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(After supper Jane took a nap. After the nap she still felt drowsy. She mentioned this to me, but I had no real intimation that she was in anything but a very relaxed state. I suggested she have coffee, which she did. Jane also wanted to hold the session. She had no idea of the material to be covered.

(Once again she spoke sitting down and with her eyes closed during the whole delivery. She used some pauses; I will try a new method of indicating them where they occur in the text. Her voice was very quiet, yet clear. She did not wear her glasses.)

I would have thought that my friend Ruburt would have realized what he was about.

The book which Ruburt has been reading tended to turn him inward. (Pause.) He is becoming fairly proficient now in the use of the trance state, and in its controls. However, so slowly did he slip into a semitrance state that he did not realize what had happened. His energy today was turned inward more than it was turned outward.

The slight but perceivable feeling of lightness in his hands could have given him notice of this fact. The situation began as he completed his psychological time experiment this morning, and has continued. He was neither wholly oriented to the inner world nor to the outer, and therefore was not efficient in either.

The symptoms of such a semitrance state include the sleepiness and drugged feeling with which he was afflicted; though these were only mildly disagreeable, they should be taken as signs that orientation is inefficient. The lightness of the hands is another such symptom. That is, these symptoms, noticed when the individual is supposed to be going about his normal physically-oriented day, can then be taken as a sign that the personality does not have all of his energies properly directed for the case at hand.

The state into which Ruburt fell as a rule allows no such focus in either reality, but a suspension. It is necessary only as a transition. I will again suggest that for the present psychological time experiments be carried on once a day. There is no reason to give further time to it, in the evening, at this time. This is aimed at Ruburt. We want contrast. (Pause.) This transitionary stage is rather difficult to perceive. He was beginning to wonder himself, and since it is his first real experience with it as an isolated state, it is understandable that he did not recognize it for what it is.

(Break at 9:30. Jane was dissociated as usual. She reported she understood the gist of what she was saying, whereas usually she has little or no idea.

(She told me that after taking her nap after supper she began to get “suspicious,” especially so when she became aware of her light hands. She was going to tell me about it, but then decided she didn’t know what to say. But she felt “disconnected,” and recalled her psychological time experience of the morning, in which she felt “separated.” See page 248.

(End at 9:48. Jane was dissociated as usual. She was surprised at the quick ending to the session; she had hoped Seth would discuss other material also. She now felt much better, but did not care about going for a walk. However we went for one together, and before the evening was through she was her old self.)