“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

If you try to do this from a dream state then you must set aside two and one-half hours, for the first portion will be used as preliminaries. You can also give yourselves such suggestions before you sleep. You might begin by making an appointment to meet each other, say at three in the morning in the living room.

There are more than your thought forms in other words. Your thought forms however can be used as definite aids when you are in the proper mental condition, and they can impede your progress if you are not. In physical reality a man in a desperate frame of mind is more apt to emphasize horrible aspects in the news, for example, and to see desperation rather than joy in the faces of those he meets. He will ignore the contented playful child on one side of the street, and notice instead a dirty ragged boy even though he be further away. So your frame of mind when projecting will largely determine the sort of experiences you have, and the environments you visit.

(“Yes.” During break I had wondered, for instance, how long it would take to supplant a negative habit that had existed for say ten years, with a positive one.)

To replace it with a new construction, it is a good idea to suggest that the old construction has indeed vanished, and in its place a new more acceptable one is being built. Now symbolism may be used here. The following mental exercise is most effective. It may be varied according to your interest.

(The following private sessions have been deleted from this Book 9, the last one in this series of The Early Sessions. Except for Session 494, however, those sessions will be presented in The Personal Sessions series that New Awareness Network will soon begin publishing. See my note about ThePersonal Sessions in the front matter of this book:)