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Write notes up tomorrow on the gal with Hodgkin’s disease. Felt much better today, mentally and physically—roused, enthusiastic—followed Seth’s suggestions as far as I recalled them from last night and with I admit, results. My eyes worked some better, I typed an hour or so copying the beginning of James; got five or so good new pages; and muscles in head, ears, eyes, neck definitely were relaxing.

Twilight; remembered Seth last PM on sense data; felt myself respond... seem to... come together in my body better and felt small secret places within my body for which I have no names, relax, open, pools in the back of the ears ripple and relax. Very vague but definite idea... for book, using today’s episode with the girl and its effects as opener—

(Jane asked class to go into Alpha to help a visitor, Juanita, who has ear and eye problems, to help relieve her symptoms. [...]

[...] You can clear your own ears and your own vision. [...]

Now each of you, in your own way, hide certain groupings of feelings from yourselves so I am not necessarily directing this specifically at our friend here except that she has the trouble with the ear this evening. [...]

[...] 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... [...] this all continues; I feel a twinge of guilt—Rob’s typing reminds me that I was to do my three hours—but this IS writing; cataloging body-mood changes; I want to sketch the men working—eyes, sinuses, ears and neck strongly “working.” [...]

[...] Jane reports considerable progress here, saying her ears are now clearer “than they’ve been in years.” She’s been able to swab out her left ear, and there has been some blood there.)

[...] You can expect—if you continue as you are—far greater mobility in Ruburt’s neck, head and shoulders, clearing of the ears completely, greater relaxation of the entire face and throat area in rather quick progression.

[...] In the same manner the ears hear sounds that are distant from the body. In fact, and this is a rather important point, the ears ordinarily hear sounds outside the body more readily than sounds inside the body itself. Since the ears are in the body more or less, and of it, it would be logical for an open-minded observer to suppose that the ears would be well attuned to the inner sounds to a high degree. [...]

[...] The ears can be trained to some degree by neurotic individuals into a sound awareness pertaining to the body itself. [...] But as a rule the ears neither listen to nor hear the inner sounds of the body.

[...] This is also why I mentioned that the ears and the eyes, while connected with the body, are directed outward. [...]

(Then I looked up to see Jane reaching up to her left ear with her left hand—in a spontaneous gesture I haven’t seen her do in I don’t know when. [...] With her gesture Jane couldn’t quite reach the ear, which itched. [...] She tried again—and did reach the ear. [...]

[...] As of now she can’t get her right hand up to her right ear by some little distance—but she will, I told her. [...]

2. Area clearing by right ear; a spot long “plugged:, has relationship to throat, neck, ear, eye. [...]

[...] There is no coincidence that it is the left ear involved. [...] The right ear, the wrong ear, bothers you for you do not want to hear what you consider the bad sounds. The left ear and the left portion of the body generally also are connected with the unconscious. [...]

(“Is that why my left ear bothers me?”)

[...] Then she discovered that she can now touch the pillow behind her left ear with her left hand—something she couldn’t do even a day or so ago. I remembered when she’d considered it a triumph to be able to barely reach her left ear with her left hand. Now she can reach perhaps three inches behind the ear. [...]

[...] Jane began digging at her left ear with her left hand—in a motion she now does almost automatically. Actually, she reached up further behind the ear than ever before. [...]

Head/Ears/Eyes. [...]

[...] In the same manner, the ears hear sounds that are distant from the body. In fact, the ears ordinarily hear sounds from outside the body more readily than sounds inside the body itself. Since the ears are connected to the body and part of it, it would be logical for an open-minded observer to suppose that the ears would be well attuned to the inner sounds to a high degree. [...]

The ears can be trained to some degree into a sound-awareness pertaining to the body itself. [...] But, as a rule, the ears neither listen to nor hear the inner sounds of the body.

[...] Eyes seem to improve constantly though not yet AOK; and head, ears, etc. [...]

[...] Anyhow—by Sunday evening the whole head, neck, eye, ear, area quite improved in motion; moves faster, those ligaments more resilient, and the motion though restricted, I’d say, near normal. [...]

[...] She also was able to reach her left ear with her left hand again—and dug more wax out of the ear with a fingernail [index finger]. [...]

[...] Thus sound, even though detected by ear, would act also as a stimulus to the body’s detection of the same sound via feeling.

[...] I mean by this that although the eyes are for seeing, the ears for hearing and so forth, the potentials of the physical body include the capacity to hear, for example, through any given portion of the bodily expanse.

You may see an automobile for example with your eyes, and hear its sound through your ears, but it is also within the human capacity, ideally speaking, to hear the sight of the car, and to see the sound of the car. [...]

[...] They begin around the back of my right ear like tiny circles suddenly turning; or clock wheels that had been wound too tightly, being released; then the motion spreads out in concentric circles, up to the right eye, and down to the right jaw. [...]

[...] The sensation localized somewhat in back of my ears. [...]

(“Seth, why does my left ear become noisy at times?”)

[...] Old attempt to close out world, same as her eyes and your ear. [...]

In these instances the electromagnetic components were made to change range, so that they could be picked up by the physical ear. [...]

They could not have been received by the physical ears because the necessary transformation of components had not been made within that range. [...]

[...] I impressed or affected Ruburt’s ear rather directly because this was the easiest procedure. [...]