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[...] Light would never be heard for example, sound would never be seen. [...]

[...] Now because, if you’ll excuse the pun, a certain cause will usually give a certain effect in your physical universe, you may be justified in saying that these apparent results are laws that operate within your physical universe. [...]

[...] They then accept this particular camouflage as a definite rule of nature, never realizing that just beyond their eyesight and just beyond all their outer senses, this familiar tamed animal of a law changes appearance completely.

[...] If you will forgive me Joseph, at the risk, and I do mean the risk, of becoming boring, I would like to repeat briefly: Mental enzymes allow the solidified vitality to change its form. [...]

“Yet the agony itself was used as a means, and the agony itself served as an impetus, strong enough so that All That Is initiated within Itself the means to be.

[...] Actually ‘time’ exists as the pulses leap the nerve ends. [...]

[...] This does not mean that there may not be more to know. [...]

[...] We do know that within this system of our All That Is, creation continues and developments are never still. [...]

[...] By contrast, her pacing was quite rapid at the beginning of the session, and remained so until near the end. [...]

[...] It might be added that the letter referred to above was one received from the regional office of the Veterans Administration, in N.Y.C.: The letter characterized the dirt road leading up to the property as a “trail,” and stated the request for a loan was denied unless the veteran, meaning myself, could be assured that the road would be maintained by either city or county at no additional expense to the veteran. [...]

Now I tried, ineffectively I might add, in the sessions to raise your expectations of the property for the same price, by justifiably showing you, I thought, how value fulfillment psychically could definitely add to the construction.

[...] As it happened, at the time all three of the Veteran’s Administration appraisers who are based in Elmira were out of town on vacation; therefore the bank in Elmira had to call in a representative from out of town to evaluate the property—and one who had never seen the property before. [...]

(After the end of break at 11:17, Seth came through with a fairly long block of material on another matter. [...] Since I take this to mean that some time may pass before the questions enter into the scheme of this book, I’ll briefly note their subjects below.

[...] I reminded Jane of the two questions I’d put off from Monday’s abbreviated session, but Seth made only a brief reference to them at the end of tonight’s material.)

[...] All of your institutions, beliefs, and activities seem to justify your picture, because everything within the overall “frame” will of course seem to agree.

The picture is a relatively simple one, all in all — one in which each consciousness is assumed to be directed toward a particular focus, is ensconced in one body, with its existence bounded by birth at one end and by death at the other. [...]

All children exercise, though relatively few end up, say, as specialists in sports, so the end result of such physical play is the future development of a healthy, strong body. The end result, then, is not a product, but a more completed kind of being. [...]

[...] In conventional art you end up with a product on many such occasions—a book or painting or whatever—as you attempt to define in physical terms the reality of an inner existence with which you have always been familiar, and to leave in physical reality some evidence, however slight, of inner visions that flicker within all consciousness. [...]

As in the case of Cézanne, masterpieces would justify all else. [...]

[...] He could have been a far better artist still, for if his vision was intense, my dear friend, it was cramped, and it moved within itself in an agony to find a creative release that could never be found in the creative product alone, but in the psyche from which that product emerges. [...]

[...] The doctors follow their own ideas, of course, and in that system they see themselves as completely justified — as humane.

[...] “Boy, was he going strong,” she said, meaning Seth. [...]

[...] The “quacks” end up with those who are hopeless, who realize the ineffectiveness of other belief systems, find them wanting, and have no place to go. [...]

(11:02.) What does all of this mean to you in your daily life, and how can you utilize natural hypnosis to better your experience?

[...] The sacrifice of, say, thousands of lives in a nuclear accident almost becomes justified in their minds if it is a means toward the grandiose goal of learning how to ‘triumph over nature.’ Again, this intent automatically turns them into mechanics.

End of session, and a fond good evening.

[...] There may never be, and failure in these areas alone could ultimately dictate the demise of the entire nuclear endeavor for any peaceful (or even military) use at all.

[...] We can’t conceive of anything more worthwhile than to achieve an independence of spirit that’s based upon an independence of means, whether on a personal or national scale. [...]

[...] Practically this is of great importance for it will help break the repressive habit on the one hand, and help end blockages that have been holding back positive and healthy charges of activity. [...]

This does not mean that the emphasis should be upon fears. [...]

If possible these discussions should end with the reassurance that you can work out the practical aspects of your life together, and that you are large enough to understand your fears and use them creatively. [...]

[...] They are not representations of the entire self, and should never be considered so.

When you talk about people being insane, and point out the negative aspects of the race, Ruburt becomes highly uncomfortable because to him this means he has to protect himself against them, and justifies his behavior. [...]

[...] Since this is never challenged you never know whether or not Ruburt can perform.

[...] Sound to him does not have the same meaning, though he may dislike the noise. [...]

[...] The inward work ends up causing them to relate to a physical world when they believed that their duty was to shut themselves off from that world.

[...] I would mail my drawings to the professor at the end of the allotted time, and he could judge the hits and misses for himself.

[...] Although I know how to use self-hypnosis now, having studied it in the past several years, I’ve never used it for a session.

Seth ended this discussion by outlining various ways to develop awareness of the inner self. [...]

Of course, these abilities don’t mean much unless you learn to use them and experience them for yourself. [...]

In the light of this discussion, now, that self was as unrealistic at its end of the spectrum as the Sinful Self was at the other, for Ruburt felt that he was supposed to demonstrate a certain kind of superhuman feat, not only managing on occasion to uncover glimpses of man’s greater abilities, but to demonstrate these competently at the drop of a hat, willingly at the request of others. [...]

[...] I never told Jane, for example, to not finish the book. [...]

[...] This does not mean he could not have acted better in any particular instance, perhaps, for that can be said about almost anyone. [...]

[...] The need to justify life through writing, the exaggerated need for protection from the deceptive unconscious and the unsafe world, and the concept itself were so involved with his entire thinking patterns that he could not isolate it to see where and how it bore upon his activities. [...]

Once you accept, you see, that idea then you must, if you follow your thought completely through, accept the idea of a random accidental universe in which you are at the mercy of any accident; in which mind or purpose have little meaning; in which you are at the mercy of all random happenings; in which 300,000 human beings can be swept off the face of the planet without reason, without cause, simply at the whim of an accidental happening. [...]

If you want to know yourself and to know the reason for your actions, then you should discover why you have, in quotes, “accidents,” end of quotes. [...]

([Arnold:] “You mean consider technical problems that I have at work?”)

[...] I did not say the fear was justified. [...]

Say that the painting is a landscape, and that this transformation includes within the same amount of space the addition continually of more trees, more hills; that the hills still within the same amount of space allotted to the painting grow taller, and yet never shoot past the frame. [...]

[...] Imagine in other words consciousness, growth, reality and expansion, having nothing to do with expansion of space in your terms, but an almost complete freedom of psychological realities, and you will come at least within the realm of understanding what I mean by an expanding universe that has nothing to do with the expanding universe of which your scientists speak.

[...] And I repeat: instead true space, fifth dimensional space, is the vitality and stuff of all existence itself, vital and alive, from which all other existences are woven through means which I have outlined so far in a rather sketchy fashion. [...]

[...] Strangely I had never asked Seth for an explanation, so now I made it a point to remark that I hoped he would deal with it this evening. [...]

(I’ve never really forgotten that statement of almost six months ago, nor Seth’s saying at the end of the 699th session that he’d go into my questions about it “when your material will fit.”

6. Since William James died in 1910, this means that in our terms Jane picked up on his world view as it existed some 54 years after his physical death. [...] But the questions always pile up ahead of us; often they’re never voiced, no matter how interesting they may be. [...]

[...] I mean it kindly — but Jane and I have never believed that a living individual could be in contact with a famous dead person; especially through the Ouija board or automatic writing. [...]

In the same way, if you are overly concerned about the nature of your own reality, and if you are looking to others to justify your existence, you will not be able to abandon your own world view successfully, for you will feel too threatened. [...]

Nor am I trying to justify class behavior by noting that Jane and I and our guests were much better behaved during the Friday-night gatherings in our apartment. A fine group of young friends with both similar and quite different interests than ours slowly developed, each one, each couple, dropping in at the end of the workweek to relax and talk. [...] Once in a while Seth would come through—though usually only by invitation—but that wasn’t the norm by any means. [...]

Within a few weeks Ed Robbins’ and my labors on the Mike Hammer detective strip came to an end due to policy differences with the syndicate distributing the feature. Both of us ended up out of work. I never did get to settle down in my own place in Schuylerville! A “coincidence,” of course, that my work for Ed ended at the same time Jane told him that she and Walt had amicably agreed to part. [...]

[...] She wasn’t bound by the mundane rules of perspective, with its everyday limits that most of us never surmount or subsume: she created her deceptively childish world each time she painted. [...] Jane’s work is not large-scale by any means. [...]

[...] We never saw one behave as Laurel described. [...] Thank you, Laurel and Jane and 458 and 1730 and our guests, for reminding me of that as I bring this introduction to The Personal Sessions to an end—even while I feel its persistent challenge to grow into a book of its own. [...]

You keep trying to justify yourselves in the normal world, with the people that you meet. [...]

Give unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s. That means the taxes. [...]

[...] Class at least once a month, later twice a month, never more for now.

That is the end of our session. [...]