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Indeed, when a child is involved, the keener his use of the reasoning mind becomes the dimmer his mathematical abilities grow. [...]

[...] The spider must spin his web. [...] But by that same reasoning—to which, of course, I do not subscribe—you should also add that man can take no credit either for his intellect, since man must think, and cannot help doing so.

(9:33.) Man’s reasoning mind, however, with its fascinating capacity for logic and deduction, and for observation, rests upon (pause) a direct cognition—a direct cognition that powers his thoughts, that makes thinking itself possible. [...]

[...] Because she has to deliver it linearly in words, which take “time,” she cannot produce her material almost at once, as the mathematical prodigy can his or her answers, but in their own way her communications with Seth are as psychologically clear and direct as the calculator’s objective products are with numbers, or the musician’s are with notes. [...]

[...] Some of these occasions occurred fairly early in our sessions, when Ruburt was worried about spontaneous trances, so after making my presence known to him, I acquiesced to his decision at the time. [...] Usually Ruburt reacted to these adversely at his end — that is, the interference was such that it would bother his situation rather than mine.

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

[...] There is nothing to prevent a personality from investing a portion of his own energy into an animal form. [...]

[...] So he may project a fragment of his consciousness in such a way into an animal form. [...]

[...] I’d also called our optometrist and asked his secretary to have him return my call so I could ask him a couple of technical questions about a note I’m writing for Session 901 for Dreams. Since I had to wait for his call — which never came — I couldn’t leave the house to get Jane’s typewriter. [...]

[...] His mental exercises involving the inner “darning” (which Jane had told me about earlier this afternoon) of the sores with new tissue works well. [...]

(For pretty obvious reasons as far as we’re concerned, Jane and I prefer that Seth hold his book sessions in private, although Seth himself is more flexible here than we are. But as Jane has said, things are “calmer” psychically when we’re by ourselves: In trance or out, she can concentrate upon the work at hand, free of the presence of a third individual — one who is bound to radiate his or her own psychic characteristics. [...]

[...] For the moment, then, Jane and I think that Seth’s material on astrology in this 729th session (and, it soon developed, in the 730th) can serve as his answer to those who have asked for his opinion about it.

5. I think that in his material from 10:17 to 10:25 here, Seth very neatly summarizes much of his thinking about how each of us constantly moves through a multitude of probable realities, meeting certain others in any one space-time environment, perceiving individual versions of any given event … Very useful information. [...]

[...] The whole of Seth’s first delivery for that session can supplement his data in this one. Also refer to his concluding paragraphs (after 10:52) for the 727th session.

[...] The courageous acquiescence of his death made us feel humble and ignorant — and in awe of nature’s mysteries — because certainly Willy died with a kind of absolute trust that people find most difficult to achieve. [...] Now seldom do we go in or out of the driveway without glancing at the group of rocks I placed upon his grave.

(Seth opened the session by finishing his Introduction to Jane’s The World View of Paul Cézanne, which Prentice-Hall will publish later this year. In that piece Seth has come through with an excellent capsule explanation of his theory of “world views.” [...]

[...] As Jane worked on “Unknown” Reality, Willy often lay on her lap, and we felt his approaching death with heavy hearts of our own.

Your kind of psychological reality is therefore implied in my own, and mine in yours, even as your kind of reality is implied in that of Willy Two (our kitten) — and his in yours.

There are things I have to say, saved for private sessions, having to do with his condition about the house. Tell him if possible to forget the symptoms as much as he can, and concentrate instead upon his work and our program. [...]

There is other material pertaining to you and Prentice, and Ruburt has his old habits—but for now we will let it rest. [...]

His probable brain can only translate so much of this (tonight’s session) at one time.

(Pause.) Tell Ruburt that his spirits can indeed rise easily. That his natural emotions are beginning to sense their new freedom—so he has only to go along, and not fear any periods of blueness. These will gradually disappear almost completely as his improvements continue. [...]

(Seth’s comments re war and probabilities evidently mean that in his view Jane and I have moved into a probable reality where nuclear war will not happen. [...]

That Robert Butts did not continue his painting with any purpose, trying to be objective and sensible, lacking the understanding of his parents that you have achieved through sessions. He put security in financial terms above everything, took no chances at all along those lines, and despite this, of course, is not making much money because his heart was, with the painting, most largely abandoned.

[...] I walk in the bedroom where my father is standing, complaining about his problems. [...]

[...] Then Seth says, ‘In the earlier dream demonstration tonight, your father had problems of his own, and you ignored them. [...]

[...] This time I change the events from the way they happened the first time, realize how important his problems are to him, smile and send him good thoughts. [...]

In a fashion, those stylized figures that stood for the images of God, apostles, saints, and so forth, were like a kind of formalized abstract form, into which the artist painted all of his emotions and all of his beliefs, all of his hopes and dissatisfactions. [...]

[...] Man always does best, or his best, when he sees himself in heroic terms. [...] So his paintings became more and more realistic.

I was curious as to how often such a “negative psychology” operated—when, simply because of his or her own hang-ups, an individual [or more than one person] is attracted to a site where strongly negative events had taken place. [...]

[...] Some of da Vinci’s sketches already show that tendency, and he is fascinating because with his undeniable artistic tendencies he also began to show those tendencies that would lead toward the birth of modern science.

(John Bradley finished his statement as a witness, signed it and left for Corning, N.Y., where he had a motel room. He requested a copy of the session, with the thought of possibly trying to verify the data given by Seth concerning his past lives. [...]

[...] Prior to the start of the session I had, in conversation, asked Robbie [Joseph] a question involving his point of continuous existence versus evolution. Seth answered my questions and while he was giving his general answer, other related questions would creep into my mind and these would immediately be answered by Seth. [...]

[...] You were polite to your guest and I recognize his presence. [...]

[...] When your friend asked his question he was, I believe, referring to the point at which self-consciousness entered into so-called inert form.

[...] As you all know, he is hardly the inhibited type on his own! I have helped him in that his personality operates more effectively. He is able to use his ability more fully. [...]

[...] His energy is available (pause), and doors to his great mental house are open, awaiting entry. He sends his invitation and assurance that your ways are safe ones. [...]

[...] At the same time this expansion did put him in situations that he had avoided before, and so the contrast between his physical situation and that of others was apparent—and to him, frightening. [...]

[...] I suggest that you hear his morning as well as evening suggestions, and that you take a few moments, perhaps no more than 5 a day, to impress upon him the fact that these new beliefs can be inserted in place of the old, and will bear results. [...]

[...] (See Tam’s recent letter, in which he described his dream in which he saw Jane fully recovered, etc.) But still in your time and terms I tell you to follow faithfully what I have suggested.

[...] At one time you were his son and at some time I will give you particulars, dates and places. [...] He was afraid for his fingers and his hands. [...]

[...] Now, give us a moment—he much preferred leaving his body when he did. [...] He determined that in this life he would leave at the height of his powers and so he did. [...]

However his painting contains new realities, and distinctive ones, that would be alien to the original landscape. [...] The trees in his painting, being artificial reproductions, do not undergo the same physical changes, even while the atoms and molecules that compose the canvas itself, and all the pigments, constantly themselves change.

[...] Our imaginary artist could not rip the landscape out of the earth, or bring it to his studio. He could not create an identical landscape because he did not have at his command the perspectives or materials necessary.

[...] The best he can do is create a distortion of the original landscape—a creation of an approximation that can comfortably exist within the limited perspectives with which he can work, and using the materials that are at his own command.

[...] The artist may hint at time within his painting, but he cannot capture the physical eons that might be contained in the mountains themselves, which he wishes to reproduce.

Jane expected Seth to work on his new book this evening. [...] Then, without calling his material Chapter 1, dictation, or whatever:)

[...] Noah, the 10th male in descent from Adam—Noah and his family, and the divine command he received to build the Ark—aren’t even mentioned. [...] Oddly, if you postulate a god in that fashion, a personified one, then you wonder why he couldn’t—or didn’t choose to—maintain the perfection of his original creation. [...]

3. I’ve known Seth planned to discuss evolution—that sensitized subject—ever since Jane tuned into the title of his new book a couple of months ago. [...] Better wait, I told myself and Jane, until we had an idea of how Seth is going to handle his own material on evolution.

[...] Our rule is that otherwise we do not change or delete any of his material without noting it.

[...] He did not specify anything in particular, and so left open the doorway so that his creative intelligence could choose unimpeded by too much conscious coloring—hence his first excellent attempt at holding a plate and feeding himself, even if the plate was a paper one. [...]

[...] I’ll be making copies of these to send to our lawyer, and will show the originals to Andrew Fife, in billing, so that he can make his own copies for our file. [...]

(Seth’s voice was good, his delivery fast, so that I really had to write quickly in order to keep up.)

Not that those personal sessions in Volume 7 represent the beginnings of Seth’s efforts—always with Jane’s and my permission, indeed encouragement—to offer his understandings of our challenges. [...] Seth himself didn’t announce his presence to us most definitely until December 8, in the fourth session. I deleted some of his early information for us from Volume I.)

[...] The book would include Jane’s simplistically beautiful and brilliantly colored art; also my own quite different art—especially those drawings and paintings of and from my dreams that began to blossom as Seth discussed his dream material. Some of his work is presented in The Early Sessions. [...]

[...] I’m proud to be involved in this work with Rick and his wife, Anne Marie O’Farrell, who is my literary agent. [...]

(Very recently, while falling off to sleep—in the hypnogogic state—Peter Murtough had a vision of his sister Julie falling. [...] He could not tell whether or not she hurt herself, but the vision has been on his mind since its occurrence. [...]

Your brother Stephen must have faith in his own abilities, for these represent his (underlined) freedom and eventual success.

[...] There is here however a fairly strong possibility (underlined), in connection with someone else she may meet—a male who wears glasses in his leisure hours. [...]

[...] But in another way he was their cause, since you interpreted his existence in that particular manner. [...]