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[...] (Eyes open.) The woman’s death was foremost as far as probabilities were concerned, and yet at many points at the time of our session she could have altered those probabilities.

[...] However, the woman chose the time of her death, with the subconscious knowledge of the whole family.

1. An obvious example here is the conversion of the Apostle Paul (Saul of Tarsus) on the road to Damascus around A.D. 36, a few years after the “death” of Jesus.

[...] Jon was torn between praying for her recovery and for her release by death, and he asked if we’d have a session on the matter.

[...] The instinct for survival is served quite well, because the inner self knows that it lives beyond death. [...]

[...] Not only was the session a help to Jon, but it contains some excellent information on what can go on while a person is supposedly unconscious, in coma, and what we experience just before and after death.

“Jon must tell her that she is free to leave, and that he joyfully gives her her freedom, so that even after death she does not feel she must stay close to him. [...]

The next chapter will deal with existence after death, with its many variations. Both of these chapters will bear on reincarnation as it applies to death, and some emphasis will also be given to death at the end of the last incarnation.

The next chapter will deal with the experience of any personality at the point of death, and with the many variations on this basic adventure. I will use some of my own deaths as examples.

[...] Now, it is very difficult to tell you simply what happens at physical death, for the conditions vary considerably, according to the individual; his abilities and beliefs will largely determine what happens in those terms.

A personality may or may not realize the fact of physical death, for example. [...]

[...] He is not responsible for the death of his grandmother, or for the death of the maid. [...]

[...] Much of the pain connected with serious illness and death results because you have no faith in your own continuing reality. [...]

[...] You would not fear death as annihilation, and would feel your own consciousness gently disentangle itself from those others that so graciously couched it.

[...] You identify instead with your present ego, so when you think in terms of life after death you really mean a future life of the ego that you know. [...]

Now these descriptions of after-death events may sound very complicated, particularly if you have been used to a simple tale of heaven or eternal rest. [...]

[...] Those who have survived physical death in your terms, must use words in their communications, for you do not understand wordless communications. [...]

[...] I am speaking of those who have survived death in your terms. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Mr. Edwards admits that he calls upon surviving personalities, healers who have survived death in your terms. [...]

[...] He will live to old age, particularly to compensate for an early death in a past existence.

(Since I am nine years older than Bill, it appears that we will both be quite ancient at death. [...]

(Seth was giving general reincarnational data on my family and on Jane’s as early as the 9th session, while avoiding such things as times of death, etc. [...]

The waterfall represented physical death on this level, you see, both of you dying, your brother and yourself; but he first and already adopting the birth position, for he will choose another life rather quickly. [...]

[...] There is no actual point of death, in your terms. You cannot set a certain time to even a individual death, any more than you can set a time for any individual birth.

[...] You see value fulfillment in terms of growth, and therefore think of disintegration in terms of psychic destruction and death. [...]

[...] If the change were not spontaneous and not everoccurring and reoccurring, then you could say “now this is the moment of birth or death.”

[...] If you ignore day-by-day opportunities for development now, no one can force you to accept and utilize greater abilities after death, or between lives. The teachers are there in after-death experience, but there are also teachers here in your existence now.

[...] Besides telling Jane about the sweater, Jane’s mother wrote in the May 10 letter of the death of a family friend, Father Ryan, and enclosed a news clipping account of the funeral, which was to be held shortly. Father Ryan died of leukemia and his death was expected; it could correspond to “dying out” or “fading away”.

You do not know the self as it is within physical existence, and until you do you cannot hope to know what survives physical death, or what part of you is awake while the ego sleeps. [...]

[...] Thoughts of death and suffering are among those. In a species geared above all to the survival of the fittest, and the competition among species, then any touch of suffering or pain, or thoughts of death, become dishonorable, biologically shameful, cowardly, nearly insane. [...]

[...] The individual becomes a victim of chance insofar as his birth, the events of his life, and his death are concerned. [...]

[...] One part of your lives is over, with the death of both of your parents. [...]

[...] Both have been used by those in power to hold down the masses of people, to justify shoddy and inadequate living conditions by promising future bliss in the world after death.

(10:11.) When one has been born and has died many times, expecting extinction with each death, and when this experience is followed by the realization that existence still continues, then a sense of the divine comedy enters in.

[...] All of my deaths would have been adventures had I realized what I know now. [...]

[...] (Long pause, eyes closed, then open.) A death by drowning, rather than fire. [...]

Slow death in a hospital, or an experience with an illness, would be unthinkable to these same people. [...] Many more human beings are aware of their own impending deaths than is generally known. [...]

[...] This applies to death through natural catastrophe as well as to any other situation.

(We discussed the questions at last break to make sure Seth would cover them tonight: from her records Jane recently realized that coincident with the mailing of the manuscript for Seth Speaks to the publisher, and the death of her father, near November 15, 1971, the condition of her legs took a decided turn for the worse. [...]

Both events are important—the death of his father and the mailing of the book. [...]

His father’s death reminded him that he was suddenly quite alone except then for his mother, and also brought up the question of age.