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SDPC Introduction Valerie metaphor grief hospital death

‘Oh, sweetheart, if only you were here with me to see this,’ I said aloud to Jane. And as I talked to her I suddenly found myself crying for her again there in the semi-dark night while the wind seethed and roared. Deep wrenching sobs began in my legs and stomach and rose up through my chest. I tried to keep talking to her, but could not. ‘It must be better where you are,’ I finally gasped, ‘but you should see this. It’s so wonderful …’ And as I spoke I intuitively understood that the motion of the wind was an excellent creative metaphor for the motion of Jane’s soul, that its cool feel upon my face could be the physical version of her caring for me ‘from where she is.’ The storm of my grief eased after a while, but the wind and the light rain continued. I dozed. When I woke half an hour later the wind had diminished a great deal. I felt drained. I went into the kitchen for a glass of water. Was Jane’s soul resting from its earlier great commotion, or had she moved away for the moment while exploring other aspects of her new reality that were perhaps out of range to us earthbound creatures? I crawled back into my bag and slept until dawn.

SDPC Part Two: Chapter 11 Cunningham Miss starlings killing Rah

[...] As I stood there, suddenly I “heard” Seth tell me, mentally, that my dream had forseen her condition which would lead to her death.

[...] How do we know it won’t happen to us?” And the comfortable room suddenly seemed a facade. [...]

[...] In a sudden death, however, this can be more upsetting to the personality involved, and since the new materialization is simultaneous, it can lead to confusion. [...]

Suddenly I felt a strong jolt at the top of my skull; the next instant, I found myself standing on the front steps of an ordinary house. [...]

SDPC Part One: Chapter 3 cobbler Sarah village wires bullets

Suddenly, however, I entered a period of intense creative activity, ending a dry spell that had lasted for nearly a year. [...]

[...] As she spoke, she would suddenly stop in the middle of a sentence, begin to hum a tune and then would forget what she had said. [...]

And suddenly I “knew” the answer and saw a dark landscape from above. [...]

Suddenly I started laughing. [...]

SDPC Part Two: Chapter 10 Mark Rob furniture arrangements bookcases

So-called human consciousness did not suddenly appear. Our poor maligned friend, the ape, did not suddenly beat his hairy chest in exultation and cry, ‘I am a man.’ The beginnings of human consciousness, on the other hand, began as soon as multi-cellular groupings began to form in field patterns of a certain complexity.

Rob, wondering where I had gone, suddenly stood beside me. [...]

[...] Several times, flashes of concepts came to me while I was house-cleaning — sudden intrusive patterns of thought accompanied by a feeling of intellectual and emotional illumination. [...]

[...] Jane-Seth began to talk in a very loud and exceptionally vibrant voice, as if an extra charge of energy was suddenly made available. [...]

SDPC Part Two: Chapter 5 enzymes plane saucers Rob mental

[...] “How come all the concern all of a sudden? [...]

[...] It was a terrific change for me to suddenly have to rely on someone else — even Rob — to tell me what “I” had been saying for a period of two or three hours.

(This morning at breakfast I announced suddenly, to Jane’s surprise and my own, that light was a mental enzyme … We started tonight’s session sitting at the board as usual, without asking questions.)

This sort of experience involves a sudden psychic awareness that all boundaries are for practical purposes onlyThere are many kinds of science, however, besides your own. [...]

SDPC Part Two: Chapter 7 camouflage Malba instruments Decatur senses

[...] Suddenly I felt giddy and full of fun, struck again by the incongruity of the whole affair. [...]

[...] In a half hour or so how would I suddenly find myself delivering such off-beat material in a voice that didn’t seem to be my own?

SDPC Part Two: Chapter 9 clock sensation Miss Rob twenty

[...] We hadn’t even told our families.) In the middle of that innocuous evening, Rob suddenly had three experiences that were quite startling at the time and rather frightening. [...]

[...] Suddenly, Seth said,

[...] It was like a sudden opening of a door. [...]

SDPC Part Two: Chapter 6 tree bark Malba Rob midplane

[...] The analogy may not be perfect, far from it, but it is as if your breath were to be suddenly cut offin a manner, this somewhat approximates pain for a tree.