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(Pause.) As mentioned earlier in this book, Ruburt and Joseph were both involved in a flood situation (in June, 1972), and so I will use that as a case in point and this specific area in particular, although the flood itself was much more far-reaching.

The beliefs upon which these plans were based did not correlate, however, with the mass beliefs of the populace, and so the attempt failed. The program was based on precognitive knowledge of the flood event. The crusade never took place for the revivalist organization was frightened away by the flood.

(12:02.) Many in the religious community said that the flood was the will of God at that level, or that people were being punished for their transgressions. In its own way the flood was a religious event, for it united diverse groups of people — who did not always have the most humanistic of intents — with the community. In a strange way it also served to isolate certain portions of the people, and to highlight their predicament in a way that no riot could.

Individual reactions follow this innate knowledge, for while man fears the unleashed power of nature and tries to protect himself from it, he revels in it and identifies with it at the same time. (Pause.) The more “civilized” man becomes, the more his social structures and practices separate him from intimate relationship with nature — and the more natural catastrophes there will be, because underneath he senses his great need for identification with nature; he will himself conjure it into earthquakes, tornadoes, and floods, so that he can once again feel not only their energy but his own.

(Smiling:) Now do you want to know why you stayed (in our living quarters) during the flood?

Nevertheless it was surprising to many that these two stayed here during the flood. [...]

[...] When the flood came, however, Ruburt and Joseph found themselves, in that way at least, prepared to go without help from the outside world if necessary.

All of this had to do with past conscious decisions and responses to situations that, in your terms, no longer existed at the time of the flood. [...]

(The flood was the worst on record in this section of the country. [...] The storm unexpectedly veered inland after picking up new strength off the Virginia Capes, and when it stalled over New York and Pennsylvania flooding became inevitable.

[...] Then, just before we were to resume work on Seth’s book, the great flood of Friday, June 23, 1972, took place.

[...] The flood crested within fifteen minutes of the time Jane had given, and within three inches of her projected high-water mark. [...]

[...] Since we occupy two apartments in order to have enough living and working space, we had room to take in a couple who had been flooded out. [...]

Catastrophes, such as earthquakes or floods, are not perpetuated by certain elements of nature against other portions of itself. [...] You each participate in the creation of each thunderstorm, each new spring, each flood, earthquake, and summer rain.

(Saturday, June 23, 1973, was the first anniversary of the flood caused by Tropical Storm Agnes — or, as the local newspaper put it in a flood supplement, the occasion was Agnes Plus One.

[...] Jane and I, of course, are very conscious of how our involvement in the flood interrupted the production of this book in the middle of Chapter One. [...]

Now: On other than conscious levels, simply as creatures, you are well aware of impending storms, floods, tornadoes, earthquakes, and so forth.

Psychically, mentally and physically, they will be as much a part of such an event as, say, the water that sweeps through a town in a flood. [...]

My heartiest regards to you both; and we will come to your flood.

(Concerning Seth’s reference to “your flood,” see Jane’s comments at the end of the last session.)

(A note of interest: The area immediately surrounding Elmira had some considerable flooding today, although the city itself wasn’t affected to any great degree. In any case, Jane and I were safe and dry on our little hill this time — a far cry from our experiences in the great flood of 1972, as described in The Nature of Personal Reality. After that event, we decided that a flood was one reality we could do without!)

[...] I am speaking in very simple terms now, and yet those involved in a flood, for example, want the past washed away, or want to be flooded by bursts of vital emotions such as disasters often bring. [...]

[...] There are also mass natural events of varying degrees, as say, the flooding of large areas. [...]

[...] This greater dimension cannot be materialized in a three-dimensional system, yet the knowledge of this greater dimension floods outward from the innermost heart of being, and is projected outward, transforming all it touches.

This flooding-out imbues certain elements of the physical world with a brilliance and intensity far surpassing that usually known. [...]

[...] After the flood [in your area], the river air is felt to be a threat, and to many it is therefore unhealthy. At some time I will give you information discussing the reasons why some people, after being flooded in one location, then move to another equally threatening environment.

(The flood referred to by Seth took place on June 23, 1972. [...]

(The house was noisy temporarily: A carpenter in a downstairs apartment was using an electric saw at frequent intervals as he repaired some of the damage caused by last June’s massive flood. [...]

“Maybe between one and two thousand years after the Creation a worldwide flood destroyed practically everything, though some species, including man, survived. (No even approximate date for the flood is given in the book. [...] Why man’s sin, resulting in the catastrophic flood, to which all species fell victim? The regular theory of evolution doesn’t have to contend with such questions, of course, but in the book I just read no explanations for questions like that are given—I don’t even remember that they were raised.

[...] Let yourself then be flooded with comprehension and with knowledge and let all those intuitive connections be made that need to be made. [...]

[...] Return again thankfully and with joy to the self that you know, to the body that you know, and feel the energy flood through your physical being and open your eyes to the room and to the people that you know. [...]

[...] He did not want it (in quotes) “flooding the market,” used by people who would follow the techniques and then write for help.

[...] As we waited for tonight’s session, Jane said she thought that Seth was organizing material about the four of us, our years together at 458 West Water St., and the flood of 1972—but that when we decided upon the questions listed above, Seth changed his tactics: he began to organize that material instead—“reorganizing what he’d already planned, in order to put it all together,” as Jane put it. [...]

[...] And in particular you chose the conditions of the flood and took part in a joint history.

I will at some time go into the reasons why all of you chose that house and the flood situation, for it fit into your joint and private purposes. [...]

Seth first mentioned The Nature of Personal Reality in Session 608, April 5, 1972, only shortly after Rob and I had finished reading proofs for his previous book, Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul. He actually began dictation on April 10, 1972, but our personal reality was suddenly disturbed when we were caught in the flood caused by Tropical Storm Agnes. [...]

Seth often uses episodes from our lives as specific examples of larger issues, and our experiences with the flood served as a starting point for his discussion of personal beliefs and disasters. [...]

[...] But one has only to read Chapter 5 of Genesis to learn what great ages are given to Adam and nine of his descendants up to Noah, or the time of the Flood. [...]

In Genesis 11, the listing of Abraham’s ancestors begins after the Flood with the oldest son of Noah, Shem, living some 600 years. [...]

[...] Intertwined with these events were many others in recent days: The john in the cellar bathroom backed up and flooded part of the floor; I had to call the plumber—who’s been here and gone. [...]

(I’d like to add here that the flood of material issuing from Jane lately, both in and out of trance, has been extraordinary — and I note that as one who is used to her strong bursts of creative activity. [...]

[...] Of course I left the job at Artistic last February, but didn’t tell Loren and Betts this officially until phone conversations after the June flood. Jane and I bought the car after the flood also.)