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[...] You have no words for the kinds of images I am speaking of, for they are not objects, nor pictures of objects, nor images of images, but instead the inner dimensions, each separate and glowing, but connected, prisms of knowledge, that have within themselves more reality than you can presently begin to imagine.

[...] It changes its patterns of activity, it comes and goes, but it is always itself in its comings and goings. To me, that is exceedingly simple — but as far as your concepts are concerned, it can seem to imply irreconcilable complications.

[...] Early man did act in a more spontaneous manner, more automatically, in your terms, but not mindlessly. [...]

[...] He puts his sciences and religions, his languages, together in multitudinous ways, but there must always be a translation of inner information outward to the world of sense. [...]

[...] “But the heck with it. Maybe someday we’ll be able to use it in a book, but in the meantime I’m not going to worry about it. [...]

[...] If those three members of her family are enjoying a vacation, Sue isn’t—but at least she’s working on her book in warm weather!

The thoughts of children give excellent clues as to mankind’s nature, but many adults do not remember any childhood thoughts except those that fit, or seem to fit, in with their beliefs about childhood.

They quickly learn to forget their parts in such episodes, so that later, when as adults they find themselves ill they not only forget that they caused the illness to begin with, but unfortunately they forget how to will themselves well again.

[...] The arthritis situation is as I gave it, but you are still faced with the medical interpretation of that situation, so that it is up to Ruburt to set it aside. He is returning to activity at his creative, naturally therapeutic pace, no longer afraid that he is going too fast—or will —but shown only too clearly that activity and motion represent the only safe, sane, and creative response. [...]

[...] I have yet to type that material, but will start it after finishing this session.

[...] “Every so often I get ideas about it,” she said, but not from Seth, at least yet.... [...]

[...] “But it’ll be a real short one.” [...]

[...] He is not imprisoned within this pseudoimage, since he forms it, but the energy used is misdirected and largely futile.

[...] You and Ruburt both know subconsciously, and you have begun to sense the implications on a conscious level, but barely. [...]

[...] (Pause.) You will use more energy in helping to sustain Ruburt, but you will because of his new affirmation have more available. [...]

[...] You were correct in the assumption that upon death the personality sends out signals; but the personality constantly sends out signals, in any condition of existence.

Ruburt indeed felt attacked, but he would not fight against you, you see. He fought, but without ever daring face what it was he was fighting. [...]

[...] Jane at first did not agree with my findings, but her own pendulum verified my results.

[...] I was not allowed to speak but in the most opaque of terms.

[...] The blockage was not only Ruburt’s, but your own. [...]

[...] But it doesn’t sound right but seems to be what I’m getting.

After the 9th power form shatters, but at the 12th power form is re-established under a new constant. [...]

[...] The mastery of the equation is not determined by predictability, but by the realization that unpredictability often occurs at a constant ratio. [...]

[...] (“I get something like disaster,” she said, “but I think it’s annihilation.”)

[...] She was very sleepy and relaxed before the session this evening also, but she wanted to hold it. [...]

[...] But one step away from this is another level of consciousness into which you all slip without knowing. [...]

[...] This does not mean that this inner landscape must always be completely sunny, but it does mean that it should be well balanced.

[...] At first I wondered whether his A-1 state would merely repeat the alpha data given to us by Patty Middleton, but it soon developed that he was using alpha only as a takeoff point. [...]

(Ever since she began dictating Mass Events for Seth, Jane has felt like having book sessions but once a week — on Monday nights — and doing other things in between. [...] But with all of this, she’s been refreshing her physical and creative selves by simply enjoying the day-by-day magical ripening of another spring.)

(10:20.) It is quite obvious that people must die — not only because otherwise you would overpopulate your world into extinction, but because the nature of consciousness requires new experience, challenge, and accomplishment. [...] (Pause.) If there were no death, you would have to invent it (smile) — for the context of that selfhood would be as limited as the experience of a great sculptor given but one hunk of stone (with quiet dramatic emphasis).¹

[...] No one can be born for you, or die for you, and yet no birth or death is really an isolated event, but one in which the entire planet participates. In personal terms, again, each species is concerned not only with survival but with the quality of its life and experience.

But nowhere do we see anything about any spiritual dilemmas that may be involved with all of this, or about the enormous social problems — challenges, to be sure — that could soon begin to manifest themselves if anything even approaching “eternal life” comes within the reach of numbers of people. [...] What about those who want to live on, but can’t afford to? [...]

[...] The new individual has a deeply buried memory of its past lives, but the personal consciousness of the last reincarnated self must not be superimposed upon this new identity. [...] It is even given lessons of a kind, but it is very much its own self.

(I now asked Seth: “Can you say a little bit about Sue’s first question, about the astral body of the fetus?” Jane had read Sue’s questions some time earlier, but she didn’t know I was going to ask any of the questions this evening.)

[...] It enters briefly into this process (of birth) but it does not become the new individual.

[...] Even then, you might not recall the dream, but the situation itself as it comes to your attention might make you check your tires, decide to put off your trip, or instead lead you to inner speculations about whether you are going too fast in a certain direction for your own good at this time. But you will get the dream’s message.”

[...] The question was really based upon our belief, indeed our certainty, that everything in nature is intentional and useful; therefore dreams must fulfill important roles in peoples’ lives—but how, in ordinary terms? [...]

[...] Another portion might come from a neighbor—but from the dreamer’s interpretation of the neighbor’s remark, that further brings home the dream message.”

He saw his mother, but the image was a projected one. [...]

He tried to loosen the hampering bedding, and could not, but a doctor —a young man—came to his aid, loosened the bedding. [...]

[...] The earlier portions of the dream did, however, represent fears that Ruburt was, say, dying of suffocation—not physical suffocation, but from being bound too tightly.

[...] The cats did not represent your physical cats (Mitzi and Billy Two), but old comfortable beliefs about the nature of the spontaneous self connected with ideas he picked up from his mother, in which cats represented the worst aspects of human behavior and impulses: they fawned upon you, yet were evil, and could turn against you in a moment.

(11:15.) There is nothing wrong, even with the muscles or the joints, organically, but a functional disturbance. [...]

The brief simple yoga exercises are not to exceed 10 minutes, now, but done gently they will help stretch the muscles in a natural fashion. [...]

(Seth started to say good night, but I interposed a question about my front tooth. [...]

[...] You also wonder if the book is more than you can chew—not alone, but in relationship with your painting. [...]

[...] But upon many occasions his personal associations now are connected with the object; so he does not fight me, but we work together.

[...] I intended to file it for the future, but today decided it would make a good test subject. [...]

[...] Jane knew it was lit of course but we did not talk about it, and she did not see the flame until first break. [...]

In years to come we may be able to work along these lines, but this will be in the future. [...]

[...] You will indeed see clearly that matter is created simultaneously, and has no duration, but is completely and almost instantly replaced by other matter, and that identity and continuity are not characteristics of matter, but must be found in other places.

I will now close, but I wanted to give you some sort of report card, so to speak. And we may end up missing some sessions due to your vacations and your purchase of the house, but not too many.

(I saw nothing during this experience, but did hear an unidentified voice utter a phrase, clearly enough, but had lost it by the time I left the state.

(By 8:58 Jane said she did not feel very nervous, but did feel strange because she had no idea of what Seth would talk about. [...]

[...] But none of you perceives the same reality. [...]

[...] Some individuals therefore will simply not telepathically receive the dominating reality assumptions, but will be tuned to different ranges, highly unsatisfactory to them. [...]

A disciplined but intuitive ego then becomes a necessity in order that such new experience may be brought under useful control, in your (underlined) terms. [...]

It goes without saying that in our methods the ego is changed rather completely but gradually in many cases, and only through its own willingness to do so. [...]

[...] Most systems have more reality than a painting, but not all of them. [...] But two houses will never appear.

[...] They may be necessary at one time or another, but they can never be primary realities. [...]

Your own thoughts have a reality that you do not understand, and their own kind of form, or psychic content, and this content exists not as pure energy, but as energy with form and shape. [...]

[...] But all is connected.

[...] He reminded me somewhat of Bill Macdonnel's father, but it was not him. I also recall a small pencil drawing Bill has done of his father in a similar position, but from a full-face angle.)

(I have yet to resume a planned study of psychological time, but as noted previously I continue to have small experiences almost daily. [...]

As I told you many sessions ago, I tell you once again: Our sessions are but barely beginning. [...]

[...] From the beginning of our sessions you have been learning the method with which we will explore the whole self, but we have not plunged headlong into any foolhardy expeditions.

[...] Considerable dropping down of right foot and top tendon: but as I walk, knees felt much softer, moving more, from hips too, felt funny but great....

[...] But Bob McClure drops in. [...]

Some of this is difficult to explain, but as the world of appearances presents its own evidence, on the level of sense, so your inner reality presents as strong evidence of its reality. But that evidence remains largely invisible, because you have not trained yourselves sufficiently to be alert to those manifestations. [...]

[...] It seems that we also got our signals crossed, for I learned today that she’d been ready for a session; but because I didn’t come out of the writing room and ask her if she wanted one, she thought I didn’t want one....

(But at about 9 PM this evening Jane surprised me by suggesting a brief session. [...]

[...] The world is being changed through our work—but because that work is primarily a creative endeavor in the fullest, deepest meaning, now, of the word creative. [...]

In his own way he is fond of your mother at the same time, you see, but also terrified of her because the repressions cause him to exaggerate the hidden fears. [...]

(Pause.) Something else applies during the night, but I suggest your break.

[...] There are several issues involved here, and we will not get to all of them this evening, but I will return to the subject at the end of dictation.

[...] Changing the direction of the bed would automatically help matters some, but (humorously) Ruburt does not like it the other way.