the tape had been played. The stage had been set through conversation and the use of the tape, and I thought Seth made his appearance with the subconscious permission of Jane and me. [...]

(Jane later said that she was sure she hadn’t had too much to drink, and that she had become very upset over company behavior while the tape was being played, etc. [...]

[...] Afterward we played the tape of the psychic reading a friend had sent us last September. The tape was a copy, and the quality terrible — so bad we couldn’t understand it all. [...]

[...] We thought the tape contained a number of negative suggestions, though how one deals with physical troubles without sounding negative at times may be a problem in itself. [...] Obviously, we didn’t want to use the tape before.

(Some of the material from the tape is good, other parts not good — some right, some wrong, as might be expected. [...]

(Another approach we want to try is to play the tape a friend had sent us several months ago — a reading by someone whom he considers gifted psychically. Jane is now ready to listen to the tape, and so am I. Last night I couldn’t find the tape, but now I did, just before beginning to type this session. So tomorrow I take the tape and recorder in to 330.

[...] Afterward Jane, Shirley Bickford—one of Jane’s ESP class members - and I listened to the tape of ESP class, made last night. The tape contained some of the Sumari chants Jane has been giving in class recently. [...]

[...] Let us begin with the voices, the tape.

First of all, before we get to the meaning or import of the tapes, let me say that Ruburt is learning to handle energy in other fashions. [...]

[...] Our tape was almost exhausted and so it was not recorded. Seth also stated he did not care particularly to have it on tape, or have notes taken. [...] I joked with him about the voice display, and he responded with another which was both stronger and longer-lasting than the one on tape here. [...]

(We had indicated to Dr. Instream last week that we would record a session upon returning home, and ship him the tape for his own use. [...] There follows the little talk Jane gave on tape before the actual session began:

[...] I made a brief announcement of this on the tape. I also announced the times of breaks on the tape. [...]

(I did not know exactly how many feet of tape were left on our recorder, due to inexperience, yet saw that the session would have to end before too long or we would run out of tape first. [...]

Jane didn’t tape this new Sumari, though—which we regretted—for she wasn’t able to get out of her chair to hunt for her recorder; I was too charmed just listening to her sing to think of a tape. [...]

(To our surprise, we received the tape of the 170th session back from Dr. Instream on July 29th, Thursday. [...] No letter accompanied the tape. We noticed the tape had been transferred to a new reel, so took it for granted that Dr. Instream had played the tape, as stated by Seth in the 173rd session of July 28th. [...]

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.

[...] To make this possible, we’ll be transferring copies of many of our papers and tapes to the library while keeping the originals with us to work with during our lifetimes. [...]

[...] Others are to duplicate tapes and photographs for us.

[...] The session resulted after the stage had been set earlier in the evening, through Jane’s playing the tape recently received from the Murtough family in Chula Vista, CA; and, afterward, her playing part of the tape made some time ago for Dr. Instream.

“Imagine the whole self as composed of some master tape. [...] Each one represents a portion of the whole self, each existing in a different dimension, yet all a part of the whole self [or tape]. You see it would be ridiculous to say that Mono One on your tape was any more or less valid than Mono Two. [...]

[...] This amounts to a bleed-through, and I use the term purposely, for your tape recorder can be used as an analogy.

[...] The tape is the element common to all channels. [...]

[...] We are not dealing with anything as simple as a recorder, of course, for our tapes [selves] are constantly changing. [...]

[...] It involved her efforts in getting the tape made, and the two manuscripts in question, ready for the mail. [...] Jane called her publisher on February 8, as noted in the envelope material in the 234th session, then hurried to get the scripts and tape ready for the mail on February 10. A variety of incidents were involved while Jane made the tape recording of the poems, etc.

[...] Jane said this probably referred to the tape recording that was mailed along with the manuscripts. The tape was one Jane made reading some of the poems for her publisher. [...]

(The important development for Jane was making the tape, and sending in the script on the Seth material. [...]

[...] I found out differently when I turned her on her left side after the session: For it turned out that she’d been lying upon a roll of tape that someone—Georgia or Phyllis, probably—had left lying on the bed when they changed her dressings this morning. [...]

(She wanted to be turned on her side at 4:25, in an unusual request for her—and that’s when I found the roll of tape that had been so aggravating since 1:10 PM. [...]

When the time is right, and it will be, you will have no need to worry about tapes, for example, and the process will be easy, natural, and right.

[...] Events happen in a circular fashion, and to that degree tapes that would satisfy you both, and me, are already being made.

Imagine the whole self as composed of some master tape. [...] We will give our master tape numberless channels.

Each channel will represent a portion of the self, each one existing in a different dimension, and yet all part of the whole self, or the whole tape. [...]

[...] The tape is the element common to all the channels. [...]

[...] We are not dealing however with anything as simple as a mechanical recorder, for our tapes, in analogy, are constantly changing.

(Jane played a tape of the Sumari session she and Rob had during the week. Sumari came through to explain the tape, then Seth spoke.)

[...] [Referring to noise of the tape recorder.])

[...] Now I certainly hope that you have that down on tape. [...]

[...] What Ruburt has in mind—and generally—this includes the ideas that you have given, Joseph, in the taped material—those procedures are indeed paying off. [...]

From its owner Jane and I borrowed the one incomplete class tape that had been made. [...] While Jane had been straining to compress a long syllable into something recognizable, the tape picked up little except distracting background noises: class people coughing, or moving about or shuffling papers; the sounds of traffic … But Jane and I take class events as they come. Otherwise we’d be continually involved in note-taking, making tapes, and so forth.

[...] I seldom take notes in class or use a tape recorder, preferring to be free to engage in the class’s spontaneous development. Usually quite a few people will tape a class, yet last night it happened that only two did so. [...]

Now for the unfortunate results I mentioned near the beginning of this note: Of the two cassette tape recorders that had been operated by class members last night, one malfunctioned throughout the evening, unknown to its owner, and so recorded no class material at all. The other recorder’s tape snapped just before Jane finally succeeded in consistently uniting Seth’s slow, or long, reality with the accelerated version we ordinarily hear. [...]