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SESSION 173

(Jane has been practicing psychological time regularly, but reports that she has achieved little besides her usual excellent state. She has had no unusual or startling experiences since Seth cut her psy-time periods to 20 minutes, in the 151st session.

(This evening’s session was held in our small back room, and was very peaceful and quiet. Jane spoke while sitting down and with her eyes closed. Her voice was quiet and she used pauses for the first time in quite a few sessions.)

We will have a quiet, and all in all a rather brief session.

The designations put upon these units of action are highly artificial, and represent limitations that are quite arbitrary. We mentioned in an earlier session something to this effect, in that you simply perceive a small portion of such action, label it as a unit, can perceive no further, and so suppose that what you see or perceive is all there is to see or perceive.

(Seth has discussed dreams to some extent in many sessions; too many to list here. He was discussing nightmares as far back as the 15th session, dream locations in the 44th session among others, the layers of the subconscious and dreams in the 92nd session. For a few examples of the manner in which Seth interprets dreams, see the 85th, 93rd and 94th sessions. See the 151st session for material on dreams, moment points and time, the 162nd for dreams and the electrical field, the 164th for dreams and impeding actions.

In many cases these problems are not those belonging to the ego, but to other layers of the self. We spoke in a fairly recent session of illnesses as impeding actions.

(See the 163rd and 164th sessions.)

(The above paragraph brings to mind the fact that Seth discussed a dream of Bill Macdonnel’s during the 84th session; Bill witnessed the session, and afterwards told us he had no conscious memory of the dream, which had taken place a few days before the session according to Seth. Yet Seth analyzed the symbolic content of the dream rather thoroughly, saying it was an important one for Bill since it bore upon his home and professional life. See Volume 1.)

(Jane now took a long pause, sitting quietly without moving for perhaps a minute. It was the first such pause she had used in quite a few sessions.)

(The word fragment was first used in the 4th session, Volume 1, page 22, by Frank Watts. Actually the Frank Watts personality was in the process of being superseded by Seth then, and on the next page Seth announced his presence by name. This was on December 8,1963. The word compartment had been used in the third session, with a similar meaning.)

This problem-solving aspect of dreams is rather important, and can be utilized with rather impressive practical results. We are merely beginning to scratch the surface here in this discussion, and we will devote a number of sessions to it. We have spoken about the importance of expectation. With practice dream activities can also be directed in this direction.

(For some material on expectation see the following sessions, among others: 79, 135, 157, 158, 159, 160, 163, 164, 169, in Volumes 2, 3, and 4.)

I told you that this would be a fairly brief session, and so I here end it. My best regards to you both. Do you have any questions?

The human personality within the physical system cannot juggle realities with any ease. If you have no more questions we will end the session.

(Jane smiled, a reaction that I expected. It will be remembered that the sessions began when Jane contacted the Frank Watts personality. Frank Watts in turn is a fragment of the Seth entity. Seth discussed Frank Watts to some degree in the 85th and 88th sessions, promising more data in the future.)

(We mailed the tape of the 170th session to Dr. Instream on Friday, July 23. This is the session Seth addressed to Dr. Instream.)

(Jane said that after thinking over the recent occasions when strong voice effects were demonstrated, as in the 170th and 172nd sessions, she feels that Seth uses the voice as an insulator for herself and as a projection of himself.)