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[...] As he sits in his chair, he is constantly creating his own physical image, using his own psychic energy, and using particular atoms and molecules for the construction of his body. [...]

[...] But each individual creates his own space continuum … I want to tie this in with the differences you seem to see in one particular object. Each individual actually creates an entirely different object, which his own physical senses then perceive. [...]

[...] “He sits in his own chair which he has constructed in his own space continuum and personal perspective.

[...] Then Seth began to use the glass as a point around which to build his discussion.

[...] He is very concerned about the opinions of others, and he wants to see the effect of his work upon the establishments of the world. He wants to know where he stands, and he wants to fit a neat category, so that he can say to the world: “If you are a shoemaker, I am something as definite; or if you are a professor, I am a writer or an artist, or a —?” He wants his contemplation to pay off, and he is very anxious about where his money goes.

[...] He wants to spend his days in contemplation. He wants the freedom necessary to ask whatever philosophical questions come into his mind.

[...] He only asks to be left alone in his contemplations, and to express these in whatever manner suits his nature. [...]

(This afternoon Larry Dowler of the Yale Archives called to postpone his scheduled visit of Thursday afternoon to next Sunday. [...]

However, his energy is beyond my knowledge and his creativity is beyond my knowledge. [...]

[...] He is not as scintillating as I am—but he has his reasons. [...]

Now despite my gentle, good-humored remarks about the personality you call Seth II, let me tell you something—You cannot translate the dimensions of his personality. [...]

His thoughts are not translated in those terms because you cannot rightfully call them thoughts in the way you are accustomed to thinking of thoughts. [...]

[...] On those occasions when Ruburt has heard me more or less directly in his psychological time experiments, there has always been on his part a sound quite independent of himself, from outside of himself, of static. [...]

I do not seem to find him at home, and I think of water, and of his walking near the water. (Pause.) In the back, behind his place of residence, and another person with him, I believe a male, though I am not certain of this. [...]

[...] Actually this caused an interruption of action, in order to make the source of the communication stand out in his mind. [...]

(During the 68th session Seth stated that eventually, as Jane’s abilities grow, it should be possible for him to speak to us from different locations in the room, independent of Jane’s position, and that it might also develop that he could speak to us from his own apparition. [...]

(Don Wilbur’s parents are against his changing jobs. The Wilburs did not ask Seth for advice, nor did Jane and I. Seth volunteered that it was better for Don to make his own decisions. He did say that Don would leave his present job because it offered no opportunities for advancement, and that he would try three other positions before he settled into one he really liked. [...]

(Seth went on to explain that with the exception of me everyone else in the room, including Jane, still had doubts as to what he was, that I accepted his explanation of his personality, and that this was a help in the sessions. [...]

[...] Don never did see about the job he was thinking of, in December, because his present employment kept him too busy during the winter months. He and his wife lost track of the notes, and Jane and I had forgotten them long ago.

[...] We do not often get visitors after midnight; this friend has visited us perhaps three times in the last year, so we can say his arrival was unexpected.

[...] Your resistance is a spur to his development. His need of you on the other hand also keeps him from plunging, as he did in his past life, too deeply and emotionally into other realities without the brakes that the intellect usually applies. [...]

If he does this to the best of his ability, he will consider his excerpts from two standpoints—what to say, and how I say it, so that the personality and the material are clearly shown together. [...]

[...] It is perfectly proper, beneficial and legitimate for him to make any intellectual investigations he chooses, concerning differences in perception in our sessions, and when he is psychically involved on his own, and all other, intuitive or intellectual studies of this sort he has in mind. [...]

In other words the repressed emotionalism will only carry you so far before you need to be refreshed in Ruburt’s reality; and through approaching his reality you also gain, in a different manner than you usually know it, refreshment from the natural world.

The second dream was brought on by the memories subconsciously released in the first dream, and the whole memory block, oddly enough, was released by the fact that Ruburt had in the present some difficulty with his monthly periods. It had been on his mind, brought to his consciousness once the possibility of the difficulty as being a cancer symptom.

[...] In the dream Ruburt said the material told him that he had cancer, because in a previous life he did have clairvoyant knowledge, through his psychic ability, of his future disease; and since his psychic ability has only lately come to light with this material, you can see the connection.

(Over the weekend Jane’s father and his companion, Midge, stopped by in Elmira on their way to Florida for the winter. [...]

In the first dream Ruburt remembered his earlier death. [...]

With his superior knowledge the entity must leave hands off. His, the entity’s, only hope is to allow the personality complete independence, for it is the personality who understands more clearly than he the conditions of the particular plane upon which his existence happens.

[...] Again, John said the initial V meant nothing in particular to him, but when he returned home he planned to do what he could to ascertain just what did take place three doors from his own place, to a woman with at least two children, or who is connected somehow with children. I suggested that a visit to his local newspaper back-issue file might be the easiest way to check.

[...] Needless to say Jane and I have been lax in this field, and we are most grateful to John for his efforts.

(John told us that although he had kept his eyes and ears open for news, he knew of nothing happening to any such neighbor, although as explained through John’s map in the 63rd session, two such women neighbors with children live three doors from him. [...]

His ego is his ego, and because it is his he loves it indeed. [...]

[...] His delivery was more active and quite fast from the beginning. [...]

[...] Ruburt uses his critical faculties supremely well in scrutinizing my activities and nature, so I have no doubt that he can also apply them to the job at hand.

(Seth broke off his material to introduce this bit of humor because Bill, sitting perhaps five feet away, was leaning forward and staring intently at Jane as she spoke. [...]

The difficulty is in the construction of his images on a visual field, rather than in his perception of them. [...]

[...] You did not see it, Ruburt did not see it, because an individual only sees his own constructions; and in this case the idea data was only given to Mark.

[...] In his construction of the apparition therefore, he translated this conception into the large frontal lobes and cranium.

Ruburt has passed the crisis point as far as his own sphere at the gallery is concerned, for which I am thankful certainly.

Even the first had its psychological applications, for the uncle at that time was dissatisfied with existence and with his accomplishments, and the carelessness that helped result in his accident was also partially his own. [...]

[...] You were his niece. [...]

[...] You never forgave yourself, and now in your first reincarnation as a woman since that time, you decided to be the vehicle through which he could enter physical reality again, and so became his mother in physical terms.

[...] Your father simply preferred her because she did remind him of his wife. [...]

[...] To paraphrase: Using this sense, an observer standing on a typical street would feel the experience of being anything he chose within his field of notice: people, trees, insects, blades of grass. He would retain his own consciousness, and would perceive sensations somewhat in the way we now feel heat and cold. [...]

[...] In view of his reply now, though, I didn’t pursue the matter further.

[...] The decision was always his, however, and had he not accepted at all, other arrangements would have been made.

[...] As Ruburt grows to understand, therefore, and as he continues to develop, he triumphs not only for himself but for all those who follow his ventures. [...]

[...] No one would ever think of calling him lazy or good for nothing, yet this may be precisely his own subconscious picture of himself, against which he drives himself constantly. And all of this without his realizing his basic concept of himself, and without recognizing that he projects his feared weaknesses outward unto others.

[...] He stated his ideas on health as clearly and directly as possible, dealing with their practical application. [...] If she had been able to follow his advice, I am convinced she would be alive and well today. [...]

[...] If an individual is in a state of despondency, this is because he has already become prey to negative suggestions of his own and others. [...] And in his already weakened condition they will be accepted and acted upon.

[...] In a session devoted to a particular person, Seth usually goes out of his way to make a few jovial comments to set the person at his or her ease.

(Long pause, one of several, at 8:31.) This is particularly pertinent in his feelings concerning the jaw and neck, and the eye connection and his sense of balance (all items Jane has mentioned often recently). It is also responsible of course for the frequent alterations in depth perception, and all of that to some extent helps explain his frequent uncertainty about getting on the couch (from the chair) and so forth. [...]

[...] Frank Longwell had visited at noon, and I’d showed him the new chair I’d made for Jane, based on his design. [...]

[...] You were afraid that then he would not try to resume making it on his own. [...]

[...] As far as his condition is concerned, its most pivotal aspects are being dealt with: the mechanics of walking and motion. [...]

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.

[...] The dreamer has, at his fingertips, a memory of his ‘previous’ dream experiences and carries within him the many inner purposes which are behind his dream actions. [...]

[...] 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.

Many concepts, advancements and practical inventions simply wait in abeyance in the world of dreams until some man accepts them as possibilities within his frame of reality. [...]

[...] I did not see his companion as the voice exchange continued. The one in my vision was a thin man in shirt sleeves, perhaps in his late thirties, with thick straight brown hair combed straight back, a thin very friendly face with a generous mouth. His voice was deep and gentle. [...]

Now since this session is a rather personal one I have some comments to Ruburt before I discuss his experience. At least a year ago I suggested that a room divider be kept up to divide his working area. [...]

[...] It enables him to direct his energy where he wants it, when he wants it. [...] It is the symbol for a discipline on his part that will enable him to override the vicissitudes of mood, and temporary inclinations.

We got involved finally, with his father, in an effort to get him away from your family. We were trying to lead him to his mother, who is an invalid, to get near the polio connection, but I am afraid we did not succeed here.

Seth often advances his ideas by weaving together several themes into a complex pattern in any given session, or throughout a body of material. This process can also result in a similar approach on my part when I discuss his dictation, so I’ll initiate a summary of Volume 1 by using four sources presented by Seth himself: a key passage from his Preface; the headings he gave for the three sections that comprise Volume 1, along with a few elaborations of my own; a brief description of the appendixes which I assembled over a period of time; and a passage from the 762nd session, in which, eight months after he’d finished “Unknown” Reality, Seth speaks further about his purposes in producing it.

Seth also presented the entire work in such a way that the events of our daily lives were intimately connected with his material, serving as personal examples of how his theories actually work in everyday experience. He hadn’t been delivering “Unknown” Reality for long, then, before I realized that I’d have to devise a system of presentation that would handle his material, my own notes (which I could see were going to be considerably longer than they are in Seth’s other books, Seth Speaks and The Nature of Personal Reality), excerpts from Jane’s ESP classes, appendixes, and anything else that might be included.

Seth himself helped me out more than once — and others can find his material here useful in many situations. From the 751st session for June 30, 1975, which was held a couple of months after he’d finished his part of the long project:

Certainly Seth is saying that Jane’s books (and his) represent her acknowledgment of and search for an ideal. [...] Although his words were directed to me, they have a broad general application:

[...] This is known, that man forms his god in his own image.

[...] If Ruburt would resume his back exercises his sinuses will improve. [...]

There is more, but he is up to his tricks again, blocking me. I will get the material through for his own benefit in the near future. [...]

[...] You will perhaps recognize a certain similarity between this concept and the Christian concept of a Trinity, except that the Trinity concept, while hinting at diversity within prime unity, was nevertheless distorted by man’s own sense of his own adopted and unfortunate delusion of duality.

[...] While Seth is not “blatantly” male, in his actions and speech he is more a man’s man than the woman’s man type. [...] He is simply himself—which may, after all, be the badge of his own independent existence.

His effect upon others is immediate. [...] As the excerpts show, though, he has made it plain that the characteristics by which we know him are only a portion of his personality and those he finds most helpful in getting our attention and delivering the material.

[...] But the teacher exists whether or not he is speaking at that time, and his message is legitimate. [...] … It makes no difference whether or not I am myself speaking within Ruburt now … or whether I did this last night in his sleep, and tonight is a film or playback.

[...] I do think that some kind of blending must take place in sessions between his personality and mine, and that this “psychological bridge”’ itself is a legitimate structure that must take place in any such communication. Seth is at his end, I am at mine. [...]

[...] Martha’s husband, Venice’s brother, lost his life as a result of war wounds. Martha keeps all his possessions together, including his guns and rifles.)

[...] The fashion of his clothes is old. [...]

[...] Schachter—his name.)