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There is a constant give and take between psychic and chemical components which actually cause your daily weather, your weather cycles, seasons, droughts and storms. This physical weather then in its turn affects and changes the psychic atmosphere of each individual. The force that causes your weather can be thought of as self-generating.

This is not to be taken as a symbolic idea, for I am speaking in quite practical terms. Not only does the human system for example become influenced chemically, electronically and psychically by physical weather, but also the human system electronically, electromagnetically, chemically and psychically affects and creates the climate in which existence is possible.

The chemical connections are the most easily discovered. The discovery however comes about, or is coming about, as a result of studies made concerning the effect of physical weather upon the individual, in chemical terms. It will take longer before it is at all realized that the individual also affects the weather.

Now I have told you that dreams are caused in part—underline in part—by chemical excesses built up within the human system. Dreams also carry the weight of emotional excesses that cannot be adequately expressed within daily physical action.

(Seth began talking about dreams by the 15th session, then began to give material on their chemical excesses soon after. See Volume 1.)

Now I shall tell you that physical weather is also caused in part by psychic energy, rushing through the human system and through the systems of all living creatures, and also by an excess, a chemical excess, beyond that which the individual organism can handle.

The word excess may be a poor one. Perhaps the word abundance of chemical energy would be more correct. The chemical energy is above that which is ordinarily needed by the individual physical organism, yet it must be used. The utilization comes about subconsciously.