1 result for (book:tes3 AND session:143 AND stemmed:all)
6/87 (7%)
illness
visitors
Sonja
pills
Louis
[... 7 paragraphs ...]
(Once again the session was held in our secluded back room. Jane spoke while sitting down, and with her eyes closed. She does not wear her glasses at all during sessions now. Her voice was quiet, her initial pace rather slow. Her delivery speeded up as the session progressed, and her voice became somewhat louder.)
[... 12 paragraphs ...]
The illness did represent, however, a needed warning, materialized into physical reality as illness. A warning that after all there had been a recent tendency on your part, though slight, to slide into negative thinking. The illness was meant to bring you up short, to make you think.
[... 19 paragraphs ...]
You of all people should realize that when valid concern for world problems turns into an obsession with world injustices that wipes out all, or threatens to wipe out all personal enjoyment, then trouble is on the way. For enjoyment is a weapon. The man who is capable of joy is capable, to a large extent, of changing his world. Joy is not a weak spineless idiot either. Its backbone is stronger than bitterness.
[... 37 paragraphs ...]
Sonja, all unwittingly, came to prey upon the situation. She herself is in desperate need of help. Ruburt sensed this, and if his own abilities had not been so strong, Ruburt would have ended up in a most unfortunate situation; for he attempted, for a time, to counter the wholesale destructive tendencies open in your house.
[... 4 paragraphs ...]
(End at 10:58. Jane was well dissociated. She said she retained an awareness of the gist of the material given during her first monologue, but that in successive monologues she lost all idea of what she had said.
[... 1 paragraph ...]
(Jane had told me that during my illness she hadn’t felt Seth around. There were times during my illness when I had an actual feeling of disbelief at the steady parade of visitors. I did not see them all. I soon became aware that I felt better after talking to the ones I did see, and once I realized this I rather deliberately tried to capitalize upon this apparent exchange of energy. Sonja Carlson visited us twice; almost at once I understood the negative character of her thoughts, and decided not to let it bother me. I was concerned about Jane bearing the brunt of this, however.)
