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(2. My effect concerns an interference in my vision, without an actual loss of sight. It produced no aftereffects this evening, nor had it ever in earlier years beyond a very slight headache. Tonight I didn’t get the headache. Strangely I’ve never been alarmed by this phenomenon. With my somewhat secretive nature I’d had no urge, even as a child, to tell my parents about it, or to see a doctor. The absence of aftereffects, and the continued clarity of my mental processes, may have been reassuring.

(At times the interference had covered a wide enough area so that I had a difficult time seeing the drawing paper before me, for instance, or the pencil I felt in my hand. The shimmering varied in intensity. On one occasion I lay down and closed my eyes simply because it was easier to do this than anything else. Such effects lasted half an hour at the most, usually less.

(Now, I wondered once again at my calm response to this as I grew up — to something whose origins were so completely outside any kind of knowledge I possessed. When the interference had been strong, covering most of the field of vision, I had experienced a peculiar sense of both darkness and light, with the objective world indistinguishable within what I can only describe as a field of patterned, alternating lightness and darkness that possessed a velvety depth.

(By the time I wrote the last sentence I was aware — again, without being upset — that it was taking me just a little longer than usual to come up with my abbreviations or symbols for such common words as “does,” “as,” and “even.” This action of course should have been automatic. But visual interference was now lifting considerably.

[...] The passages are on death and suicide — natural death, no less, and how we continually interfere medically with people’s chosen time of death. [...]

[...] I told Jane it would be a joke if those portions of the self we’re blaming for her condition, really are the truest, most simple and honest portions after all, and that their roles in bringing about her natural death were being subverted by our conscious-mind meddling and interference. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Ruburt is bothered by traffic this evening, and it interferes. [...]

[...] Otherwise they would vie for your attention, and interfere with the present decisions that are so important. [...]

[...] We didn’t think her not looking at it would interfere with her having questions. [...]

[...] Ruburt expected her husband, the man, to show spontaneous love and affection, and to supply emotional richness, which she was willing to nurture—but she expected the artist—who happened to be her husband—to protect himself from any emotional response that might interfere with his work.

[...] The cold, however, did not interfere with her giving a long and very successful session last Saturday evening for Claire Crittenden and Pat Norelli. [...]

[...] Every so often they came closer, but didn’t interfere. [...]

[...] We can hardly let a “schedule” interfere with such important activity. [...]

[...] At the same time, I was afraid the excitement of the visit would interfere with Jane resuming the session. [...]

[...] Their problem will seem so gigantic that only some interference from an outside source will be sufficient to give the individual a sense of wholeness and sanity. [...]

[...] When you want to work, do so, for as long as you feel like it, committed to it freely, having decided then that for that time, nothing will be allowed to interfere.

[...] This is unfortunately one of the main distortions that have come down through the centuries and that is the only point I felt strongly enough that I should interfere with your fine rendition. [...]

(“Does this blueprint business interfere with free will?”)

[...] But I get very mad at the way other thoughts interfere with good or healthy constructions. I probably mean that I get mad at the way old habits, bad ones, interfere, or come first. [...]

(I stressed once again that I didn’t want the insurance business to interfere with her recovery, which is why I’d voiced such strong approval of her turning herself this morning. [...]

[...] The pace quickened to some degree, and as stated before I made no effort to interfere with the spontaneity of the session. [...]

([Dr. Intream:] “Okay, as far as it doesn’t interfere with your plans, Seth.”)

[...] She replied that she’d rather wait on the request: She was becoming very relaxed, and didn’t want to get involved with “deep questions” that might interfere with her increasingly comfortable state. [...]

[...] There is no connection between them and your friends however, a priori, and there are other elements that could interfere, preventing even an accident to them. [...]

[...] I will not interfere with the process.