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(Dawn came in to take Jane’s temperature—97.5—to start the daily round of vitals, at 3:30. At 4:00 Jane told me to get out my pad in case Seth came through. She began to flex her arms. She did especially well with her head and right arm, then the feet began to move. “Then my feet get hot,” she said, then exclaimed in pleasure, “Look how fast it’s going”—meaning her left big toe. Then all of her toes began to move to various degrees. Jane’s head began to lift repeatedly off the pillow. Groaning and straining, making hoarse sounds of effort, she began to struggle to move her whole body. I could see the effort travel up her left leg into the hips and her belly. “The whole body is trying to move,” I said, “as though you’re trying to move it in a dream.”

(2:45. She began moving about on the bed. I rubbed her neck in that certain spot and her head began to flop back and forth as it has been doing. She did a lot of grunting and pushing, and had movement in her belly and hips. Then her knees wanted to get into the act, and her feet and toes.

(She kept it up at 4:06. I thought her motions might make up for the actual session today. She began lifting her head and upper torso, moving it from side to side, with new motion and considerable success. I hadn’t seen her do this for years. It was another great sign, I told her.

(4:09. Groaning and grunting and trying even harder and more loudly, Jane once again began lifting her head and torso and moving them from side to side. “What am I doing, Bob? God, what noises....”

[...] At her request I put my finger on a certain spot high up on the back of Jan’s head, where the muscles from the neck join the skull—and suddenly her head began to flop forward then jerk backward at an almost alarming rate, so fast did it move. [...] Her head felt weightless beneath my finger, I told her, and she said it felt weightless to her, too. [...] She continued her head movements at a more moderate pace; I asked her not to overdo them. [...] She talked again about how good it felt to move her head that way. [...]

[...] At 3:30 she began to have a lot of new motions in her neck, rotating her head much more freely from side to side than she’s been able to do so far. [...]

[...] Even her head raised and lowered itself on the pillow in time with the foot motions. [...]

(“Lots of ‘normal’ people can’t move their head like that,” I said. [...]

[...] I touched her spots on her neck and head—and her head went back and forth almost violently again. [...]

[...] At various times she’s also felt motion even with her head and shoulders. [...]

[...] Jane began a series of motions again, her left leg going sideways, her head in rhythm also. [...]

[...] Head back and forth. [...]

[...] Her head began to jump back and forth again very rapidly. Then I searched for a second spot on the top of her head—and when I found it with my middle finger Jane’s head suddenly began to jerk very rapidly from side to side. [...] At the same time her feet began to move in a distinct rhythm with the sideways head movements. [...]

[...] She still felt the aftereffects of her head motion. “It must be you wanted to work on the head today,” I said. [...]

[...] She began a generalized motion of her whole body, lifting her head and upper torso off the bed and moving them from side to side. [...]

[...] Suddenly Jane began to rotate her right arm in concert with lifting her head and neck off the bod—seemingly as fast as could be done. [...]

[...] I want this done in a certain way — the heading, “A State of Grace,” written thusly (with horizontal gestures), then a line drawn down … and under it, “Health” … and under that, “Wealth” …

(Drawing in the air, Seth-Jane finished the list, then told me that I was to place a second one, with its own heading, opposite the first. [...]

That is not the chapter heading. [...]

Heading for the chapter: “Good and Evil, Personal and Mass Beliefs, and Their Effect Upon Your Private and Social Experience.” [...]

[...] MOSTLY THOUGH, THE ODDEST FEELINGS, as if my head in particular has been held in one position only though I know it hasn’t been THAT stiff; like an iron rod from my head downward so that I had to move in one fashion; all together; and my head inside... shudders, like a car trying to start; particularly something trying to drop or extend or lengthen in the right side of my neck between head and shoulders; and my sinus drain / with this, a willingness more to walk, difficult to describe; and I feel LIGHTER ON MY FEET; though I don’t weigh much when I walk I feel very heavy... [...]

[...] (Long pause, head down. [...]

[...] This effect rises above her head, vertically. [...]

(This triangle had its point, she said, in back of her eyes, toward the back of her head, and radiated forward and outward. [...]

[...] Jane sat upright in the rocker, leaning her head back, eyes closed, hands flat on her thighs. [...]

[...] Jane had some very beautiful images, she said, of the muscles of her neck and back as they supported her head. [...] She saw the muscles named first as a series of snakes with many heads; the heads changed into hands that supported her head and rotated it about very flexibly. [...]

(Jane’s head moved rhythmically from side to side very slightly as she sat slumped in her rocker, eyes closed. [...] “They dipped my head down and took the top of it off. [...]

[...] I landed on its head or shoulder. [...]

[...] Then I was behind my head. [...]

[...] Head and neck, arms and hands, legs and feet all moved in concert. [...]

(4:05 More, stronger motions, head and chest sideways, left foot lifting up highest at the ankle that its done so far. [...]

[...] Head and chest side to side. [...]

[...] Side to side with the head, arms. [...]

[...] Head, shoulders, arms and legs. She said her head rotated on her neck in a new way. [...]

[...] Waking, she said she’d dreamed that she was home in the shower, on her hands and knees part of the time, with the water cascading upon her head. She also raised her arms above her head in a perfectly normal way as she wet her hair while standing up, she said. [...]

[...] More head and left leg and foot motions—rather strong. [...]

[...] More general motions, head and torso. [...]

(She did some side-to-side motions with her head and shoulders, with noises and grunts and groans. [...] She did come through with some good head motions, rotating around in a circle in one direction, then reversing it. [...]

[...] Right away after the session Jane began moving her head and shoulders, but Cathy came in to take her temperature—97.8.

[...] After Cathy brought Jane some cranberry juice/ginger ale, Jane began moving her head and shoulders again. [...]

[...] Then head and shoulders, pretty fair motion. [...]

[...] Some ligaments that had been shortened in the head and neck area began to lengthen. These ligaments control arm motions, head movement, and have been in those terms largely responsible for holding Ruburt in this position, topwise.

As a result of that definite improvement, Ruburt was able to lift his head slightly as he walked. [...]

[...] These ligaments in particular had been in the process of loosening, before Ruburt suddenly found he could thusly move his head, and look up toward the ceiling while walking.

Previous to that he had held his head, neck, shoulders, and arms, using them almost as one block, allowing those motions necessary for typing and reading, with some additional motions possible for the few chores he managed to do.

[...] I rubbed that certain spot in the neck at the back of her head, and her head started going back and forth rapidly. I then rubbed a second spot just to the right of the first one, and again her head pounded back and forth against the pillow. [...]

[...] Her head and shoulder moved actively sideways—good motions, with her left leg pumping up and down. [...]

[...] Her head and shoulders began moving. [...]

[...] Then her head and shoulders started in again—side to side, noises and grunts. [...]

[...] She had her left leg up in the air, head going up and down. [...] Her right arm began going in rapid circles, head bobbing. [...]

[...] Strong sideways motions, head and chest and arms. [...] More strong movements, most of her body rocking up and down, then back and forth—head, arms, noises. [...]

[...] Suddenly Jane began rocking her head and neck back and forth against the pillow quite violently, at the same time making a series of crying noises. Her left leg came up off the bed and pillow in tune with the head movements. [...]

[...] I rubbed those certain spots on her head and neck, and she promptly took off with a series of strong head motions, very rapidly moving back and forth against the pillow.

[...] Once again she concentrated—or her body did—on motions involving mainly her head and shoulders, torso, and to a much lesser degree for the most part, her legs and feet. [...]

[...] Many of her head and torso motions involved pretty good side-to-side movements also. [...]

[...] She moved her head and shoulder very well from side to side, with many grunts and groans and deep breathings. [...]

[...] “I need to raise my head,” Jane said. She had indeed been speaking for Seth with her head bowed low. [...]

[...] Jane still spoke for Seth with her head down for the most part. [...] “I wanted to hold my head up—do something—because I’m so scared.” [...]

[...] Jane’s voice was good, her head down, eyes closed; she swayed to her left often. [...]

[...] Voice better, head moving up and down, grimacing and gesturing during delivery.)

[...] I don’t have the heading for Chapter One yet, but I’ve got it for the next one….” [...]

[...] But she went on: “Now let me get a couple of paragraphs on the chapter… The heading is: ‘Your Dreaming Psyche Is Awake.’” Then Seth came through at once:)

(Before Seth finished dictating Chapter Two, Jane got from him mentally the heading for Chapter One, and inserted it into this manuscript.)

[...] My head and neck area have been “moving around” constantly inside themselves, as mentioned in yesterday’s notes. When I awakened, something had suddenly cleared connected with the entire right side of my head and neck, involving the right ear, eye, jaw also. [...] that were originally relieved in the head.) In those areas though, the mobility feels normal—uh, if I remember correctly... [...]

[...] But her head started moving, and she started in on some stronger motions, head going from side to side, breathing much noisier, grunts and groans. She lifted her head and shoulders off the bed, while her feet remained pretty quiet. [...]

(After Sharon Poley had taken her temperature, Jane began some mild leg, head and shoulder movements at 3:45. [...]

[...] After resting in between some pretty good motions, Jane then began her best efforts of the day, with her head and shoulders going side-to-side. [...]

(At once at 12:25.) New chapter heading [Twenty-two:] “Affirmation, the Practical Betterment of Your Life, and the New Structuring of Beliefs.”

(Amused:) I try to give you the heading for the next chapter even at the end of a session, so that Ruburt knows what I am doing. [...]