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Man’s creative alertness, his precise sensual focus in space and time, and his ability to react quickly to events, are of course all highly important characteristics. His imagination allowed him to develop the use of tools, and gave birth to his inventiveness. [...]

[...] In such a way the child juggles probabilities, and also brings his physical structure precisely into line with a given niche of probability. [...]

Ruburt’s encounter with his father, in many ways, did him good and was largely advantageous. The encounter had nothing to do with his cold, or with yours.

(When Harry requested that I put in more time I declined, and he accepted my answer with his usual good grace. [...]

[...] You picked up his cold for the same reason. [...]

I wanted to comment also on his period of blueness, since it certainly was unsettling to him. [...] There were other people in a blue mood on his floor, also. [...]

[...] You were quite right in your material (at the end of the last session) concerning Ruburt’s religious conditioning, in connection with his physical problems. [...]

[...] “That kid was so shocked to see me naked that when he took my pulse I could feel his pulse going bumpity-bumpity-bump....” [...]

[...] This is fairly automatic, this tendency, and the nature of his mental life. [...]

(Pause, one of many short ones, etc.) Now I was teaching him, and I went along with his natural interests and inclinations. [...]

[...] (Jane may use this material in the appendix.) I wanted to tell you that when Ruburt sends off his book we will try to give you more information on the art gallery material.

[...] Then according to his basic characteristics, he used that information accordingly. [...]

His body is engaged in a process in which interchanges of his energies are involved as they change themselves almost automatically into different organizations of power and utility. [...]

With his intellectual appreciation of the benefits of fire that followed his physical mastery of it, then his dream universe became enriched with a new freedom. [...]

[...] The momentary difficulty in the short story that he did not finish was simply caused by a very temporary relapse because of pressure: He did not wait for his subconscious to deliver an idea, as he has been long accustomed to doing.

[...] He could not for example in his dream universe then manipulate fire, except in terms of what he considered destruction.

Ruburt’s own experiments with predictions will accelerate his ability to let longer segments, concerning any one particular prediction, in our sessions to come through. [...]

[...] He thinks he is being just, therefore, in his hatred, but the hatred itself forms a very strong claim that will follow him throughout his lives, until he learns that only the hatred itself is the destroyer.

[...] Now with this work taken care of, Jane was eager for Seth to resume work on his book.

[...] Yet because of his words you do not feel justified in the emotion. [...]

[...] I picked him up, but his claws on Jane’s leg brought her out of trance. [...]

[...] (A few weeks later, though, Rob had some more difficulty with his back and went to a chiropractor who told him that his first vertebra was out of alignment.) The session lasted until after midnight, and after that we sat up talking about it.

[...] Soon, freed completely from the board, his personality began to express itself with much greater freedom. [...] For this reason I’ll devote some space to the early sessions so that you can become acquainted with the material as Seth gave it, and see him emerge as a personality in his own right.

[...] In one of the early sessions Seth said that this had been his first attempt to contact me. [...]

TO GOD, ALL NAMES ARE HIS NAME, the pointer spelled.

(Joel told of finding a man asleep at his work, explained his feeling and emotions and could he change them?)

Indeed, so that your muscles tensed, your adrenaline production increased, you wanted to wring his neck and you stood there and said, God bless you my fine young fellow. [...] They are contracted because you have not admitted, in this point admittedly of future spiritual progression, that you wanted to wring his neck, so you say nothing but wish him well. [...]

Now, our friend back here (Ned) has tried his disappearing act for some time and a good deal of the time he does it without knowing that he does it, and on occasion he tries it deliberately. [...]

Now three weeks later we have another encounter and our poor ignorant workman falls asleep again at his chore and our good minister comes by and he looks and he sees the idle one upon the floor snoozing and he thinks, I would like to kick you in the you know where, but he thinks, oh no, I cannot think such an unChristian thought and violence is wrong, so before he even admits to himself what he feels and hiding from himself any acknowledgment of aggression. [...]

I learned about the Lord of Righteousness from a cousin of his named Sheraba —

(It can be seen from the above paragraphs that Seth shifts his physical location from Rome to Judaea without saying just how or when he did so. [...]

At the time that Christ lived his existence was known to very few, comparatively speaking. [...]

(Seth first referred to his incarnation as a minor Pope in Jane’s ESP class session for May 15, 1971. [...]

[...] Each physical photographer has an idea of what he wants to capture on film, and so to that extent he structures his picture and his view. [...]

[...] I was tempted to ask Seth to explain his idea of what good milk was like, and in what life [or lives] he’d enjoyed such a potion, but I didn’t want to interrupt the flow of the material. [...]

(11:56 P.M. Seth’s comments on my experience certainly illustrate his notions of simultaneous time to some extent, since from my “present” I perceived aspects of myself in the reincarnational “past” as well as in the “future” in this life. [...]

[...] In the meantime, I have no conscious memory of being an old man, let alone one in the specific, dependent situation in which I saw myself: However, aside from the idea of simultaneous time, I do believe that an individual can touch upon at least some of his or her earlier lives, provided enough long-term effort is given to the endeavor. [...]

[...] Our friend Ruburt does not remember his nocturnal walk. Since we are with friends, I will tell you that he remembered his womanly modesty even in his sleep, and he once more donned the clothes that he donned earlier, you see, when he let the cat in.

My condolences to Ruburt, in his attempt to win out over natural forces, and to upset those balances which are so necessary. [...]

[...] The Wilburs and I agreed later that Seth evidently decided to insert the following material just on his own, and because the time, and Jane’s trance state, seemed right to him. [...]

[...] (Pause.) The number 17, a date in July which will be significant to him, or his close family—not necessarily to him, you see. [...]

[...] He was more used to an independence of motion, and greater leeway in using his own judgment. The conflict arises because he tries to balance this, which grates against his grain, with the hope of, or against the hope of, future possibilities of gaining more independence, and using creative abilities in teaching the children’s classes.

[...] Hence his discomfort in taking dictation of even a simple letter that must be transcribed in faithful replica to the words and ideas of another.

[...] Taking down someone else’s words, verbatim, is to Ruburt, because of his own creative ability an inferior position.

He would, perhaps, stick to a respect for small details if they were part of a creative concept, even perhaps the creative concept of another, as details are extremely respected by him in his poetry, where he transforms them into creative concept.

“As his abilities grew, however, of course he sensed the outlines of other realities, the glimmerings of other worlds. He sensed these cousins of consciousness in one way or another—these environments that seemed real but not real, these further extensions of possible experience—and he decided that he must be very cautious: He must be prudent (long pause), he must take his time, he must range but carefully—and certainly to some extent such feelings cut down upon his spontaneity.

[...] Ruburt carries his protection and safety wherever he goes. [...] His psychological stance is honored wherever he goes.

[...] So far in our discussion of his own situation, we have not for good reason touched upon certain material because he was not ready for it.

[...] He forms his reality according to his conscious beliefs, even while its basis lies in the deep unconscious nature of the earth in corporeal terms. Man’s “I am,” [seemingly] apart from nature — a characteristic necessary for the development of his kind of consciousness — led him into value judgments, and also necessitated some break with the deep inner certainties of other species.

Man grants rich psychological activity to his own species but denies it in others. [...]

[...] His or her ideas about the self must be examined, for they are being materialized in flesh. [...]

If you misinterpret the myths, then you may believe that man has fallen from grace and that his very creaturehood is cursed, in which case you will not trust your body or allow it its “natural” pattern of self-therapy.

[...] He frightened himself into returning to his body for he had been away from it too long. [...] He was like a truant so he caused the hallucination so that he would return to his body. Now the nature of the hallucination was his own doing. He used his own fears to cause the hallucination. [...] He was not using his common sense. [...]

(Rachel had been discussing a story on astral projection which told of a man seeing a black shape trying to sever the silver cord so he could not return to his body.)

[...] The information he would be able to give, however, would also be limited because of his experience. [...] At times I see the room and the people as he, or rather his perceptive mechanisms, do.

(We sat for the session at 9:00, as we almost always do, but Seth didn’t appear with his usual promptness. [...]

[...] It was also designed to make the reader think of his own questions. [...]

[...] In your terms, by the time an individual is in his last physical life (pause), all portions of the personality are then familiar with it at the time of death. [...]

[...] In it Seth gave the heading for Section 4, just before finishing his evening’s work with a few minutes of personal information for Jane and me. [...] But I’d say his procedure also helps satisfy Jane’s spontaneous impatience about learning what’s coming next in the material.

[...] 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. Then in Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality, Seth refers to Adventures on occasion, while I give information about it in Note 3 for his Preface, and Note 5 for Session 680, among others.

[...] His enthusiastic response was one we’d experienced many times before. [...]

[...] (And I can note a week later that at the end of Session 707, Seth makes his own comment about cells surviving changes of form.)

Philip was not consciously thinking of me, and his ego was not on guard. His subconscious mind however did consent to the contact, because I impressed upon it the fact that I considered the situation potentially dangerous to him.

[...] Some of the questions were suprisingly acute, and involved aspects of the existence of Seth, and his abilities, that Jane and I had not thought of.

Now mankind uses but a portion of his capabilities, and when you are along in these experiments, properly set up, you will find that you handle them very well, with no draining of energies or difficulties. [...]

[...] It may well be a letter that you have written him, and he concentrates on my name; and thinks (pause) of a picture in a frame, of his wife I believe, but not one just taken.

[...] He’s going away for a week —to Florida—just when we may need his cooperation. [...]

[...] But he sounded the same after I became a little more familiar with his voice. [...]

[...] I turned down his request to sign a letter of authorization. [...]

Ruburt now feels the impulse to sit up on the side of his bed—an excellent development, for action follows impulse. [...]