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(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 appeared to be progressing slowly, as in the above two instances. Jane had a tendency to stay put, as she described it; that is, if she was sitting down she did not want to move, etc. She tried working. Although she could type she found herself making mistakes. I then suggested we go shopping and run our other errands earlier in the day than usual, thinking the physical activity would help.

(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.)

When such focus of energy quickens, it will often then propel itself onward, having built up momentum. This is what occurred today. The ego, in anger, would not allow the suggestions made to be carried out. The energy that would have been used in what you may call, for now, astral projection, was dammed up. The difficulty lay not necessarily in the particular suggestions given. The trouble was that the energy that would have been used to carry out the suggestions was dammed up by the ego.

Other substitutes may prove adequate and effective, while offering more opportunity for checks and balances. The experience was exhausting for him, and such experiences are to be avoided.

(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.)

(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.)

(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.)