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[...] He continues to work out his own probabilities. [...] You call his system an alternate system of probability but this is precisely what he would call your system.

[...] During such periods, as has been suggested elsewhere, the personality can merge, blend or change various aspects of his previous existences, using them as you, Joseph, use colors.

[...] The doctor obviously has his own ego, though not within your system.

(Don Wollheim and his wife and daughter visited us Friday evening, September 2. This session was held on Wednesday, August 31, but was not typed up by Friday. [...]

And yet, as a gardener sometimes at night walks through his garden and observes his plants—and gives added fertilizer to some—and waters others—and arranges others so that they get more sun—so your own entity walks through your soul and whispers instructions. [...]

[...] And that is why I told our friend that his humor could be his salvation. [...]

[...] We tend you carefully as a gardener tends his beloved plants. [...]

Clothing tells much about character, for a person chooses his clothing. Subconsciously he also chooses his environment, and throws his own character about it so the basic mood, the underlying mood of a personality beneath all the shifting moods, will also be expressed in color that is reflected in the entire painting, the environment as well.

[...] He also needs something new in his own life, and your work would give him new purpose. [...]

(“Does his gallery advertise in The New York Times?”)

[...] Instead, during the last week he let his own creative imagination go wherever it might while he held the general idea in his mind. [...] In a way his experiences were like those of a child — open, curious, filled with enthusiasm. As a result he himself discovered a few of his counterparts.²

[...] On the other hand, Ben Fein trusts his intuitions fully, and relies upon them, yet to some extent fears his own great energy. [...]

2. Fred received his information in the form of several most delightful, externalized visions. He saw two of his contemporary counterparts in them. [...]

1. It will be remembered that Seth first mentioned his concept of counterparts in the ESP class session for Tuesday evening, November 18, 1974, rather than in dictation for “Unknown” Reality; see the opening notes for Session 721. [...]

(I might add that on the telephone with Tam the day before yesterday I really lit into Tam—rather to his surprise, I think. But I was determined that he understand our feelings—or mine, at least, in no uncertain terms, for as we talked I could feel him start using words to paper over our upset about foreign rights; I felt that his tactics would only make it possible for the whole thing to happen again with succeeding books, and that I was going to short-circuit at once. I believe my reactions, which were loud and clear, paid off, for Tam called Jane yesterday to find out, in his own way, whether I was mad at him personally. [...]

[...] She held his money up to your father, and in many ways let your father know that she did not think much of him. [...] To her he fell from an initial high estate—meaning his early success, that offered her the possibilities of wealth and social status. [...]

[...] In light of his desire for creativity he simply tries much harder to ignore them than you do, and his drive for communication with others through the books is strong enough, you see, so that like a battleship he drives on. [...]

[...] I hadn’t thought his death could bother me that much, for certainly I hadn’t dwelled upon it consciously at all.

(“What about those sudden movements he said he made with his legs last night, when the nurse dropped the cigarette on his bed?”)

[...] Ruburt’s intent was so strong to move away from the lighted cigarette that he ignored all impediments, and his unconscious mind beautifully followed his conscious mind’s intent. [...]

[...] Disease states, so-called, are as necessary to physical life as normal health is, so we are not speaking of a nirvana on earth — but we are saying that it is possible for each reader of this book to quicken his or her private perceptions, and to extend and expand the quality of ordinary consciousness enough so that by contrast to current experience, life could almost be thought of as “heaven on earth.”

You must start from your present position, of course, but there is no person who cannot better his or her position to a considerable degree, if the effort is made to follow through with the kind of new hypotheses that we will here suggest. [...]

Ruburt can start at his present position, as each person must begin with the situation at hand. [...]

When my father, Robert Sr., photographed Jane and me on our wedding day, December 27, 1954, and then in 1957, did any of us know that his work would be published almost half a century later?

(In closing out the last session, Seth told us that he’d “cover everything that needs to be covered” in his books, and I wrote that sometimes I’d still choose to insert other particularly apropos material of his into whatever book he might be producing at the time. [...]

[...] In general, then, tonight Seth discusses questions many correspondents have asked; but specifically, his material is a continuation of an answer to some of the professor’s questions. [...]

[...] I could dictate a reply that would satisfy him well enough, but it would (pause) perhaps be the more distorted the more it was geared for his understanding.

(Long pause at 7:34.) His ideas had somehow led me to the point where the very dimensions of experience should change. As he presented them, his concepts dealt with the spontaneous, rambunctious powers with which nature was endowed. [...]

[...] On the one hand there was the Seth material itself, and Seth’s performance in his books.

I am somewhat taken back to discover that Ruburt, upon learning to use his abilities, would also attempt to censure the direction of their use.

It is as if, with his ordinary eyesight, he tried to so censure himself that he saw only sunlight. [...]

[...] Hence Ruburt fears that he, and not his mother, is here involved.

He has been doing so well at his homework.

The paraphernalia, arranged in neat cubbyholes, to you represented paraphernalia of a subjective nature that stood between your father and the use of his abilities. [...]

[...] Your young brother (William, 9 years younger) never set up adequate defenses, so that his own mood swung, willy-nilly, as the psychic climate varied.

[...] You stood in the doorway and actually heard his thoughts in your head. [...]

[...] You may feel his presence first, and then look around to see him.

The resulting inner freedom will also free his own creative energies, and his career will continue to expand. [...] His release will also have its effect upon your own subjective life.

It will do good also if during the day occasionally he imagines the exercise as he goes about his chores, but he should not do this willfully, with an intent to command physical performance. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s decision in regard to his classes is a good one. [...]

If you choose the first approach, then you must plunge wholeheartedly into the person you are using as model, and immerse yourself in his reality, and from this let the painting flow.

[...] This aggravated some of his own original conceptions. Some of your interpretations were legitimate, based upon his attitudes, but many more were the innermost doubts that you have not faced as to who you were, and deep questions involving the nature of your person as it is related to your particular sex in this life.

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.

[...] Your fears did not hold you back with the unreasoning strength that his held him back.

[...] You felt him very powerful, aggressive, and unreasonably so in his behavior. [...]

(11:11.) In terms of history as you understand it, man felt safe and secure as a prime species under one sun, imagining that all else revolved about his being. This provided, in that framework, a stability that was dispensed with as man allowed his consciousness other freedoms. [...]

[...] As in your terms the cavemen ventured out into the daylight of the earth, there is a time for man to venture out into a greater knowledge of his subjective reality, comma, to explore the dimensions of selfhood and go beyond the small areas of himself in which he has thus far found shelter.

[...] Other facets of consciousness available to him, and a part of his greater nature, appear foreign, or “not-self,” or “beyond self,” because of the focus of selectivity as it now operates.

2. A note added later: Seth does add to his material on cellular precognition in a number of later sessions in The “Unknown” Reality. Among others in Volume 1, see sessions 690–91 in Section 2.

[...] One personality may also form for his own purposes a time system of his own, as a man might make a path to his own garden.

Sooner or later the man will cease walking merely from his house to his garden, and use other roads or forge new paths. [...]

[...] This does not mean that each individual at such a stage is isolated, nor that he dwells in some universe of his own, for interactions always exist. [...]

[...] One person may be completely free physically and in excellent health, and yet, because of certain experiences, begin to doubt his ability to get along with others. So he may begin to look into his past — with that belief in mind, that he cannot relate — and then find within previous conduct all kinds of reasons to support the idea.

If he journeyed through his memories trying to find a different kind of proof instead, then in that same past he would discover instances when he did relate well with others. [...]

[...] Beneath them, the apparent causes of limitations in personal life, there are other far-reaching beliefs, and each individual will use those elements in his private experience to back these up. [...]

[...] If he thinks he must pay for his sins now, then that belief will attract memory of those lives that will reinforce it; this will be highly organized recall, leaving out everything that does not apply.

[...] Now this could be an impression arising from his name or from the color of his hair. [...]

There is a certain protection (?) in his method. [...] Therefore he does not fear (?) them and his wings are not strong wings.

([Gene]: “Unless it is his intent to teach.”)

[...] He is right, but he is wrong in taking pleasure in his rightness. [...]

[...] You can become involved now in a new exploration, one in which man’s civilizations and organizations change their course, reflecting his good intents and his ideals. [...]

[...] To the end he stayed with his practice of giving book dictation on Wednesday evenings. Jane and I had expected him to finish his work soon, yet when the moment arrived we still felt a certain surprise, a certain nostalgic letdown: Something we’d counted upon as part of our weekly routine wouldn’t be there any more.

[...] If every reader of this book changed his or her attitudes, even though not one law was rewritten, tomorrow the world would have changed for the better. [...]

[...] “You’d better hurry up, though, ’cause he’s already got his next one planned. [...]

[...] Seth discussed many of his basic concepts, the wedding of the intellect and the intuitions, his reality and our camouflage physical one, Seth Two, language, myth, and so forth. [...]

[...] In the discussion of “primitive” and “civilized” man that followed, Warren presented his opinion that some civilizations, such as those of Babylonia, Egypt, the Incas, and so forth, had been founded by initiate groups from Atlantis⁴ … that while “primitive” man may have had a kind of gestalt consciousness, he had no individual consciousness. [...]

[...] To keep the discussion simple, I will answer you in reincarnational terms; but as Ruburt is discovering as he writes his Adventures in Consciousness,⁶ many more elements are involved.

Now, as Ruburt has also written in his Adventures — with some help from me now and then! [...]

Since the individual creates his own physical image to begin with, then there is nothing so strange about his creation of a pseudophysical body which is not so closely dependent upon the physical system. [...]

[...] For like a man walking a tightrope in his sleep, sudden awareness of such a feat could be disastrous, for the delicate balance necessary is not dependent upon egotistical awareness; and such awareness, without warning, could be highly detrimental.

[...] The experience is valuable to Ruburt in that he sees that no invasion is involved; and that when his emotions are stilled there is still an emotional reality, as my emotions come to the foreground.

[...] (Pause.) His seat three to five seats from an aisle, nearly but not quite in the center of a row of seats.