[...] Out of the mail I’d picked a letter from a sincere individual who’d tried to visit us this summer. [...] His rather long letter dealt with Dr. Childers’ nightshade diet for arthritis; the writer claimed he had a close friend who had recovered completely from rheumatoid arthritis that had plagued him since childhood, by following this diet—no potatoes, paprika [peppers], tomatoes, and a few other common foods of the nightshade family. [...]

[...] In it I’d been a woman who was the same age as my father. [...]

Also, in a manner of speaking, you are yourselves the ancient dreamers who dreamed your world into being. [...]

(Wednesday’s session, the 579th, was held for a husband and wife who have an acute problem involving one of their children. [...]

The artist who paints such a scene may do so for several reasons: because he hopes through portraying such inhumanity to awaken people to its consequences, to make them quail and change their ways; because he is himself in such a state of disease and turmoil that he directs his abilities in that particular manner; or because he is fascinated with the problem of destruction and creativity, and of using creativity to portray destruction.

It is almost commonplace to say that those who are in love can converse without words. [...]

[...] Myths and tales are formed in which those who love communicate, though one is dead while the other lives. [...]

[...] Then I realize that I did know the people who lived in this apartment before also, and had forgotten. [...]

[...] I do not know who he is, but think that I must have known him sometime in the past. [...]

[...] In addition, both are related to Leonard Yaudes; who sent us the postcard, and who authored tonight’s object. [...]

[...] You would be different from the inhabitants who you might encounter there. [...]

[...] My mother’s next-door neighbor acquired a black kitten a few months ago; the animal has made quite an impression on my parents, who enjoy watching its antics in their own yard as well as the neighbors’.

[...] This being a distant connection with my parents, who also camped in years past.

(Refers to another sister-in-law of Peg’s, who was ill; no connection in particular though.)

Who will feed the winter birds

Later in these notes I also plan to include, as a partial answer to many who have written us on the subject, material Seth gave on animal consciousness; this information came through just three days ago, in the 878th session for September 10. [...]

Right now our friend Sue Watkins, who lives better than an hour’s drive upstate, is well past the 15th chapter of Conversations With Seth, the book she’s writing about the ESP classes Jane held from September 1967 to February 1975. [...]

[...] We expect the same kind of response from those who will seek out the Dutch Seth Speaks. [...]

[...] It’s just as foolish for those who are religious, even though they outnumber the scientists by far, to expect most scientists to embrace religion, to surrender their agnosticism or atheism, to give up their mechanistic, reductionist views of life—their attempts to use a series of “logical” steps to reduce the human being, say, to his or her ever-lower components, right down to the atomic level. [...]

[...] Some of you will be able to do so, however, and those of you who are really interested in this endeavor can at least achieve some variation, on occasion, that will allow you to connect your sleeping and waking activities with far greater effectiveness.

Those of you who are able will discover that a somewhat altered arrangement will work greatly to your advantage. [...]

Often in the aged you find such frameworks coming into being naturally, but those who awaken spontaneously after four hours consider themselves insomniacs because of their beliefs, and so cannot utilize their experience properly. [...]

(12:23.) Those who want to use their unconscious precognition of such an event will take advantage of it — save themselves, and choose not to be involved. [...] There will be others who are a part of the calamity for their own reasons.

[...] No one dies in a disaster who has not chosen to do so. [...]

WHEN YOU ARE WHO YOU ARE.
THE WORLDS OF IMAGINATION AND REASON, AND THE IMPLIED UNIVERSE

And Billy and Mitzi, who had been racing through the house, came as if on signal to play beneath Jane’s rocker when she began speaking for Seth. [...]

(Pause.) “When (underlined) You Are Who You Are. [...]

[...] Briefly, most authorities in the Roman Catholic Church realize that almost all of those who are supposed to be “possessed” by malevolent forces are in actuality mentally ill people who need treatment. [...]

The Christ image is often used because it so perfectly represents the combination of the grandiose self, as per the all-knowing son of God, and the martyred victim who is crucified precisely because of his lofty position.

If you can sway others so easily then what is there to them after all, for you know who you are and what you are and you do not think you are all that great. [...]

[...] I have also, however, been one of the ignorant masses, in your terms, who listened to the ringing through the centuries. [...]

[...] I do it for several reasons because it is an excellent display of the use of energy and because it is fun, because it is active peace and because it shows you that the dead can be more livelier than those who think they are alive. [...]

[...] They will act on information that comes to them from Framework 2. Those who stay also act on the same information, by choosing to participate.

[...] My mother, who died five years ago at the age of 81, was with me. [...]

[...] Your father was pointing you out to her, and acquainting her with other such living members of the family as well, who are still in time. [...]

[...] Jane also described to me how she negated some poor suggestions a couple of the people who take care of her had made this morning, concerning a couple of her bedsores. [...]

[...] And who knows—we might be very pleasantly surprised....

(Just yesterday Jane received a letter from a woman who described the onset, a few years ago, of extraordinary feelings of transcendent love for mankind. [...]

[...] Those of you who have left organized religions may feel relatively free from what you consider to be the adverse connotations of original sin and the like. [...]

[...] In the session Seth postulates two men, both portions of myself, who represents the conflicting sets of beliefs I’ve carried for years. The first man is my primary self, who discovers that he must bear the burdens of the second man imposed upon him through cultural beliefs involving taxes, success, the male breadwinner role, and so forth. [...]

(9:52.) There are mental conditions also: the so-called retarded people who do not use their reasoning minds as others do. There are also, again, highly gifted people, physically or mentally, people who seem to be at times as far from the ordinary person on the gifted scale as an idiot might be [on] the other. [...]

[...] Those of you who have already experienced their first extracurricular class should have the second installment this week and those of you who lag behind should begin your first installment. [...]