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(On November 4, 1964, Jane unwittingly achieved a trance state, during psychological time, that lasted for several hours. See the 103rd session. On February 8, 1965, through a combination of reading certain material and another psy-time experiment, she again put herself into a dissociated state. Seth called this one a semi-trance. See the 130th session.

(Today Jane again achieved a prolonged state that was begun during a psy-time experiment. She usually tries her experiments from 11:30 to 12:00 noon; today when I arrived home at 12:15, she mentioned that her hands felt light. This is a sign Seth said to be alert for, in the 130th session. As we ate lunch Jane finally admitted that somehow she had failed to snap out of the desired state at the regular end of her psy-time period.

(The state had lifted after supper. Both of us wanted to hold the session in order to learn what had happened. Jane felt she had unwittingly given herself improper suggestions during the experiment. She had also achieved a good state yesterday, Sunday; indeed, this was the first weekend during which she had tried psy-time, and she speculated that she had overdone it by experimenting for ten days in a row. I felt she had alerted her ego somehow, and that it was balking at going through the usual psy-time routine. This experience, Jane said, wasn’t very enjoyable, whereas the one of February 8 had been great fun. Today she had felt “half dissolved.”

(This reminded me that Jane recently remarked that when she tries psychological time now, it is the usual thing for her to achieve what she calls an “excellent” state.)