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[...] But what it was always changes, but that which was is always taken along.

[...] Her speed of dictation was slow, with pauses, in the beginning, but by first break had attained its usual rather fast pace.)

[...] The child therefore within the adult personality is not dead, nor are his reactions considered, basically, as reactions which are part of a past behavior pattern; but these reactions exist side by side with adult reactions.

We are going to have a brief session this evening for several reasons, but there were a few points considering the personality which I did want to make clear.

“But you were highly recommended. [...] I hate to ask you, but could you wait until we get there?”

[...] … He was not a child taken before his promise was achieved, but a personality who left you when his own reincarnations were finished. He will not return, but go on now to another reality in which his abilities can be used to more advantage.”

“He wanted to remarry, but no one would have him because of the daughter. [...] She was a handsome-looking young woman, crippled but not deformed. [...]

Now, over two years later, Sally is still alive but in poor condition. Seth said that she had solved the challenges she had set for herself, but in so doing had damaged her physical body to such an extent that she had decided to discard it. [...]

[...] But in the greater hibernation of your own experience, the body as a whole becomes inoperable. [...] The body that you have now is not the one that you had 10 years ago; its physical composition has died completely many times since your birth, but, again, your consciousness bridges those gaps (with gestures). They could be accepted instead, in which case it would seem to you that you were, say, a reincarnated self at age 7 (intently), or 14 or 21. [...] In basic terms the body dies often, and as surely as you think it dies but once in the death you recognize. On numerous occasions it physically breaks apart, but your consciousness rides beyond those “deaths.” [...]

[...] But she laughed, as she has before in such cases: “I just want to get it — the beginning — over with.” [...] Less clear were some data about herself but she thought Seth would cover all of that along with his material on “Unknown” Reality. [...]

[...] Ideally, the body has the capacity to keep itself in excellent health — but beyond that, to maintain itself at the highest levels of physical achievement. [...] But their performances show you what the body is capable of.

(Jane and I hadn’t realized it at first, but we were to take a long rest from work on “Unknown” Reality following the 707th session, for July 1. We were busy during the next 14 weeks, of course; there follow a few notes about some of our activities, grouped together by subject matter rather than chronology.

There is communication between them but they are not aware of it. [...] The inner ego is the director as you know, but the whole self must know itself simultaneously. [...]

[...] Now and then it is to be expected, but I regret the particular circumstances deeply. He was subconsciously but never consciously aware that next month marked the time of his grandfather’s death, and subconsciously he knew his grandfather’s age at death.

[...] But the nature of their own perceptions is not chaotic. [...]

[...] I also will have a few pertinent but brief remarks later in the session concerning last evening.

[...] She spoke without wearing her glasses, but instead left them on the floor near where she had been sitting. Each time, pacing back and forth across the room, seldom looking down, it seemed she might step on the glasses, but she did not. [...]

[...] Jane spoke rather loudly but paced at an average rate. [...]

[...] He denied it; but when they decided that another innocent man was the culprit, a man whom he knew to be innocent, then to save his own life he let them think the innocent man was the betrayer.

But such a mere annoyance becomes indeed a form of torture. [...]

[...] Peg and Bill remembered this vividly, not only because of the sudden turn, but also because this happened right after the driver had run through a traffic light. [...] But the cab driver was not “old, rather than young.” [...]

I didn’t know if it would work or not, but I reset the alarm for thirty minutes later, then I lay back down and told myself I would return to the same place. Brief but definite traveling sensations followed. [...]

[...] I took it for granted that he wouldn’t consider that we had any scientific evidence, but we did have the nearly identical sketches, and the impressions were correct. “He may not consider this scientific enough,” I said to Rob, “but he has to admit, at the very least, that clairvoyance occurred.”

Usually no one was present at these sessions but Rob and I—hardly a scientific state of affairs. But with the envelope tests we weren’t trying to convince scientists or psychologists of anything. [...]

[...] Theoretically, you can visit them with some vast improvements in your technology, but great amounts of time would be involved. [...] Some intelligent beings have visited your planet, finding not the world you know but a probable one.⁴ There are always feedbacks between probable systems. [...] More will be said about this and your planet later in the book.⁵ The closest equivalent to your own kind of intelligence and being can actually be found not by following the outer skin of space, but by going through it, so to speak.

[...] But again, these ideas aren’t based on the kind of thinking Seth espouses (that consciousness comes first, that its creations are continuous), but upon other quite complicated camouflage observations and measurements. One of these is the discovery of at least some of that missing mass, thus indicating that gravitational fields may exist among the galaxies, and galactic clusters, strong enough not only to halt the expansion of the universe but to pull all matter back together again.

[...] The universe was not created at any particular time, but neither is it expanding into nowhere like an inflated balloon that grows forever larger — at least not along the lines now being considered. The expansion is an illusion, based among other things upon inadequate time measurements, and cause-and-effect theories; and yet in some manners the universe could be said to be expanding, but with entirely different connotations than are usually used.”

[...] For a few minutes, then, she was able to speak for Seth about his home environment — but since the information wasn’t recorded I have nothing to quote here. [...] I don’t want to try reconstructing Seth from memory, but will note that his material took off from some of that in the 612th session (see Appendix 19).

The cults that have built up around such happenings are ludicrous, and in some cases unforgivable demonstrations of stupidity by well-meaning but imbecilic personalities. [...] It is not important but it was distasteful.

I want you to take a break but first I want to make one other point, and that is this: The mind contains the conscious and the subconscious, but the conscious and the subconscious are fluid. [...]

[...] But as a rule the ears neither listen to nor hear the inner sounds of the body.

[...] You can of course feel the invisible wind against your cheek, but touch involves an immediacy different from the distant perceptions of sight and smell.

[...] He can indeed do much damage, but only to his own camouflage universe. This physical universe is however quite important to him, after all, but he is well isolated within it.

(Jane said she had an image within when talking about our seeing but part of the atom in our system. She tried tracing out the image on the tabletop with a forefinger, but could get nothing beyond the idea of circles being involved.

[...] But they have changed systems, and you can no longer perceive them. Their reality cannot be picked up by the instruments that you now have, but this does not mean they do not exist within your system. [...]

[...] As will be seen the object led to some data that is somewhat difficult to evaluate, but Jane and I believe it legitimate.

(We had but a 5-inch reel, and since the hypnosis material was also on this reel we didn’t think we could record the whole Seth session, even with 4-track technique. But Jane set up the recorder, placed the mike on a coffee table near the center of the room, and ran a few feet of tape to make sure her voice was picked up from any part of the room. [...]

[...] Ruburt is aware of the droning of the machine but this will pass. [...]

[...] It is true that I have disrupted your schedule to some degree, but not after all in any great manner. [...]

[...] This involves some training on your part, but is relatively easy and should come without too much difficulty.

[...] The body obviously does not operate alone, but in relationship with everything about it. When you want to walk across the room, the body must not only operate using hindsight and “prediction” as far as its own behavior is concerned, but it must take into consideration the predictive activity of all of the other elements in that room.

[...] But the mind is connected with the physical brain, and so hidden in its [the brain’s] folds there is an archaeological memory. [...] So, ideally speaking, the history of your species can be discovered quite clearly within the psyche; and true archaeological events are found not only by uncovering rocks and relics, but by bringing to light, so to speak, the memories that dwell within the psyche.

(The 706th session was held as scheduled last Wednesday night, and our guest, Tam Mossman, did witness it — but since Seth didn’t come through with any dictation for “Unknown” Reality during the session, it’s hereby deleted.

[...] Here I am saying that the atoms and molecules themselves, because of their characteristics, not only deal with probabilities within the body’s cellular structure, but also helps the body make predictive judgments about entities or objects outside of itself.

[...] He breaks through into “current,” in quotes, physical reality, but he cannot step forth freely into it, but is imprisoned by his own overpowering and blind purposes.

[...] A very small but definite beginning has been made here. [...] It will be published, but Ruburt will also work with it in the psychological workshop of the classes.

[...] I do not mean necessarily that in all cases communication will occur, but a psychic return can be made at will.

[...] Some may attempt to gain revenge in this way, finding satisfaction in gaining control over another, finally, but the victim in such a case is only the hallucinated image of the victor.

It is as if each number represents not only the number itself, not only a unit to be added, subtracted, multiplied or divided, but also as if each number had infinite varieties of intensities that you do not perceive. I am not talking of smaller units within that number, but of the nature of the unit itself.

[...] As usual the voice was high and thin, very clear but distant, and with many pauses at times. [...]

Pretend then that behind or within but unseen by you, behind or within the number 1, for example, there are an infinite number of other 1’s, lined up so to speak behind the one that you see. [...]

They are all however variations, but neither one is patterned upon any other. [...]

But nothing happened. [...] He yelled out for me, but I was in my physical body, humming merrily out in the kitchen, and I never heard a thing. [...] He could see the yard and garage clearly but the image of a grown-up man on a scooter up two stories from the ground was just too much — he snapped back to his body.

[...] It strikes you as being physical when you are in it, but you can do things with it that can’t be done ordinarily. [...] Levitation is possible with it but on a limited basis.

[...] It still seems physical in shape, but you can walk through physical matter with it. [...] But you cannot go further with it.

[...] Here you will begin to perceive quite clearly constructions that are not your own, where earlier these are but dimly glimpsed. [...] Some may have existed in your past, and some were thought of, but never materialized.

(I could think of several Wyoming places beginning with the appropriate sound, but did not mention them to Jane. We had driven through the state several years ago, but Jane did not remember doing so. [...] She said she had the idea of Cisco for a place name in the state, but thought she had chosen this because it has a western sound. [...]

[...] The room was dark but I saw that her dress was blue. [...] Her face was not clear at all but her dress was clearly visible—at least the color. [...]

[...] But the question confused her; this is the first time this has happened. Jane said she had an image of a “round object”, that had to do with motion, but had no idea as to what it represented.

[...] Types one, two and three polio vaccines are referred to on the cards, but this leaves the five to be explained. [...] In the phone book the school at which we received the vaccine on each occasion is listed by avenue, but no number is given.

[...] Staff people had tried putting it back in, but couldn’t get it to drain. [...] A new catheter had been inserted, but that one wasn’t working when I got there. [...]

[...] She has the laws of the two worlds confused (pause), and it is as if she had use of an entire alphabet, but the letters were not in order, but out of their proper arrangement, so that it was almost impossible to read the sentences, so to speak, that have then resulted. [...]

I may or may not return, but know that I am present and approachable. [...]

[...] At 4:10 Teresa began sounding off—but her voice sounded muted, as though she was speaking behind a closed door. [...]

(Long pause.) The entire picture of physical life as you understand it must be of course experienced from your own viewpoint, but its complexity, its order and magnificence of structure and design should be understood as composing but one example of the infinite number of realities, each constructed by the propensities and characteristics of its own nature and the nature of its own consciousness.

[...] They would certainly be psychological relatives, but with their own time schemes, languages, and psychological affiliations. [...] You see a species of consciousness, a species that must remain unexplained in any normal explanations of evolution, and these hint at the communications that exist at all levels (intently), protecting not only the genetic references necessary to your own kind, but the combinations [...]

[...] He sensed these cousins of consciousness in one way or another—these environments that seemed real but not real, these further extensions of possible experience—and he decided that he must be very cautious: He must be prudent (long pause), he must take his time, he must range but carefully—and certainly to some extent such feelings cut down upon his spontaneity.

[...] All three are entirely consistent not only with her beliefs and emotions, but with my own. For I feel now, in connection with the two “new” poems, the same profound sensations I had concerning Jane’s challenges when I wrote in Note 6: “Perhaps it was her poetic art of expression that helped me identify so strongly with her emotions, but I suddenly felt that even I had never really understood the myriad depths of her challenges and her reactions to them.” [...]

(It will be remembered that in the unscheduled 184th session Seth said that Cosmopolitan Magazine would be interested in an excerpt from Jane’s ESP book, but that nothing would happen right away. [...] Seth had stated that Cosmo would return the material, but with a letter expressing interest.

[...] Imagine it, the field, if you will, as a thin but sturdy thread that connects the pseudoimage with the original image. [...] These are not basic limitations, but have to do with the individual’s ability to so extend himself. [...]

[...] Last year while visiting in France Blanche suffered a rather severe stroke, but seems to have emerged without permanent paralysis. [...] Blanche knows about Seth, but little about the material itself.

[...] They sent the samples but returned the 25¢ money order. [...]

[...] He is bungling and frightened but he waves brave banners. [...] But he means well. [...]

[...] You had better include N A N. (Pause.) Now I do not know if this is Nan Carter, but I do know the two are connected. [...]

[...] He may be the uncle of the man who runs the gallery, per se, but he has a strong voice in the gallery. [...]

[...] There will be a man called Art, as Arthur, but called Art, also connected with this establishment.

[...] By saying the words and opening your perception the meaning becomes clear in a way that cannot be stated in verbal terms, using your recognizable but rigid language pattern; so we will be dealing then with concepts as well as feelings, but seeking them through the use of a new method, and sometimes translating them back and forth for practice.

[...] I said it was clear enough, but that I was so busy writing that eventually I lost all sense of the meaning of the words. Jane also had images, but Seth never vocalized what they meant. [...]

[...] This can be compared in quite other terms to taking an object from one table and placing it in another room, and trying it out in various locations; but we will be working instead with feelings instead of vases, and psychological locations.

[...] You will no longer translate inner experience with the same automatic glibness into stereotyped verbal patterns of images, but will be far better able to experience it for itself.