[...] For the same reason, at the end of the session [in Chapter Twelve] we’re including a local resident’s experience with a certain set of beliefs.

In the next chapter, let us consider more closely your ideas about good and evil, the morality of the self, and examine the ways in which your ideas are reflected in your lives.

End of chapter.

[...] Instead Seth decided to relay a page of material for Jane and me before launching into Chapter Twelve. [...]

— and we will begin Chapter 2, to be titled: “Biologically Valid Thoughts, Attitudes, and Beliefs.”

The first chapter of the book can be called, quite simply: “The Purpose of This Book, and Some Important Comments About Exuberance and Health.”

(I told Jane that Seth’s opening line for Chapter 2, about possessing a group of attitudes toward oneself and toward life, at birth, runs directly counter to establishment theory that the newborn is like a blank slate, to be imprinted through teaching and experience. [...]

CHAPTER 2

(See the beginning of this Session 909 in Chapter 6 for Volume 1 of Dreams. [...]

[...] Next chapter (7): “Genetics and Reincarnation. [...]

[...] “He did go into that chapter I picked up on earlier today, but I don’t remember what he called it.”)

CHAPTER 7

Now the same exercise for readers will be a part of the book in a later chapter dealing with that subject partially. [...] We will return to chapter five at our next session. [...]

[...] She finished her first novel about Seven in July 1972, and within a month, long before it was published, she wrote the first five chapters for Seven Two. Then we became involved in so many other projects that she laid it aside until August 1976, when she wrote two more chapters. [...]

[...] New chapter (5): “The Mechanics of Experience.”

In titling this chapter I used the word “mechanics,” because mechanisms suggest smooth technological workings. [...]

CHAPTER 5

5. In very gentle ways, Jane did eventually use some of Seth’s impressions relative to both people — but cast in her own vernacular — for Chapter 18 of Politics. In that chapter she also began presenting, again from her viewpoint, material on our house-hunting activities; she plans to continue doing so in subsequent chapters.

6. For some of Seth’s material in Personal Reality on true aggression, see Session 634 for Chapter 8, and Session 642 for Chapter 11.

9. Much of Seth’s material in Chapter 18 of Personal Reality applies here; see especially Session 665. Then see (in the same book) Session 667 for Chapter 19.

10. For some Seth material on suicide, see the first delivery for the 546th session, in Chapter 11 of Seth Speaks. In the 642nd session for Chapter 11 of Personal Reality, Seth mentioned that suicide can be “the result of passivity and distorted aggression, and of natural pathways of communication not used or understood.”

Chapter Twenty-one: “Affirmation, Love, Acceptance, and Denial.” [...]

[...] I said this earlier (in chapters Seven, Nine, etc.), but you cannot deny your creaturehood without denying your soul, and you cannot deny your soul without denying your creaturehood.

CHAPTER 21

[...] One of Jane’s previous experiences in obtaining book material in advance — that on bridge beliefs — is described in the 644th session in Chapter Eleven. [...]

(I reminded her of a couple of subjects I hoped Seth would discuss, as he’d promised to do some time ago: 1. The great flood of June, 1972, in this area, and our roles in it; see the notes for the 613th session in Chapter One. [...]

[...] For more notes on the Speakers, and Sumari, see the 623rd session in Chapter Five.)

All of this can be avoided through the realization that your point of power is in the present, as stated earlier (in the 657th session in Chapter Fifteen). [...]

(In the 586th session, earlier in this chapter, Seth stated that by the year 2075 the third Christ — Paul or Saul — would have enacted the Second Coming, exerting of course a profound effect upon religion and world history. [...]

(Readers of The Seth Material had asked Seth to elaborate upon data of the three Christs given in Chapter Eighteen, “The God Concept,” of that book. [...]

Unless you have other questions, that is the end of the chapter.

Now you may take your break, and then I will begin the next chapter.

[...] (Pause at 10:46.) Chapter …

[...] (See the 657th session in Chapter Fifteen.) One should not run into the other, but should be carried out on separate occasions during the day.

CHAPTER 16

[...] See the 618th session in Chapter Three for an account of Seth’s meeting with Dick and the latter’s editor, Eleanor Friede.

[...] The body, as explained in this chapter, also has “invisible” counterparts composed of the electromagnetic properties and the interior sound and light qualities.

As I also mentioned (in the 614th session in Chapter Two), the conscious mind is not basically cut off from the inner self or from those deep inner sources of knowledge available to it. [...]

[...] This proved to be the end of Chapter Five.)

(Jane had no idea of what Chapter Fourteen would be about: “I’m just waiting….” [...]

Dictation: Chapter Fourteen: Which You?” Beneath that (gesturing horizontally:) “Which World?”

[...] [See the 637th session in Chapter Nine.] Jane is receiving more letters from scientists these days, many of whom ask intriguing questions about the type of material covered in this session. [...]

(Those who are interested in probabilities can also see chapters Fifteen, Sixteen, and Seventeen in Seth Speaks.)

1. For the record only: Inclusive from Session 919 (June 9, 1980) to Session 932 (August 4, 1981), almost 14 months passed while we had Chapter 9 in progress. [...] She came through with 82 sessions, then, during the production of Chapter 9.

In the next chapter I hope to show you the importance of value fulfillment in your own life, and give you clues that will allow you to take better advantage of your own subjective and objective opportunities for such development.

End of chapter, end of dictation, end of session, and a fond good evening to you both.

3. I see correlations between Seth’s material here and my speculations at the end of the 922nd session (for this chapter), concerning his apparently unlimited capacity for oral history.

To some extent, we have discussed your body and its composition of cells (in the 632nd session in Chapter Seven, for instance). [...]

[...] (See the 625th session in Chapter Five.) In other terms and on other levels, this was represented in that “moment of reflection” that took place as man’s consciousness emerged from that of the animals. [...]

(A pause at 11:34.) Next chapter heading. [...]

[...] This is actually the heading for Part Two, rather than Chapter Ten. [...]

[...] “It’s funny,” Jane said, “but I know that the next [fifth] chapter is there. [...]

End of Chapter Four.

[...] At 9:23: “Now I can tell he’s got a new chapter heading…. [...]

He did pick up our next chapter heading (six): “Genetic Heritage and Reincarnational Predilections,” and I am trying to give him this other material at different levels. [...]

[...] In Chapter 4, see Session 827 for March 13, 1978.

CHAPTER 6

I wanted to begin this chapter. [...] It ends the suspense (smiling) as to what the next chapter will be. [...]

Now: We will have a short session, and begin to dictate the next chapter.

CHAPTER 6

[...] Most of that material hasn’t been published, although in Chapter 17 of The Seth Material Jane described Seth Two to some extent, including “his, hers, or its” intimate connections with Seth: the subjective pyramid or cone effects she experiences just above her head when contacting Seth Two; and the great energy she feels at such times. In Chapter 17 she quoted Seth Two from sessions 406–7, and from a couple of others that were held later in the year. [...]

For some other material on sound see the 572nd session for Chapter 18 of Seth Speaks, for instance, or the already mentioned sessions (in Note 7) that make up Chapter 5 of Personal Reality.

(I’ve already cited Jane’s experience, as given in Chapter 17 of The Seth Material, showing that on rare occasions Seth Two and her feelings of massiveness can go together; but she can also be in an altered, massive state of consciousness without having a session, or she can be speaking for Seth. [...]

[...] She also considered Seth Two in various other parts of Adventures. In Chapter 2, for instance, the Seth Two quotations are cast in the editorial “we,” the guise in which that energy gestalt often comes through: “We are trying to appreciate the nature of your present existence … For you there may seem to be an unbearable loneliness, because you are so used to relating to the warm victory of the flesh, and [here] there is no physical being … Yet beyond and within that isolation is a point of light that is consciousness. [...]

(Three months ago, way back on August 13, following the outline she’d written on July 8 for The Magical Approach to Reality: A Seth Book,¹ Jane began work on the first draft for Chapter 1 of that project. That same evening she held the final session, the 935th, for Chapter 10 of Dreams. [...] I last dealt with those subjects in the first, 933rd session for Chapter 10.

From the 19th of August through the 28th, then, Jane worked on Chapter 2 of Magical Approach.⁶ Three days later, when she was writing Chapter 3, we received from an editor in the trade production [...]

6. My ever-present concern for Jane would certainly have turned into outright fear had I seen at once the long, untitled poem she wrote on August 26, concurrently with her work on the second chapter for Magical Approach. She didn’t put the poem into its final form, and she didn’t show it to me. [...] (I’d had similar feelings seven months before she held this 936th session: In Note 13 for Session 931, in Chapter 9, see my comments following the excerpts from the private session for April 15, 1981.)

[...] I continued to reassure her [as Seth did also] after she’d finished Chapter 10, for I was deeply frustrated and concerned for her. [...]

(A note added later: “I was wrong about this being the title of the next chapter,” Jane wrote in November, “but I know it will be one….” However, not only was the end of this chapter not so imminent; Seth never did use Jane’s suggested chapter heading.)

(12:07 a.m. As Jane came slowly out of trance she announced the title for the next chapter, which will be Five. [...] “But I think there’s still a little tail left to this chapter first,” she said. [...]

[...] See Chapter Twenty-two of Seth Speaks.]

As mentioned (in the 614th session in Chapter Two), the first important step is to realize that your beliefs about reality are just that — beliefs about reality and not necessarily attributes of reality. [...]