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I will have you both do the point of power exercise. [...]

In this section, therefore, I have outlined various experiments or exercises for the reader. These will certainly lead you to form your own versions of the exercises given, or will open your mind so that spontaneously, in your own way, you become aware of events that were literally invisible to you before.

[...] For his point-of-power exercises have him just playfully for five minutes pretend—knowing that it is a game—that he feels perfectly normal and relaxed. [...]

[...] In certain terms hypnosis is simply an exercise in the alteration of beliefs, and only too clearly shows that sense experience follows expectations.

In my own book, for an intellectual exercise—and simply for that, since I do believe that all of you do exist—I am going to deal in one chapter with the difficulties of proving—from my vantage point—that three-dimensional reality does exist and is inhabited by creatures—thinking creatures. [...]

You could not afford to identify too completely with such bodies until you learned how to survive within them, so in the dream state (pause) the true processes of life began as these new bodies and earth-tuned consciousnesses saw themselves mentally exercising all portions of the body. [...]

[...] For the sketching will exercise the eyes, and the air is a help, increasing appetite, and allowing the body to become more responsive to changing conditions.

[...] Your suggestion about elimination was a great help, for this automatically means that the body is exercised more in walking, and that bodily wastes are eliminated much more readily, hastening recovery. [...]

[...] That exercise is a part of this session.

[...] Your little exercise this evening is an excellent example of reassurance, reinforcement, and practical learning. [...]

[...] I want him to continue with my book, and when he reaches the portions on point of power and natural hypnosis I will give him instructions so that both of you together spend five minutes a day at each exercise. [...]

[...] She continues and extends her walking each day, her exercises, etc.

[...] Jane probably described Volume 1 as simply as possible, however, when she said: “Volume 1 provides the general background and information upon which the exercises and methods in Volume 2 depend.” [...]

This present book, Volume 2, goes on from there as Seth creates an intriguing thematic framework, and then invites us to “play along,” to join in and to discover the unknown reality for ourselves through a series of exercises geared to illuminate the inner structures upon which our exterior ones depend.

[...] It’s a contradictory attitude, of course, since these private sessions are an effort to learn something about our hassles—not a self-congratulatory exercise.

The squatting exercise was difficult for two reasons—one having to do with beliefs, and the second to do with the soreness about the joints. [...]

(Following a discussion of everyone’s experience for the week and a mobility of consciousness exercise.)

Ruburt’s work with the contents of the mind, for example, is barely started, and I will include his exercises in my book (amused)—while giving him full credit, of course. [...]

I will deal with some such exercises later on in the book. [...]

“Sunday, June 8, 1980: As I went about the day, showering, doing my hair, reading the paper, doing my exercises and so forth, I kept getting stuff from Seth on … the next chapter of his book, I think to be called ‘Master Events and Overlays.’ There can be overlays of one civilization onto another, so that a ‘real’ civilization in one sphere of existence can appear as myth in another…. [...]

[...] He should finish my book, then begin it again, this time following the exercises as he needs them. [...]