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To the dreaming self however, past, present and future as such do not exist, and yet it has what you term memory. How can this be?

(Seth began to talk about the simultaneity of basic reality in the 41st session, which dealt with the spacious present. see Volume 1.)

You are not aware of your experiences in their entirety, for you experience events in a consecutive manner. You are therefore aware of your dreams only in a consecutive manner. You are hardly familiar with all of the dream experiences of your dreaming self, and barely familiar with any of their implications. The dreaming self is to some considerable degree conscious of the self which we shall here term the probable self. The probable self is somewhat like a twin self to the dreaming personality, for neither the experiences of the dreaming self nor the probable self occur within the complete radius of physical reality.

There is a constant give and take between the probable self and the dreaming self, for much data is received, particularly by the dreaming personality from the probable self, or the self that experiences what the ego would term probable events.

In other words the ego is not familiar with the probable self, but certain portions of the subconscious are. For the subconscious, like the probable self, is aware of its existence in the inverted time system. The subconscious is aware of many realities which are not accepted by the ego as actual physical events, and it reacts to many stimuli of which the ego is completely unaware.

Again past, present and future are definite realities only to the ego. Memory to the ego presupposes the existence of a past that no longer exists within physical reality. When I say that the dreaming self has memory, therefore, of its dream experiences, I mean that it scans its present existence. It is a simultaneous self.

The self is far from a simple psychological structure, and your psychologists are barely beginning to have any understanding of what it is.

It will often not be recognized for what it is, however, for there will be no evidence in the physical universe to back up its statements. There will not be much of a problem however, since it will not be reached often. It lies, so to speak, on the other side of the subconscious.

(“What about the ‘five in a circle’ data?”)

(“What about your reference to an older man?”)

(“What about the numbers, three, four, five?”)