Session 381: When Furniture Fights Back and Spirits Get Severe
Pull up a chair—preferably one that isn’t planning a rebellion—because we are diving into a night where the laws of physics took a coffee break. Session 381 recorded on November 24, 1967 wasn't just a chat with a ghost; it was a full-contact paranormal event involving a very stressed-out three-legged table.
The Warm-Up: Gravity is Just a Suggestion
Before the main event on the 24th, there was a "warm-up" session on Wednesday, November 22. Jane, Rob, and two college students, Claire and Carl, decided to indulge in some table tipping. This wasn't your grandma's seance; this table was doing Irish jigs on command and playing tag.
- The Invisible Force: The group experienced a pressure so thick it felt like "two magnets repelling each other."
- The Weight of the Spirit: Being college students, they did the most logical thing: they got a bathroom scale. Carl measured a staggering 70 to 90 pounds of upward pressure coming from the table.
- A A Joins the Party: Jane identified the "inhabitant" of the table as "A A," who was more than happy to show off.
The Main Event: The Night the Table Died
Fast forward to Friday, November 24. The room was packed with twelve people, including skeptics, friends, and a lot of high-octane mental energy. Things got rowdy fast.
- The Breaking Point: While two guests, Bill and Pat, were putting all their muscle into leveling the table, the energy hit a "palpable peak of mental and physical excitement."
- Furniture Fatality: The table couldn't take the cosmic tug-of-war. The top split, a leg was torn clean off the pedestal, and a two-inch nail was bent at a 90-degree angle.
- Seth’s Dramatic Entrance: Shortly after the table crashed, Seth decided it was the perfect time to drop in. He wasn't exactly in a "party mood." Rob described him as "deadly serious" and "unmercifully" blunt.
Insights from the "Old Man"
Seth used the shattered table as a metaphor for the untapped power sitting in the room.
- On Reality: Seth didn't mince words: "The physical universe is as unpredictable as the behavior of that table. I come to you as a complete stranger... but you are not strangers to me."
- On Personal Responsibility: He called out a "Jesuit" (Bill) for using flippancy to avoid his own abilities, stating, "It does you no good to smile. It is yourself with whom you must become friendly and yourself you must face."
- Who is A A?: Seth revealed that the table’s "ghost," A A, was Alexander Anare, a lawyer who died in 1906. He was part of a psychic study group in Cleveland and really liked "the manipulation of physical matter."
Predictions and Past Lives
Seth didn't stop at philosophy; he started dropping specific data points like a cosmic investigator:
- The 1970 Crisis: He predicted a "severe crisis" for a guest named Danny by 1970 involving people with the initials A L and F W.
- Medical Intuition: He corrected a guest named Dick on his birth year (1939 vs 1938), then diagnosed a circulatory issue in his extremities and a minor problem in the fourth vertebra.
- Carl’s History: During a second brief appearance, Seth revealed Carl was once a Roman woman in Germany (Acri-la) with five children, and later a merchant in Bordeaux in 1826.
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Session 367 ~ 373, 375, 377 ~ 380, and 384 ~ 387 are not included in Book 8 of The Early Sessions. These sessions were deleted from the record because they contained highly personal materials. Some of the sessions are published in "The Personal Sessions".
