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SESSION 561, NOVEMBER 25, 1970,
9:55 P.M. WEDNESDAY

(Just as the session was about to begin at 9:15, Jane said she thought we’d be interrupted somehow, or have visitors. Not fifteen seconds later there was a knock at the door. It was Carl Jones. He teaches a high school course called “Inner and Outer Space,” in a small city in Connecticut; the class uses Jane’s book, The Seth Material, as text. Carl was on his way to a destination near Niagara Falls, New York, for the Thanksgiving holidays.)

(Another break followed. During it Carl left, to continue his holiday journey westward…. I had grown concerned lately that Jane was overdoing weekend psychic work, including sessions for visitors. We talked about this now — without expecting Seth to discuss it — and agreed that she’d have to slack off on such extracurricular adventures, no matter how interesting the “provocation.”

Now: I have something to say. Your suggestion about weekends is a good one, and Ruburt is prepared to follow it. When you are having regular sessions, an occasional visitor will not annoy you, but such visits should be known in advance.

Now I suggest that our regular sessions for a while be held in one of your back rooms, (where my studio is), for two reasons. You will know the phone will not interrupt you, with both doors closed. Simply ignore it. Let it be known that anyone who wants to attend private sessions must then arrange so in advance. Otherwise you would not hear them at the door.

The back room idea, however, will serve to reinforce the private nature of the sessions in your own minds. All work dealing with other people generally will be done in whatever room class sessions are held.

The idea of the back room will also serve as a psychological set for withdrawal from ordinary physical concerns and relationships with others. I am not saying that you should not allow certain specific individuals at times to attend private sessions. I am now stressing, however, that the two regular sessions should be held, and I am saying this now knowing that Ruburt is able and willing to follow my suggestions.

In the summertime the rooms in the back may or may not be beneficial. There were natural changes occurring in our work, and overall Ruburt has done well in handling them. The unevenness in the timing of our sessions was a result of the fact that often three regular sessions were being expected from him, rather than two.

Often spontaneously we had class sessions, and as you noticed he would miss our next session. He thought that two sessions were quite enough. Our regular sessions will always be the primary source of the material, and the stress will always be laid upon them. Nevertheless, the class sessions serve an important purpose. They are a subsidiary or offshoot, but they are not meant to supersede our own work.

At no time for now, and until I say so, should over three sessions a week be held. Now it may seem to you that it is merely a matter of my not being available if I think Ruburt should not have an extra session. (I don’t think this at all.) Remember, however, what I told you much earlier. Sometimes I am very directly concerned in a session, and sometimes you get a session that has been programmed. This is putting it very simply, but you know what I mean.

So, using the psychological bridge at such times, Ruburt can have a session. I have made what I think clear and specific. Now: Work he does with impressions is an entirely different thing. He is not pulling in the same kind of energy. It is not a matter of a session taking something out of Ruburt. It is a matter of tuning into the kind of energy that he does in our sessions, and simply because of present circumstances and development, three times a week is sufficient.

Our two sessions should always be maintained, with the class sessions added as long as they do not drain Ruburt’s resources. The phone should not be answered, however. Strangers who write can be invited to the Tuesday classes. On certain occasions, using your own discretions, you may have guests at our sessions, but these will be very occasional, and will not be a problem if you follow the procedure I have outlined.

We will end the session, or take a break then as you prefer.

(11:30. This wasn’t the end of the session after all. Seth returned after a short break, and we had a discussion about class sessions and other things that lasted until 11:50 P.M.

(Seth did make a prediction: Jane will write an excellent book about the class sessions, and this will lead many to read the regular Seth material. Seth added that the material itself, in session format, will be published in its entirety one day. This is a personal goal of mine.)