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Now feel, again within yourself, the birth and emergence of ever new energy so that it pulses within all the reality that you know. [...]

[...] Your bodies have been conditioned to it through the use of such medications since birth. [...]

[...] Tell yourself that you are doing well in the reality, that you are using your abilities, that you are helping your husband use his and that you have brought to birth an individual who will use his very well. [...]

[...] Therefore, you have given birth in more terms than one. [...]

[...] Later we will discuss more particular areas, such as circumstances in which illnesses date from birth.

(11:29.) The creative power to form your own experience is within you now, as it has been since the time of your birth and before. [...]

[...] It has to do with the real nature of aggression and passivity,¹ which you have allowed yourselves to forget … Birth is an aggressive experience. [...]

[...] You were involved with event-making before the time of your birth, however. [...]

It is not just that such an inner universe is different from your own, but that any real or practical explanation of its reality would require the birth of an entirely new physics—and such a development would first of all necessitate the birth of an entirely new philosophy. [...]

The reasoning mind, as you have used it thus far, roughly (underlined) since the birth of Christianity, has used—instead of used, confined—has confined its reasoning abilities to a very narrow spectrum of reality. [...]

[...] Were either of our own physical lives saved—perhaps even before birth—by those using knowledge gained from animal experimentation? [...]

The original propulsion of inner characteristics outward into the formation of the ego could be compared with the birth of innumerable stars — an event of immeasurable consequences that originated on a subjective level and within inner reality.

The ego, having its birth from within, therefore, must always boast of its independence while maintaining the nagging certainty of its inner origin.

[...] They are spiritual, mental, emotional and biological beliefs that are innately present in the birth of each creature. [...]

(“What did you think of my speculations about life and age, births and probabilities?”)

You are subjectively “alive” before your birth. [...]

[...] It was also a way that Ruburt used to translate the idea of the particular kind of creativity involved; the idea, indeed, of birth, for this is the birth or a system, of a new kind of reality, that this group is involved with. [...]

[...] The Sumari, however—and they all initiate—initiate the birth of systems. [...]

[...] The individual becomes a victim of chance insofar as his birth, the events of his life, and his death are concerned. [...]

(Pause at 9:50.) There are obviously some conditions that in your terms are inherited, showing themselves almost instantly after birth, but these are of a very limited number in proportion to those diseases you believe are hereditary—many cancers, heart problems, arthritic or rheumatoid disorders. [...]

[...] The particular, brilliant, intensified flowering of painting and sculpture that took place, say, in the time of Michelangelo (1475–1564) could not, in your probability, have occurred after the birth of technology, for example, and certainly not in your own era, where images are flashed constantly before your eyes on television and in the movies, where they are rambunctiously present in your magazines and advertisements. [...]

[...] Some of da Vinci’s sketches already show that tendency, and he is fascinating because with his undeniable artistic tendencies he also began to show those tendencies that would lead toward the birth of modern science.

HEALTH, GOOD AND BAD THOUGHTS, AND THE BIRTH OF “DEMONS”

The chapter is to be called, “Health, Good and Bad Thoughts, and the Birth of ‘Demons.’ ” And you may take your break.

(I told Jane that Seth’s opening line for Chapter 2, about possessing a group of attitudes toward oneself and toward life, at birth, runs directly counter to establishment theory that the newborn is like a blank slate, to be imprinted through teaching and experience. [...]

[...] You give birth to them automatically. [...]

[...] Only when the private nature of reality was emphasized sufficiently would I be ready to show how the magnification of individual reality combines and enlarges to form vast mass reactions — such as, say, the initiation of an obviously new historical and cultural period; the rise or overthrow of governments; the birth of a new religion that sweeps all others before it; mass conversions; mass murders in the form of wars; the sudden sweep of deadly epidemics; the scourge of earthquakes, floods, or other disasters; the inexplicable appearance of periods of great art or architecture or technology.

[...] It is also true that part of the species dies with each death, and is reborn with each birth, and that each private death takes place within the greater context of the existence of the entire species. [...]

Give us a moment… Inner reality and private experience give birth to all mass events. [...]

[...] I am not here condoning suicide, for too often in your society it is the unfortunate result of conflicting beliefs — and yet it is true to say that all deaths are suicide, and all births deliberate on the part of child and parent. [...]

I simply want you to know that you are beginning well—for you are really beginning with a new resoluteness a program, a program on Ruburt’s part to trust the energy of his being, the motion, inspiration and vitality that gave him birth and continues to sustain him. [...]