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(8:40 PM. “Boy, I could tell those lapses were really long,” Jane said. She’d dozed several times. Once she’d spoken a few unintelligible sentences while doing so. “Funny,” she said, “but I could tell at the end that he could say a lot more about those lapses.”

There was some (underlined) connection with Hal’s medicine. Circuits in the body.... (Long pause, leaning to the right, eyes closed.) I purposely wait for such lapses as these to come and go—and again, they do represent the state of the thyroid. Your own help with the massage was excellent, and also very effective.

Ideally, the body would always right itself after such lapses from exuberant health—but even those lapses often exercise that resiliency. [...] Many such lapses are exaggerated because of your beliefs, so that they are experienced in a more drastic form than necessary. [...]

[...] It is not realistic to expect a life of unending, exuberant health, with no momentary lapses of any kind. [...]

(9:37.) Such momentary lapses follow personal and cultural patterns. [...]

[...] “I wanted all I could get so bad,” Jane gasped between breaths, “and I could feel myself lapsing.... I’d even caught myself lapsing; I was weary,” Jane said, laughing, that she’d be willing to sit there until 3 o’clock in the morning to get what she wanted in a session, but: “You’re not sitting on your ass until three o’clock in the morning,” I said. [...]

[...] The physical lapse that occurs between an incoming message (pause, frowning), and its intended destination does not occur on these other levels. [...]

[...] The perceived lapse noted by scientists is of course the physical one (leaning forward, hand to closed eyes), caused by the “time” it takes the message to leap the nerve endings.³  The interior translation however is simultaneous.

[...] The physical data is carried through the nerves with the necessary time lapses that must occur. [...]

[...] However, after giving me some very astute data about my painting, Seth resumed book dictation very smoothly at 9:33 — just as though there hadn’t been any time lapse from February 11 to March 18.

[...] You must then experience lapses. Past, present and future appear highly convincing and logical when there must be a lapse of time between each perceived experience.

There is no such lapse in many other personality structures. [...]

(As I wrote these notes Jane kept leaning to her left in her chair and lapsing into sleep. [...]

I am aware of these lapses. [...]

We had come along far enough, however, so that your confidence managed to straddle your momentary lapses of confidence. Ruburt’s lapses are far more significant, of course, than your own in the entire picture. [...]

[...] He can keep his spirits up considerably by remembering to devote three hours to writing—James or otherwise, but he should not lapse into worrying about his condition. [...]

[...] In the framework of three-dimensional reality in which reincarnation exists, the structure of the body itself requires (in quotes) “time” lapses. [...] It can perceive without time lapses. [...]

[...] Sometimes a lapse occurs of this type. [...]

[...] When a momentary lapse of control happens they both come face to face. [...]

[...] First of all, within your system, relatively speaking, there can be and usually is, some lapse between my own thought and Ruburt’s verbalization. [...] When I am deeply considering a matter therefore, there is a pause on my part added to the natural lapse mentioned earlier. [...]

[...] She was restless and quite nervous, lapsing—for the first time—into periods of what approached a sleep state. [...]

[...] Personally, I had been alternately angry and not caring because of our lapses, when we had avenues of help available that few could rely upon, yet hadn’t bothered to use them. [...]

[...] There is some lapse here for physical expression. While it is completely possible for the mental state to express itself at once, nevertheless within your system, under most circumstances, there is a lapse, as the symptoms themselves did not immediately appear, although the mental state was in dire circumstance.

[...] There will be a time lapse within this system, but in other systems there may be no time lapse... [...]

[...] There will be a time lapse within this system, but in other systems there may be no time lapse—and your thought may be instantly transposed into reality. [...]

[...] When you are concentrating upon responsibility, however, then each lapse becomes a lapse from responsible action, and complicates the inner spontaneous rhythm that to a large degree is automatically maintained. [...]

In physical life there is a lapse while messages leap the nerve ends. [...]

In still other terms and at different levels this lapse occurs — this moment of reflection extends itself — as the self leaps clear of physical form (even as the cell at one time deserts the body).

In these lapses you are perceiving other kinds of reality — with other than normal waking consciousness. [...]

With some, the lapses are more noticeable, outside of the norm. [...]

Physical time is the apparent lapse between the emergence of an idea in the physical universe (as a construction) and its replacement by another.

The future is the apparent lapse between the disappearance of one idea construction and its replacement by another in physical reality.

Psychological time is the apparent lapse between the conception of ideas.

Ruburt’s lapses have become quite noticeable to him, in contrast with the renewed air of freedom that he has indeed felt lately. [...]

[...] There are then several other such instances that he has forgotten, that are at least as important as the lapses that seem to loom so large. [...]