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The knees have also loosened, and to a considerable degree—but this is relatively hidden as the relationship between hips and knees is constructively altered. [...] In that case he would walk more evenly, the body resting in a still inferior but dependable stance. [...]

[...] The legs are capable, for example, now of straightening out far further, but the entire relationship between every portion of the body is being worked upon.

(In addition the child knew it was not wanted, but had insisted upon being born. [...] The child was to cause its parents much trouble, but they were strong enough to cope with it.

[...] This feeling stems from my mother, who “must always be up and at it,” Seth said, and also from my Aunt Alice, who used to be a missionary, and whom I have met but once or twice. [...]

(Seth’s deleted material this evening is very brief, but it’s presented separately so that the notes that follow can be presented in our private material. [...]

[...] “I want to have a session, but ever since supper time I’ve had the greatest feelings of healing and relaxation—especially in my legs. [...]

[...] Jane said just before the session began, “but I don’t know how long it’ll be.” [...]

Some of this has been said before, but is necessary here nevertheless. [...]

[...] To have a child might help fulfill the man she was married to, but this could destroy the artist she was married to. [...]

[...] Ruburt expected her husband, the man, to show spontaneous love and affection, and to supply emotional richness, which she was willing to nurture—but she expected the artist—who happened to be her husband—to protect himself from any emotional response that might interfere with his work.

[...] Before, those found expression in his dealings with the outside world—but those dealings, he felt, were no longer necessary.

[...] It became fat like Ruburt’s mother, but no longer threatening. [...]

[...] Ruburt must see his existence as arising from the natural cycle of his mother’s reality and his own—two different things but connected. [...]

[...] In certain terms it was tragic and painful but it was not Ruburt’s fault, and within it his mother achieved a different kind of knowledge and even triumphant experience.

[...] Consciousness leaves first, though the body mechanism reacts, but without the “I” identity from which the (in quotes) “horror” comes. [...]

[...] In the past any intuitive thoughts he felt but could not prove were put into his fiction. [...]

[...] Before the material was public this bothered him, but not to that degree. [...]

[...] But Ruburt insists that he intellectually and intuitively understand each point, and agree with it, or it puts him in the position of publicizing ideas when he is not a hundred percent certain of their validity, and he considers this to some degree dishonest. [...]

[...] The three Christs material particularly affects him that way, for to deny the conventional idea of Christ is to antagonize not merely Catholicism but basic Christian belief. [...]

[...] The inner self knows, but the immediate self does not recognize their answers. [...]

[...] This does not mean he should ignore discomfort particularly, but he should take his conscious mind away from his physical body and let it operate alone.

[...] Not because there is anything basically wrong with it, but because it presents him with a dilemma. [...]

This does not occur in the course of usual reincarnations, but it does occur ultimately in all. [...]

[...] The past life is (smile) like a crossword puzzle that must be put together, but at its center is the emotional reality from which the puzzle springs.

(10:29.) Any emotional experience that is highly charged will carry a barrage of details along with it, but usual dates and usual names have little meaning. [...]

[...] You would usually do this in the dream state, but this is often accomplished just below the level of waking consciousness, and is blotted out by you as you go about your daily business.

[...] (Pause.) Reincarnation, as it is usually explained, in terms of one life before another, is a myth; but a myth enabling many to partially understand facts that they would otherwise dismiss — insisting as they do upon the concept of a continuity of time.

[...] I tried to keep talking to her, but could not. ‘It must be better where you are,’ I finally gasped, ‘but you should see this. It’s so wonderful …’ And as I spoke I intuitively understood that the motion of the wind was an excellent creative metaphor for the motion of Jane’s soul, that its cool feel upon my face could be the physical version of her caring for me ‘from where she is.’ The storm of my grief eased after a while, but the wind and the light rain continued. [...]

You will join me as I have joined others.
No physical form or physical thought
can express my existence.
The term love, with its message
of caring for another,
is the most important of our
messages in the physical.
Seth Two is to me now what Seth was to you.
I am a step higher but not removed.
Yet, I have changed enough since “my
death” that it is difficult,
at times, to relate to your existence.
The love and the emotions you feel are
the connectives between us.
My love for you has not changed but expanded
in a way you do not comprehend.
Physical needs are for physical beings,
and I understand and know this.
Touch is important at your level.
My new or returned mind loves you more
deeply than in our earth time together,
but it is also much more
understanding of physical need.
When I said, “Be for me as I would
be for thee,” I didn’t mean to limit you.
Be the physical person you need to be,
as you are physical for a limited and
for a purposeful reason.
Enjoy physical reality between others,
for the mind endures and exists
beyond your understanding and existence.
I love you as you were
and as we will be.
Your now is for you to enjoy.
I never judge your actions, and this
I repeat with love and utmost understanding.
Be yourself and in being yourself
you will be for me as I would be for thee.
You do well and I watch you often.
Continue to love physical life
while you are physical.

I may be projecting my own fears here, but I don’t agree with the scientific rejection of all portions of the schemata listed above. [...] They question not only Valerie’s sincerity and performance but my own, as well. [...]

[...] These notes, then, will contain material not only about Jane, but my own involvement with her, her work, and her death. [...]

[...] But any warmth or flickering light will do the same.

We are getting something here that is not clear: a small instrument used that seems to be the size of a thimble, but with (pause) something that resembles a slide rule on the top. [...]

[...] Her family name (pause) … I hear it, you see, but I do not see it (pause)… You will have to work phonetically: V I S W A (repeated), from some place near Bordeaux in France.

[...] The name was on many records, but you would not find them now. [...]

[...] We didn’t carry through, but slept instead. [...]

[...] It is not necessary to say his way was better, but it was vastly different. [...]

[...] At the time you did suffer a state of shock initially, but the body could handle that. [...]

[...] They are natural communicators, gifted so that their works affect not only the conscious lives of others, but also change and alter dream patterns.

[...] Jane usually wrote several drafts for her “own” books, but spoke her books by Seth in final draft form.

[...] I remembered and described three of them, thought there was a fourth, but couldn’t remember it. [...]

[...] Then later that night, relaxed, sitting on the bed, somehow those inner perceptions (of mine) would have surfaced … but without revealing their source. [...]

[...] But here, in these subtle (byways) of subjective action, we very well might be seeing some of these hidden psychic motions upon which physical events rest … and how today’s events and last year’s rub against each other like leaves from the same tree. [...]

(Long pause.) I am not simply saying that genetic activity can be changed, for example, through something like a nuclear accident, but that highly beneficial alterations can also take place in genetic behavior, as in your terms the genetic structure not only prepares the species for any contingency, but also prepares it by triggering those characteristics and abilities that are needed by the species at any given time, and also by making allowances for such future developments (all quite forcefully).

(9:45.) In no way do I mean to demean the indisputable value of geniuses, or their great contributions to the quality of life—but the quality of life is, again, also benefited by the existence of idiots. Not only because both ends of the scale are necessary for genetic reasons, but also because idiots themselves are in no way considered failures or defects by nature. [...]

[...] These are not written within the chromosomes as words might be written upon paper, but the information and the chromosomes are a living unit. [...]

[...] Others would want much more excitement, much more zest, and order then instead a less grand vessel, but one that went faster. [...]

[...] But they also accepted the reality of an overall spirit, of which these lesser spirits were but a part. [...]

(10:38.) So the concept of God began to change as the ego recognized its reliance upon inner reality, but the drama had to be worked out within the current framework. [...] But as the psyche went through its developments and battled with itself, denying some feelings and characteristics and stressing others, so the historic religious exterior dramas represented and followed these inner aspirations, struggles, and searches.

[...] You do not perceive wholes, but portions. The conscious mind focuses with a quick, limited, but intense light, perceiving from a given field of reality only certain “stimuli.” [...]

[...] Yet in its emergence it provided the inner self with a new kind of feedback, a different view not only of itself; but through this, the inner self was able to glimpse possibilities of development of which it had not previously been aware. [...]

(On Friday, July 18, Bill Gallagher tells us he had a cluster of fairly close near-accident situations since Monday—one involving two boys on bicycles—he stopped about 20 yards from them—but he was going 55 at the foot of Mount Zoar Hill on Holden Road.

(But July 17, Thursday, he was with an associate who did have an accident. [...]

[...] Page not involved in the Watkins episode, but Kendall, another newspaperman, was. [...]

[...] “It’s funny,” Jane said, “but I know that the next [fifth] chapter is there. [...] She proved to be correct, but at the moment she was unable to elaborate.

[...] Coué was a pioneer in the study of suggestion, and wrote a book on the subject in the 1920’s. His ideas were well received in Europe at the time, but weren’t in this country to any large degree. [...]

[...] But he seemed open to her ideas. [...]

[...] But on the other hand the mother was early frightened by the idea of a vital male baby, who might be overly rambunctious and difficult to control. [...]

[...] In a strange fashion, the pain represented heightened sensitivity – extremely unpleasant, but also represented a vital emotional bodily response of a direct nature. [...]

[...] The child wanted out, finally, but did not know how, for he had allowed the destructive game to become real.

[...] They did to some extent — but to my surprise and pleasure they continued to arrive at that slower but steady pace. [...] I’ve let answering any but immediate business mail go while Laurel and I worked on the manuscript for The Magical Approach.)

My wife, Jane Roberts, dictated The Magical Approach for Seth, the “energy personality essence” she spoke for in a trance state, in 1980—but the pressures of Jane’s illness, and of our producing other books, kept us from publishing it quickly. [...]

[...] But while I kept myself busy, and presented a smiling face to the world, I was numb inside. [...]

[...] Maybe some day I’ll write in detail about Jane’s and my lives — but not now!

[...] I had indeed intended initially to have a short session last time, but because the material — please appreciate my pun—on material was coming through so well, I continued.

[...] The sharpness or rigidity or quality of the perceived material depends on the energy which forms it, and the characteristics of matter therefore depend upon the position of the energy that fills the pattern; but by position, I think in terms of the arrival and departure of this energy as it passes through your field.

[...] For practical purposes so far this theory has not been too binding, but it is becoming so. [...]

[...] Alone, each negative interval may be negligible, but taken en masse this adds up until there is as much negative matter as there is positive matter.

[...] Measuring and recording brain waves is a complicated task, however; not only is it important which areas or lobes of the brain are monitored — if not all of them — but because of the mechanical limitations of the EEG itself much that goes on in the brain is necessarily missed. [...] But most importantly, we think, while the EEG can indicate broad categories of brain activity, it can hardly probe the participant’s very individual and subjective content of mind within this camouflage [physical] reality. [...]

[...] But more than this, why not call all actions of the brain “altered” when compared to Seth’s concept of the individual personality’s whole self or entity?¹

(Seth did give much unexpected material about the brain — and about his own reality, incidentally — but the session turned out to be so long and closely interrelated that I found it very difficult to excerpt; most of the portions I picked out were left hanging, or were too incomplete. [...]

[...] They seem to be the official pulses of your civilization, giving precedence to official reality, but you have little idea that the psyche is inherently able to seek its conscious experience from all of the known ranges, according to the kind of experience chosen at any given “time.”