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(Before the session I showed Jane a childhood photograph of herself, and one of me. The two pictures are roughly the same size, about 3¼ by 5". They also look remarkably alike in their brittle and discolored condition — almost as though they’d been snapped at the same time — yet mine is older than Jane’s by 20 years.
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Each of you, again, chose your parents and environment. You spoke in your notes (two days ago) of precognition in connection with art — an excellent point. Precognition in those terms also applies at your birth, when ahead of time you are quite aware on unconscious levels of those conditions that you will meet. You have chosen them and projected them ahead of you, out into the medium of time.
The conditions, however, while “set” in one fashion, are highly plastic in another, so that a multitudinous variety of probable events can flow from them. Precognitively you are unconsciously quite aware — again in your terms — of the results of any given action or cause. When this (photograph) of Ruburt3 was taken, he had already become aware of the overall interests and concerns that would dominate his future life, although the particular course of it had not been chosen.
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Now: You were correct. Probabilities are of course involved. Remember the first few sentences of this session. The general overall conditions were chosen, but many probable courses were concerned.
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