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(Jane was smoking as the session began and her eyes soon began to open. Her voice remained quiet; there were many people in the yard outside our windows but it was too warm to close ourselves in.)

(Break at 9:22. Jane was well dissociated, her manner very active, eyes open often, smoking, etc. Resume at 9:31.)

If only the physically-oriented ego survived, very little indeed would survive at all. The physically-oriented ego is hardly aware of your experiences in their entirety. The physically-oriented ego, if it alone survived, would contain only your conscious memories. Even now, in physical existence, you operate on a much deeper and more complicated level than this. Events and experiences which are forgotten, or which escaped the physically-oriented ego, still affect your activities in this life, and if they did not your physical existence would be brief indeed. (Jane pounded the tabletop for emphasis, eyes wide and dark.) Any survival that was based upon the survival of the physically-oriented ego alone would be as shallow as a paper cutout. These things escape you. You take it for granted that the physically-oriented ego represents your own psychological identity, you see, and this is an illusion. It contains a portion of your psychological feeling of identity, but only that.

The surviving personality has a different psychological balance. The outer ego no longer shows its outside face, so to speak, (again Jane struck the tabletop) but takes its place with the other aspects of the personality. You might say that it becomes the subconscious, although I am speaking now simply to get the idea across, and this is not precisely the case.

(Break at 9:46. Jane was way-out, her delivery fast and emphatic, yet quiet.

No. (Jane paused at 10:09. She knew before the session began that there would be no envelope.)

(“Well, can you say a few words about Jane’s nightmare?”

(Referring to a very vivid nightmare Jane had last night; she has complete notes on it.)

(We named our second cat thinking it a female, but now have strong reason to believe we made a mistake. Male or female, the cat is now called Catherine, and answers to it. Jane laughed briefly, eyes closed.)

(End at 10:14. Jane was dissociated as usual. Seth didn’t say so but she received from him the definite feeling that Catherine is a male. Jane was concerned about blocking the nightmare data, wondering if it was perhaps clairvoyant. Seth returned briefly at 10:15.)

(Besides involving Jane and me, the nightmare also involved members of both our families. Jane was now surprised to learn it had been necessary for me to shake her out of the nightmare last night; she had thought she came out of it spontaneously.)