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SS Introduction chapter book unconscious mine Rob

My psychic initiation really began one evening in September, 1963, however, as I sat writing poetry. Suddenly my consciousness left my body, and my mind was barraged by ideas that were astonishing and new to me at the time. On return to my body, I discovered that my hands had produced an automatic script, explaining many of the concepts that I’d been given. The notes were even titled — The Physical Universe as Idea Construction.

The messages seemed to begin where Idea Construction left off, and later Seth said that my expansion of consciousness experience had represented his first attempt at contact. Since then, Seth has delivered a continuing manuscript that now totals over six thousand typewritten pages. We call it the Seth material, and it deals with such topics as the nature of physical matter, time, and reality, the god concept, probable universes, health, and reincarnation. From the beginning, the obvious quality of the material intrigued us, and it was for this reason that we continued.

“So we give them names who are nameless, as basically we are nameless. And we listen, but usually we try to squeeze their messages into concepts that we can understand, cloaking them in worn stereotyped images. Yet they are all about us, in the wind and trees, formed and unformed, more alive in many ways perhaps than we are — the speakers.

SS Part Two: Chapter 22: Session 590, August 9, 1971 pope populace reign Caprina churchman

You have been trying to squeeze the soul into tight concepts of the nature of existence, making it follow your limited beliefs. [...]

In many ways this is a cozy concept, though to some it can be quite frightening with its connotations of eternal damnation. [...]

SS Part Two: Chapter 22: Session 589, August 4, 1971 soul reincarnational sprang Two blasé

[...] Your concept of the soul is simply so limited. [...]

Each “part” of the soul contains the whole — a concept I am sure will startle you. [...]

Hopefully, certain concepts will be delivered in this way that could not be delivered otherwise. [...]

SS Part Two: Chapter 22: Session 588, August 2, 1971 pope bells Rome donkeys occupations

[...] I hope to illustrate the function of consciousness and personality through writing this book and enlarging your concepts.