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[...] That is, have him put the stress on the comments momentarily, forgetting his body entirely. [...]

After he has done these exercises, then he can begin again seeing his body walking or sitting, or whatever. [...]

(“Has he been inhibiting his recovery toward walking by worrying about it?”)

It is not so much that he has been worrying—but at times he does think of the impediments that stand seemingly in his way. [...]

(10:20.) So Ruburt’s subjective perspective opens up because of his desire and interest, and discloses my own. He opens up a door in himself that leads to other levels of his being, but a being that cannot be completely expressed in your world. [...]

[...] His foot rests upon a coffee table, as he moves back and forth in his rocking chair. [...]

(Then in the 754th session, on August 25, Seth gave an excellent dissertation on what he called “the stamp of identity” — explaining how the individual psychically marks certain exterior aspects of reality and “makes them his or her own,” in tune with personal inner symbols. [...]

[...] Since this is our analogy, we can stretch it as far as we like — far further than any artist could stretch his canvas (leaning forward humorously). Therefore, there is no need to limit ourselves. [...]

[...] While the individual suffers and enjoys his given number of years, these years are but a flash to the entity. [...] As you give inner purpose and organization to your dreams, and as you obtain insight and satisfaction from your dreams though they involve only a part of your life, so the entity to some extent directs and gives purpose and organization to his personalities during their existence. And so does the entity obtain insights and satisfactions from his existing personalities, although no one takes up all of his own attentions.

[...] There is no doubt that at times he is unaware of his surroundings during a session. [...] It is a phenomena in which he gives consent, and he could, at any time and in a split second, return his conscious attention upon the physical environment.

[...] When Ruburt is not aware of his surroundings during a session, he is still aware of his surroundings to some degree, and can return to them. [...]

I wanted to show you that telepathy did exist, and I wanted to show Ruburt that more than his own subconscious was involved. I wanted to build up his confidence. [...]

[...] However, I did tell you so, not only concerning the book sale, but also concerning the fact that it would be advantageous for Ruburt to leave his gallery position. His ability to focus direction of energy in his writing has vastly improved, due to the last months’ labors, and will show in his book.

[...] The man, or ego, who has never really accepted such violence as a part of his action pattern, will usually have no conflicts in this particular line, simply because the inclination was never a strong part of the ego’s inner image, and is more or less discarded automatically, along with all those other characteristics or inclinations which are not in his ego pattern.

Ruburt may now, if he wishes, work on his psychological time in the morning. I wanted that particular routine broken up for a while, but now if it is more convenient he may return to his old schedule; that is, that same time of day, but twenty minutes should still be the limit.

I have watched with some amusement the proceedings of the last few days, as Ruburt involved himself with his contract, hemmed and hawed, worried it and clucked.

[...] It is, however, a fact that even man, in his blundering manner, will discover that he himself creates his own physical universe, and that the mechanisms of the physical body have more functions and varieties than he knows.”

(Louder:) The creator is not the master of his creations. [...]

[...] His genius shows you what you are, and yet it is but a hint of the potential with which your species is endowed.

That soul constantly creates the body, and each individual on the face of the earth at any given time places his or her trust in that reality. [...]

[...] She sensed his deep and personal inner awareness. It confused and haunted him, since his inarticulateness applied also to thoughts within himself. [...] In his solitary nature he came close to being a mystic but he was unable to relate his personality as Joseph Burdo with the social world at large, or even to the other members of his family. [...] He felt strongly his connection with the universe as a whole and with nature as he understood it. But to him nature did not include his fellow human beings. [...]

He responded to his own attraction for her and was able to expand in her direction because she was not an adult. [...] Jane was 19.) He could not relate to another adult, and when in his eyes she joined the league of adulthood he would not have been able to retain his strong leaning toward her.

He never forgave his own children for growing up, nor did he forgive his wife for tending to earthly ways. Yet he related his own body, at least until the very end, very well with nature. [...]

That is, in his feeling of unity with All That Is, he excluded other human beings, and on your plane it is necessary for the personality to relate to them. [...]

He did not alert his critical faculties however, and is consciously unaware of the experiences and the information. [...] I was his guide. [...]

[...] He spoke, incidentally to his Father Trainor, and Lizzie Roohan together, while he was in the second form. He was then led by me into a further dimension of reality in which his third form was used. [...]

[...] 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.

He is bolder in his projections than you, Joseph.

[...] Lately Ruburt decided, using his will, to walk to whatever degree possible. [...] Immediately, without trying, at different times his imagination came up with different pictures to implement the desire—the table, the cupboard.

Ruburt does not need to feel that he would naturally, left alone, go out into the world, into the arena, and convince the world of our ideas, or think that with his energy unimpeded that would be part of his natural mission. [...]

[...] He must show that for all of his youth he is world-weary, not easily taken in, that he is objective—and only then can he allow his creative abilities to flow. [...]

But he must dress his dreams in fashionable cynicism, while all the time trying to hold them safely clear, and gracefully allow some faith, some hope, to show in an uncontested manner. [...]

4) a connection with someone else beside Don with the watch.
* correct—the watch was a gift from his wife.

5) small stupid incident immediately before or after the purchase.
* correct—It was a Christmas gift and he had bought the same item, a watch for his wife. They both knew what the other had bought and decided to open them Xmas eve because they knew.

[...] He has owned several other watches in his life though.

[...] Searle makes birth control products, and as Searle’s representative John said the clinic’s business should be his “if I’ve done my work well.” Jane and I did not know of his involvement here.

(The 364th session was held September 13, 1967 for John Pitre of Franklin, LA, and his wife Peggy, who has multiple sclerosis. [...]

(Here Seth referred to a discussion before the session, concerning the time element and his predictions re John Bradley, Searle, etc., in various previous sessions.)

[...] He mentioned a Dave Gleason [not Jewish] in his company. [...]

[...] In order to develop his own kind of individualized awareness, man had to consciously ignore for a while his own place within the structure of the earth. His experience of time would seem to be the experience of his identity. His consciousness would not seem to flow into his body before birth, and out of it after death. [...]

[...] The man, the slayer, understood the great sense of harmony that existed even in the slaying, and knew that in turn the physical material of his body would be used by the earth to replenish the vegetable and animal kingdoms.

[...] In your terms this would represent a great leap, for the egotistically aware individual would fully comprehend unconscious knowledge and act on his own, out of choice. [...]

Then, for some early quotes from Seth about his own ability to move among certain systems of reality, see Note 4 for the 680th session in this volume.

When I asked him in the same session about his evocative use of “fragment,” Seth replied: “That is an original term with me, as far as I know.” Within another couple of sessions, however, he began to let “fragment” semantically yield to other terminology as he continued developing his material in ever-deepening discussions of personalities and entities, reincarnation, time, dreams, and other related subjects. [...]

[...] Even so, however, he still added meanings of his own to some of those basic categories, or taxa.)

[...] Man does not in his physical development pass through the stages supposedly followed by the hypothetical creature who left the water for the land to become a mammal—but each species does indeed have written within it the knowledge of “its past.” [...]

(Now Jane paused several times in her delivery—and I had the feeling that Seth was groping for the words that would make his meaning as clear to us as possible.)

[...] Obviously he is in the middle of a learning adventure, trying to do far more with his ordinary consciousness than most people, and trying to solve his problems and encounter his challenges without relying upon old structures of belief … He has done this even though he has been working in relatively untried areas, where there seem to be few certainties.⁹

(Long pause at 10:23, eyes closed.) I make recommendations now and then, and now and then you see fit to follow them … ¹⁰ Considering Ruburt’s challenges, he has done extremely well as he cleared away the debris that literally surrounds the lives of most people … In a way his progress has been dependent upon the state of his learning, so that he has been trying to stretch the abilities of normal consciousness by drawing in other “strands.”¹¹ Yet because he was the one so involved, he had to test each strand; and in the meantime he still had his “old” consciousness, with its habits, to contend with.

[...] Perhaps Seth likes some of those other versions of ourselves more than he does us. ( I didn’t ask him if I was right, though.) It might even be that his favorite Jane inhabits one probable reality, his favorite Rob another. [...]

[...] Not all of his material tonight is given over to questions, however; much of the rest of it, covering matters other than those relating to “Unknown” Reality, is deleted.)

[...] Earlier, Ruburt was afraid to trust his body, afraid to let his body heal him, for fear he would be attacked by others. [...]

[...] I said that from his position he could do little else.

Now both of you were saturated with those beliefs — Ruburt because of his poetry and writing, and you because of your art. [...]

His beliefs about poets were contaminated by ideas that said that the poet was too sensitive, too vulnerable to life’s experiences — that this sensitivity brought weakness instead of strength, and that true artists or true poets came to a tragic end for that reason.

[...] At the same time he uses the challenge to activate his imagination constructively and to arouse his enthusiasm. Then in his way, with his reactions he tries to fire you with that enthusiasm, so hard won, and meets of course with your own kind of reaction.

[...] You can see this quite clearly when Ruburt displays his side of the same picture, concentrating on symptoms.

[...] The inner conditions are being righted, but Ruburt must see himself in his mind walking better—not perfectly but better for now, and he has begun in point of power to learn how to do that.

[...] You can no longer use it as an excuse any more than Ruburt can use his symptoms as an excuse any more. [...]

Ruburt’s love for Joseph, his own purposes, and his growing questions, along with his interest in painting in general, triggered exactly the kind of stimulus that broke through conventional beliefs about time and knowledge. [...]

(Sessions 760-61 were devoted to separate topics that Seth has been developing apart from his regular book dictation for Psyche.

[...] As Joseph did his notes, however, it became apparent that some events could hardly be so pinpointed, and indeed seemed to have no beginning or end.

[...] Still, he often expects his own rather unorthodox experiences to appear in the kind of orderly garb with which you are all familiar.

[...] In the dream state it would be impossible for the dreamer to prove the existence of the familiar street outside of his familiar door. His attention is momentarily directed toward a different sort of reality. The ordinary trees outside of his window do not exist for him. It would be highly difficult to ask a man while he dreamed to prove the physical reality of the bed in which he slept, or the bedside table which was at his head, or to prove the existence of the wooden floor upon which the bed rested. [...]

(In answer to a question of Bill Gallagher’s, Seth said Bill did well to refuse a promotion that would have necessitated his moving to Detroit. [Bill also works for the Elmira paper, in advertising.] Seth said that Bill was on the right track, that once he gets his physical problems straightened out, meaning his ulcer, he will be doing very well.

[...] I will speak fairly slowly, since Ruburt is taking his time in order that Joseph may take his notes. [...]

[...] In his state he is concentrating upon some object which we cannot see. [...] His attentions are focused elsewhere. [...]

[...] Jane was extremely attached to her grandfather; she grew up without a father since her parents separated when she was three years old, and her grandfather did his best to fill in the gap. Seth said the anniversary of his death has been on her mind. [...]

(Bill Gallagher asked Seth about a possible operation for his ulcers, although he has been feeling well. [...]

[...] I said I though much evidence had been collected already, and that more was certain to be gathered before our deaths forty or so years from now, granting his dates were correct. [...]

[...] Seth went on to say that once this proof was made known and accepted, it would change the behavior of every man on earth, for man would have to live his physical life in the face of knowledge of an afterlife.

[...] He does not have a beard but his face is prickly and dark. He smokes and his fingers are long and stained with nicotine. His trousers are somehow strange, and he wears white shoes or not shoes, but his feet appear lighter, you see. [...]

[...] Our friend the Jesuit is here, and five others have gone this same way earlier and he knows this: It is his reason for going, you see.

A former governor of another country once stayed at this island also and he was removed from office ahead of schedule or otherwise politically ruined, returning to his homeland in disgrace.

[...] To your way of thinking he would change form according to his mood; as he thinks, he is. [...]

His development began in your terms in such ancient times that for all intents and purposes you could say that in terms of value fulfillment he was so far advanced as to be alien entirely.

[...] When this happens then following your own psychological patterns the ideas would emerge more or less naturally, with little hint of their origin, and, the individual involved could well consider them his own.

[...] The nontime principle however operates in such a manner that a personality can only participate in the ways that I have described, in systems with which he has some familiarity because of his own experience. [...]