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▼ NoPR Preface by Seth: Session 609, April 10, 1972 2/57 (4%) title mercy expectations thoughts outline
– The Nature of Personal Reality
– © 2011 Laurel Davies-Butts
– The Manufacture of Personal Reality
– Session 609, April 10, 1972 9:29 P.M. Monday

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Experience is the product of the mind, the spirit, conscious thoughts and feelings, and unconscious thoughts and feelings. These together form the reality that you know. You are hardly at the mercy of a reality, therefore, that exists apart from yourself, or is thrust upon you. You are so intimately connected with the physical events composing your life experience that often you cannot distinguish between the seemingly material occurrences and the thoughts, expectations and desires that gave them birth.

[... 8 paragraphs ...]

(A one-minute pause at 9:49.) No one forces you to think in any particular manner. In the past you may have learned to consider things pessimistically. You may believe that pessimism is more realistic than optimism. You may even suppose, and many do, that sorrow is ennobling, a sign of deep spiritualism, a mark of apartness, a necessary mental garb of saints and poets. Nothing could be further from the truth.

[... 33 paragraphs ...]

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