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(3:21. I finished reading the session to her, she was having so much difficulty. She ate a piece of candy as I worked with mail. Staff people checked her vitals—temperature, 98.2.

(I had no calls or other interruptions this morning as I worked on Dreams. The weather had warmed considerably—up to 23 degrees by the time I left for 330. Jane told me that after she got back to her room from hydro she had an excellent little experience, something like a waking dream, perhaps: She took some already cooked T-bone steak out of a refrigerator, and started eating it as she walked across a street. She’d cooked the meat the way she used to, she said. The event was quite significant, I thought, with its positive actions.

(3:20. I worked with mail a little. Then I opened the presents Sue had left us. One of them was a large, vividly colored parrot that I managed to hang from the wooden frame of the bulletin board at the foot of Jane’s bed, so she could see it. Truly a creative and original gift. In fact, Jane said, it was a more valid and true statement of reality than the other gift from Sue—After Man, by Dougal Dixon. It’s a pictorial projection of evolutionary trends 50 million years hence. At first Jane and I wondered why Sue would give us such a book, knowing our views on evolution. Regardless of that, I eventually decided that I was glad to receive the gift, no matter what Sue does or doesn’t know about evolution. It was a beautiful compendium of all of the fallacies and distortions and wishing-thinkings concerning the scientific view of evolution.

An amazing amount of work has gone on, permitting Ruburt to begin feeding himself again. All kinds of unseen, unknown inner organizations have been corrected and activated, so that the hands once more begin to show signs of coordination and strength.

Those activities are also tied up with the workings of the eye muscles, and also with the functioning of the sinuses. Ruburt’s own improved thought patterns, as well as your own, have helped bring these activities into fruition, and they will of course continue.

(I’d say a valuable clue as to the workings of mind and body is presented here: The dream state activity prepares the body for its subsequent activity on a larger scale.

(Long pause at 4:21.) Your own love for each other, accentuated by the Christmas season and your anniversary, also helped give impetus for those improvements. The body does not just work part by part—but its motions are also the result of unseen organizations and connections that unite the various parts of the body. These inner organizations are difficult for the intellect to understand, for they handle intuitive matters and symbols much as dreams do.

It would take some time to do so properly. As Ruburt suggested, the work is a kind of story. The author is basically too unsure of himself to call the book either fiction or nonfiction—thus he saves himself from answering many intelligent questions by saying this is conjecture, even while he takes shelter under the name of science.

(I also suggested to Jane that if she began another Seth book, we do it without notes—straight Seth, with her writing her own introduction, say. I could always contribute an intro also. But this way, I said, we could publish works without delay, and stay even with our output. No more falling two or three or four years behind. Any other writing I might do could be on my own.

(I said that Seth may have already begun his next book, and if so, fine. I told Jane she had many good works ahead of her through the years, and that it was time we determined upon a system that would allow her to produce them with as little delay as possible. She seemed to agree with all of this, adding that already we had Rembrandt and the new Seven in the works.

(“But I’m not worried about the Seven,” she said. I always work that way on those books.”)