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3. Nor was I quick enough to ask Seth if the material Jane delivered for him tonight constituted any kind of contradiction with that of the 689th session; for in that session he discussed man-animal and animal-man as existing within the Tertiary Period. Presumably these “mutated forms” had implied the beginnings of man, in ordinary terms, yet now Seth spoke of cave-dwelling humans as coexistent with large birds at an earlier time. [...] Too involved to determine, these questions, on too little material.

[...] At 9:30 Jane said she was starting to get “bleed-throughs” about Seth’s material for tonight.)

(I read her the material Seth had given so far this evening; at 10:30 she resumed the session as though there hadn’t been any interruption at all:)

[...] And since we decided that we were up to it, Seth returned in a quarter of an hour with better than two pages of material for Jane and me. [...]

[...] That was my first thought when Seth told us that in ancient times certain people had “lived for several centuries.” [...] Jane wasn’t upset by Seth’s remark, and I could appreciate the humorous aspects of my own initial reactions—yet in all of the years he’s been giving us material, Seth has never before made a reference to what seems like impossible longevities.

Both of us thought that the long-lived individuals postulated by Seth had existed outside of the Biblical framework, however, and in truth far earlier historically. “Seth saying that makes perfect sense to me. It doesn’t bother me,” Jane said when I asked her what she thought of Seth’s material. [...]

Tonight, Seth suggested that “portions of this session can be appended to the book,” meaning Dreams, but I found it easier to offer most of his generalized material verbatim while eliminating his information on one of my dreams.)

(Four months ago I wrote in Note 1 for Session 885 that through a series of misunderstandings the people at Ankh-Hermes, a publishing company in Holland, had violated their contract with Prentice-Hall by issuing a condensed translation of Seth Speaks. [...] Now Tam has just forwarded to us correspondence showing that Ankh-Hermes will do this—the new publishing date for Seth Spreekt is still uncertain, however.

[...] She has been doing very well on her book on dreams recently; this afternoon she remarked that it was going so well that she wondered where the material was coming from. Seth spoke on the integration of our personalities also in the 228th session; the material grew out of his material on the poetry book Jane produced so effortlessly. Our thought is that the dream book material is also appearing in the same way. According to Seth we are just beginning to use our creative abilities.

(Seth’s material above could explain the strange malaise she has been aware of in recent days, and we believe prompted Seth to call for the time off in the first place, in the 250th session.

[...] Seth cut the session short, and after the five witnesses had left Jane was physically sick to her stomach three successive times. [...] Later Jane told me she had very little memory of what Seth had said, even in the very strong voice; this is unusual for her.)

[...] Jane said Seth had surprised her by asking for the envelope. This was definitely Seth’s doing, she said, and he asked out of politeness.

[...] We had guests the following Friday evening, and as Jane described the multiple-channel effects to them, she realized that she was tuning into some of Seth’s backlog of data about peer groups and the need to conform. Seth hadn’t actually given us the material during Wednesday’s session, nor did he now — instead Jane verbalized it on her own to some extent. [...]

(“Not since the sessions started [in 1963] have I felt that Seth’s material was so richly available. [...]

(Seth returned in a humorous manner at 10:37.) Now: Resume dictation. [...]

[...] Note the difference between Seth’s heading for this chapter and the one Jane gave before the session.)

[...] See Note 1 for an excerpt from the few short paragraphs of personal material Seth gave us before saying good night at 9:35 P.M. Then see Note 2 for what is surely a pretty wild idea of mine.)

This material very nicely supplements information I’d quoted from the second session Seth gave in his series on the magical approach to reality. [...]

[...] In deeper terms, of course, such a study would actually validate the sources of science and religion [just as it would confirm Seth’s material on dreams, incidentally!]. [...]

[...] The answers will show you the kind of material you look for most often. [...]

[...] She said she thought Seth interrupted the material on John’s daughter, which Seth intended as another display of telepathy, because he realized the hour was late and the material too long and involved.)

[...] He has also been the subject of some of Seth’s material. [...]

(Seth delivered this material in a very amused manner. [...]

(Again, see the 199th session, in which Seth’s information on drug companies in Minneapolis is confirmed by John. John now laughed at Seth/Jane’s amusing reference to an affair.

5. All in Volume 1: Note 1 for Session 698 contains quotations from the dream material Seth gave in the 92nd session for September 28, 1964. Then see the equally interesting information on dreams in Session 699; I especially like Seth’s statement that “In a way, one remembered dream can be compared to a psychological photograph….” Jane’s poem, My Dreaming Self, is presented in the notes following that session, along with references to other dream material.

[...] I was tempted to ask Seth to explain his idea of what good milk was like, and in what life [or lives] he’d enjoyed such a potion, but I didn’t want to interrupt the flow of the material. [...]

(Seth spent the next six minutes or so giving some personal material for Jane. [...]

7. See the 710th session for Seth’s material on dreams, and the “snapshots” the conscious mind can learn to take during out-of-body travel.

(Before the session I mentioned the question I kept in mind for Seth, concerning what the Sinful Self may have learned since this last series of sessions was started. I said it was essential that we communicate to that personification [named by Seth for convenience’s sake only] that its performance was quite destructive to Jane, and that it must release its hold. [...] All of these points could be subsumed under the one broad question that I wanted Seth to go into when he’d finished with the Prentice-Hall material.)

(Jane expected Seth to continue with his Prentice-Hall material tonight, when I asked if she had any questions. [...]

[...] She remembered Seth’s material about her statement of ability and intent. [...]

[...] Make Rob ill, or contaminate his feelings towards Mass Events and Seth’s latest book: [See last PM Seth session, which Rob is typing as I write this.]”

[...] Seth told Rob that he’d seen only part of the room, described the rest of it and gave further details about Dick’s English life. The session lasted until 11:15 when Rob, not Seth, got tired, and suggested that we stop for the night. Seth said, Sleepy time is no crime. Now I am no poet, and you know it. Rob laughed, because Seth likes to tease me about my poetry.

[...] When he typed up Seth’s material on the first inner sense, though, he tried a simple deliberate experiment. [...]

(Seth’s preference here, incidentally, is the direct opposite of my own feeling on the matter. He uses emotional inflections delivering the material that greatly add to the meaning of the words themselves, however, and he may have had this in mind. [...]

[...] A woman’s slumber is, after all, a private and sacred thing. Seth said this with a dry sense of humor, then added, See how prim that last sentence would sound without the lively inflection I managed to give to Ruburt’s voice? [...] The material was coming through from her own entity.

[...] I speculated about my painting of the Italian woman, as I call her, and about a passage I read recently in Seth Speaks; in it, Seth had mentioned that he’d been a black in Ethiopia. Perhaps, I suggested to Jane, we could get some material on his life then.

[...] There followed a rather complicated discussion between us about the idea of questions for Seth—why I seemed to have them, but Jane seldom did. Much of Seth’s material to follow these notes deals with the topics of our discussion. [...]

[...] Your specific questions, however, also serve to give necessary ribs to the delivery of the material, so that many aspects are covered, and details not ignored. The two of you together then add to the entire psychological structure, and keep the delivery of the material in an excellent overall balance.

This balance is to a large extent responsible for the fact that the material reaches so many people, and your own joint characteristics in that regard are more obvious to your readers than to yourselves. The entire scope of the material of course reflects your joint questions—but Ruburt’s are often unformed, dealing with intuitive issues that he does not trust to verbalization.

(Actually, the affair is a perfect example of much of the material Seth has been going into in his latest book on the mass culture and mind. To Jane and me, it seemed as if his material was being enacted in real life as the ideal demonstration of Seth’s material. [...] We also think that these books-to-come will not manage to penetrate the forces behind the phenomenon nearly as well as Seth could, but that Seth won’t be carrying out such a project, either.

(I asked that Seth comment on my tooth-extraction hang-ups—involving the attendant soreness and my reactions to the whole affair—as well as the mouth-breathing difficulty. [...]

(Jane wanted Seth to discuss her own progress—which continues, if too slowly for her. [...]

(We also speculated that Seth might refer to what may be called the “Jonestown Affair,” or something like it. [...]

1. Jane referred to the concept of living information from another angle in her quoted material at the beginning of the 694th session, in Section 2. Also see Seth’s material on units of consciousness at 10:06 in the 682nd session, in Section 1.

In Personal Reality, too, Seth tells us: “Information does not exist by itself. [...] Your consciousness attracts the consciousness that is already connected with the material.” [...]

(10:36.) Give us a moment … A photograph is to some extent a materialization of an idealization carried to a certain degree. At another level, your body and your experience is a far richer fulfillment, a living, presently experienced materialization. [...]

Good evening.
 (“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] Speaking as Seth, Jane now delivered two pages of material for herself and me. [...] Note Seth’s heading for this Section 5, for example.

1. The reader can also refer to Seth’s material on dreams in chapters 8 and 10 in Seth Speaks, and chapters 10 and 20 in Personal Reality.

(Just as she had this afternoon, Jane “picked up” a little material from Seth at 9:00 this evening. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(Jane’s remarks were in reference to Seth’s material, given in his book dictation earlier in tonight’s session.)

(The following material is from the 770th session.

(“All right, Seth. [...]

In fact, I believe that a good amount of Seth’s material this evening was inspired by my struggles with that note. Such interchanges among Jane, Seth, and me—and among books—often take place.

2. Seth should have said that light can be defined as being made up of waves or particles, but he didn’t put it quite that way, and I let stand what he did say. He gave me a knowing, half-smiling look while delivering this paragraph, for it was obvious that his material was related to a note I’d shown Jane today—one I’m finishing for Mass Events. In it, I’m trying to deal very simply with both the uncertainty principle and the complementarity of light, among other tenets of physics. [...]

[...] Now Seth gave a few paragraphs for Jane, then said good night at 10:10 P.M. Even with the many pauses she’d used this evening—most of which I didn’t indicate—Jane’s delivery had often been quite intent and meaningful. In their own way the pauses served as additional punctuation and emphasis for some of Seth’s information.)

3. Seth’s “fields of consciousness” sounds like an elaboration of field theory in physics. [...]

(Jane still reads Seth’s material on his book. [...]

(As far as we knew, Seth would resume dictation on Chapter Three of his book this evening. A minute or two before the session began Jane told me that she had a “glimmer” from Seth — a few sentences. [...]

(9:27.) The intensity determines both the strength and the permanency of the physical image into which the thought or emotion will be materialized. In my own material I am explaining this in depth. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(11:40 P.M. I was surprised at Seth’s remark, since it seems to me that my energy has been “good” for as long as I can remember. And it developed that I did quote portions of Seth’s material on evolution and time in Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality. [...]

[...] Although they aren’t book dictation, we’re presenting here some of Seth’s own comments about the dream, since they have a general interest and also fit in with his earlier dream material.

[...] This came about because of a note I’m writing for Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality, and I may quote part of Seth’s material on the subject in that note.

[...] Jane’s delivery was very slow with this material. [...] What Seth had to say about the spontaneous beginnings of life, in our terms, surprised me….)

[...] Seth’s material has been infused with a driving energy. [...]

[...] Nor do I always try to keep material in mind. Instead I’m usually concentrating on recording it, checking with Seth when I’m in doubt about a word, asking that worthy to repeat a phrase when I fall behind in the notes….

[...] Seth was right there, she said, ready with more material, “but I’m tired. [...]

(Jane is still writing her book of poetry, Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time.¹ Last week she taped some of this material. [...]

2. Now Seth began a rundown of the roles played by each of the families of consciousness as he’d listed them in the 732nd session. [...] Since Jane had already refreshed her memory of those psychic groupings before the session, and, presumably, would deliver Seth’s material on them in the proper order, I matched up their names with the successive blocks of data given in the session. Perhaps I should have double-checked by asking Seth to rename the families, in order, but I didn’t think it necessary.

(Seth returned at 11:19. [...] This material came through even though we had our first viewing of the “hill house” yesterday; see the notes [added later] at the beginning of tonight’s session. Seth’s information on the Foster Avenue place, and our present and potential relationships with it, was very illuminating. [...]

(Here’s one point brought out in that deleted material: Since Seth had told Jane and me long ago that the three of us belong to the Sumari family of consciousness,⁴ we were more than curious now when he declared that the woman who presently owns the house on Foster Street is also a Sumari: “[She] added Sumari characteristics of expansiveness.” But to go a step further: According to Seth the house’s previous owner for many years, a male now deceased, had also been Sumari. [...]

1. Naturally, Seth’s material here began to sound very reminiscent of Jane’s and my own Sumari characteristics — especially those concerning the “mystical sense of connection with nature” that each of us feels, and our individual desires “to work in solitude.”

[...] (Pause; smile.) Seth’s material on action will help you here.

[...] After a minute, at 10:47, I said good night to each personality, figuring that Seth had been present even if unheard. [...] Her expression changed, she smiled, and I knew Seth would speak. [...]

[...] When Seth came through regularly she always knew beforehand of his emotional presence, she said, and so had no doubts or questions about beginning a session.

[...] When this occurs the primary physical construction, the camouflage material, loses its power. [...]