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Once more, even the word time is misleading, but within the boundaries of your clock reality every individual feels at times—but you see that the use of the word itself binds us—but every individual feels now and then the primary sense of existence that is not arbitrarily divided into moments and hours; and he therefore escapes from a secondary condition into the realization of a primary reality behind it.

[...] If an experience is a part of the waking state, but not a part of the sleeping state, if it is part of the sleeping state but not a part of the waking state, then it is not a primary experience.

If ever in a dream experience you defy gravity, then gravity is not a primary reality, but only a manifestation within your own physical system. [...]

[...] Obviously the secondary conditions are to some extent necessary for your survival as a physical organism, but you are more than a physical organism now, and you shall be other than a physical organism in your future.

(We were not supposed to know where the Gallaghers were to spend their vacation, but Peggy mentioned Nassau last Friday evening. [...]

[...] A connection with small balls, but not made of rubber.

[...] Perhaps of cement—but of a stone, definitely a stone (Jane gestured, eyes closed, as though trying to pin down her thought) or sand-colored stone floor.

[...] But very noticeable; or a scar.

Whether or not this personality will find merit with Bernard’s old friends is another matter, but a central core of personality must, and will again, take charge. It may display in the beginning too much rigidity, as a natural protection, but this in time will pass.

[...] We did not know who Seth would speak about first tonight, but surmised it would be Gene Bernard.

[...] (Long pause.) He has temporarily abdicated, but there is no basic reason to believe that this will be permanent. [...]

[...] He is seeking enlightenment, but he was not strong enough to contain it.

[...] I’m sure Seth knows this, but it’s obvious that he wants us to maintain a light rather than a heavy psychological touch. [...] We think about those subjects too, but in order to have the sessions on a week-to-week basis we concentrate upon the simple creative achievement embodied in each session itself, and let go of the larger implications. [...]

I know that Jane is interested in the book in question, but also a bit afraid of it: “I don’t want to be so influenced by it—or by any other book—that it starts coming out in the material,” she’s said more than once recently. [...] But Jane has an excellent critical mind. [...]

[...] I do want to point out, however, that a state you usually call dreaming is but a dim indication of an inner reality of events (intently), an inner order of events from which the physical world emerges. [...]

[...] It seems to you that this is the result of your evolutionary progress—but there have been civilizations upon the earth that specialized in the use of many focuses of consciousness, as for example you are focused upon the use of tools.

[...] Longer gaps disorient it to varying degrees, but these are not unusual. [...] But because the consciousness is not in the normally physically awake state, it is not aware of these gaps and is relatively unconcerned.

[...] Jane held her ESP class last night, but had no session.)

I will answer the questions in those terms also, then; but before I do so, there are several seemingly impractical considerations concerning the nature of life and death, with which we must deal.

[...] Jane and I decided that I had — and it does make sense.) This may sound confusing, but hopefully we shall make it clearer. [...]

[...] I picked up something about that, too: The real question, for example, isn’t one of planetary pollution, or nuclear wastes, but the beliefs that make such questions even arise, and the attitudes that see an idealized good worth such risks. That is, people aren’t polluting the world out of greed alone, but for the economic good of all. [...]

[...] We sat for it as usual, but became involved watching the last episode of a television mini-series about events growing out of the Watergate break-in.² While we followed the drama, Jane reported to me a steady flow of comments about it from Seth. [...]

[...] She described some of them to me, but I didn’t have time to write them down and couldn’t retain them. [...]

[...] Ordinarily a session would have been held, but Ruburt was interested in the movie, and I was interested in Ruburt’s and Joseph’s reactions to it.

I have one small but important personal note for Ruburt….

(Apropos of the notes preceding this session, concerning Jane’s nighttime work on Seth’s book last week: the same kind of effects returned when she went to sleep after this session — but this time she decided to try an experiment. [...]

(And: “Faith and belief can move mountains, as they say — but it can also cause natural catastrophes.”

[...] “I felt these ideas being inserted, but I did the writing.” [...]

[...] The approach should not be fear of war but love of peace; not fear of poor health but concentration upon the enjoyment of good health; not fear of poverty, but concentration upon the unlimited supplies available on your earth.

[...] Before the beginning of any war, subconsciously each individual knows not only that a war will occur, but its precise outcome. [...]

Wars are not only disruptive within your system, but cause some severe repercussions for individuals who die while in battle. [...]

Desire attracts but fear also attracts. [...]

[...] If you find your consciousness aware of other things, then follow those things but allow it its natural freedom and use it. [...] But whatever it is follow it and allow yourself the freedom to do so. [...]

[...] Return to the time and the place gladly, the way someone returns to home, but knowing in the back of your mind that there are many homes and many places and many times, but for now return your focuses, settling back gladly into the body. [...]

[...] Usually we just flash our consciousness in one direction and say this is real, but in this experiment at least, let us flash that light down that pyramid in whatever direction we choose. [...]

[...] But in the meantime take advantage of the opportunikty to allow your consciousness its freedom. [...]

[...] Each person who passes the car is more than three-dimensional, super-real in this time, but part of a ‘model’ of a greater self … and each person’s reality is obviously and clearly more than three-dimensional. I know I’m repeating myself here, but it’s as if before I’ve seen only a part of people or things. [...]

For myself, I think of reincarnational selves as having their roots in the physical reality we know (whether in simultaneous or linear terms of time), but of probable selves as having much wider and more complicated ranges of existence: I believe that even though we create them on an individual basis, our probable selves can reach into a multitude of other realities, both physical and nonphysical. I don’t remember Seth discussing such “probable” possibilities in just that way, especially, and they would be much too involved to go into here, but I’ve often felt that some of our probable selves move into realms of being that are literally incomprehensible to us, so different — alien — are they and their environments from our usual conceptions of “solid” physical existence.

[...] Neither of us realized it at the time, but she was to soon embark upon one of the key episodes³ of her psychic life: “My later experiences that day were a practical lesson in how models work” she wrote after it was all over.

[...] “It’s as though the floor’s rising up beneath my feet, supporting my weight, but in a way that I’m not used to,” she said. [...]

[...] But for now let’s say that Jane knows of James and his work; she’s read parts of his Varieties, for instance, but seemed rather put off by it, where I reread passages from it frequently.

[...] I said little to Jane, but I was most uneasy that she was delivering material supposedly from a member of the famous dead. [...] Not that mediums, or others, couldn’t communicate with the “dead” — but to us, anyhow, exhibitions involving well-known personages usually seem … psychologically tainted. [...]

[...] But now I can return to my longer project — the 40 line drawings for Jane’s book of poetry, Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time. [...]

(Before what we expected to be our regular session for Monday evening, Jane told me that she’d awakened in the middle of the previous night with insights about two practice elements¹ Seth would discuss — but we didn’t hear from Seth even though she felt him “around” as we prepared for the session.

Jane doesn’t often refer to such world events in her notes and journals, but we often talk about them. In fact, she made no notes of any kind in her 1980 journal from the middle of June to July 20, for a span of five weeks, but those two months were busy times for us professionally. [...]

[...] I grieved to see my wife in such distress, but ultimately could do little beyond helping her get as comfortable as possible. [...] It gave her some relief, but she needed much more help than that.²

[...] Jane’s difficulties certainly inspired them, but their creativity also goes beyond our own needs. [...] Are you doing a book within a book, or what?” My wife didn’t answer yes or no, but I could see that she was pleased, and that she was thinking about it. [...]

[...] Often such people are highly creative, with good reserves of energy, but caught between highly contrasting beliefs, either of good and evil, or power and weakness. They are usually extremely idealistic, but for various reasons they do not feel that the abilities of the idealized self can be actualized.

[...] The probable realities of which I have spoken are separated from your own, not in terms of space but in terms of energy focus. Survival personalities, as you term them, are not separated from you in space either, but in terms of energy focus.

I can perceive much that you do not for example, but I hardly perceive all, and what I do perceive is but a fraction of All That Is. [...]

[...] One interesting bit: Seth named Claire’s birthday correctly—as falling on February 13, but missed the year by one. [...]

This is done to some extent in the dream state, but it is not a deliberate contact. [...]

[...] This in itself is good, but his idea of “work” was what limited him, and what is still limiting him. [...] This includes his particular, unique, extraordinary abilities; but these spring out of his life, and even out of his relationship with you.

Before we get down to Ruburt’s particulars, consider the fact that you are presently a part of a species that is specializing in the development of various kinds of consciousness, embarked upon an adventure that sees consciousness not only trying out new directions, from your perspective, but also trying to “perfect” and advance particular attributes.

The idea of—not perfection, now, but excellence—is presented to consciousness in many ways and in many guises, and the ideal of excellence serves as an impetus for consciousness, an excellence of pattern. [...]

[...] (The new threats being the death of my mother; our freedom to travel, now that we have finished Personal Reality; the absence from home and the interruption of routine, etc., as we talked about tonight.) Reading our book however kept some improvements alive, and it was but a matter of time before he would read again the sessions of work that I gave him (as Jane did today). [...]

[...] He explained that in a given period of say, thirty days, the suggestions on perhaps but three or four days within that period would be really effective, and that as of now we have no way of knowing the best days. [...] There was more here but the above is the main point made.

[...] The arrival of the galleys had excited her, but she felt the excitement stemmed from not from this alone, but from the manner in which they arrived from New York City. [...]

(“The color white background”, might be taken as a reference to the white paper the envelope object was drawn on, but Jane said that once again this referred to the tracing-paper drawing I made. Tracing-paper is a pale translucent gray or off-white color, but not really white as this typing paper is white.

(The evening’s conversation had largely concerned matters other than Seth, but his name had been mentioned. [...]

[...] Heat working, but turned off. [...]

(2:49 — Jane asked to see yesterday’s session, but didn’t read it — I did. [...]

[...] I asked if she had a cold — a poor suggestion — but instead of denying it, Jane said she didn’t know.

[...] But … but … but.” I found the ideas presented in the Seth Material fascinating, but I was not about to accept them as the same kind of solid fact with which I accepted, say, the bacon I eat for breakfast. [...]

[...] Seth says this material has been given by himself and others in other times and places, but that it is given again, in new ways, for each succeeding generation through the centuries. The reader will have to make his own judgments, but personally I do accept his theories as valid and significant.

[...] They had read my first book, knew about Seth, and had attended a few classes, but they had never witnessed a Seth session. [...]

[...] The physical matter will disintegrate, but you will not. [...]

[...] This ended, but now Jane had taken off, evidently wrapped up in the role briefly, for she shouted at a fast and furious pace, shaking her head violently, eyes closed. I was not able to get all she said on paper, but got the gist of it and key phrases. [...]

[...] What follows is not verbatim, since Jane spoke quite rapidly at times, but is close to it, and the correct meaning of what Jane said is always given. [...]

(Most of the time it was Jane herself relaying the data; but on a few occasions something else occurred, as will be explained.)

[...] That is, not terribly long, but perhaps 20 miles. [...]

[...] Ruburt is learning that even he went too far, but I do want you still to think of the symptoms as a well-meaning but distorted structure that can dissolve—and can dissolve overnight when Ruburt understands it is no longer needed or wanted. It is a method that he tried, but it did not work because it defeated its own purposes.

If you trust the spontaneous self, then automatically you do not need such a framework, but you must learn to allow it its expression. [...]

In this neighborhood (gesturing), Ruburt’s symptoms were a social statement also to the neighbors at large in the new environment: better than a note upon the door, that neither of you were to be bothered, but ignored. [...]

It worked for a while as a way of avoiding distractions, but the personality no longer needs such artificial “aids.”

[...] But you are not simply receivers, you are also givers. [...]

[...] The inner self is aware of this integrity of identity, but the ego focused so securely in physical reality cannot afford this luxury.

[...] The inner self knows what is behind the stars and planets that the eyes views, but the ego would be swept aside in panic. [...]

[...] Jane came out of trance quickly, but said the trance had been a good one. [...]