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(On Sunday evening, June 20th, I again experienced the feeling of sound, as Seth has described it. Jane and I attended a jazz mass presented by Joe Masters in the Presbyterian Church, in Horseheads, just north of Elmira, NY, where we live. This was a very thrilling experience for us, and I believe for everyone else there. The music at times was literally deafening in volume, combined as it was with a large choir and a jazz band. In addition Jane and I, with the Gallaghers, sat in the second row and thus felt the full force of the performance.
(Shortly after the mass began, I became aware of what seemed to be solid but invisible waves that beat against both ears externally. An analogy would be cupped hands clapping against my ears. An extremely rich thrilling suffused my head, then quickly spread to various parts of my body, not evenly by any means. I tried to increase the sensation by concentrating, for instance, on hearing the sound with my left knee when the sensation was strong there, but did not succeed especially. I was reminded of this by the 154th session, dealing with the body’s generalized ability to receive stimuli.
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(Jane also felt strong thrilling sensations at the jazz mass, saying they were like the sensations she attains during psy-time, that she calls her good state, and occasionally ecstasy.
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