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(The following manner of delivery was a new one in the sessions. Jane continued to speak with her head down; the result was that her voice seemed oddly muffled, much deeper, far from as clear as just above. There seemed to be an actual effort involved in her speaking—something quite foreign to the sessions. Her eyes remained closed. I watched her closely, ready to interrupt if the experimental delivery seemed to be taxing. And of course Peggy hadn’t seen this type of delivery before.)

(I missed an occasional word in this passage, for even though Jane’s delivery seemed muffled and trying, it was actually quite fast.)

(Jane now sat leaning far forward in her rocker; her head was far down, toward her knees, facing the floor. The voice was still deep but not so muffled, eyes still closed. I can say the voice sounded more like an old man’s voice, and not much like either Jane’s voice or the usual Seth voice. The voice now had almost a resonant quality.)

(The second effect did produce a little alarm when it began, but she mentally told Seth to go ahead. She was well aware of the difference in the two effects. In the second effect, Jane said she felt a distinct trembling in her chin as it was lowered against her chest, but Peg and I hadn’t observed this. Jane likened it to perhaps the trembling of an old man’s chin, and this is in character with the old man’s voice we heard. Jane knew the voice was muffled and strained; it was a completely new experience for her.

(It was rather quiet in the studio, though I could hear Jane’s typewriter, but through the closed doors the sound was muffled and rather steady, and the rest of the house was quiet. [...]

[...] Her voice had dropped somewhat in key and sounded oddly muffled. [...]

[...] You have allowed the ego to become a counterfeit self, and you take its word because you will not hear the muffled voice that is within you speak.

If you deny yourself the direct experience of your own emotions, but muffle them, say, through too-strict discipline, then you can hurt others much more easily, for you project your deadened emotional state upon them—as in the Nazi war camps [men] followed orders, torturing other people—and you do that first of all by deadening your own sensitivity to pain, and by repressing your emotions.

[...] In a manner of speaking those sensations had been played down, muffled. [...]

[...] We used the small one, and placed it on the rug to muffle its noise at the late hour. [...]

[...] The neighborhood was muffled and serene; even the traffic passing our apartment house was slowed to a crawl for a change.)

[...] She began to speak rapidly, in a somewhat odd-sounding, almost muffled voice, and with her eyes closed.

[...] Voice strong but muffled, eyes usually closed. [...]

[...] You ignore the ghost symbols or voices, the probable actions that also occur, but that are muffled in the clear tones of your accepted reality. [...]

[...] You have allowed the ego to become a counterfeit self, and you take its word because you will not hear the muffled voice that is within it.