The mature adolescent, even, in his mental and emotional framework, knows that no one male deity, no one super individual, exists in some well-insulated heaven, where he yet is personally concerned with the most intimate affairs of man, mice, mosquito, and sparrow.

[...] How many stars will man explore before this archaic heaven be found?

[...] It may not have occurred, in one place and in one time, and to one called Christ; but because man has created the myth, he created the Crucifixion out of his own need; and this Crucifixion, which historically did not occur, as the myth says it occurred, nevertheless has as much reality, and more, than it would have had, had it occurred in so-called hard fact.

[...] The myth insists that a God exists, and the intelligent man finds himself in a dilemma that does not exist for the unintelligent. [...]

[...] By masses, Seth said he meant the man in the street. [...] Seth agreed, but said the evidence might convince scientists and investigators long before it convinced the average man, who knows little about such things now.

[...] 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.

[...] We have received a limited amount of data on the Boston lives, and are not sure of our personal relationship, except that we were not man and wife. [...]

[...] 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.

Some pessimistic scientists would say: “Of course,” for man and animal alike are driven by their instincts, and man’s claim to free will is no more than an illusion.

I have not touched upon some of these subjects before, since I wanted to present them in that larger context of man’s origins and historic appearance as a species. [...]

[...] We are dealing with natural, direct cognition as it exists before and after (pause) man’s experience with the reasoning mind.

THE PRIVATE PROBABLE MAN, THE PRIVATE PROBABLE WOMAN, THE SPECIES IN PROBABILITIES, AND BLUEPRINTS FOR REALITIES

— to be called (pause): “The Private Probable Man, the Private Probable Woman, the Species in Probabilities, and Blueprints for Realities.”

[...] En masse, in your terms, the same is true of the race of man. [...]

[...] In the 686th session he referred to “official data” when he considered ancient man’s selection of certain mental and biological pulses as physical reality; later in the same session, he used the self-explanatory “official history.” [...]

[...] Connection with a man also. With you and another man, and some connection with the date 1 1492, perhaps leading to an historical event.

(“Connection with a man also. With you and another man," Some distortion develops here, but we think this legitimate data. [...]

(4th Question: Who is the other man referred to besides myself? [...] Of course I was involved with another man, and this involvement Seth picked up—since my drawing was appropriated by Larry Keck, as noted on the object.

(“Who is the other man referred to besides myself?”)

The earlier episode involving the man (the same evening), is something different. The man was dying. [...] Instead the man’s fears reminded Ruburt of his own, and he became sidetracked into the production of the other.

(Pause.) The man had a connection with Poughkeepsie (NY). [...] It was a man Ruburt knew in the past, and considered evil. [...]

The man may have been Ruburt’s Father Doren. If not there is quite a psychological connection between the man who died and this Father Doren in Ruburt’s mind.

[...] The energy behind the thing was the energy of hidden fears, but such a thing could be formed by anyone, for there are fears in every man. [...]

man has ever seen

between the gods and man,

Instead of promoting the idea of man’s inner worth, it has taught people to distrust the inner self and its manifestations. Most churches preach a dogma that stresses concepts of the sinful self, and sees man as a creature contaminated by original sin even before birth.

(Long pause.) Since ancient times religion has tried to help man understand the nature of his own subjective reality — but religion has its own dark side, and for this reason religion unfortunately has fostered fear of the spontaneous.

[...] In this dogma man needs to apologize for his birth, and the conditions of life are seen as a punishment set by God upon his erring creatures. [...]

[...] One man has recently been on a long trip. The light-haired man.

The man who does not realize his basic independence from the physical system will not have the same freedom within it.

[...] This second man wears glasses. [...]

[...] The dark-haired man wears glasses.

[...] The man who was to have been your father left. [...]

[...] Lingering within the man you call your father there was always the sense of the unfinished. [...]

[...] The man you call your father is happier now than he has ever been.

[...] (Pause.) The main energy of the man you call your father left long ago, as I told you. [...]

[...] Few would agree, however, that you can learn more about the nature of the universe by examining your own creativity than you can by examining the world through instruments — and here is exquisite irony, for you create the instruments of creativity, even while at the same time you often spout theories that deny to man all but the most mechanical of reactions.

[...] This is not anywhere meant to justify the cruel slaughtering of animals by man under many circumstances.

[...] Because of news reports and my own negative thinking today, I was filled with rage, actually, about what appeared to be the generally chaotic state of the world of man. [...]

[...] You chose “this” probable reality in order to ask certain questions about the nature of man — seeing him where he wavered equally between creativity and destruction, knowledge and ignorance; but a point that contained potentials for the most auspicious kinds of development, in your eyes. [...]

It is fashionable in your time to consider man as the product of the brain and an isolated bit of the subconscious, with a few other odds and ends thrown in for good measure. Therefore, with such an unnatural division, it seems to man that he does not know himself.

If man does not know who breathes within him, and if man does not know who dreams within him, it is not because there is one self who acts in the physical universe and another who dreams and breathes. [...]

[...] Man has admitted only those things he could see, smell, touch or hear; and in so doing, he could only appreciate half of himself. [...]

Man, for example, trusts himself much more when he says ‘I will read,’ and then he reads, than he does when he says, ‘I will see,’ and then he sees. [...]

Before that time man did believe that he could affect matter and the environment through his thoughts. With the Industrial Revolution, however, even the elements of nature lost their living quality in man’s eyes. [...]

[...] (Pause.) The followers of this belief consider the conscious mind in such derogatory terms that it almost seems to be a supercilious cancer that sprouted like a growth upon man’s psyche-impeding rather than aiding his progress and understanding.

You do not dissect a pet cat or dog, so when man began to dissect the universe in those terms he had already lost his sense of love for it. [...]

[...] And so when man learned to categorize, number and dissect nature, he lost its living quality and no longer felt a part of it. [...]

When you kill a man, most of you believe that you have killed him forever. [...] In the dawn of history, in the dawn before history began, man changed form. [...]

[...] The man who killed him believes he has killed a man, and ended consciousness forever and blotted out for eternity something that existed for a very brief time. [...]

[...] But because you do believe that you can murder a man, then murder does exist within your system, and you must deal with it. [...]

[...] “Why couldn’t I have known when I was a young man about my abilities, and how best to use them?” Think of yourself as a young man using them, and you will automatically be free of many hampering concepts in your work.

(“I think also of a meeting and a fat man.” [...] This man engaged John in conversations designed to feel him out, John said, and did it so cleverly that the meeting in Cleveland was over before he fully realized what had taken place. [...] John said his own idea of a “fat” man is one who is grossly overweight; this Mr. McKeown is not, even though on the heavy side.

(“And in connection with this a tall thin man, and a discussion concerning money.” John said he accompanied a tall thin man to the Hotel Manger’s dining room, which is located next to the bar and grill. The tall thin man also has a position high up in the company, John said. [...]

[...] I think also of a meeting and a fat man.

[...] And in connection with this a tall thin man, and a discussion concerning money.

[...] Man was more aware of his dreams and so-called unconscious activity.

It is only because civilized man has somewhat overspecialized in the use of one kind of knowledge over another that people fear the unconscious, spontaneous portions of the self. [...]

(Long pause.) These attitudes may be reflected in rather simple compulsive actions: the woman who cleans the house endlessly, whether it needs it or not; the man who will follow certain precise, defined routes of activity — driving down certain streets only to work; washing his hands much more frequently than other people; the person who constantly buttons and unbuttons a sweater or vest. [...]

Nature and the inner nature of man are both seen to contain savage, destructive forces against which civilization and the reasoning mind must firmly stand guard.

[...] If a man could actually focus upon those unrecognized elements in the physical universe upon which no agreements can be reached, if he could focus upon the dissimilarities rather than the similarities, then he would wonder what gave anyone the idea that there was even one physical object upon which man could agree.

[...] An old man beside me was also about to die. [...] I helped the old man out of his body and kept telling him that everything was all right.

“Many concepts and practical inventions simply wait in the dream system in abeyance until some man accepts them as possibilities within the physical frame of reality. … Imagination is waking man’s connection with the dream system. [...]

[...] On one level the knowledge was available to the man himself. [...] While it was not the most suitable solution, it was the closest man could come at that particular time in physical reality. [...]

(Pause.) In your terms man is of course still learning, and as he set up barriers between lands and formed separate nations, so he also set up divisions between aspects of his own consciousness and awareness, in his terms, so he could deal with them one at a time. [...]

[...] Your impulses, intuitions, and creative abilities have always innately provided open channels of communication through which man was guided toward those probable actions most beneficial to his private reality—and those actions would automatically, again, add to the best probable reality for the species as well. [...]

[...] What sperm first knew itself different, knowing it would mature—if it did as a man instead of an ape? [...]

There were some species of man before there were some species of ape. [...]

But this is not the only reason that one man has an ulcer and the other man has none, for we are involved here with characteristic reactions and with habits that have been engraved within each personality since last physical birth, and before. [...]

[...] They will want a man who is sincere. They will also want a man who can lead. [...]

[...] That man, for all his seeming outwardness, fears to relate himself in a basic manner toward the outside environment.

[...] But one of our salesman has an ulcer and the other man does not. [...]