Section 6 also contains the story of how Jane and I searched for the “hill house” we bought and moved into before the last section of “Unknown” Reality was finished. That material makes an excellent ending for Volume 2. For Jane and me, our house-hunting adventures were an intensely interesting journey through a complicated skein of probabilities. Seth’s information and my own notes detail the interdependent, yet spontaneous, psychic and physical relationships within which each of us elects to move; they reveal how a conscious understanding of such factors, some of which may reach back into one’s childhood, can help greatly in practical daily living. As Seth comments in the 742nd session for April 16, 1975, in Section 6: “It is obvious that when you move from one place to another you make an alteration in space — but you alter time as well, and you set into motion a certain psychological impetus that reaches out to affect everyone you know … Such messages are often encountered in the dream state. Empty houses are psychic vacancies that yearn to be filled. When you move, you move into other portions of your selfhood.”

Many good things will be found in Volume 2. Perhaps I can intrigue our readers by giving Seth’s headings for the three sections it will contain. In length those sections may somewhat exceed the three in Volume 1, and are rather complicated.

Section 4: Explorations. A Study of the Psyche as It Is Related to Private Life and the Experience of the Species. Probable Realities as a Course of Personal Experience. Personal Experience as It Is Related to “Past” and “Future” Civilizations of Man.

(During her delivery Jane had also “picked up” that Seth would soon finish this third section, and that the first three sections would make up Part 1 of the book. [...]

(That “earlier session” is the 687th, in Section 1, and in it Seth mentioned parallel man, probable man, and alternate man. But actually his material therein [and part of the heading for Section 2] grew out of the discourse Jane had come through with on her own the night before the 687th session was held. [...]

1. While discussing probabilities and his units of consciousness in the 682nd session, in Section 1, Seth told us: “The idea of one universe alone is basically nonsensical. [...]

[...] “I think Seth’s going to start another section tonight — but I don’t think he’s quite finished with the last one….” However, Section 4 was finished after all.)

[...] She said she felt that in this section Seth would have a series of exercises related to the one he’d just given, these would help people glimpse at least some of the alternate or probable realities discussed in Section 4.

[...] The next section (5): “How to Journey Into the ‘Unknown’ Reality,” colon: “Tiny Steps and Giant Steps. [...]

This procedure left me knowing only one thing about the object: that it was from some section of The New York Times, date unknown. After the experiment was over, Jane opened the envelopes containing the test object; then I went back to the studio, and from the hidden section I picked out the page from which the object had been torn. It turned out to be pages 11—12 of Section One of the Times for Sunday, November 6, 1966.

[...] Then backing up to the pile, I pulled out a section without looking at it, and tore off a portion of a page. [...]

[...] Then, with my eyes closed, I picked up the section from which the object had been taken, groped over to a floor-to-ceiling bookcase, and placed it on a high shelf where I would not see it.

(12:01.) Now: Section 2: “Parallel Man, Alternate Man, and Probable Man,” colon: “The Reflection of These in the Present, Private Psyche.” [...]

[...] We still have much to learn about the brain (let alone the mind); even though by now all sections of the brain have been probed down to the molecular level, no trace or imprint of a thought has ever been found within its tissue. [...]

SECTION 2

A building, or a part of a building where they stay, now, where there is a long narrow section, a roof supported, a flat roof, I believe, long and narrow, supported by posts—

[...] In a north section though not strictly due north, and perhaps 125 for a tour.

(“We went by Fort Charlotte, in the north section. [...]

[...] He divided the manuscript into six sections of varying lengths. [...] There are different kinds of organization present, however, and in any given section of the book, several levels of consciousness are appealed to at once.”

Section 3: “The Private Probable Man, the Private Probable Woman, the Species in Probabilities, and Blueprints for Realities” — Nine sessions devoted to the importance of dreams in the creation of “concrete” events from probable ones. This section also includes discussions on the True Dream-Art Scientist, the True Mental Physicist, and the Complete Physician, as well as material on subatomic particles and the spin of electrons in relationship to perceived reality.

[...] This process can also result in a similar approach on my part when I discuss his dictation, so I’ll initiate a summary of Volume 1 by using four sources presented by Seth himself: a key passage from his Preface; the headings he gave for the three sections that comprise Volume 1, along with a few elaborations of my own; a brief description of the appendixes which I assembled over a period of time; and a passage from the 762nd session, in which, eight months after he’d finished “Unknown” Reality, Seth speaks further about his purposes in producing it.

[...] It turned out that I had chosen Section One of the New York Times for Sunday, November 6,1966, and from this had torn the object from pages 11 and 12. It also developed that I had leafed through this section of the paper in a casual way—without remembering the pages in question, 11 and 12—and that Jane had never seen it.

[...] Section One of the Times was many pages thick, as is usual on a Sunday. [...] These two items are on file along with the front page of the section.

[...] The object was torn by me from pages 11 and 12 of the New York Times’ first news section for Sunday, November 6,1966. [...]

As I note in the Epilogue for this volume, Section 6 in Volume 2 contains the story of how we moved into our “hill house,” just outside Elmira, N.Y., a month before Seth completed that section — and his part in “Unknown” Reality as a whole — in April, 1975. [...] Politics is also mentioned in the Epilogue to Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality, and my first session notes on it show up in Section 4, in the second volume.

[...] He did group his material into six sections, though, with headings. [...] There are different kinds of organizations present, however, and in any given section of the book, several levels of consciousness are appealed to at once.” [...]

Since the sections themselves are of unequal length, for a while I contemplated trying a four-and-two division; but as Jane commented, “Three sections in one book are enough of a bite for the reader.” [...]

[...] Most of his material is deleted here, but I can write that her situation was tied in to her work with the challenges presented by her physical symptoms [as described in Note 8 for the 679th session, in Section 1]. [...]

1. See Note l for the 687th session, in Section 1. In the next paragraph I’d like to review from a slightly different angle some of the information presented there.

4. Seth discussed the basic unpredictability from which significances arise in sessions 681–82, in Section 1. After break at 11:47 in the 681st session, he incorporated this line in his material: “From the ‘chaotic’ bed of your dreams springs your ordered daily organized action.”

(Break was over at 10:45.)  This is the beginning of the next section —

SECTION 3

[...] In it Seth gave the heading for Section 4, just before finishing his evening’s work with a few minutes of personal information for Jane and me. [...]

[...] I read her the heading for Section 4 now, while we waited for Seth to come through “I haven’t the vaguest idea, even, of what all that means,” she said. [...]

Dictation: Let us begin this section with a brief discussion concerning “evolution.”

[...] End of section.

[...] This 704th session continues briefly in Volume 2, where Seth gives the heading for Section 4 [which opens that second volume]; then he adds a few words of personal material for Jane and me before saying good night at 11:21 P.M. The notes for tonight’s session are presented below, however, since all of them refer to material already given.

(The three sections that will make up Volume 2 are listed in the Epilogue for this book.)

[...] All the time, we were unaware that Seth had finished Section 5.

[...] The next section (6) will be titled: “Reincarnation and Counterparts,” colon: “The ‘Past’ Seen Through the Mosaics of Consciousness.”

[...] Some of the exercises to be given in this section will be geared to that purpose.

[...] I was the proprietor of a gas station on Keystone Avenue, up near the skating-rink section, and on the other side of the highway from the Acme Market location. [...]

[...] A building or part of a building where they stay now, where there is a long narrow section, a roof supported, a flat roof I believe, long and narrow, supported by posts with a floor not of wood. [...]

[...] In a north section, though not strictly due north, and perhaps 125 for a tour…. [...]

[...] This statue, with the row houses to the left and the street light: Following around the curve to the left, you run into a better-sectioned area, up a hill on a broad street now. [...]

[...] Most likely this was my interpretation of her giving birth to the child; she was supposed to have a Caesarean section but didn’t and was in labor 25 hours; a woman is described here, gray hair, buck teeth, yellow teeth—this, Barb says, is a description of the man’s mother—she wanted him to marry Barb: teeth not really buck but protuberant and yellowed; also gray hair. [...]

(Then came Jane’s projection-probability experience involving her home town of Saratoga Springs; she described this episode in her notes preceding the 685th session, in Section 1, and Seth elaborated upon it considerably in the next session. [...]

Now: The beginning of Section 2. You already have the heading. [...]

1. See Section 1, sessions 682–84.

(A note added later: Seth himself had some things to say about Atlantis in the 742nd session for Section 6; the session also contains excerpts from the Atlantis material he delivered a month or so after finishing Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality. [...]

(During the whole of last month [October] Jane also had to go without reading a block of sessions [708–15] in Section 4; I used the time I’d have spent typing them to complete the diagrams for Adventures. [...]

[...] See the 732nd session in Section 6, for instance. [...]

10. Material in many of the sessions in the first section of Volume 1 touches upon the contents of this paragraph. [...]