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SESSION 140

(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.”

(Jane did not feel overly tired as session time approached. She had no idea of the material beforehand. Once again we held the session in our small back room, and Jane spoke sitting down and with her eyes closed. Her manner was somewhat more animated than it has been lately, and her voice was deeper. She spoke at a normal rate.)

I did indeed contemplate putting off our session for this reason. I suggest now that you take your first break, as we will take it somewhat easy for tonight.

(Break at 9:18. Jane was not as well dissociated as usual, she said; running water somewhere in the house annoyed her while she was speaking. She said she did not feel tired and didn’t want a short session. She resumed at a faster rate at 9:25.)

Tonight’s session will indeed be a brief one.

Caution is always intelligent action in such matters. Ruburt has been in enough of a trance as it is. However, even the action of speaking for me this session is beneficial, as far as he is concerned. That is why I held the session to begin with.

Were it not for my supervision, you could easily have experienced more of these. Our next session will cover much material, and I presume that Ruburt will be in much better condition to hold it.

(Jane now smiled. Her delivery had been rather quick and animated throughout the session, giving the impression that Seth was more than a little amused by the day’s events.)

As for you, Joseph, you were extremely helpful to him, because of your presence and your understanding. I will bring our short session to its close.

(End at 9:26. Jane was not as well dissociated as she has been in recent sessions. Toward the end of the session she received a feeling, a concept, from Seth to the effect that she shouldn’t feel bad at the short session. Seth, she said, thought it “cute,” and “silly,” that we should be so concerned, when we have all the time we need to get all the information we want.)