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(Carl had a brainstorm; we placed our bathroom scale on the tabletop finally when the pressure was “going good,” and requested A A to continue building up the pressure so that Carl, who was on the side of the table manifesting the pressure at that time, could measure the force he used to get the table back on the floor solidly. A A obligingly built up the pressure again; pressing down, Carl saw that he used a hand pressure of 70 pounds, as measured by the scale, to get all three legs of the table back on the floor, whereas usually gravity would effortlessly draw the legs back to the floor when our fingertips were removed.

(Carl and Claire, previously, had used what they considered to be an even greater pressure on the table to level it out. With the experience furnished by the scale, they now estimated they used close to 90 pounds pressure to level the table, this being the moment of highest pressure during the evening. Several subsequent pressures were measured by using the scale on the tabletop, ranging from 30 to 50 pounds.

(I stood back in a corner by the bookcase; the table had worked its way toward the bathroom door, which was closed. At the table were Bill Gallagher, with beside him Pat Norelli. Others were also at the table, but Bill and Pat were on the side showing the strong pressure. The pressure finally reached the point where Bill Gallagher could not force the third table leg back to the floor. As I recall, he was using a direct downward pressure, not the down-and-away pressure discussed earlier.

(Needless to say, when Carl or whoever was measuring pressure on the scale, the other three took pains to see that they were not subconsciously exerting a heavy pressure on the other side of the table,thus forcing a stronger response across the tabletop to get the legs back on the floor. Such checking was easy to do; nevertheless conscious deliberate checks were constantly being made to make certain opposing pressures were not unwittingly being exerted. Most of the time our hands touched the table so lightly that it could move quite freely beneath them, seemingly of its own volition. This steady checking has the added advantage that it serves as a protection against any possible hallucination [although this would have to be a mass effect, and highly unlikely]; the checking in a deliberate manner was a good method to keep one’s feet on the floor, so to speak, even if the table was acting contrary to gravity.

The pressure, I am sorry to say, has also some connection with our sessions, in that he feels caught betwixt and between; somewhat under pressure to hold sessions regularly, although he may not feel like particularly doing so; and under pressure not to hold sessions when he may feel particularly like doing so. [...]

Now however he feels under pressure, hence the pressure again in the abdomen, again connected with his work; for he feels that he must be at the typewriter five or six hours steadily, daily, or he is not keeping up his part of the bargain.

He feels more pressure to hold sessions now regularly because of our doctor, and more pressure not to hold sessions when he feels the urge to, because of your own fears; that is, your fears and his fears. [...]

[...] The pressure has also several origins.

[...] To our surprise we discovered that it required an active pressure from us to force the table back down to the floor so that all three legs made contact. [...] There was no doubt about its existence, since the pressure required to level the table off was obvious to all. [...] The feeling given by this maverick or opposite pressure was quite similar to the feeling one gets from playing with magnets, when they are so aligned that one repels the other. [...]

[...] It is quite easy to touch one’s fingertips to the tabletop, and thus verify that no strong physical pressure is being exerted thereon, even subconsciously; especially when the touch is light enough so that the fingertips slide about, as ours did. [...]

[...] This period lasted for perhaps ten minutes or more, while the three of us took turns shifting position so we could all test the pressure required to push the table down to the floor. [...]

The tensing of the jaw is highly important here, and has in the past prevented adequate healthy blood circulation to the gums—also causing, with the shallow breathing, the sinus difficulty, which exerted additional pressure to the cheek and mouth areas. [...]

[...] The mouth was sore due to realignments as bones are gradually being released from pressure. [...]

Added circulation to the gums will result in unaccustomed feelings and changes in pressures, as gradually the jaw assumes its most natural position. [...]

You are aware of pressure through touch, for instance, but in another version of that sense entirely, the cells react to air pressure. [...]

[...] It weighs probabilities; it reacts to pressures of various kinds.

[...] His overall balance, or feeling of balance, does constantly change, however, as the muscular pressure pressures, or tensions, do. [...]

[...] Here you seek not equalization of pressure, but a delicate, even precarious instability of pressures. No, no creativity arises from an evenness of pressure, but in constantly changing, new instabilities, ever seeking to achieve a balance.

[...] The tension resulted in jaw pressures, affecting the teeth, the sinuses, and in particular the tightening of large ligaments in the neck. [...]

[...] This week the right neck ligaments continued a new release that affects the ears, sinus, and head pressures—and of course the eyes also.

[...] The bulging is largely the result of sinus pressure, which is then relieved as the jaw relaxes more, and the passages relax.

[...] I want him to paint steadily at the easel, as mentioned, where he is standing, but with his attention directed elsewhere, and because of the particular refreshment painting gives him—the release from work and pressure.

Seeing how fast he can walk—this is another example—in the house, say, away from pressure. [...]

[...] Blood pressure and pulse.

[...] I suppose they’ll want to take my temperature and blood pressure all over again, too.”)

[...] Dorothy came in to take her blood pressure and pulse. [...]

[...] Spontaneous Seth session, following a period of working with the table, in which pressure built up to the point where the table finally broke, working through A A)

(Later talking to Bill Gallagher: He and Pat Norelli stood at one side of the table, exerting strong pressure to force third leg to floor. Never did get it down. [...]

Lately, when he lies down, and the pressure is off, his hips, hip joints, and hamstrings have begun new adjustments that are at a certain level uncomfortable—but because that frightens him the discomfort is more than it would be otherwise. [...]

My first example concerns the development of biofeedback machines in the 1960’s. With one of these devices the individual was to learn to control, when necessary, his or her own blood pressure, or any of certain other involuntary body functions. [...] Within a more reasonable context the technique will take its place in our medical systems, but in each case what we learn will surely point up the need to understand our individual inner realities; i.e., what caused the high blood pressure, or whatever, in the first place?

[...] But the pressures of work, plus our own conservative attitudes about personal publicity, have led us to pass by other such opportunities.

[...] Yet it is no accident that greater discoveries are often made by “amateurs” — those who are relatively free from official dogmas, released from the pressure to get ahead in a given field — those whose creativity flows freely and naturally in those areas of their natural interest.

[...] There are for example pressures that do not show, strained relationships between, say, organs that are not apparent medically. [...]

[...] His poor mobility did not exist alone, but reached back to an archaeology, say, of beliefs that affected his sinuses, jaw pressure, and so forth.

[...] The jaw pressures are constantly being minimized. [...]

[...] In spite of it all things went well, Jane said, though “they” ran the water more heavily than the old staff members did, and Jane said she couldn’t try to move her feet as easily with the increased pressure of the water. [...]

[...] Blood pressure and pulse taken, Cathy. [...]

[...] This procedure will immediately lessen the pressure of the problem itself, whatever it is, and give you a sense of refreshment.

These steps will allow you breathing time, and actually help minimize the pressure of your situation, whatever it is. [...]

(Before tonight’s session Jane and I were discussing ways and means of taking her blood pressure, her weight and various other measurements of a physiological nature before, during and after sessions. [...]

[...] Constantly, one after another, dials show time, temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, rainfall, wind direction and wind velocity.)

Humidity and barometric pressure would also be helpful. [...]

[...] And by the pressure of the ivory image upon the earth, the months were also told and it sank into the ground, little by little. [...]

You were under constant pressure, for you felt that you should have learned more. [...]

[...] Something—pressure in my head maybe keeps changing—the bottoms of my feet feel woozy; they throb gently; so does my neck; my breath deepens, ears feel funny—was going to walk around the house or do some other writing but for now at least I’ll have to go along with... [...]