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A good deal for the leg contraction has to do with inhibited sexual impulse. [...]

(Then today she received the contract for Psyche from her publisher, Prentice-Hall. [...]

Within, I believe, three months after the book is accepted, another book will be assured; and then at that time, or very shortly after, it will be contracted for.

([Joel:] “You said that contracts could be renegotiated.”)

[...] A dream location exists, contracts or expands also in a way that has nothing to do with space as you understand it.

[...] Such pulsations, expansions and contractions also operate as far as energy in the psychological structure is concerned.

[...] If he is consciously adding instructions to relax on top of this he worsens the situation, for the muscles cannot relax and contract at once.

[...] Is there a correlation between my conflict between poetry and book contracted for, and Rob’s attitude toward art and money?

[...] And then, on the very night when she told me that she thought Seth would resume book dictation, Sue Watkins called with news that it was all official now: Today she’d signed her contract with Prentice-Hall for the publication of Conversations With Seth.)

[...] During the session Seth discussed Billy’s illness to some extent, while also giving the first “installment” of an answer to a longstanding question of mine: I was curious about the relationship between the host — whether human, animal, or plant — and a disease it might contract, one that was “caused,” say, by a virus. [...]

[...] The pendulum told her this came about because of her concern over the contract and money matters involving her ESP book. Since then Jane has received her signed contract from the publisher, with money due, and now feels better.

[...] Jane was notified of this over the Xmas holidays, and signed a contract earlier this month. [...]

The very next day we were distracted: We received back from our publisher the film option contracts for The Education of Oversoul Seven. The filmmaker required certain additions for legal reasons; we had to have our attorney renotarize the contracts. On the same day I returned them to Prentice-Hall, I also sent in Jane’s signed contract for If We Live Again—and the mail brought us the copy-edited manuscript for God of Jane.

[...] But in some newish way I seemed to understand how much seemingly mental work is dependent upon physical vigor, flexibility and so forth; and then rather strongly—emotionally it came to me that I’d thought it my duty to clamp down physically, to cut down mobility in order to … have mobility as a writer; that is, to sit down, cut down on impulses, distractions, to make sure I’d ‘do my work,’ pursue my goal undeviatingly; that new [book] contracts instantly led me to that kind of behavior and that I really see that such behavior carried to its extremes would end up smothering my writing, defeating the purposes it (seemingly) meant to protect. [...]

[...] Early that year, Frederick Fell gave me a contract for the ESP book, and I had a deadline to meet.

[...] Yet it is doubtful that without this ‘period’ of contracted yearning, All That Is could concentrate Its energy sufficiently enough to create the realities that existed in probable suspension within It.

She also contracted diphtheria and died at the age of 17. [...]

[...] After I signed the contract for this book, our friend Peg Gallagher was doing a story about Seth for the local paper, and she attended a session to get material. [...]

[...] The dream world consists of depths and dimensions, expansions and contractions that are more clearly related, perhaps, to ideals that have no need for the particular kind of structure with which you are familiar. [...]

[...] By late November, in other words, Jane had signed a contract with Prentice-Hall for the publication of Politics in 1976, and had also had time to do considerable work on its early chapters. [...]

[...] Fear always contracts.