See Note 4 for the 689th session (as well as the session itself), and Appendix 8 for this session.

(Jane had “no idea at all” of the material in the last session. She tried reading my notes for it now, since I had only one page typed from them, but couldn’t decipher my homemade shorthand. She hadn’t particularly felt like having a session last night so we ran errands instead. Tonight, Jane said, she’d try letting Seth come through, although she didn’t think she was at her best. By 9:28, she sat “waiting to just get it clear.”)

7. Refer to Appendix 6 for the 687th session, as well as the 689th session itself.

The CU’s, forming the structure later in its entirety, form all the atoms, molecules, cells, and organs that make up your world. Land changes and alterations of species are conditions brought about in line with overall patterns that involve all species, or land and water masses, at any given “time.” There is a great organization of consciousness involved on such occasions — sometimes creative cataclysms, in which, again from its own precognitive information, nature brings about those situations best suited to its needs. Such biological precognition is firmly based in the chromosomes and genes, and reflected in the cells. As mentioned earlier (in the 684tb session), the present corporal structure of any physical body of any kind is maintained only because of the cells’ innate precognitive abilities. To the self the future, of course, is not experienced as future. It is simply one of the emerging conditions of an experienced Now (you had better capitalize that). The cells’ practically felt “Now” includes, then, what you would think of as past and future, as simple conditions of Nowness. They maintain the body’s structure in your poised time only by manipulating themselves in a rich medium of probabilities. There is a constant give-and-take of communication between the cell as you know it in present time, and the cell as it “was” in the past, or “will be.”

(Seth began talking about the dilemma posed between the conventional theory of evolution and his ideas about the simultaneous nature of time and existence, soon after these sessions started late in 1963. He dealt with this duality very evocatively in the 45th session for April 20, 1964:)

(FOR SESSION 690)

[...] To some small degree in our sessions you plunge into this ocean of value climate, and to the extent that you are able to divest yourselves of the clothes of camouflage, you can be truly aware of this climate.

(FOR SESSION 690)

(The contents for this appendix, including a short description of Jane’s use of Sumari, came through within a month after the 690th session was held.

[...] It clearly illuminated his material in this session, as can be seen in the excerpt I’ve put together for this presentation. [...]

1. Among other sessions in Personal Reality, see the 634th in Chapter 8, and the 642nd in Chapter 11.