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[...] It was a national holiday, sacrificial day ...something that we would translate into atonement but that wasn’t the word at all ...where children were sacrificed, so that the earth would grow ... [...] You had other wives afterwards ...I’m trying to get something you can check, but it’s so long ago you can’t ...but the emotion is fantastic. [...]

[...] Janice said she had distrusted Phil at first but felt better about it now. [...]

(Phil hesitated and said, “I think I wanted to go off with someone else, but I didn’t want to leave you and I couldn’t tell you,” and stopped awkwardly. [...]

(“But you can’t. It’s too late,” Janice said. [...]

[...] They realized they were mortal, and must die, but their greater awareness of Framework 2 allowed them a larger identification, so they understood that death was not only a natural necessity, but also an opportunity for other kinds of experience and development (see Note 1 for Session 803).

[...] And when they slayed other animals themselves and ate the heart, for example, it was not only to obtain the animals’ “stout hearts,” or fearlessness; but also the intent was to preserve those characteristics so that through men’s experiences each animal would continue to live to some extent.

[...] But above all he was aware of nature’s source.

It may be difficult for you to understand, but the events that you now recognize are as much the result of the realm of the imagination, as those experienced by early man when he perceived as real happenings that now you would consider hallucinatory, or purely imaginative.

[...] Tender pink flesh still shows, but the healing process will continue, I think, until all signs of those wounds are gone. [...]

[...] Jane does hold the cup now, but wants to hold it for the entire operation now, she says, which takes several minutes. [...]

(On the negative side, staff still has trouble at times irrigating the catheter—but as soon as Jane starts drinking more, the urine clears up, and so do the muscle spasms. [...]

[...] Then she started reading yesterday’s session—but haltingly, not as good as she did yesterday. [...]

[...] You may close your eyes or leave them open, as you prefer, but sense within yourselves your own inner identity. [...] Do not take it at face value but feel within yourself for the hidden self that is within. [...]

Now you may each interpret your experiences in your own way but feel the independence of yourself from this room and from this time and from this existence. [...]

[...] But the vitality that draws you, and the vitality that is within each of you is the same vitality that changes the seasons that you know and that gives your physical existence its meaning that insures the survival of your identity. [...]

[...] Not just the self that you know, or the self you think you accept, or the self you fear you do not know, but the entire self. [...]

[...] There are many casualties, but this is still a system that you have chosen, and your ideas still form your reality. [...] Put simply, your thoughts can be regarded as invisible viruses, carriers, sparks setting off reactions not only within the body but the entire physical system as you know it.

[...] Beside this, the sound of additional hammering inside the house rose up through our floor; but none of this lasted long or interfered with the session.)

[...] You are very rarely vulnerable to any but a small percentage, though you carry within you traces of the most deadly of them all of the time. [...]

[...] They are as much a part of nature as feelings are, but if you set up an arbitrary division — considering thoughts mental as distinguished from the physical — then your body may give a truer reflection of your being than your thoughts do.

This is the case, but not the case. The choices are small to your way, but choice is not impossible. Actually there is choice, but the manipulation of camouflage is not developed along your lines. [...]

From your viewpoint such a disintegration is, of course, not pleasant, but as the personality loses its focus on your plane it gathers itself together on another plane, and such a gradual gathering together is much more favorable than the surprise of a complete and sudden departure. Already Miss Callahan’s vital core of awareness is appearing on another plane, and if you will forgive an analogy, she appears there as a wondering but not frightened young girl.

[...] Frank Watts considered her a friend, attaching more importance than she did to her influence upon his children; but beyond this her present personality has been gently disentangling itself from this plane, and she simply did not remember.

[...] Death on your plane is a termination but does not involve a new immediately-critical adjustment, since there is a time for rest and a time to catch up, so to speak.

[...] Weeks may be experienced in a dream, and the dream may take but a split second of your clock time. The inner thoughts of the mind exist but briefly in time, and even this small tinge of time that touches both dreams and ideas is not basic to either the dream or the idea.

The spacious present does not contradict the existence of durability, but durability does not imply the existence of a future as you conceive it. Now this may appear contradictory, but later I hope that you will understand this more clearly. [...]

(Jane began dictating in a rather normal voice and at her regular rate, but before long her delivery slowed down once again. [...]

You cannot deny your own psychological reality, but sometimes it seems as if you would if you could. [...]

(But not only had she done it more than once, Sue said: She could recall portions of the simultaneous dreams she’d had on some of those occasions, which was a lot more than I could claim. [...] I ended up thinking that my own little experience hadn’t amounted to so much after all; but still, it had made Jane and me aware of another facet of dream life. [...]

[...] But even if you did, the very experience of other-consciousness itself would supersede your living space. You would need another self, able to hold both lines of consciousness at once, lost in neither but maintaining footing in each. [...]

[...] But, he said, you can then discover that the writing itself becomes the day’s experience. [...]

[...] It means the further expansion of the concept of identity: “You” would not only be aware of the you that you have always known, in the same way that you are now, but a deeper sense of identity would also arise.

[...] Seth here referred to two rather brief but vivid and colorful dreams I had written down just before tonight’s session began. [...] I told her I was noting a couple of dreams down, but did not describe them to her since time was getting short.

[...] He was too busy to witness Monday’s session, but promised to visit us on Tuesday evening, October 19. [...]

He thought the clothing was on sale, that it was cheap at the price, but it only seemed so because he did not know that he had already paid for it. [...]

He will however then realize, or he should realize, that this ability was his in a past life, but unused, and is now awaiting him. [...]

(I talked to her for a few minutes, saying I had no choice but to leave. [...] I said I’d probably received her latest letter, but hadn’t answered mail for some time.

[...] I hadn’t thought there was anything left for her to hide from me — but upon reflection I saw that her behavior was quite typical, quite secretive. Maybe I should have figured something like that was going on — but on the other hand, how can I be responsible, except possibly in a minor way?

[...] We may or may not return, but my presence, attention, and energy are with him.

[...] There have been others with smaller fears but now larger. [...] There are decisions to make, but you are uncertain and disinclined to face yourself fully to reach a decision. [...]

[...] You have gained much wisdom, but you do not listen. [...]

[...] I know what the transition is like and I tell you it is pleasant—but your responsibilities will still exist, and you will ask yourself how you have fulfilled them. [...]

(Jane asked that I read her some Seth material, so I picked the last nine sessions — starting with our new resolve and intent on July 30, after the long layoff since July 4. They’re all short sessions, but now carry all of our hopes for the future, and so far have been paying off. [...]

[...] She only stayed a few moments, but it was too long.)

I may or may not return — but he will sit on his back porch again.

[...] She was quite uncomfortable at times through the afternoon, but all in all I think she was better, which means that our approach these days is helping considerably.)

It will do good also if during the day occasionally he imagines the exercise as he goes about his chores, but he should not do this willfully, with an intent to command physical performance. [...]

[...] It is symbolism, but highly effective for that reason, and for that reason it does indeed draw out tensions and poisons.

[...] I thought the remarks would bring forth some response from Seth, but since a shorter session had been announced I didn’t think such a lengthy response would materialize.

(This I have been suspecting recently, but hadn’t said anything about it to Jane.)

[...] “You know,” she said, “I thought this book was going to go longer, but I’ve got the funny nostalgic feeling that Seth’s going to end it real soon. [...] I don’t know about you,” she laughed, “but I’d like to see it last another five chapters…. [...]

(A note pertaining to the material given just before break: In Chapter Nineteen Seth deals with reincarnation in a general sense, but he’s said little in this book about his psychic “connections” with Jane and me. [...] But to explore the ramifications of reincarnation just as it involves the three of us, for example, would take a book in itself….

[...] But many people look to those outside themselves — psychics, doctors, psychiatrists, priests, ministers, friends — for the answers to overall life situations, and in so doing they deny their own abilities of self-understanding and growth.

[...] And again, it does not mean that you must smile constantly, but that you affirm your validity and grace within the dimensions of your creaturehood.

[...] According to your beliefs, you may interpret such data in any of many ways, but because such experiences are not an accepted part of recognized, official activity, they can appear frightening. [...] You may assign them to “spirits” or disembodied personalities, but in such a way that these are thrown together in a confusing mass of dogma or superstition.

[...] Do you think there is but one kind of consciousness?

Now: These units of consciousness (CU’s) move faster than the speed of light, then — but that statement itself is meaningless in a way, since the units exist outside as well as inside the framework in which light itself has meaning.

[...] I will make it clearer later in the book.² But your limited ideas of time cause conceptual barriers that operate even when you consider the structure of physical biological life.

A dream is like the snap of a rubber band, but it is not the rubber band. [...] The images stand for the people, but they are not the people. The symbols carry the message, but they are not the event they depict.

Again, I do not mean to deny the validity of that experience, but to point out its specialized nature. [...] From your viewpoint it seems often that dreams are not events, or that they happen but do not happen. [...]

[...] The rain that hits your backyard as warm drops, soft and clear, may be hail in areas far above your rooftop, but it changes its form as it falls — again, according to the conditions that it encounters. [...]

[...] But such a dream is also a symbol for another unrecalled event, a consciously unrecorded “falling star,” and a clue as to how any environment is formed.

At the same time, of course, conflicting is the desire to be known as a successful writer in his hometown, but to do so he must be known again, you see. [...] But here he feels is the best part of himself, unprotected, and the self he tried really to hide, now displayed.

[...] The immobilization was partially a fear reaction, and yet it had some elements of courage in it, in that he would run in fear no longer, but face issues.

[...] He could have become seriously ill several months ago, but he avoided this. [...]

[...] This was at first simply a temporary fear reaction, but it lengthened you see as other developments deepened his fear.

[...] I could have said that one mind had many variations, but then you would still try to understand the concept using your old ideas about identity itself. [...] You do not discard a self as you might throw off a coat, but you do have a wardrobe of selves. [...]

Now: this is important to yourselves, but to others also. [...]

[...] They are disturbing because at one stage they are only felt but not understood for what they are. [...]

There are all kinds of like suggestions, all meant as preventive measures, but based upon the idea that ill fortune can be most likely expected, and means must be taken to avoid it. [...]

[...] I don’t recall if he wears rings; but if not then the ring finger would be hurt, particularly. But I have a picture of a ring, something like the one you wear. [...]

[...] They were difficult to put into words, but involved an accident, she thought, and a hospital emergency room.

(“But a Tuesday seems to be involved. [...]

(“But they do have to call for help.

[...] Almost impossible to describe but it’s as if a million tiny things in my head were just off enough, so that the rest of the body didn’t work right, walk right; as if the body wasn’t synchronized and as if this afternoon it was fitting together again correctly; all the parts lining up or something. My vision would change minute by minute; I walked some faster but felt so light on my feet that I called Rob... Was going to walk around but felt I should wait...