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Long is the trance

That green-eyed trance.

(I would like to note here that the Gallaghers have not pressed Jane to name the object, in trance or otherwise, nor have I. Jane has certainly been aware of it, since she has mentioned it to me at odd times during the last few days. [...]

[...] In a light trance state, some quite complicated manipulations are necessary in this sort of situation.

[...] Sitting on the couch with her back to the windows, Jane said she felt “scary” about going into a trance now. [...]

[...] I thought of shaking her out of trance, but didn’t know whether to or not. [...]

[...] Actually I began to notice a heavy lassitude, although I kept writing without trouble, and I recognized that I seemed to be in a trance state. [...]

(I then remembered that in the 232nd session Seth had said I was in a light trance myself during sessions, as I made “certain automatic adjustments in order to perceive what little of my presence that you do perceive. [...]

(Jane said she too has experienced the seemingly contradictory effects of sleepiness or lethargy, and the sharper vision, during trance. [...]

[...] She asked me to ask Seth if she was in a trance when she did her motions sometimes: “If I can ever calm down enough to do it,” she added, referring to having a session. [...]

Jane liked this trance shot: In a quiet moment during a hilarious session in 1969, Seth contemplates Rich Conz, a photographer for the Elmira Star-Gazette. [...]

[...] Then today I opened a package that contained a book of trance material similar to Seth’s. I guess I’m supposed to say thanks and that it’s great, to the publisher and the medium. [...]

(Jane paused, eyes closed, often seeming to grope for words while in trance.) This is, again, difficult to explain, but free will operates in all units of consciousness, regardless of their degree—but (whispering) it operates within the framework of that degree. [...]

(A note: I was amused, now, to see Jane light a cigarette while she was in trance.)

(“Was this the reason for the experiment in trance states involving Jane, Bill Macdonnel, and myself, some months ago-the night I saw Joseph and the wall?”)

[...] Two sessions a week were more than sufficient, I thought — I was afraid of going into trance at the drop of a hat.)

I was in trance almost at once. [...]

[...] I picked him up, but his claws on Jane’s leg brought her out of trance. [...]

[...] Jane’s trance had been deep, her eyes very wide and dark. [...]

[...] Jane was surprised at the time; she’d been in trance for over an hour. [...] She too had been bothered by the rush and clatter of traffic, even in trance, and we talked about moving to quieter surroundings before next summer.⁴

[...] When she went in trance, Jane’s delivery was very active and energetic—in marked contrast to her near bleary-eyed state before Seth came through. [...]

[...] I do not know whether or not he will continue today, for it is a hard session for Ruburt to give, while maintaining the necessary trance level.

[...] And so will you awaken and so have you awakened and so even in the trance of physical focus are you already awake to your own greater reality. [...]

The morning session involving the songs led him into a new kind of perceptive experience or trance state, in which he has not been before involved, and that will serve most beneficially in this and other areas and developments in the future.

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

[...] “When all this started [in late 1963] about speaking in trance,” Jane said, “I used to feel that there was just one word available at a time, with nothing before it or after it — but now I sense whole blocks of material there just waiting to be given. [...]

[...] I thought Jane’s trance had been a good one, even though she’d used many pauses, but she told me that she hadn’t been at her best. [...]