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(Jane felt very relaxed before the session, as she had most of the day: “The first day I’ve had it made in a month,” she said. Still, she’d become blue temporarily in the bathroom after supper. She did want to have a session, though. After our meal I’d reread some of these late private sessions, and had planned to go over some of those from 1973, but various distractions prevented me from doing the latter.

The same issues underlie your own attitudes, the tension between effort and relaxation, discipline and spontaneity has applied, say, in the creative area as far as painting is concerned. Ruburt set out, of course, to handle his own purposes and challenges, but he chose those in the context of your world, so that in encountering them personally he would encounter them for your society as well. In such ways, the species does handle psychological and psychic issues.

In a fashion you recognized much of this in your morning discussion about Ruburt’s problem, but it applies to each of you. The idea of Ruburt doing some work in the near future on Rich Bed is therefore a good one.

(10:20.) Again, it goes without saying that in your situations you largely overlook such benefits. Ruburt’s remarks in his essay on love apply here, in regard to its specific nature. That is (pause), it arouses memories from your own most intimate moments in the past, and therefore in its own way records the development of ideas and attitudes that you might otherwise completely overlook. You had friends lately disappointed in marriages and relationships (Sue and Claire). Your own relationship is itself quite extraordinary, precisely in the light of your own backgrounds—not as you think those backgrounds should have been, but as they were.

(10:40 PM. I told Jane that she’s come through with another excellent session. Her delivery had been quite steady and mostly low key, but definite.)