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[...] During this time she sat quite still in her chair, her eyes closed, her head down with one hand lifted to her face.)

[...] He felt as if the whole thing was out of his hands. [...]

(I handed over the double envelope, and as usual Jane took it with her eyes remaining closed. She held the envelope in both hands for a moment, then delivered the data with short pauses. [...]

[...] Her pace now slowed somewhat, and she held a hand up to her closed eyes.)

[...] Once again Jane sat with her hands raised to her closed eyes. [...]

[...] As for the writing, it was by an (pause) unorganized, unformed, possible personality of Ruburt’s that merely took this opportunity to show itself and supersede a strong hand which has always dominated it.

Joseph when your hands grow tired I do wish you would volunteer to take a break, and relieve me of an evergrowing compassionate concern for your physical condition. [...]

[...] My hand is actually painful by then, yet I don’t believe I have ever mentioned this fact aloud.

(Seated at the board, we touched our hands to the pointer. [...]

On the other hand, I did watch with some amusement as the scene was enacted in a small room, and as the ghosts were supposed to materialize in the doorway. I do therefore on the one hand somewhat appreciate Ruburt’s reaction. [...]

[...] Her pace had been fast, and my writing hand was tiring. [...]

[...] Though they may not agree with his political beliefs, they will on the other hand trust his integrity because the movement is conservative. [...]

[...] On the one hand he would like you to read it as he goes along, and at times he envisions enthusiastic discussions about it. [...] On the other hand he fears your disapproval and criticism, and thinks you will look for flaws, and so he lets matters stand there.

Now it was on the one hand feigned behavior, but the symptoms had to be bothersome enough or they would not have served their purpose. [...]

[...] Probably we would have preferred that our friends, two young men and two young ladies, do more background reading before meeting Seth; on the other hand, with the coming publication of Jane’s book we have been somewhat curious as to the reaction of interested friends to Seth. [...]

[...] If your recorder is suitably situated with the microphone easily at hand, then you can speak your dream with less effort than is required to write it down. [...]

(Here Jane, her eyes still closed, leaned forward in her rocker and took a position as though she were sitting at a desk with her elbows on it, her hands raised toward her head.)

[...] On the other hand the important thing here is that the book be completed with full psychic and creative powers, without distraction. [...]

Our Wednesday evening session may well be somewhat longer than usual, since for this one I was mainly concerned with discussing the practical problem at hand, since it is important that the air be cleared in this respect.

The creative abilities will instantly begin a new attempt to reconcile the entire affair, given a freer hand than before. [...]

[...] In that regard a light hand is the best policy, but the changeover is approaching. [...]

(While giving the 74th Instream data she spoke at an average pace, with a hand raised to her closed eyes. [...]

[...] (Pause, hand to closed eyes.) We shall insert the material during one of next week’s sessions, as Ruburt is blocking me. [...]

[...] On the other hand, I can only operate mentally in your world. [...]

[...] On the one hand, he must not be impatient. [...]

[...] He is afraid you will see him as he is, then, and wash your hands of such imperfection. [...]

[...] Against that he became vehement himself, stubborn, and determined to fight in you a quality that on the other hand he did not honestly think you possessed.

[...] Other species have a hand in this also, however, and in one way or another all of you direct the activity of the physical body of the world in much the same way that you [each] direct your own bodily behavior.

On the other hand your intuitions follow a different kind of organization, as does your imagination — one involved with associations, an organization that unifies diverse elements and brings even known events together in a kind of unity that is often innocent of the limitations dictated by cause and effect. [...]

(For the last several days Jane’s arms, shoulders, hands, rib cage, and related parts have bothered her tremendously—more so than ever. [...]

(Shortly before the session began, Jane made a remark about her hands feeling better after her nap. [...]

[...] I also felt that Jane’s destiny was in her own hands, and that nothing anyone else was going to do would change that. [...]

(After supper, Jane once again embarked upon a series of movements of her arms and hands especially. [...]

One small way in which I wanted to begin that quest was for me to teach Jane to write—print, actually—with her left hand, which functions much better now than her right one does. I thought this might be relatively easy for her to do, since she’s often voiced her suspicion that she’s one of those born “lefties” who at a very early age were forced to begin writing with their right hand. [...] (I spoke from my own related experience, since as a native right-hander I taught myself to print with my left hand just to see if I could do it. [...]

Jane tried to write with her impaired right hand, frustrated again and again because she couldn’t hold a pen well enough to put down the ideas stirring in her mind. [...]

Our explorations involved no secondhand evidence handed down by others, but the direct personal encounter of our consciousness and being with the vast elements of the unknown—a meeting of the self (human and vulnerable) with the psychological realms of gods and eternities; giant realms of mind that our nature felt attracted to … and [was] uniquely equipped to perceive.

[...] So if in the pursuit of such goals I overdid my cautions and overreacted, it certainly was not out of malice, but in a well-meaning attempt to protect the creative self—to keep a hand of caution on its course lest the centuries of man’s belief in sin carried a true weight that I shared but could not comprehend.

[...] On the other hand, it may be less than trustworthy at times, simply because their achievement level is not high. [...]

[...] If I speak heavy-handedly, it is because I want you to have a light touch. [...]

(To begin, we sat silently at the board, hands on the pointer. [...]

[...] It is in a state of drowsiness on the one hand; and on the other, it focuses the usable portion of its energy into being a tree.

[...] I handed Jane the sealed double envelope; as usual she took it without opening her eyes, then resumed her former position, with her right hand raised to her eyes.)

On the other hand as I have told you, your past continually changes. [...]

[...] Jane sat with her right hand raised to her closed eyes. [...]

[...] She now went on to explain that when I handed her the envelope she had “shifted gears” in order to give herself suggestions that she do very well on the experiment.

(From the 211th session for November 24, 1965:) First of all, as far as the hands are concerned, to be left- or right-handed has to do with inner mechanisms and brain patterns that come first, before the motions of the hands. Characteristically I operated in certain manners that resulted in the primary use of my left hand, when I was focused within physical matter.

(It’s of interest to add that as far as she knows Jane was born right-handed, yet does recall her mother saying that she [Jane] was originally left-handed and had been taught to switch handedness. [...] At the same time, she laughed, in early grades she had much trouble learning to salute the flag with her right hand; she repeatedly used her left hand until she “learned better.”

(Seth came through with this material, including his jocular closing remarks, because a good friend of ours had asked many questions as he witnessed the session — one of them being why the right-handed Jane gestured mainly with her left hand while speaking in trance. [...]

[...] On the other hand the effort to communicate explanations does involve a very real endeavor on my part. [...]

When he thinks that he must do such and such, must prove his worth by sitting at his desk, then he lays a heavy hand upon those same impulses. [...]

[...] Arms and hands and head moved also.