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(The session was held in our back room. Jane began speaking while sitting down and with her eyes closed. Before the session she had remarked that she hoped Seth would mention Priestley’s book. Her pace was now average to begin, but quickly speeded up.)

(Jane’s eyes now opened to some degree as she lit a cigarette. Her eyes now alternated often between opening and closing. Her pace was fast. She had finished the Priestley book just before supper, and said she hadn’t had time to think it over; but someone had been thinking it over.)

(Jane’s delivery had been quite emphatic, and it remained so when she began speaking again. She resumed at the same fast pace, again smoking and with her eyes closed, at 9:36.)

Priestley cannot help himself here, for it is not possible entirely for him to escape from his own time system, with the best of intentions. And in many respects his theories come very close to explaining the way things are. The idea of reoccurring time is simply off base, practically speaking.

(Break at 10:00. Jane said she was well dissociated. Her eyes had remained closed for the most part. She had appeared to be wrapped up in the material, speaking rapidly and with much emphasis. The candle flame remained unchanged, burning steadily at an estimated height of 1 1/4 inches.

(It was now time for the 26th Dr. Instream test. As usual Jane spoke while sitting down, with her head tipped down and her hands raised to her closed eyes. Her pace now slowed somewhat, and her voice was quiet. Resume at 10:06.)

(It was 10:15. Jane took the usual double envelope from me without opening her eyes. Reading over the last session, she had been surprised to learn that she had held the test envelope to her forehead for a few minutes, since she didn’t remember doing this. Now, she once again pressed the test envelope to her forehead, this time more deliberately, and with both hands. She continued to hold it there. Her eyes were closed, her voice very quiet. This is the 23rd envelope test.)

(Break at 10:23. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes had remained closed for both tests. She sat with the test envelope pressed to her forehead the whole time. The candle flame burned at the same steady height.

(Jane began speaking in a most emphatic and enthusiastic manner. Her eyes were closed but she was smoking; her eyes soon opened however. The candle flame remained at its steady 11/4 inch height. Resume at 10:37.)

It is close to water, and further west, and in a different town or location.

(“Our hotel was close to water, on the beach. But it was the same hotel we stayed in last Monday.”)

Some sort of theater. They have visited it or it is close, and they passed it on their way to this place.

They ate at a place with wide windows and blinds, closed because of the sun. One extremely long window at the front, the entire length of the building, covered with this blind.

(See the notes on page 13 of the 200th session. Peggy’s sister was married on Saturday, October 16; the bride and groom left immediately for Puerto Rico on their honeymoon. Peggy and Bill left for Puerto Rico on vacation on Sunday, October 17. Jane and I were told that the two couples had no plans to meet in Puerto Rico, oddly enough; we recall Peggy saying for instance that she would not want to honeymoon with relatives close by. But these plans were obviously changed, the two couples soon meeting in San Juan.)

(Jane also tried psychological time experiments while the Gallaghers were in Puerto Rico. During these she lay quietly on the bed with her eyes closed and tried to contact Peggy and Bill either by acting as a receiver of data, or projecting her astral body to their location. All of the experiments took place in the late morning hours, usually lasting about half an hour. Jane tried five times, from Monday, October 18, to Friday, October 22,1965.

(The snorkeling device enables the diver to breath through a tube to the surface while remaining underwater. Bill said the boat reference above, reminds him of the peculiar look thinks appear to have on the surface of the water when seen from below. Several times while snorkeling he was close to coral cliffs or outcroppings rising above him. Surf breaking over his head appeared to have a “white sideways movement.” It had a more or less solid look, like the white ceiling of a room.)