[...] In the following chapter we will let you become more aware of these ever-active portions of your own reality. End of chapter.

(Seth had told us last time that he was near the end of the chapter, but we hadn’t realized of course that he was to finish it with a sentence or two in the next session. [...]

[...] I will give you the very last of Chapter Two, and begin the following chapter.

In the following chapter I hope to give you an idea, quite simply, of our existence, the work in which we are involved, the dimension in which we exist, the purposes that we hold dear; and most of all, of those concerns that make up our experience.

(“Well, first I’ll read you this paragraph heading the list: Some of these questions may refer to subjects you plan to cover in later chapters. If so, let us know and we’ll just pass them by for consideration in this chapter.”)

(As instructed by Seth in the last session, I had compiled a list of questions for this chapter. [...]

(Earlier today I told Jane that I was afraid the questions weren’t very representative of Seth’s book, and that to assemble a truly relevant list of them would require an intimate study of each chapter. [...]

[...] [They began to approach those described in the 639th session in Chapter Ten, and the 653rd session in Chapter Thirteen, to name but two such instances mentioned in this book.] Finally she called me at 3:30 p.m. as I was painting in my studio, and read Silver Brothers to me. [...]

[...] (See the 620th session in Chapter Four.) Only when particular procedures are assigned to it, and when it is set aside from normal life, does hypnotic suggestion seem so esoteric. [...]

[...] Since telepathy exists (as described in Chapter Three), the subject will react not only to verbal commands but to the unspoken beliefs of the practitioner, thereby “proving,” of course, the hypnotist’s theory of what his profession is.

(At 3:10 Jane said she’d just picked up from Seth the heading for Chapter 4 of the book — that she had to reach a certain level of well-being before she could get his material, obviously.

In the next chapter let us look more specifically at the importance of symbolism in your mind, your body, and your environment.

Chapter 4: “The Broken-Hearted, the Heartless, and Medical Technology.”

(1. Seth deals with cellular memory to some extent in the 638th session in Chapter Ten; also see the 632nd and 637th sessions. Among other material covering altered states of consciousness on Jane’s part, refer to her Introduction, as well as the notes for the 639th session in Chapter Ten, and the 645th session in Chapter Eleven. By the looks of things, she’ll have more such episodes that we can add to later chapters. [...]

(2. There are clear connections between the “massive” portions of Jane’s latest psychic adventure and her first encounters with Seth Two in April, 1968; she goes into those experiences in some detail in Chapter Seventeen of The Seth Material. There is more on Seth Two in Chapter Twenty-two of Seth Speaks. In Chapter One of The Seth Material, she describes her first “trip” through an altered state of consciousness — and how it resulted in the production of her manuscript, The Physical Universe as Idea Construction. See the notes preceding the 633rd session in Chapter Eight.

[...] I came across his essay, The Poet, in which he talked about the ‘speakers’ as being those who use their inner abilities to ‘speak the inner secrets of nature.’ The essay impressed me strongly, seeming to echo elements in my own writing and psychic characteristics; and of course I thought of Seth’s ‘Speakers’ as he described them in Chapter Twenty of Seth Speaks. [...]

[...] Those “unused gaps of time,” those long weeks passing between recent chapters for Dreams, have become very worrisome to me, for they fall outside of Jane’s natural creative rhythms. She hasn’t even had many private sessions during those breaks in book work; she gave but two private sessions between chapters 10 and 11, and four between chapters 11 and 12. [...]

Five months ago, in the opening notes for Session 936 in Chapter 11 of Dreams, I wrote that by the end of August 1981 Jane had roughed in the first three chapters of The Magical Approach to Reality: A Seth Book. In all of the weeks following she did only some very loose work on three more chapters. [...]

[...] This followed by a part 2 with chapters following an intuitive shape favoring more association, the sinful self stuff too, showing the portions of psychic motion, could start with a chapter 1 very like the one I have organized and then just have a session or so a chapter until part 2. i don’t know, its a thought…

(Before the session Jane and I went over the questions remaining on the list we had prepared for Chapter Twenty. “I hope Seth will just do those chapters on religion and reincarnation, and get them over with,” she said. [...]

(Somewhat to my surprise Seth started Chapter Twenty-one this evening, but I soon realized that he wasn’t leaving our questions behind. [...]

[...] Therefore we will begin the next chapter, called: “The Meaning of Religion.”

End of chapter.

[...] You may take the rest of the session to make up an excellent — underlined twice (humorously), list of questions that will appear in the next, question-and-answer chapter.

[...] Sure enough, he had listed a question-and-answer chapter. [...]

Chapter Five: As you read the words upon this page, you realize that the information that you are receiving is not an attribute of the letters of the words themselves. [...]

I am pleased with the beginning of my chapter, for I think I have hit upon an analogy, and a true one, that will release the reader from the artificial bondage of physical form. [...]

[...] She said the two-minute pause at the start of the delivery took place because she was consciously “hung up” over how Seth was going to begin Chapter Five. [...]

(We chose the first category since it would continue the subject matter of this chapter. See the notes for the 616th session, in Chapter Two, for descriptions of Jane’s first experience with Seth’s multiple channels. [...]

[...] (See the 619th session in Chapter Four, as well as the first session in this chapter.) You accepted those ideas for a reason, individually and en masse, for mankind at any given “time” has a strong idea of the particular sort of world experience it will create.

(On September 25, 1972, the day of the 617th session in Chapter Three, I wrote a note describing how Jane and I had seen and heard geese flying south, in a spectacle both inscrutable and moving. [...]

[...] In addition to Seth’s volume, these sometimes resulted in very creative products of her “own”: Some of the psychic experiences connected with her book of poetry, Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time, which she began in November, 1972, are described in the 639th session in Chapter Ten. And in the 653rd session in Chapter Thirteen, we go into those involved with the writing of her long poem, Dialogues of the Speakers, on April 2, 1973.

End of Chapter Three.

(Dialogues, a book of poetry, is described in the 639th session in Chapter Ten. Aspect Psychology, Jane’s own theoretical work on psychic matters, is referred to in the 618th session in Chapter Three, among others. It was born out of her writings on Adventures in Consciousness, as mentioned in Chapter Twenty-one of Seth Speaks, and incorporates that material.)

Because of your educational framework, the individual is taught to be wary of the inner self, as mentioned earlier (in the 614th session in Chapter Two, for instance), so unfortunately the ordinary man or woman looks for the solutions of personal problems outside of the self, where they can least be found. [...]

[...] I don’t know about you,” she laughed, “but I’d like to see it last another five chapters…. [...]

3. In Note 1 for Session 681 I dealt very briefly with fluctuations of consciousness, or reality, and referred the reader to the 567th session in Chapter 16 of Seth Speaks. For additional material on the same subject in the same book, also see the 535th session in Chapter 9 and the 576th in Chapter 19.

(Following the last session, Jane began thinking about chapter divisions and headings for the new book. [...] I told her that the book might not have chapters, that Seth might have something else planned. [...]

6. Seth discusses a multidimensional god in Chapter 14 of Seth Speaks, and Jane does so from her viewpoint in Chapter 17 of Adventures in Consciousness.

(10:20.) Chapter 7: “The Good, the Bad, and the Catastrophic. [...]

CHAPTER 7

(Several times this afternoon Jane told me that she’d picked up Seth’s title for the next chapter of his book. [...]

We will begin a new chapter, to be entitled: “Childrens’ Play, Reincarnation, and Health.”

(4:44.) I did want to begin the chapter. [...]

[...] We will begin the next chapter. [...]

I am speaking now, in this chapter, mainly about your own planet and solar system, but the same applies to all aspects of your physical universe. [...]

— now that I have begun on our next chapter. [...]

3. This passage is from Chapter 20 of Politics. Then see Chapter 21 for more of Jane’s material on our moving.

[...] In Chapter 7, see the 530th session at 9:30, when he discoursed upon our frequent projection of “replica images” or “pseudophysical forms” to vividly desired locations. In the 565th session at 9:30, for Chapter 16, he used the example of one’s possible responses to a telephone call to show how all “probable actions are equally valid,” no matter which one of them is physically actualized.

6. For material on the death — and life — of Rooney, see these sources: in Personal Reality, sessions 638–39 in chapters 9 and 10, respectively; in Dialogues, Part 3.

[...] See the notes prefacing the 653rd session for April 4, in Chapter Thirteen, describing how she gave birth to the original long Speaker poem while in an altered state of consciousness. [...]

[...] As mentioned (in sessions 651–52 in Chapter Thirteen), even then the body construction has built-in mechanisms to alter such an arrangement when further data can be handled.

The next brief chapter will be devoted to methods that will allow you to take advantage of greater options, to bring into your daily experience events and experiences that have so far remained “latent.” [...]

Chapter Nine: “Natural Grace, the Frameworks of Creativity, and the Health of Your Body and Mind. [...]

CHAPTER 9