See the opening notes for Session 918, which Jane held on June 2 for Chapter 8 of Dreams. [...]

By the fourth week in July, a few days after finishing God of Jane, Jane was reading over the 17 chapters she’d done on her third Seven novel, Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time.³ She made notes for Seven Three, as she called it. [...]

[...] She put aside the first session for Chapter 9 of Dreams, and began Seth’s sessions on the magical approach to reality. [...]

[...] Indeed, more and more as I worked on these notes for Chapter 9 of Dreams, I saw how necessary it was that I write an Introduction for the book itself—to create a framework for the presentation of all of the material in it from our private and professional lives. [...]

[...] See the notes following the 619th session in Chapter Four, for example.)

[...] As mentioned earlier (in the 653rd session in Chapter Fourteen), you actualize events from the present intersection of spirit and flesh, choosing them from probabilities according to your beliefs.

[...] (See the 616th session in Chapter Two.)

[...] (See the 624th session in Chapter Five.)

[...] She discussed her “own” works in her Introduction to Personal Reality. I mention them in various notes in that book, and selections of poetry from Dialogues itself are presented in chapters 10 and 11; in the latter chapter Seth used one of those excerpts in connection with his own material. [...]

[...] He’s remarked more than once that he’ll close a session by dictating the heading for the next chapter, or whatever, “so that Ruburt [Jane] knows what I am doing. [...]

2. The quotes are from Seth Speaks: see Chapter 1 at 9:35. [...]

3. A note added five months later: Diagram 11 in Chapter 19 of Jane’s Adventures is relevant to Seth’s material here. [...]

Chapter Five. [...] As mentioned (in Chapter Four), the conscious mind is a portion of the inner self; that part that surfaces, so to speak, and meets physical reality more or less directly.

[...] (See Chapter Two.) Because of its character, consciousness, or the conscious mind, cannot be swamped by too much detail, too much information. [...]

[...] Seth commented in Chapter Twenty of Seth Speaks: “The Speakers, more than most, are highly active through all aspects of existence, whether physical or nonphysical, waking or sleeping, between lives or at other levels of reality….”

CHAPTER 5

(Now I’ll refer the reader to Chapter 20 of Jane’s The Seth Material. She called the chapter “Personal Evaluations — Who or What is Seth?” In it she made a number of excellent points concerning her relationship with Seth and Seth Two; for example: “If physical life evolves [in ordinary terms], why not consciousness itself?” The questions we had at the time can be found throughout the chapter. [...] But here I want to call attention mainly to the excerpt in Chapter 20 that Jane presented from the 458th session for January 20, 1969. [...] “We [Rob and I] both know that some sessions seem more ‘immediate’ than others, and now as Seth continued we saw why,” Jane wrote in Chapter 20. [...]

[...] On her own, Jane expressed concern about secondary personalities in Chapter 6 of The Seth Material; see her account of our meetings with Dr. Instream. Additional, related material can be found in Chapter 2 of The Coming of Seth, and in the sessions dealing with “Augustus” in Chapter 6 of Personal Reality.

[...] See, for example, Chapter 13 of The Seth Material, the Appendix of Seth Speaks, and several chapters in Part One of Adventures in Consciousness.

29. See Chapter 17 of Oversoul Seven, for instance. In Personal Reality, Seth discussed “a sort of reprogramming” of the past; see sessions 653–54 in Chapter 14.

[...] I wanted to end one chapter and begin another. [...]

CHAPTER 11

(This morning, while working on Chapter 18 of Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time, she’d abruptly felt the impulse to move into another room; she wanted to get away from the sunlight glaring through the thin drapes covering the sliding glass doors of her study at the back of the house. [...] It holds many of the notes on the heroic self, and heroic impulses, that she’d discussed in chapters 25–27 of Psychic Politics, which had been published in 1976. [...]

[...] The irony of the situation is that she’s been doing very well on Seven; just yesterday she’d remarked that she intended to begin typing finished copy for the chapters she’s completed so far. [...]

[...] End of chapter. [...]

We will continue dictation, starting a new chapter, to be called: “Nirvana, Right is Might, Onward Christian Soldiers, and the Human Body as a Planet Worth Saving.”

Few people are much concerned personally with the esoteric situations mentioned in our last chapter. [...]

CHAPTER 14

[...] She repeated the idea she’d voiced several times lately — that although Seth had ended the Augustus data rather abruptly in Chapter Six, he planned to return to it occasionally through the book.

(I asked about the title for Chapter Eight. [...]

[...] As mentioned (in the 628th session in Chapter Six), there was a time before his condition developed when his “good-self thoughts” and his “bad-self thoughts” vied for his attention, and the body tried desperately to react to constant, alternating and often contradictory concepts.

The chapter is to be called, “Health, Good and Bad Thoughts, and the Birth of ‘Demons.’ ” And you may take your break.

We will finish Chapter Four.

That is the end of Chapter Four. [...]

(For notes on a couple of Jane’s other experiences with altered states of consciousness, see the 645th session in Chapter Eleven, and the 653rd session in Chapter Thirteen.)

[...] The first question: According to Seth, he, Jane and I lived in Denmark in the 1600’s. I simply wanted clarification of the data on my lifespan, as given in the notes at the end of the 541st session, in Chapter Eleven.

(The second question: Did Seth intend to title Part One and Part Two of his book, as he had his chapters? [...]

The information on the Denmark life in Chapter Eleven is correct, except for a misinterpretation. [...]

Aside from the information given in that chapter, there have been distortions in some past material concerning that life. [...]

(As we sat waiting for the session to begin at 9:20, Jane told me she’d just “picked up” the heading for Chapter Three of Seth’s book: “Telepathy and Belief Gathering” — or “Idea Gathering”; she wasn’t sure which. [...]

[...] The main point I wanted to make in this chapter was that your conscious beliefs are extremely important, and that you are not at the mercy of events or causes that dwell far beneath your awareness.

That is the end of the chapter, and you may take a break.

[...] There were several developments during break, and I’ll try to discuss them in order before we get into Chapter Three. [...]

[...] At break I asked if Seth would title the first eight chapters of his book, as he began doing from Chapter Nine on. [...]

Now that is the end of dictation, and just about the end of our chapter, though not quite.

(Pause.) Do not worry about the [first eight] chapter headings — we will get to them. [...]

End of chapter.

The next chapter is to be entitled “Starting Over From the Bottom Upward. [...]

CHAPTER 11

End of chapter. [...]

We will begin the next chapter. [...]

CHAPTER 13

(Seth Two is dealt with at length in Chapter Seventeen of Jane’s book The Seth Material. [...] Some of our questions for Chapter Twenty had concerned Seth Two also. [...]

Now: We will begin the next chapter, and we will call it: “A Good-bye and an Introduction: Aspects of Multidimensional Personality as Viewed Through My Own Experience.”

(“That’s all in the chapter heading?”)

[...] (This was Seth’s first bit of humor in the chapter.)

1. Yesterday Jane finished typing the final draft of Chapter 2 for God of Jane. All of her work on the book is still plastic, however. As she wrote in her journal today: “Great day … began typing Chapter Three of God of Jane and the book really started taking off; I’m just tickled; I did great, and added lots of on-the-spot stuff as I typed. [...]

(9:15.) Chapter Five: “The ‘Garden of Eden.’ Man ‘Loses’ His Dream Body, and Gains a ‘Soul.’ ”

CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 3

Dictation: A new chapter (3), to be titled: “Myths and Physical Events.” [...]

[...] Using the terms begun in the last chapter, I will say then that man’s emotional identification with nature is a strongly-felt reality in Framework 2. And there we must look for the answers regarding man’s relationship with nature. [...]

[...] (Jane has been told that everyone at Prentice-Hall, her publishing house, “just loves” Emir.) A couple of weeks ago Sue Watkins delivered the last two chapters of the manuscript for Psyche that she’s been typing for us; we still have to check that book and finish the notes for it. [...]

(4:47.) A note: This will be the last chapter of the first part of the book — which is to be called “Dilemmas.” The beginning of the next chapter when we start it, will be the first chapter of the second part, to be called “Starting Over.”