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SDPC Introduction Valerie metaphor grief hospital death

Valerie’s material raises as many questions as it gives answers for, of course. Are her messages really from Jane, or is she “only” telepathically picking up from me what I want to hear, and flashing it back to me from her trance states — as communications from Jane? An unbelieving scientist would say that Valerie is hardly in touch with a discarnate Jane, since science doesn’t accept survival of death. Nor would the idea of reaching Jane’s world view be considered, or telepathy from me, for both of those concepts are scientifically unacceptable. The most parsimonious view — the simplest, stingiest one — would be that through studying the Seth Material Valerie subconsciously divines the replies I want from my dead wife, and in all subjective innocence comes through with her trance messages for me, to fit my own stubborn belief in Jane’s survival.

SDPC Part Two: Chapter 5 enzymes plane saucers Rob mental

When the inhabitants of a plane have learned mental science patterns, then they are to a great degree freed from the more regular camouflage patterns. … The flying saucer appearances come from a system much more advanced in technological sciences than yours. However, this is still not a mental science plane. [...]

[...] … When science progresses on various planes, then such visitations become less accidental and more planned. [...] Certain kinds of science cannot operate without it.

[...] As science advances on various planes, the inhabitants learn to travel between planes occasionally, while carrying with them the manifestations of their home station.

This sort of experience involves a sudden psychic awareness that all boundaries are for practical purposes onlyThere are many kinds of science, however, besides your own. [...]

SDPC Part One: Chapter 3 cobbler Sarah village wires bullets

[...] Remember my first published short story, “Red Wagon,” in Fantasy and Science Fiction? It was based on reincarnation. [...]