These probabilities are realities, regardless of which decision you make. Say, for example, that you have three choices and it is imperative that you select one. Using this state, you take the first choice. The alternative present is the moment in which you make that choice. Having made it the present is changed, and quite clearly you perceive exactly the way it is changed and what actions and events will flow from the change into the future that belongs to that particular alternate present.

ALTERNATE PRESENTS AND MULTIPLE FOCUS

Now: We will resume dictation, and begin our next chapter to be called: “Alternate Presents and Multiple Focus.”

Or it may be used as a step leading to an adjacent level of consciousness; two steps away, therefore, on the same level from normal reality. In this case it will lead you not into a deeper examination and perception of the present moment, but instead into an awareness and recognition of what I will call alternate present moments.

Alternate focus is merely a state in which you turn your consciousness in other than its habitual direction, in order to perceive quite legitimate realities that exist simultaneously with your own. [...]

Using alternate focus, with practice it is possible to perceive the different physical formations that have filled any given area of space, or that will fill it in your terms. [...]

[...] In alternate focus you can dispense with the root assumptions that usually guard, direct, and limit your perception. [...]

[...] It cannot be aware of alternate kinds of consciousness while being itself, unless methods are taken that allow it to recover from this amnesia.

[...] So we will to some extent provide alternatives. Your letters show such alternatives are needed. [...]

[...] I do not want to overemphasize this either, but they will offer alternatives to more and more people who are caught between the growing fervor of fundamentalism, that comes about with the disenchantment with science. [...]

[...] Taking probabilities into consideration, there are cultural movements involving the western world as it tried to form a new philosophical stance, and our books may well provide a highly valuable alternate position for people—again—between the passionate beliefs systems of religion in many countries, and the overly objective dictates of science. [...]

[...] Science allied with the government has its own dogmas, however (intently), so the civilized world will be looking for new alternatives. [...]

[...] The alternate presents of which I spoke are not simply alternate methods of perceiving one objective present. There are many alternate presents, with you focused only in one of them.

[...] The other adjacent levels on the horizontal line, now, involve you in various alternate realities, each one a greater distance from your own. [...]

When you let your attention waver, however, you may often fall into a state in which you momentarily perceive glimpses of another alternate present. [...]

Such alternative reactions frighten the ego because they seem to injure the ego’s self-image. Yet all characteristic reactions, whether denied by the ego or not, are kept for use as alternative actions. [...]

Many reactions, many patterns of reactions, are rejected by the ego upon some occasions and accepted upon other occasions, but as a rule such alternate behavior is annoying to the ego itself. [...]

PARALLEL MAN, ALTERNATE MAN, AND PROBABLE MAN: THE REFLECTION OF THESE IN THE PRESENT, PRIVATE PSYCHE.

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

Many individuals are afraid that they will be swept away by inner explorations, that insanity will overtake them, when instead the physical stance of the body and personality is firmly rooted in these alternate organizations. [...]

[...] Done over a period of time, they will open up alternate modes of perception, so that you can view your experience from more than one standpoint. [...]

[...] They are quite native, again, in dream states, and are always present as alternatives beneath usual awareness.

Only if you understand your own freedom in such areas will you allow yourselves to explore alternate states of consciousness, or the environment of dreams. [...]

The beliefs whose energy generated this “alternate self image” then appeared in the daylight, acting out their natural results in physical reality. [...]

[...] Now as Augustus he is alternately strong and weak, and the body stresses are apparent. [...]

[...] Her beliefs then became the new foundation, the one point of change that allowed Augustus to view this alternate self-image with any kind of detachment at all.

(Humorously:) You may take your alternate break.

2. Alternate Man

1. One might say that Seth himself provided for Jane’s material here when, back in the 681st session, he talked about parallel events, alternate realities, and probable selves and worlds.

[...] Probable man represents alternate man from your viewpoint, alternate versions of the species. [...]

[...] Later I intend to say far more about some civilizations that, in your terms, came before your own (but see the last sentence in Note 4). Before you can understand their orientation, we will have to speak about various alternate kinds of consciousness and out-of-body experience. [...]

Dictation: We will be discussing alternate methods of orientation that consciousness can take when allied with flesh, trying to give the reader some personal experience with such altered conditions, along with a brief history of some civilizations that utilized these unofficial orientations as their predominant method of focus.

[...] He has shown himself (Jane held her right arm out; in the last couple of days it has straightened out noticeably) that the body can change—that alternate realities can alter the present that you know, and that new intent can alter a life.

[...] The only difference that I see now is that Dr. Kardon has her on alternating doses of 175 and 200 mcg’s of Synthroid instead of the beginning 50. [...]

[...] We were left thinking that the general tone of Seth’s material early in the session, especially in his references to such ideas as “historical sequences” and “alternate realities,” might have served as a trigger.

Again, the alternate waking-sleeping patterns keep the traffic signals clear, so to speak. [...]

[...] The alternate waking and sleeping patterns—that is, one portion of the species sleeping while the other portion wakes—allows a clear division between waking and sleeping information. [...]

The alternate wake-sleep patterns of the world then, again, help pace the information. [...]

[...] Personally, I had been alternately angry and not caring because of our lapses, when we had avenues of help available that few could rely upon, yet hadn’t bothered to use them. [...]

[...] The alternatives are too painful and unnecessary to consider.)

[...] You often tie yourself in knots, considering alternatives, none of which are ever taken. [...]

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

[...] You act out many possibilities within dream reality, and within dreams you try out alternatives, and not necessarily short term ones.

[...] You call his system an alternate system of probability but this is precisely what he would call your system.

[...] As long as you believe your environment to be objective and independent of yourself, then to a large extent you feel powerless to change it, to see beyond it, or to imagine other alternatives that may be less apparent. [...]

Earlier in this book I mentioned alternate presents on several occasions, and reincarnational lives are indeed alternate presents. [...]

[...] The last time she’d done this had been early on March 4; her material then was on parallel man, alternate man, and probable man; Seth mentioned it that same evening in the 687th session, and it furnished the basis for Section 2 of this volume. [...]

[...] The individual, like the species, exists in multidimensional terms; and hovers around focuses of probabilities, weaving in and out of alternate realities constantly.