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He needs the challenge, and I am sure that he will meet it. It is far stranger than fiction, and if he will but see, such a book carries its own built-in suspense.

[...] He should return to his poetry however, and his painting as a hobby. These are his strong points, and the painting represents more than he realizes, for he has a talent for it from previous experience.

[...] Jane’s pace had slowed considerably by now.) Ruburt could if he chose, add his own notes and comments, for his experience in our sessions is vastly different from mine. [...]

[...] (Cecile Grossman was an editor at Prentice-Hall then.) Mossman has an uncle, I believe, of whom he is fond, or was fond. [...]

[...] Then she added, “I know he’s going into at least two other things in this chapter, too: that at certain times people mostly died in their 30’s, say, at one period, and usually lived to be very old in another. [...] And he isn’t going to tell people not to get vaccinated otherwise they’d end up totally confused.”

[...] I told Jane that the material made me speculate about Joe Bumbalo: He’s had many operations in his life, and has been shot full of drugs often. [...] He’s losing his hair, I believe.

[...] Before he did Seth Speaks, she was scared Seth couldn’t write a book. [...]

[...] We had a salesman who used the place as a business address, and he was there that night. I don’t remember much about him, except that he wouldn’t help. He got in his car as fast as he could and drove away, leaving mother raging on the bedside. [...]

[...] For that matter, I was somewhat frightened of Walt, who threatened to leave me when he got angry in a new town we happened to be in, but we made it to the west coast. [...]

[...] A Catholic or a Jew possessing these beliefs is obviously out of step to some extent, and will feel guilty as he measures himself against them. [...] If he happens to be a poor black man he is in double jeopardy.

[...] For much of that time he had been under varying degrees of sedation. In light of tonight’s material, I couldn’t help feeling that he’d lost part of his natural heritage — whether he had decided upon that course himself, whether it had been imposed upon him, or both. [...]

The individual, when it is time then, begins to see beyond temporal life, to open up dimensions of awareness that in your terms he or she could not afford while involved in the intense physical focus of normal adult life. [...]

(10:35.) Perhaps reincarnations are over for a given individual, for example, yet within him is still some sense of yearning for the natural earth with which he has so often been involved. So he may project a fragment of his consciousness in such a way into an animal form. [...] A man is not an animal, then, nor does he invade, say, the body of one.

(Many sessions ago, Seth told us he had a dog fragment personality still here on Earth. He wouldn’t tell us where it was, though. [...]

[...] They also gave me several questions for Seth to answer in his own book, if he chose to do so. [...]

He simply adds some of his energy to that present in the animal, mixing this vitality with the animal’s own. [...]

“He is not human in your terms, though he passed through human stages; and here the Buddhist myth comes closest to approximating reality. He is not one individual, but an energy gestalt.

[...] Only by meeting one of these other selves can he become aware of the nature of this strange structure through which he is traveling.

[...] As this self grows in value fulfillment, he can become aware of these travelers on other threads, who would seem to him to be future selves.

[...] As a rule, he speaks of “All That Is” or “Primary Energy Gestalts.”

[...] With what he has learned, he can put much to advantage that he could not have earlier, but the base of operations should be from the home, where surely his spirits will be far more easily maintained and upheld. [...]

(One of the questions concerned Seth’s material on page 218 of the last session, when he referred to the feeling that Jane and I have, that we had “an even more unfair advantage” without children—this, as he’d stated earlier, on top of our already being set apart from others because of our creative gifts. [...]

(Long pause.) Your mother believed that a man should work so many hours a day in conventional ways, whether he owned his own business or worked for others—and also of course that he should have a family. [...]

[...] He was correct (about the dream of July 7, involving my return to Sayre). The dream in which he was healed (of July 19) was to remind you that that probability is still highly active. [...]

[...] The investigator himself, through his actions, inadvertantly brings about those results for which he looks. [...] Under hypnosis a subject is not as much on guard, as is the subject of an experiment who knows in advance that he will be awakened by experimenters, that electrodes will be attached to his skull and that laboratory conditions are substituted for his nightly environment.

My dreaming self
Walked through
The framework of my soul.
He switched lights on as he passed.
Outside the night
Was dark and cold.

As an individual creates his physical image and environment according to his abilities and defects, and in line with his expectations and inner needs, so does he create his dreams; and these interact with the outer environment.

[...] For example, if his present expectations are faulty, when the ego rests, he may recreate a time when expectations were high. [...]

[...] There is plenty of nutrition there now to help him, since he is assimilating protein so much better than he did before. [...]

[...] He does feel it when his foot moves as it did this afternoon, or when other portions of his body move easily and automatically. [...] The body will follow its own order as the healing process continues, so he should not demand that it perform thus and so, for the body knows what it is doing. [...]

[...] So tell Ruburt not to be so impatient with himself, to remind himself that he can indeed trust the self that he knows, regardless of what he had been taught to believe.

[...] Encourage him to follow his impulses to be the self that he is.

[...] (See Chapter Six, and the 633rd session in Chapter Eight.) Augustus felt powerless, considering power in terms of aggression and violence, so he isolated that portion of himself from himself and projected it into a “second self.” Only when this second self became operative could he display any power. [...]

[...] Augustus therefore actually created from himself a position of power from which he could, at least for a while, operate. He had to pretend amnesia so as to hide this mechanism from himself. [...]

[...] (Gesturing:) The individual who speaks out most loudly for the death penalty feels that he himself should really be condemned to death, to pay for the great aggression (violence) within him that he dares not express.

[...] The male in your society is taught to personify aggressiveness with all of those antisocial attitudes that he cannot normally demonstrate. [...]

[...] We shall see how good he is. And I want to know what he tells you for I want to see how he is delivering my suggestions. [...]

Now your friend has been here this evening as a student, but not exactly the same kind of a student as you are—he is a practice teacher. [...]

[...] Now, he does not know this, so I will give you the honor of telling him. [...]

[...] Now, Bega has been here as I have been here and he was calling you to look toward the corner of the room—and you were too intellectually smug to do so as Ruburt is often too intellectually smug to do what I ask him to do. [...]

These sessions also show Seth as he relates to others in personal contact. To an engineer he gives an explanation of the pulsations of atoms, discusses mental health with a nurse and aggression with a minister — all class members. [...]

[...] He said Jane could die, but obviously she didn’t. He was correct in mentioning anemia, incorrect about liver and spleen problems, as far as we know. [...]

[...] He is very weak, and couldn’t get up himself. [...]

[...] “He will come back, I guess,” Jane said. [...]

[...] Regarding my visit with Joe Bumbalo this morning: He has cancer. [...]

Before Ruburt became involved in psychic work he wrote a [short] novel, Bundu² in which nuclear destruction had taken place. For reference he read up on requirements for survival. [...]

[...] Ruburt also found that he had put himself in a position in which he had underrated the importance of physical manipulation. [...]

[...] He worked at the quite physical labor involved. [...]

[...] A “perfect” society, idealistically speaking, would provide these qualities by encouraging each individual to use his potentials to the fullest, to revel in his challenges, and to be led on by his great natural excitement as he tries to extend powers of creative potency in his own unique way.

(After supper this evening I went around the corner to the office of Doc Piper and invited him to attend the session, since last week he had expressed an interest in doing so. Our friend accepted the invitation, with the proviso that he would come to the apartment providing his office was clear of patients by 9 PM. We made a further agreement that he come to Wednesday’s session if he could not make it this evening.

[...] She said she could feel Seth abruptly leave when he reached the end of the session. “He’s gone,” she said. [...]

(Although Seth has given us relatively little on the fifth dimension, he has made many references to this one session. [...]

The child can develop excellent abilities, and if your own relationship becomes a constructive one then he will more than learn from your experience. [...] He is of such a nature that I believe he will be quite safe regardless of what you do.

Your father cut out his own world, you felt, in his house and in the wilderness, comparatively speaking, but at the same time because you feared him so you did not really feel he wanted you to do the same no matter what he said—because to prove yourself a better man would automatically destroy him.

[...] When you were very young he frightened you. [...]

Being with your parents brought things to a head, because both of your attitudes were aggravated by the environment; you (Sue) relating more as a young girl in the family homestead, and he reacting as the stranger who came in the back door.

[...] You have seen him in a very few honest expressions of anger, once when he tried to throw a chair, and felt the suddenly released energy that he usually does not channel physically. [...] He tried to turn his emotions down in the same way. He felt you equated noise, period, with emotional behavior.

[...] He tossed them out cautiously, watching for their effect upon you.

[...] When Ruburt got a real touch of inhibited feeling he automatically translated it to the leg, and only by a strong exertion of will managed to get the feeling behind the words out at all. [...]

He worried about the effect of such expressed feeling on you, and both of you intellectualized, as is often your wont. [...]

[...] He has a responsibility to and for the civilization in which he has each existence, for he helps form it through his own thoughts, emotions, and actions.

He learns from failure as well as success. [...]

As a child is physically protected from some diseases for a while after he emerges from his mother’s womb, so for a brief period is the child cushioned against some psychic disasters for a short period after birth, and carries within him, still for his comfort, memories of past existences and places. [...]

[...] He evolved through the ages as their beliefs did, and into him they projected those qualities that they could not themselves express.