[...] (Long pause.) Such events are t-o-o (spelled) multidimensional to appear clearly in your reality, so that you see or experience only parts of them. [...] Their main thrust is in what you can call the vaster dimension of dreams, the unknown territory of inner reality. [...]

(Pause at 9:31.) I said that in your terms (underlined) all universes were created (underlined) simultaneously—at the same time. [...] Also, I use time terms, since you are so used yourselves to that kind of categorizing, so here we will certainly run into our first seeming contradiction (see the last session) — when I say that in the higher order of events all universes, including your own, have their original creations occurring now, with all of their pasts and futures built in, and with all of their scales of time winding ever outward, and all of their appearances of space, galaxies and nebulae, and all of their seeming changes, being instantly and originally created in what you think of as this moment.

In a fashion man also is equipped with the ability to initiate actions on a nonphysical level that then become physical and continue to wind in and out of (pause) both realities, entwining dream events with historic ones, in such a fashion that the original nonphysical origins [are] often forgotten. Man overlays (underlined) the true reality quite spontaneously. [...]

MASTER EVENTS AND REALITY OVERLAYS

[...] “You make your own reality,” Seth has told us innumerable times. We agree—and that is where Jane and I diverge most sharply from the conventional establishment belief that events happen to people, instead of being created by them.

[...] We quickly agreed that we’d been setting up the illness syndrome for years, yet the deep emotional shocks accompanying its physical developments seemed to come at us like attacking dark birds zooming in from another probable reality. [...] We adjusted in ways that a few weeks previously would have seemed unbelievable to us—and, ironically, as must often happen in such situations, once we’d moved into our new joint reality, it appeared that those particular challenges had always been incipient for us.

[...] At our ages (52 and 62, Jane and I, respectively), why have we created lives with such nightmarish connotations? [...]

[...] And for me, Jane’s condition came to stand for everything we don’t know in our particular joint, chosen, probable earthly reality.

To understand that you create your own reality requires that same kind of “awakening” from the normal awake state — at least for many people. [...] Indeed, our books follow their own rhythms, and this one is in a way a further elaboration upon The Nature of Personal Reality.¹

For an exercise, then, imagine for a while that the subjective world of your thoughts, feelings, inner images and fantasies represent the “rockbed reality” from which individual physical events emerge. [...] Imagine that physical experience is somehow the materialization of your own subjective reality. [...]

1. Jane and I have also been thinking of Mass Events as an extension of Seth’s second book, Personal Reality. It seems incredible to us, so fast has the time passed, but counting Mass Events Seth produced Personal Reality five books ago — and some five to six years ago from this moment; he dictated it during 1972–73.

(Since Jane began dictating Mass Events 11 months ago, I’ve mentioned our checking the printer’s page proofs for two of her other books: Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality, and Cézanne. [...]

If you imagine yourself as a part of energy and a part of All That Is and an identity that forms and creates your body, then you know you create it with each breath that you take. [...]

[...] As you continue, your information will prove more and more checkable in the physical reality to which you presently ascribe, and if you are interested in that area then, indeed, it must to some extent bear a strong relationship to the reality that you know if you request it. [...]

Now you can open yourselves to this reality or you can deny it. You can open yourselves in dreams and if you prefer, reveries, to these realities or close yourselves to them. [...]

[...] The journey creates its own destination. [...]

[...] Any ‘thing’ so created entirely of fears would be frightened and particularly angry at its creator. It could do nothing but attack to protect whatever reality it had, for it knew Ruburt created it only to slay it, if possible.

Through our dreams we change physical reality, and our physical daily experience alters our dream experience. [...] Our consciousness is simply directed in a different kind of reality when we dream, a reality as vivid as waking life. We may forget our dreams, but they are always a part of us, even though we may not be aware of their entire reality.

[...] The words ‘May peace be with you’ will get him through any difficulty in other layers of reality—for as he formed that image, others also form images and he could encounter them. To wish them peace will give them some comfort, for they do have a kind of reality. To fear them is to put yourself into their realm of reality, and then you are forced to fight on their terms. [...]

While all of this is of practical interest, Rob and I are even more intrigued by Seth’s explanation of dream reality. Since I’ve had many out-of-body experiences from the dream state, I was rather concerned about the reality of the environments in which I found myself. Seth began his discussions on the nature of dream reality very soon after the sessions began, and they still continue. [...]

[...] When you understand the nature of reality, then you realize that predictions of future events are basically meaningless. You can predict some events and they can occur, but you create the future in every moment.

You cooperate together to form the physical reality that you know, telepathically, through ways and means that are unknown to you. You weave webs of psychic reality that then coalesce into physical reality. [...] Once you realize that your thoughts form reality, then you are no longer a slave to events. [...]

[...] In one context what you call physical reality is a dream, but in a larger context it is a dream that you have created. [...]

[...] I want you to understand the nature of your inner self, or soul, for it is a focal point of reality from which other realities spring. [...]

Aside from anything Seth has said or ever may say about other probable realities, or even about human origins here on earth, I think it most risky at this stage in history for anyone—scientist or not—to dogmatically state that life has no meaning, or is a farce, or that attributes of our reality of which we can only mentally conceive at this time do not really exist. [...] Moreover, why would our species want to depend upon as fragile a conception as epiphenomenalism through which to comprehend our reality? [...] Truly, our individual and collective ignorance of just our own probable reality is most profound at this time in our linear history (in those terms). [...]

[...] But a science that disregards consciousness must necessarily end up creating its own illusion. It ignores the reality of experience, the evidence of being, and in so doing it denies rather than reinforces life’s values.”

[...] (Not to mention that innumerable experiments have proven that “physical matter” isn’t solid or objective at all, but “only” energy!) We have, then, the paradox of mind denying its own reality, let alone its importance. [...] To which, understandably enough, those scientists who do accept the reality of mind reply that neither can the idea be falsified that only what is “physical” is real.

[...] Not that anyone knew what cats were, because God hadn’t created any yet. [...]

You always create it. You create and form your own reality, but you create and form more realities than you consciously realize. [...] Now the immediate self can indeed become aware of other portions of your own reality, and it is up to you to bring it into line. [...]

[...] You are channels through which various realities merge and meet and in which transmutations constantly occur. [...] You are meeting places where other realities merge and meet. [...]

[...] Therefore, each of you possess within yourselves inroads, or if you prefer outroads, where other portions of reality and other selves merge and reemerge, come and go, materialize, in your terms, and dematerialize. [...]

[...] I said, recognize within yourself those evils that you recognize in others, but I meant only those things that in your own mind you set up as evil for you project those things upon others and make your own reality. [...]

To this extent we indulge in relaxation and sleep, for we can spend a century as a tree or as an uncomplicated life form in another reality. [...] We may create, you see, the forest in which we grow. [...]

[...] We are still alert to other quite alien systems of reality that flash on the very outskirts of consciousness as we know it. [...] Yet all of these have inner knowledge of the reality that exists within all camouflage and that composes any reality, by whatever name it is called.

[...] All of us here are teachers, and we therefore adapt our methods, also, so that they will make sense to personalities with varying ideas of reality.

Consciousness is not dependent upon form, as I have said, and yet it always seeks to create form. [...]

(Pause.) I am a part of your unknown reality, and you are a part of mine. To some extent in these pages our realities meet. [...] The unknown reality exists to the extent that you do not travel joyfully through the intimate lands of the psyche, to the extent that you do not directly experience your life as original (forcefully), but accept labels put on it by others. The unknown reality exists as a challenge, an exciting endeavor, as each individual becomes consciously aware of intimate subjective feeling. [...]

(Long pause.) The unknown reality, dash — Many of you, I know, would like to find in this book answers pertaining to Atlantis, the Bermuda Triangle, UFO’s³, and many other such questions. [...] By far the greater questions, however, are those pertaining to the unknown reality of the psyche, and those that relate to the kind of being who perceives in one way or another an Atlantis, a Bermuda Triangle, a UFO — for in greater terms, until you ask deeper questions about yourselves, these other experiences will remain mysterious. [...] You must learn more about the slant of your own consciousness before you are in a position to ask truly pertinent questions about the reality that you perceive.

Dictation: No book entitled The “Unknown” Reality can hope to make that reality entirely known.

Give us a moment … This book itself, because of the method of its production, is an excellent example of the unknown reality becoming, if not “known,” then recognized. [...] There is always an unknown reality to some extent, for the miracle of your being works outside of the kind of explanations that you so often seem to require.

[...] You create your reality, and no one else can create it for you.

[...] Your attitudes create possibilities and impossibilities. Your attitude toward money creates your bank account. [...] What you expect you create, and that is the beginning and end of it, whether you are speaking of psychic matters or physical matters.

[...] Directly its experiences must be physically oriented, and yet with training it can also learn to appreciate realities that are not physical. [...]

[...] The more intense the characteristic experience of reality, the greater the chemical excess that is built up. [...]

(In our reality, the first law of thermodynamics tells us that energy [matter] can be changed from one form to another but that it can’t be created or destroyed. [...] In mathematical terms Einstein revealed that mass and energy are equivalent to each other — when one is “destroyed” the other is “created.”

[...] When Seth finishes Personal Reality we plan to ask him to reconcile such data from our world with the root assumptions, or basic agreements, in his own reality.

[...] They are created on a physical level through certain activations of the nerves in which the normal patterns are jumped, so to speak, and images are formed. [...]

Now: Because you are conscious of being, you form your physical reality through conscious thought.

You have created the framework, and you can remove the framework, as he has created the framework within which an ulcer can have reality.

Such suggestions will serve to protect the integrity of the physical organism, for these suggestions also have an electrical reality and a chemical reality, as your fear of cats has a chemical and an electrical reality that forces you to act within that framework.

[...] It is the result of his characteristic manner of viewing reality. This causes him to add to his self-image, in reality, that disability. The ulcer is formed intimately from the electrical reality that composes his thoughts. [...]

[...] We will here consider the dream reality in an isolated manner, as if it were a thing disconnected from normal consciousness, although in reality it is not so disconnected.

[...] Your reality must be seen in its relationship to others. Otherwise you are always caught in questions like ‘How did the universe begin?’ or ‘When will it end?’ All systems are constantly being created.”

The bulk of the material in Personal Reality concerns the nature of beliefs, and the physical and mental environments that are created, both individually and en masse, as a result of those beliefs. [...]

To make this clear: When you dissect an animal, for instance, you are still dealing only with the “inside” of exterior reality, or with another level of outsideness. [...] It is there that the blueprints for reality are found. There are various ways of studying reality. [...]

[...] The seeds are the physical carriers of future oranges, but the blueprints for that reality are what formed the seeds. [...] Because you think in terms of consecutive time, it seems that there must have been a first egg, or seed.¹ The blueprints for reality exist, however, in dimensions without such a time sequence.

When you create a poem or a song or a painting you are in a state of play, of enjoyment, of freedom. You intend to make something different, to produce a new version of reality. You create out of love, for the sake of the experience. [...]

[...] You like to create variations on old systems, or you like to create new ones. [...]

In their own ways children are quite aware of their counterparts, and of other portions of their individual realities. [...]

[...] The idea is an old one; it is based upon the reality of counterparts, and presents another version of the theory. [...]

[...] For our visitor’s edification, dreams are created by each individual, and given actual molecular structure and reality, within a different field than the one with which you are usually familiar.

Nevertheless, the actual individual dream world created by each individual will bear a close resemblance to the physical environment which is also created by the individual. [...]

[...] This time there is on the part of the personality an awareness of inner realities, of which the personality was not before concerned with. [...]

[...] I am merely saying that the personality only now is discovering the inner reality of which so many are ignorant.

When you reach adulthood, following our analogy, then you will learn to be successful in manipulating dream reality as you now manipulate objective reality. For if you create your dreams, you also create your objective environment. The dream reality is as real and actual as physical reality, but it can be changed you see by you, as physical reality can be changed.

[...] These realities within the dream universe may be created by you, but they are as actual as the piece of cake that you eat, or the poison that you may swallow. [...]

You begin to manipulate the dream state, or rather you begin to manipulate yourself within dream reality, which is something different. [...] In ordinary dreaming, without the awareness of usual waking consciousness, perception of dream reality is limited and instinctive. [...] You are like a child in objective reality. [...]

When you are considering dream reality, it is easier for you to understand that you construct the reality therein. You find it more difficult to understand the same thing about physical reality.

The material of the physical universe is created spontaneously and constantly, even as the dream locations in the dream world are so created; and as it is impossible in terms of time as you know it to set a point of beginning in the dream world, so it is impossible to attempt to do the same as far as the physical universe is concerned.

It is basically as meaningless in essence, to ask this kind of question as it would be to pause in the middle of a dream, and wonder when first the dream location was created: To stand facing a dream landscape and wonder at what point in time the rocks had their origin. [...]

[...] The dream world is more closely connected with uncamouflaged experience in the spacious present, but it still is in a camouflage perspective, dealing with recognizable projections of material reality.

[...] In some of these dimensions you are chemically and even electrically a reality, in others electro-magnetically.

[...] As long as you keep the pattern in mind, you create it, and it is there. [...] Your camouflage and your world are created by conscious focusing and unconscious concentration. [...]

The value climate of psychological reality can be likened to an ocean in which all consciousness has its being. [...]

Quite frankly, your earth is expendable, for it will be created again as often as it is needed. [...] But understand (smile) that others are forming their own clay of realities simultaneously. If they do not like what they have created often they throw it away; but always with the idea of learning from their errors, and forming another from the knowledge they have gained.

Now, remember: in one way your reality is a probable system. In some other realities mankind has taken different roads.

[...] The myth will grow to a reality, and the reality is far stronger than any purely physical event could be. [...]

[...] If you knew how to handle energy effectively, if you fully realized that your thoughts were the motivating factor, were the realities, then you would not need a physical existence, for that is the reason for the physical environment.