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I am afraid I am a poor sort of host, and not much given to the niceties, or at least your niceties, being somewhat out of practice. Nevertheless, a good evening to Philip, and I recognize his presence.

(It will be remembered from the 26th session that Philip is the name of John Bradley’s entity, according to Seth.)

It does originate in the inner self that exists in your world, but is not of your world. The inner self-conscious ego as I have said—and this is for Philip’s edification—the inner self-conscious ego can be compared to another face, looking out upon a different world. And yet it is the driving personality and force in your world, and you use its energy as you construct your camouflage patterns.

I am very glad that this is not test night. Shall I give you all gold stars? Nevertheless, at least you do remember to some degree. It is not remembering with which we are concerned, however. The inner senses, and this should help Philip, the inner senses deal with direct perception of reality, of inner reality.

The fact remains that the inner senses are equipped to let you perceive inner reality. You can use them; and for Philip’s information the evidence of the inner senses is immediate, and vivid, and direct—much more vivid, Philip, than for example your camouflage experience of the color red. Everyone sees red differently. There is no absolute objective red but only gradations of the idea red.

You do not even perceive camouflage reality with your outer senses with any dependability. Telepathy, which belongs to the inner senses, is used constantly. Without it your languages would be meaningless. The inner senses, Philip, experience direct data instantaneously.

This is an elegant little discussion, and I enjoy listening in. I would suggest whenever it is possible that Philip read the material from the beginning.

Philip, earlier, mentioned hypnosis. Existence on your plane or any other plane is merely self-hypnosis. As far as an analogy is concerned, this one is very nearly perfect. Your existence, and mine for that matter, on any particular level is predetermined by complete concentration or focus of inner selves upon the particular universe in question. And your camouflage patterns can most aptly be compared to the hallucinary effects created by the hypnotist upon his subject.

Again I suggest a brief break. And may I congratulate you Ruburt, for keeping your God-almighty intellect out; and I will have more to say here to Philip about the intellect.

There are many ramifications here. The wrong way, and I do not mean even wrong in the sense of sinful, the wrong way is never the practical way, Philip. The practical way is the only way.

The so-called practical solution to your problems, Philip, is hardly practical and for many reasons. In the first place, having little respect for yourself for following such a course, you would not even be able to put on the act which you contemplate. Your sense of falseness would immediately be picked up by your superiors.

Two men in particular would distrust you instantly if you changed course. Winning these two would take much of your energies and in the end, my dear misguided Philip, would get you absolutely nowhere because they will lose their influence. This is practical.