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Now, there is a tower of strength—but it is not outside yourself, but within yourself. [...] But the sun is there and it shines upon all flowers. [...]

[...] You (Rose) are doing well but you are still going very cautiously. [...] But you are making an effort, and where little effort is made, little results can be expected. [...]

Now, perhaps I do not use the correct approach with you (Florence) when I speak of responsibility, but you are responsibility oriented. But a flower does not feel the responsibility to bloom in the sun, it blooms because it is natural to bloom. [...]

[...] But to a very real extent, you are all sleepwalkers—for you are far more awake and far more alert in many of your sleep states than you are now. [...] There are states of perception with which you are intuitively aware but that escape you in the light of day. [...]

[...] He had begun to speak at but a few months age. [...] Dave and Estelle were curious about the play of similar numbers here, among other things—since these notes touch upon but a small part of the information given Jane and me through the evening.

(Smile.) You were a cowboy(to Dave), but not in this country. [...] You were not professionally a cowboy, but you dealt with transportation involved with horses. [...]

It was not an ending to him, but a beginning, and it will be a beginning to you both. [...] You will not see him grow old, but he has grown old many times, and there was no need for him to grow old again.

There are cleavages, but the best portions of both of your personalities can be most effectively fulfilled if those cleavages are bridged, bypassed. [...]

The information was not to be given to “born believers,” but to intelligent people, and to a “medium” who questioned it, not only for himself but for all those given to the same kind of questioning. As Ruburt grows to understand, therefore, and as he continues to develop, he triumphs not only for himself but for all those who follow his ventures. [...]

[...] At first she had forgotten what the frame looked like, she told me, but now correctly described it. [...] This would be not only before the sessions began, but before we even suspected such possibilities. [...]

There are, but since I am not covering those in this book, I will give them to you at another time.

[...] If so the material would have been given, but in different fashion.

[...] It is, indeed, and it is constructive and you will pass through it far richer and with greater understanding, but it will not be the only crossroad for as soon as you think you know yourself, you have already changed. [...] And All That Is, or in your terms, God, is not a static being but always creative and always changing, so do not put yourself at a particular level of experience and stay there but allow yourself growth and freedom. [...]

[...] It does not turn its head upward and say, “Yes, but does the rain exist, or does it not? [...] But if it is a fancy tale, it would behoove you to listen, for the moment that the flower says, “I deny, therefore, I deny the sunlight or the rain,” then the flower, indeed, would deny the grace of existence. [...]

(To Derek.) You will find your own ways, but trust your own inner voice. [...] You do not need trust me, but you must, indeed, trust yourself. [...]

Now, I will tell you something else that you will not necessarily want to hear, but you must also learn to relate to outside physical reality. [...] This will improve your painting, your creative life, and your psychic life, but you are turning inward too much without knowing what you are doing, at this time. [...]

(To Sue.) Now you will have to get through many of your own misconceptions, as Ruburt did, and you will fight, as Ruburt did, to maintain them but they are limitations. You must learn to see the reality within the words that people use to clothe realities but you must think and you will, emotionally. Now our friend Ruburt put up a fine battle but it was sad to see for it was not necessary and neither is yours. [...]

(To Molly.) I was telling you that it will take awhile to admit that what we are saying in class is a fact that applies to your life, and that it will take you awhile to become acquainted with your own probable reality for you have a very strong existence in a particular probable reality, and you are aware of it to some extent in some of your dreams but you often forget these. Now, you give a strong vitality to our scientist here but it is deceptive because on the surface, it is not apparent, and you have strong abilities and you are using them very well in a probable system of reality. [...]

[...] There is no growth without strain, without the shattering of old barriers and the learning or new responsibilities but these responsibilities are experienced as joys. [...] A session or so is all right but I do not want you placing yourself in a position where you are trying to prove the legitimate nature of such communication to others. [...]

They did, indeed, in that probable reality but, as you know, to them this is a probable reality. [...]

That (Camp) is a relative of yours and the two of you (Sue and Bette) are connected, but not in this reality in a probable reality; and for a woman that this Camp might have married but did not. [...]

Anything that you perceive with your senses, for the point of our discussion, you can call material, but you only perceive certain ranges of material as you only perceive certain ranges of an entire spectrum of light. As there is a spectrum of light, so there is a spectrum of matter but you are not tuned in to the entire spectrum. [...]

[...] She is not in the room in which you work but I believe, some two doors down or two places removed. I do not know if she is there now, but she was at that time and you met her in the hallway. [...]

Now this bargain does not only have to do with your psychic work but to your entire life situation and in a way you have the same goals but you have a division of labor that you have subconsciously decided upon. [...]

This data must be interpreted in such a way that the conscious mind then can give a prediction, say, but also in such a way that its reality exits simultaneously with consciousness, but never so replacing consciousness that the ego grows alarmed. [...] But the symbols chosen must be of a nature so that they will become meaningful to consciousness, to as large an extent as possible after emergence.

[...] But the dream universe and the dream experience, like thoughts and emotions, are independent of you in existence. You influence the dream universe but you cannot stop a dream experience after you have created it, and you must create it within the small range of intensities available for its existence, for there are no other conditions or agreeable ranges of intensity within which the dream experience can exist.

[...] They are all one, but to explain them I must seem to dissect them and separate them, so that you may see their various identities. [...] I will not keep you now, but do intend that we hold our regular session tomorrow evening, as planned.

[...] The reason being that the subconscious is not divided into neat levels, but is made up of many interconnecting and complicated corridors, rooms, etc.

When I speak of the electrical universe, indeed this represents but one more facet of reality. But all of these universes are indeed one. [...] Here is the secret, if you could but see it: Even though the electrical universe might seem to you far divorced from what you know, nevertheless you dwell within it. [...] But even this is also a camouflage.

And again, dreams are themselves never completed, but continue on whether or not your perception of them continues. [...] But the idea, ego, is in itself an arbitrary unit chosen for particular reasons. [...]

[...] I had wondered at times about the seat becoming too hot, but had taken it for granted that Jane automatically lowered her feet when it became too warm. [...]

[...] We freeze them, so to speak, in order that we might hold them within our grasp, but we cannot, nor is there a time, as such, when they will be completed or finished.

[...] She’d taken Bufferin but it hadn’t seemed to help much. She has had similar sensations in recent days—see the chronology for the weekend as listed below—but last night they were steadier and more intense. Jane also had another series of dreams, but unfortunately could remember hardly anything of them. [...]

[...] With my flashlight, he glimpsed a medium-sized coon, but couldn’t tell if it was male or female, or whether it had young. [...] But then, I thought, it must be getting in and out by itself all along, for at least three weeks now, and I was sure that late at night I could hear more than one voice chattering above the damper. [...]

(“I assume I can have a session, but beyond a certain point it’s too hard.” [...] But I vaguely feel him around....”

[...] If memory serves, Seth said a long time ago that Jane did not have arthritis, but for her own reasons was mimicking her mother’s disease. [...]

[...] Those who survived reacted in the old fashion, sweating to build again, refusing better shelter, but the times had indeed changed. The balances of nature, culture, communication, transportation, had altered to such a degree that a real poverty had resulted, not simply simple basic but adequate living conditions. The people compared themselves to the rest of the world at times, and many of the young were beginning to leave, but those villages were, again, very like those in the times of Nebene and the Roman soldier. [...]

It is not just that the people related more to the land—though they did—but that they had a different kind of psychological extension, not only with nature, but in and with time itself. [...]

[...] But I found that I thought an earlier one, for June 30, 1973, to be even better, more basic perhaps.

[...] They and the land seemed one, sharing the present seasons, the daily work—but more than that, their fathers and their forefathers and usually many past generations of given families came from the same area. [...]

[...] Jane started reading yesterday’s long session, but couldn’t handle it too well. I tried doing some mail, but stopped to help her, then at 3:l6 started reading the session to her. [...]

[...] I said I’d draw her a map of the region after supper, but never did. [...] Iran hates the Communists, but us also. [...]

(The weather had warmed up to the point where we had rain instead of snow—about 30 degrees—but this threatened to create another problem—icy roads. [...]

(But the very act of bringing the cake showed what the people there think of us—heartwarming indeed, to coin an original phrase. [...]

[...] During his nap, further important release took place, but it was accompanied by uncomfortable sensations with his eyes. The resulting release of muscular tension was definitely obvious to him, and reflected not only in the neck or head area, but also in the important knee areas, and traveling to the ankles.

[...] They are the result of body language, smiles or frowns, muscular attitudes—but you live surrounded by a psychological environment of suggestion. [...] The return to the natural moment can be used quite effectively, but not if you constantly reinforce your lacks of confidence.

I do not want to go into history here, but to some extent the Catholic church began the mass pattern that ended up putting the individual in such a position, so that the self was trusted least of all. There were cultural reasons connected here also, but the people in the society were taught to rely upon the priests, so that that authority became substituted for deep individual reliance upon the self.

(1. About reincarnations Why do people say they remember past lives, but very seldom refer to future lives? [...]

[...] “Well, no; but a couple of times I felt that I was right on the verge of accomplishing more with it, but I couldn’t quite bridge the gap to bring it about. The first thing I thought of was Jane’s father, though—I didn’t actually see him, but I was telling Jane that at times I thought I did see the shape of the back of the head —I did associate that with his head.”)

Now, such a vision is not only something that you see that intrudes upon this reality, but also something that has its effects upon this reality, and often effects that you do not perceive. You perceive the appearance of the image, but its other effects escape you. [...]

[...] There are indeed initiates, but all of you passed that stage in another layer of reality, in your terms, some time ago. [...] You are affecting each others’ realities, but you have always done this to some degree.

[...] It is not true to say that this is a religious group in any way, but it is true to say that this is a very strong alliance. [...] They interweave, not only through your centuries as you understand them, but through other realities. [...]

I say wrong, meaning no moral judgment, but the application of one method to a pursuit that cannot be adequately expressed in such a fashion. The assembly-line time and the beliefs that go along with it have given you many benefits as a society, but it should not be forgotten that the entire framework was initially set up to cut down on impulses, creative thought, or any other activities that would lead to anything but the mindless repetition of one act after another (intently).

[...] This is somewhat lengthy to unravel, but your behavior and experience, of course, is the result of your beliefs. Framework 2² has been a rather fascinating but mainly (underlined) hypothetical framework, in that neither of you have really been able to put it to any perceivable use in your terms. [...]

[...] Particularly if you want to make a living at your art, you fall into the frame of mind in which you think that “each minute is valuable” — but what you mean is that each minute must be a minute of production. But each moment must be valuable in itself, whatever you do with it.

[...] The creative abilities operate in the same fashion, appearing within consecutive time, but with the main work done outside of it entirely. When you finished your project,⁴ you had several days of feeling miserable, but you caught yourself and turned yourself around beautifully, and you have every right to congratulate yourself in that regard.

He is privately enthralled, but business-wise overly cautious. [...] The woman (editor for F.F.) has no feeling for the material, as you know, but is interested in Ruburt as a property; and as a property has no idea of how to handle him. [...]

[...] Once again she seemed about to cry, but did not. She did not remember what she had said, but had a feeling of sadness. [...]

[...] An editor rejected the book but wrote a very encouraging letter concerning the publication of the Seth material. [...]

Now often in such circumstances you can help others and not help yourself, use your abilities to help others but not yourself, simply because you erect barriers. [...]

[...] You are indeed obsessed with the idea of marriage, and with male love, but as Joseph mentioned this is but a symptom.

[...] But you must not insist on any one condition as a prerequisite for existence. I am not saying that you will not have what you want, again, but as long as you hold the wish as a condition of existence you will not.

[...] You have set your own problems, but the life force is not entirely yours. You have decided to do certain things with the vitality and life that has been given you, that flows through you, but it is not your right to end any given personality. [...]

[...] Jane read the four questions over—the formulae were meaningless to her—before the session, but we doubted if Seth would have time to deal with Pat’s letter and the questions in one session.

Rev. Lowe asked other questions but no more relating to the subject at hand. [...] There were other details, but the interesting thing was that Mrs. Lowe told me afterward that she was really crazy about horses, and that Greece and France were the only countries in which she had any great interest.

[...] But what about cause and effect, then? [...] Seth’s attitude toward cause and effect will become clear enough in his later explanations of the true nature of “time,” but when Rob first asked the question, Seth answered:

[...] We had corresponded but never met before. [...] We liked each other at once, but it was primarily a business meeting. [...]

[...] He mentioned several past lives, but emphasized one as being particularly significant. [...] The group worked on manuscripts officially, but our friend here and several others were bootleg seed finders, believing against currently held theories that questions concerning nature could be answered by examining nature.

[...] For various reasons you have not really focused on solving the problem, but you have focused upon the problem, and there is a vast difference. [...] I will see to it that you have material to follow, but a change of attitude will be necessary. [...] But think in terms of his expressing various gradations of freedom, rather than of freedom as an absolute.

[...] There are various schools and religions that try, in distorted terms, to express the self’s validity, but the distortions have smothered the basic validity of the teachings.

[...] For some time he was simply between belief systems, discarding some entirely, accepting portions of others; but he was mainly a pioneer, and this while carrying largely unknowingly and invisibly the one basic belief of society that you cannot trust the self.

There were frameworks that could have offered help, but he saw that they were not intrinsically valid and so did not depend upon them. [...]

[...] They may frighten the conscious self considerably, but after all it comes awake in its normal world, shaken perhaps but secure in the framework of the day.

[...] In times of seemingly calamitous encounters with nature, individuals may find themselves amazed at their capacity to relate with other people, but in the artificially induced psychic disaster area of massive LSD therapy, the situation is reversed. Consciousness finds itself in a crisis situation; not [because of one coming] from the exterior world, but because it is forced to fight on a battleground for which it was never designed and cannot understand, where basically counted-upon allies of association, memory and organization, and all the powers of the inner self, are suddenly turned into enemies.

[...] If you consider yourself a mental being only, however, you will not feel alive in the flesh, but separated from it. [...] Know that later you will still operate through another form, but that the body and the material world are your present modes of expression.

[...] I don’t know the time but it was dark and raining hard, with flashes of soundless lightning. [...] I thought about going for a walk, but didn’t…. [...]

Rob was worried about me and wondered if I should continue with the session, but by now I was really embarrassed at making such a fuss, and I knew that the experience was significant. I went back into trance, but very soon I was to break off again.

I hoped this was the end of the session, but it was obvious that Jane wanted to continue, or at least was willing to continue, in spite of the unsettling experience. I tried to talk her out of it, but her eyes kept closing. [...]

I tried to find my voice to tell Rob I wanted to end the session, but the other personality was using it. Through all of this I use the word “I,” but “I” was so a part of the action that it was difficult to separate myself from it. [...]

[...] When the session resumed, I felt myself seemingly suspended, fully alert and aware—but bodiless—in space. I had no form as far as I knew, but I possessed complete freedom of motion—something like conscious air. [...]