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discomfort
birthday
hemorrhoids
uncomfortable
downhill
(Jane was again very uncomfortable today when she lay on her back. This pattern has persisted for a number of days now. “How can you be more uncomfortable now, when the bedsores are healing, than you used to be?” I asked some time ago. She didn’t know. My own eventual conclusion was that more was involved — that it had to do with her attitudes and beliefs.
(At least when I’ve been there in 330, Jane’s appetite has gone downhill, and she’s slacked off on free-association material and the sessions. I thought of requesting of staff that she be given some Darvoset, or something like it, in the afternoons, but I hadn’t mentioned this because I felt my wife would reject the idea. Then yesterday Jane promised to hold a session today, after I’d said that a session might help.
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(3:45. I read the session to Jane twice. I worked on mail acknowledging the $650 we’d received in contributions through Maude Cardwell’s efforts. Of course, we noticed that Seth had said that Jane’s discomfort was only partially caused by her fears that she cannot heal herself. What about those other reasons, then? Jane said later that she thought Seth would indeed return. Resume at 4:16.)
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(4:26 p.m. I read the last half of the session to Jane. “I got the feeling there was something definitely involved in the increase in the circulation of our books,” Jane said when I was through. The mail has picked up quite a bit, and at the moment I’m falling behind again.
(I felt depressed after today’s session, for it seemed to me that Jane still hasn’t shaken her fears, especially her distrust of her own body and its processes, after all this time. I saw the birthday/Mother’s Day hassle as only the latest wrinkle in a 20-year cycle of reasons for the symptoms. The question isn’t why she’s so uncomfortable these days, but why the body, the psyche, has chosen to endure those symptoms for so long.)
* In 1974 I wrote in Jane/Seth’s The Nature of Personal Reality: “The pendulum is a very old method. I use it, with excellent results, to obtain ideomotor — ‘subconscious’ — responses about knowledge that lies just outside my usual consciousness. I hold a small heavy object suspended by a thread so that it’s free to move. By mentally asking questions, I obtain ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answers according to whether the pendulum swings back and forth, or from side to side.”
