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(As I told Jane last night, I didn’t realize that I was so tight, so bound up with tensions and stresses, that I was ready to fall ill because of those basic conflicts with self-disapproval, the male-provider role, money, taxes, and all the rest of the daily paraphernalia of living. [...] I’ve enjoyed them all. [...] The line that’s most impressed me in all of this, perhaps, is Seth’s quote to me from my own body, given by him in the deleted session for April 18: “You worry too much. [...]

[...] I haven’t asked the pendulum many questions at all since the last ones I recorded on April 21. My stomach still bothers, but on a much-reduced level; the groin/left testicle seems all but clear at times; occasionally the discomfort returns on a reduced basis also.

(What I’m trying to do is to let the information Seth has given in the last several deleted sessions for me, starting with that for April 4, sink in so that I can achieve a synthesis of it all both consciously and unconsciously. [...]

[...] All will be resolved. [...]

Despite all of your knowledge about the animals, it has not really been suspected that the natural hunter-animal kills most mercifully. The animals follow the rule of good intentions, in which unconsciously, in your terms, the good of one does serve the good of all.

The fire was supposed to burn away any disease, and mice were all too numerous. Acts which fit in with the good-intended universe, in which basically each life and detail, seeking its good, also works for the good of all others, bring forth what you call good acts—simple enough acts which are not well-intentioned in that light, toward the self or others “do not work right.” [...]

Its workings entail cooperative ventures literally beyond your comprehension —ventures in which each life, and each detail of each life, has a purpose, a well-intended purpose, so that when it naturally seeks its own good it also increases the good of all. [...]

[...] To torture other creatures in the terms of this discussion is not at all “natural.” [...]

(This was not all. [...] To our surprise we discovered that it required an active pressure from us to force the table back down to the floor so that all three legs made contact. The feeling of this force was unmistakable, and new to all of us. There was no doubt about its existence, since the pressure required to level the table off was obvious to all. [...]

[...] This period lasted for perhaps ten minutes or more, while the three of us took turns shifting position so we could all test the pressure required to push the table down to the floor. There is no question that any of us were causing this effect; all of our movements were plain to see. During all of this the table was active to a greater or lesser degree, making it impossible to prop up a leg, say, with a shoe, etc. [...]

[...] First of all: the affair the other evening with the Gallaghers was legitimate. [...]

(Not knowing her at all well, John could verify little of the data; he took a copy with him to check out with the girl next time he sees her. [...]

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. [...]

[...] You are much easier now, but at the time, there was an explosion of energy on your part that you did not understand, and you were afraid that in this explosion of energy you would go too far outward and there would be nothing left, so to speak, that you would get away from yourself and lose yourself beyond all hopes of recovery. [...]

Now we have here, for all of your benefit, some examples, both here (Davey) and here (Mary Ellen) and here (Joel) of one particular phenomena. [...]

(To Davey.) Now here we have a too early blooming of abilities before the overall personality was able to handle them, and we also have a great contrast in attitude for we have on one hand the determination to show up all fraud, and on the other hand, the fear underneath that our own experiences could somehow be fraudulent. [...]

[...] This portion is aware of the complicated workings of the nervous system and all bodily functions. [...]

[...] Now all portions of the personality, of the present personality, belong to this inner ego. [...]

It is the director of all the subsidiary psychological subpersonalities that form the acting-present primary personality. [...]

[...] It is more knowledgeable than all other aspects of the personality, for it forms them together into a cohesive whole.

With all of his repressions, love-making became the most loaded time, for in a moment of weakness he feared he might spill out his feelings about your job and all the other material that has come to light.

(We were due to leave here tomorrow morning; we were all packed, etc. [...]

When this continues you project negatively on all alternatives so that change always seems disruptive and negative. [...]

Now, because it seemed to you for so long that you could not move freely in your own life, that you did not paint full time, you got in the habit of automatically viewing all change as negative. [...]

Now, to some extent, you and Ruburt felt enough the same way to make the analogy feasible, only Ruburt was the one who constructed the edifice that would protect his own abilities, first of all, and yours as well. Beliefs are the attendants—not strangers at all. With such an edifice, Ruburt can only use his abilities under certain conditions, and he imagines all kinds of impulses, situations, or whatever, that might steal them away, or steal away the time necessary to express them. [...]

[...] I have largely explained this before, but the position of the arms, trunk, neck, jaw, head, and ribs were all related. [...] All of that is changing, and must for the further release of the walking mechanisms.

[...] I asked that Seth comment on all of these developments, and why they were so painful for Jane.

(Jane only said that the insight, if accurate at all, was depressing, after I’d read it to her.)

(We also discussed Jane’s fears that she’d done all she could in this life, and thus was ready to bow out of physical existence. [...] And all the time we talked I couldn’t help but just miss, just fail to understand exactly why she was doing what she was doing. [...]

[...] It’s all gone now except for her lying in bed, and she can’t even do that in peace these days. She’d even given up all reading, even with the new glasses we so eagerly sought from Jim Baker. [...]

(I’ve also thought for some time that there might be clues to Jane’s seeming dilemmas in reincarnation — which Seth hasn’t gone into at all. [...]

[...] I told Jane it would be a joke if those portions of the self we’re blaming for her condition, really are the truest, most simple and honest portions after all, and that their roles in bringing about her natural death were being subverted by our conscious-mind meddling and interference. [...]

[...] And it is the infinite variety and gradations of intensity that makes all identities possible and all gestalts, all identities in terms of personalities and fields and universes. [...]

[...] When you consider that each of your own thoughts is composed of a unique intensity of impulse, shared by nothing else; that the same may be said for every dream you will have in your lifetime; and that all your experience is gathered together in particular ranges of intensity, again completely unique; and that the summation of all that you are exists in one minute range or band of intensities, then you will see how difficult this is to explain. [...]

All motion is mental or psychological motion, and all mental or psychological motion has its electrical reality. [...]

[...] We mentioned earlier that all action does not necessarily involve motion that is apparent as such to you. To one extent or another, all actions are unfoldings. [...]

All of the decisions he made, finally, were good ones from all viewpoints. In the meantime however, because of these issues all meeting, and his reactions as given, his condition worsened. [...]

All of a sudden he was told to hold off, and literally to him, not to act. [...] Now for the reasons given, and the developments earlier tonight, all of those issues met, since Eleanor’s previous visit.

When the two of you could work together, he thought, all that would change. [...]

This applies constantly, through all of the episodes.

As all physical matter is connected in any particular time, or era, so the individual consciousness of each being is also connected with every other. This applies to all consciousnesses as you understand that term.

[...] Now what happens at the top of the mountain affects all that goes on below, and so everything that you do affects those other realms of selfhood, and there is an interchange that occurs constantly. [...] The very climate and vegetation may vary considerably, and yet all life and vegetation within the area are interrelated. [...]

(Pause.) When it rains, water rushes in great exuberant gushes down the sides of the mountain, bringing life and vitality to all of its parts. In somewhat the same way, your own experiences flow down and into the cracks and crevices of all the other times and centuries that compose your present lifetime.

Cellular transmission, for example, is indeed much more precise than any verbal language, communicating data so intricate that all of your languages together⁶ would fall far short of matching such complexity. [...] It is biologically aware of all the other life-forms around it to the most minute denominator.

(I told Jane she could very well be projecting her own fears upon something that wasn’t that bad at all—that the episode instead served to show what a deep hold old beliefs still had on her. [...]

[...] I should note that yesterday she had no Darvoset at all while I was with her—a space of many hours. [...]

[...] Above all I wanted her to retrain her conscious mind so that such fears would be banished. [...]

[...] “For all I know,” I told Jane, “the other guy could have been me.” [...]

Your body repairs itself constantly, and your mind thinks — all without your normally conscious attention. The same applies to all of those inner processes that make life possible. [...]

[...] Your thinking, breathing, and motion are all guided by activities that are largely unconscious — at least from the standpoint of what you usually think of as the conscious mind.

[...] The conscious mind must be in control of all actions as much as possible, for such a person feels that only rigid, logical thought is strong enough to hold back such strong impulsive force.

Science itself, for all of its preciseness in some areas, often equates instinctive, impulsive —

[...] You can say that you have a brain and heart and liver and appendix, and so forth, and muscles and bones, and insist that all of these work in a certain fashion, as of course they do. [...] You can say with equal validity that the body holds a man’s ghost, that it is filled also with the organs of all the animals a man has consumed—that one man has the heart of a lion, and in that framework that is true.

I cannot explain this at all adequately. All I hope to do is to show you the assumptions behind your questions. [...]

[...] The body is not just a physical entity, however, nor is its working completely the result of the condition of all of its parts. People in seemingly good health, for example, all parts functioning normally as far as you know, medically, can suddenly die, or become ill, while no reason can be found. [...]

(2. Last Thursday night, kidding around with Frank Longwell, Jane said I could have all the reincarnational material on my own lives that I wanted, but that she wasn’t interested in her own. [...]

(Part of the creed involved Jane’s listing what bothered her—indeed, it would end up covering all essential points in our lives, and I hoped would act as a guide and reminder. I was now beginning to feel that none of us were all powerful, and would have to live within whatever limits and capabilities we could handle. [...]

(That a part of her did and does welcome the sessions and is indeed responsible for them, is not as important as that all elements of her personality respond to whatever she does in a positive way. As long as the symptoms last, it is a sign that all is not well. [...]

[...] It taught me to consider all portions of the personality—its needs, desires, creative drives and expressions, etc., and I intuitively linked this up with Jane’s problems. [...]

[...] What counts is her reaction to it, and the symptoms, as far as I can tell at this time, are all too clear a sign of her reaction to it—at least an important part of her is reacting this way.

[...] It is a psychological art of its own, taken for granted in all circles. [...] Those who bang at your doors are the antisocial, the drifters, the troubled, or those so enthusiastic that they also ignore all social rules, in which case you two rise up in arms.

Ruburt’s work straddles all these issues—that is, it involves all of them at different times. [...]

[...] You think jointly it is only common sense and practical, particularly after all of this time, to remember that any improvements have dead-ended. [...] Despite all of this, the overall processes of his body have improved. [...]

All of this is involved in the papers he wrote lately on sexuality. [...] It needs encouragement, not demands—but above all, let him concentrate upon expression rather than repression. [...]

[...] (Pause at 10:53.) All of this is highly difficult to explain. [...] While time is not moving in a particular direction, in your terms, each moment explodes outward, or expands outward in all directions.

[...] In other words, I floated in the air, bed and all, quite pleasantly. [...]

[...] I didn’t move at all, though, because of the noise from the kitchen. [...]

[...] It contained an article by our friend Otto Binder, entitled “UFO’s Own Earth and All Mankind” This article touched upon many ideas we are interested in, and quoted astrophysicist Fred Hoyle, among others, re the ownership of the race idea. [...]

Part of me doesn’t want to contend with this material at all but last night I had one of the strangest, quite frightening experiences—all the odder because there are so few real events to hang on to. [...] All I know is that I awakened myself crying, my body very sore, sat on the side of the bed and made the following connections from my feelings at the time:

They were these; that the entire world and its organization was kept together by certain stories or one in particular—like the Catholic Church’s; that it was dangerous beyond all knowing to look through the stories or examine them or to look for the truth and that all kinds of taboos existed to keep us from doing this, since.... [...]

[...] In order to explore that experience, you direct your attention to it and use all of your other (nonphysical) abilities as corollaries, adjuncts, additions. You hypnotize your very nerves, and the cells within your body, for they will react as you expect them to react, and the beliefs of your conscious mind are followed in degree by all portions of the self down to the smallest atom and molecule. The large events of your life, your interactions with others, including the habitual workings of the most minute physical events within your body — all of this follows your conscious belief.

[...] You give yourselves post-hypnotic suggestions all the time, particularly when you project present conditions into the future. I want to impress upon you the fact that all of this simply follows the natural function of the mind, and to dispel any ideas that you have about the “magical” aspects of hypnosis.

(“All right.”)

[...] Like the child play-acting, however, events occur within events, all dramatically real and vivid, all eliciting specific responses and actions, and each one possessing its own private living area (intently).

[...] I gave it the freedom to move — and here I am uncomfortable as hell all afternoon.”

[...] She used to think that “if I used my body all the way, I wouldn’t work — which is hysterical, because now I do hardly anything.” [...]

Children then apply their imaginations more vividly, and even utilize all of their senses at certain times, to follow or reinforce those pictures that imagination paints. [...]