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Other probable events could just as well become physically experienced ones. Those beliefs about yourself form your own self-image, and define your concepts of what is possible or not possible for you. You will choose from those nonphysical probable events, therefore, only those you feel you are in accord with.

Because of your psychological and psychic structure, there is within the rich makeup of your being a literally endless variety of what you may call probable selves. [...]

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Continuing with the heading: “Your Daily Reality as the Expression of Specific Probable Events.” [...]

[...] These are not portraits of yourselves as past personalities in your terms, or of particular reincarnational selves. They are pictorial representatives of the whole selves that you are. In your terms the selves that are the sum of your reincarnational personalities. These whole selves then are a part of your entity. Your probable selves are also a part of your entity, however. [...] You can draw upon their knowledge, and you can also draw upon the knowledge of your own reincarnational selves, “past,” in quotes, and “future.”

[...] We wanted to know how such a thing was possible.)

(This question refers to a discussion the four of us had at first break, after Seth had given us data on any possible destruction of our earth, the various probable systems involving other earths, etc. We had wondered what course the entities would take who had manifested on our particular probability-earth, in the event of its literal destruction.)

[...] Not only this, but it is retained not only by the individual selves as you think of them. It becomes part of the knowledge of all the probable selves in other realities also.

[...] Some probable selves would have shattering dreams of disaster. [...]

[...] Those responsible for such a destruction would have destroyed only reality as they knew it, in the probable system. Other probable earths and other probable races of mankind coexist, and you are apart of these also. [...]

(Following a discussion of reincarnation, probable selves and time. [...]

Now, you may all rest, but I hope that during your break you try to let the barriers that you have built up within yourselves dissolve for only you form them and only you can dissolve them and what you do now is important, you see, not only for the self you are now, in your terms, but again, in your terms of reference, for the selves that you have been and the selves that you will be. [...]

[...] And your reincarnated selves, or personalities, are not imprisoned in their time, as you think of time. [...]

[...] Time has open ends in all directions or such a thing as probabilities would not exist. [...]

When I speak in terms of counterparts, then, or of reincarnational selves and probable selves, I am saying that in the true symphony of your being you are violins, oboes, cymbals, harps — in other words, you are a living instrument through which you play yourself. [...]

[...] I am alert to the fact that I am using many terms, and that it may seem difficult to understand the differences between probable and reincarnational selves, counterparts and families of consciousness. [...]

[...] If you ask: “How can I have reincarnational and probable selves at once?”, you are asking a question comparable to the one mentioned earlier, colon: “How can an apple have color and be round at the same time?”

To some degree you feel the same way when you encounter the concept of probable selves, or of counterparts. [...]

[...] You may or may not have your own encounters with past reincarnational selves or probable selves. [...]

[...] I can feel — I know — that Seth’s going to end his book soon now, probably tonight, and I don’t want it to happen, I guess.” [...]

[...] You have only to experience the moment as you know it as fully as possible — as it exists physically within the room, or outside in the streets of the city in which you live. [...]

Christ knew however, clairvoyantly, that these events in one way or another would occur, and the probable dramas that could result. [...]

[...] A small amount of self-examination should show you that in a very simple way you are always thinking about probabilities. You are always making choices between probable actions and alternate courses. A choice presupposes probable acts, each possible, each capable of actualization within your system of reality. [...]

4. In Volume 1, see Session 687 at 10:01: Seth discussed how the dreamer and his or her probable selves, having “the same psychic roots,” can share in working out a given challenge in a probable reality.

On many occasions then you set yourself a problem — “Shall I do this or that?” — and form a dream in which you follow through the probable futures that would “result” from the courses available. [...] Even in your accepted reality, then, to that extent in such a dream you react to probable events as well as to the events chosen for waking physical experience. Your daily life is affected, because in such a dream you deal with probable predictabilities. You are hardly alone, however, so each individual alive also has his and her private dreams, and these help form the accepted probability sequence of the following day, and of “time to come.” [...]

2. In Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality, Seth designed all but two of his eight exercises, or practice elements, to help the reader directly explore some of the aspects of probable realities — although even the exceptions (numbers 6 and 8) aren’t far removed from probability concepts. His first practice element grew out of Jane’s projection into a probable past in her hometown of Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Anyway, we do different things in that class and one of the things that we did, you know how we in this class use the pyramid at the top of the head to contact other probable selves? [...]

[...] Possibly in the Syracuse area. [...]

[...] My memory of you includes your probable selves, and all of these coordinates exist simultaneously in a point that takes up no space. [...]

“I intend to implement this material whenever possible by helping both of you achieve subjective experiences that will fill out the words for you. These will vary according to conditions but are much more possible now, after the sessions’ latest development.

“If you keep these channels open and free, you will get material that is as undistorted as possible,” he said. [...]

[...] This will be a different kind of in-depth learning, a rather unique and original development that will be as devoid as possible of stereotyped symbols, which are usually almost automatically superimposed on such experiences. [...]

I perceive people in a room in a far different manner than they perceive themselves; their various past and future reincarnated personalities, but not their probable selves, are perceivable to me.

[...] They exist as probabilities, as potentials, actualized in thoughts but not turned into definite physical form. [...] I would have to tune into a future date, in your terms, and probe it with all of its ramifications in order to ascertain which of the probable actions I saw in your earlier would be actualized in your later.

[...] Number four: Is it possible to name, or describe, a first Speaker?”)

[...] To deliver such information through Ruburt would be an immense task, but it is possible. [...]

[...] Probable man represents alternate man from your viewpoint, alternate versions of the species. [...] In out-of-body states many people have encountered probable selves and probable realities. [...] The private psyche contains within itself the knowledge of its own probabilities, and it contains a mirror in which the experience of the species can at least be glimpsed.

[...] It becomes probable in your system but seeks its own “level,” and becomes actualized as it falls into place in another reality whose “coded sequence” fits its own. [...]

[...] A certain kind of free conscious behavior is possible when you are not physically oriented as you are in the waking state, and that activity is necessary even for physical survival.

[...] Your own free consciousness and your body consciousness form an alliance that makes this possible.

[...] It consists also of course of the probable selves of which we have spoken, and it unites and directs infinitely larger portions of action than possible for the physical personality.

As far as we can see, Seth’s reincarnational, counterpart, and probable selves, and his families of consciousness, suggest the varied, complicated structure of human personality — and hint of the invisible psychological thickness that fills out the physical event of the self in time.

[...] Talk about probable realities! This manuscript seems to possess dimensions that place it — and Jane and me — in many probabilities at once. [...]

[...] He reveals the very structure upon which our free will rests: for if events were immutable or fated, no free will would be possible.

[...] You will realize that you are more than you realize that you are now, but you will not lose the state of which you are now aware, and regardless of the fact of reincarnation and regardless of probable selves the unique self that you now call yourself has eternal validity even though the memories that you cannot now consciously recall will be yours in their entirety. [...]

[...] You are all children in one way playing beneath the maple trees, dreaming in the long twilights of your adult state even as your adult selves now seemingly so independent would not know what to say to your childhood selves if you met them; but within you the childhood self must also grow, and allow it its growth. [...]

[...] They are very close, however, in comparison with other religions in that they at least accepted the possibility that all things were a portion of vitality and life. [...]

There can be, in the realm of possibilities—there will be—within a three month period, I believe, someone to whom you will relate quite strongly. [...]

[...] “Probable selves” evoke still other such experiences. [...]

[...] I thought she’d probably not have a session, but eventually she decided to after we had talked it over. [...]

As far as the book is concerned, change your habits of thought, EASIER SAID THAN DONE, and yet quite possible. [...]

[...] You can also experience versions of dreams of probable selves, but there will always be some point of contact—that is, there will always be a reason why you pick up such a dream. [...]

[...] Otherwise there would have been vast holes in that grid of perception that makes possible the very sensations of physical life.

(Now Jane paused several times in her delivery—and I had the feeling that Seth was groping for the words that would make his meaning as clear to us as possible.)

[...] Using your idea of time, I can only say that when the entire gestalt of consciousnesses that formed a particular earth have formed its reality to the best of their abilities, fulfilling their individual and mass capacities as far as possible, then they lovingly turn over that grid to others, and continue to take part in existences that are not physical in your terms. [...]

(Perhaps I put this appendix together as I did partly because Jane herself isn’t much turned on by reincarnational concepts, although she does like the way Seth insists upon the unlimited attributes of each personality; and within such a “simultaneous” framework there’s plenty of room for probable selves, reincarnational selves, and [added later] counterpart selves.²

[...] But in this appendix, at least, I discovered that it wasn’t always possible to achieve both of those goals just as I wanted to — not in connection with each point mentioned. [...]

[...] You see, it is possible in theory for you to experience directly a concept-essence of the material in any given night’s session.⁸

[...] He is now a personality that was one of the probable personalities¹⁴ into which Seth could grow. [...]

Do probable selves actually communicate with each other through their world-view frameworks, then, or can such an interchange of idea or emotion take place more “directly” at times — simply between the probable personalities involved? [...]

It is quite possible to tune in to the world view of any person, living or dead in your terms. [...] Ruburt’s experience simply serves as an example of what is possible.

[...] One is probably just the state of Jane’s recent exceptional psychic receptivity. [...]

[...] It is not possible to move in to such a world view if you are basically at odds with it, for example. [...]

(On December 13 Jane came up with her best title yet for the book of poetry she’s putting together: If We Live Again: Love’s Lives and Probable Selves. [...]

[...] However, as I wrote in Note 1 for Session 709, in Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality, “supposed faster-than-light particles are thought to be possible within the context of Einstein’s special theory of relativity.”