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[...] Many months ago, Jane and a friend had succeeded in putting me into a trance state. [...]

[...] I refer specifically to projections embarked upon from the dream state, rather than those in which a trance is induced. [...]

[...] I closed them to deepen my trance and reached out for the bathroom doorknob. [...]

Since this book is about the dream state, including dream projections, this is not the place to compare waking, trance and dream projections. [...]

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

[...] Jane took a little longer coming out of trance now. [...]

[...] Now she came partially out of trance easily, her eyes still darker than usual and somewhat glazed. [...]

[...] Jane stayed in trance during break. [...]

[...] Jane’s trance had been good, but she remembered Billy climbing into her lap, and how he’d put his face close to hers. [...]

(12:08 A.M. Jane was out of an excellent trance before I finished writing….)

[...] All our doors and most windows were open because of the heat, yet when Jane went into trance her delivery was quite energetic, almost fast, and at times very emphatic. [...]

[...] During the evening we played some tapes also, and among these was one of the recordings Jane made of G. K. Chesterton’s poem Lepanto; Jane was in a trance state while reading this, apparently in a close approximation of the voice of her now dead friend, Father Trainor. [...]

(Jane began speaking in trance at a rather slow pace, eyes open often.)

[...] Jane’s trance was deep. [...]

[...] Suddenly Jane was out of trance and looking at me. [...]

[...] Jane’s trance was again good. [...]

[...] Jane’s trance was good, and she entered and left it easily.)

(From the 33rd session for March 9, 1964:) I do not bring about the trance state in the manner of which you [Joseph] are speaking. [...]

[...] Ruburt is not in a deep trance state. [...]

A deeper trance state would allow us to get less distorted information on such a test as this, initially, but our results will improve, and such experiments will be helpful in that the various layers of the two personalities, Ruburt’s and my own, will be seen in their operating procedures.

(Seth came through with this material, including his jocular closing remarks, because a good friend of ours had asked many questions as he witnessed the session — one of them being why the right-handed Jane gestured mainly with her left hand while speaking in trance. [...]

(Jane began speaking in trance while sitting down; she was smoking; her eyes began to open soon; her pace was rather fast and her voice quite loud, comparatively—the loudest it has been in some time.)

(I asked Jane to handle the envelope carefully as soon as she came out of trance, and to lay it flat on the table while opening both envelopes, etc., in order to see if the small object was in a left-hand corner. [...]

[...] Just as they had before our three-month layoff from book work [after Session 707], her trances for “Unknown” Reality were proving to be more “difficult” to initiate than those for the previous Seth books.⁹ She often had to wait for just the right moment to get back into dictation following a break, too; so tonight, after we’d shared an apple, she sat rather impatiently anticipating Seth’s return. [...]

9. Appendixes 4 and 5, in Volume 1, show the insights Jane herself has gained so far about the more complicated trances she experiences while delivering the sessions for “Unknown” Reality. As noted in Appendix 4, she waits for that “certain clear focus” she needs before taking up the challenges of “translating multidimensional experience into linear terms and thought patterns.” [...]

[...] In trance she is unaware of her pauses, or of their number. [...]

[...] She was in the room only a few seconds, and Jane didn’t leave trance.)

[...] When she did go into trance as we sat at the living room table, her voice had a distinct tremor—more so than on Monday night [April 12] and a farther-away or more distant feeling or sound. [...]

[...] Jane’s trance had been good—she was far out, she said. [...]

(The circumstances surrounding Jane’s delivery of Seth’s Preface, while she was in trance, are given in the 685th session for February 25, 1974, in Section 1. After a break midway through the session, Seth began the material below at 10:57 P.M. He always indicates each word, phrase, or sentence to be underlined. [...]