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[...] Jane sat waiting half in trance — a feeling she later described as “weird” — while I followed the cat down the hall. Before I got back inside the apartment our paperboy arrived; by the time I finished paying him Jane was out of trance. [...]

[...] Jane’s trance had been deep, although she recalled parts of Seth’s adventure. [...]

[...] Jane’s trance had been very deep. [...]

[...] “He isn’t done, I can tell you that,” Jane said after she’d come out of a deep trance. [...]

[...] Jane sat still in trance.)

[...] Again Jane’s trance had been very deep. [...]

[...] In hypnosis for example a trance is said to be light or deep. [...]

[...] Theoretically for example, if followed through, a deep trance leading to a deeper inside so to speak, would bring you ultimately to another outside. [...]

[...] Now this quality that could be said to be a substitute for your space and time, this quality-depth, represents the perspective in which this sort of psychic traveling or psychic motion, or any psychic action, occurs; and its depth can be understood not in terms of downward action, but perhaps you can comprehend it if you think of a deep trance, for example, as definitely having motion, though the body may be motionless.

But in a trance depth, as in quality-depth, the motion has a direction that cannot be thought of in terms of up or down, north or south, east or west. [...]

(While delivering this paragraph Jane walked into the kitchen, still in trance, to rummage for a book of matches; she wanted to light a cigarette.)

[...] Jane’s trance had been good, although she appeared to come out of it quickly enough. [...]

[...] Jane hesitated, and I felt that I’d caught her half out of trance. She later confirmed this — but she went back into trance and answered.)

(The preceding paragraph was stated by Jane while she still remained in a semi-trance state. The trances this night were exceedingly deep and she had more than usual difficulty “surfacing. [...]

[...] Jane’s trance had been very good. [...]

(End at 11:55 P.M. Jane’s trance had again been deep, and it took her a while to come out of it. [...]

[...] She said that when speaking with her eyes open she is not as sharply aware of the transition from a trance state to a nontrance state. Now, she felt as though she could quite easily slip back into a trance, although she did not feel Seth.

[...] She blinked several times without closing her eyes for any length of time, then she was out of her trance.

(Seth’s remark stemmed from the fact that Jane’s hair was continually falling over her forehead and eyes; she had taken to brushing it back often; usually her glasses would keep the hair out of her eyes, but as a rule she doesn’t wear glasses in trance.)

[...] Jane was still in trance when I handed it to her, and she thrust it into her hair above her right forehead in what was not the neatest way, but it did the job.)

[...] Jane’s trance had been good. [...]

[...] Now whether or not a medium is in a trance that is as deep as the Atlantic Ocean, the medium will not be a pure channel. [...]

[...] Jane was quickly out of trance, but it had been a good one, fast and active and emphatic and humorous. [...]

[...] Jane was out of trance quickly. [...]

[...] Jane’s eyes were heavy as she came out of trance. [...]

[...] Jane’s trance had been a deep one. [...]

[...] Jane had been “far-out” this time; it took her awhile to come fully out of trance, etc. [...]

[...] Jane’s trance had been deep, and my writing hand could attest to her fast delivery. [...]

Now: This state may be used also as a step to the next state of consciousness, leading to a deeper trance condition; still relating however to the reality system that you understand.

(10:59 P.M. Jane’s trance had again been very good. [...]

[...] Beyond doubt it was some sort of somnambulistic state, I think a sort of self-induced trance. The thing that worries me is that I wasn’t trying to put myself in a trance as far as I know.

[...] when she induced a trance state, or a rather strong state of dissociation, within herself. [...]

(I felt as if I were heading into a very deep trance state of some sort, which I was fighting off. [...]

(A few quotes from the three handwritten pages Jane attempted while in the trance state… Most of this writing was extremely small and quite unlike her normal hand. [...]

[...] Especially would her glasses help conceal any visual changes accompanying a trance. [...]

[...] But Jane asked me to read her Seth’s last sentence, then she went back into trance.)

[...] Jane left trance easily. [...]

[...] Jane left trance easily. [...]

[...] The cats had been fascinated by this phenomenon for several minutes; just as Jane went into trance they lost patience and started to leap up at the insect. [...]

[...] Jane waited in trance.)

[...] Jane nodded okay to my question, and slowly she came out of trance. [...]

[...] Jane slowly came out of a good trance; she patted the top of her head as she did so, several times. [...]

(Toward the end of the session, I was in an emotional turmoil, still in trance and for this Barb told me at the time she had no explanation. [...]

[...] Jane had been in an excellent trance state. [...]

[...] She was still in trance.)

[...] Once again, Jane remained in trance during a short break. [...]

[...] Jane’s trance had indeed been deep, her pace usually good. [...]