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[...] In that utopian society man would be free from restraints and could unify his intellect and intuitions. [...] We speculated about the inevitable contradictions that would emerge should man ever manage to achieve such an “ideal” state, or society — for, given, his always restless and creative nature, he’d immediately start changing his supposed utopia. [...]

[...] One visitor, a man from another part of the country, began to speak about the state of the nation, largely condemning all of his countrymen and women for their greed and stupidity. [...]

[...] A lively discussion resulted, but no countering opinion could enter this man’s mind. [...]

A young man from a nearby town came here recently — a highly gifted, intelligent young person. [...]

[...] (Eyes closed; Jane gestured as though attempting to understand.) I believe to someone else beside the man and his wife—the man, or his wife.

The dream of which the man spoke to Ruburt had some clairvoyant elements in it, but the time of the woman’s death is not in the immediate (underlined) future.

[...] Pause.) There is no basic contradiction between the man’s ideas and those orthodox ones followed by his wife. [...]

The man may have more on his hands, you see, than he does now. [...]

[...] It contains many intriguing ideas — as, for example: “A tree knows a human being also … [yet it] does not even build up an image of a man, which is why this is so difficult to explain … And the same tree will recognize the same man who passes it by each day.”

Why should another man know better than you what is within your own consciousness? [...]

[...] Its knowledge is beyond the wisdom of any man or woman alive! [...]

[...] One portion of her wants to be dominant; the other portion looks to you as a man, and there you fail her, because you refuse to assert the independence that is your nature. [...]

[...] No man is sent accidentally, and innocently, off to war. [...]

[...] Man came forth as a creature of distinctions. [...]

[...] Yet the serpent would always mystify and attract man, even though he must stand upon its head, symbolically speaking, and rise from its knowledge.

[...] Man became the caretaker.

[...] A man, sometimes mustached, brown hair and mustache, in the prime of life. [...] Likes to walk on Saturdays or Sundays, a walking man in any case. [...]

Now, my dear young man. [...]

[...] (Eyes closed, smiling, Jane leaned toward Pete.) Now, my dear young man, quite innocently, you have made an early and understandable error. [...]

There is a storm in the past, a physical storm, in which this man loses some animals. [...]

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[...] Yet in the physical framework there is a constant intermixing, so that the cells of a man or a woman may become the cells of a plant or an animal,⁴ and of course vice versa. [...]

[...] Few of you ever imagine a conscious reptilian man. [...]

[...] In some quarters it is fashionable these days to say that man’s consciousness is now an element in a new kind of evolution — but that “new consciousness” has always been inherent. [...]

[...] He is trying to get definite answers from a man who does not seem able to give them. The man is taller than Dr. Instream, somewhat younger, but not in the same department at the university.

He made a trip to his office, and spoke briefly with one man there. [...]

[...] In many ways it is more true than historic fact, for man himself created that which had not been provided. [...]

This was as close as man could come in his imagination to that which is, and this is all right. [...]

[...] In stating that the universe is an accidental creation, however, a meaningless chance conglomeration formed by an unfeeling cosmos, it states quite clearly its belief that the universe and man’s existence has no value. All that remains is what pleasure or accomplishment can somehow be wrested from man’s individual biological processes.

(9:58.) A recent article in a national magazine speaks “glowingly” about the latest direction of progress in the field of psychology, saying that man will realize that his moods, thoughts, and feelings are the result of the melody of chemicals that swirl in his brain. That statement devalues man’s subjective world.

Now those beliefs separate man from his own nature.¹ He cannot trust himself — for who can rely upon the accidental bubblings of hormones and chemicals that somehow form a stew called consciousness (louder and quite ironic) — an unsavory brew at best, so the field of science will forever escape opening up into any great vision of the meaning of life. [...]

[...] You spent 41 years there, a slim man. [...] Richita (or Wichita?—my phonetic interpretation.) An Indian name… a war that is not Indian against white man, but Indian and white man against Indian and white man. [...]

(Jane, as Seth, again pointed to Lydia.) His daughter then marrying a man called Lines, a merchant. [...]

7. All in Volume 1: Seth refers to some varieties of ancient man in Session 689 (also see Note 4), and in Session 691 after 10:30. Then see Appendix 6 for Jane’s material on parallel man, alternate man, and probable man.

I am speaking in your historical terms because before the historical system that you recognize, man had indeed experimented with these other directions, and with some success. This does not mean that man in the present has fallen from some higher spiritual achievement to his current state.

[...] Man has not driven himself down a blind alley, in other words. [...]

[...] Let us look at some of those other directions that are native to man’s consciousness, still waiting to be used effectively.

[...] It does not build up the image of a man, but it builds up a composite sensation which represents, say, a given individual. And the tree will recognize the same man who passes it by each day.

Man’s ego causes him to interpret everything else in light of himself. [...] So should man’s ego be.

[...] Without the conscious mind of man it nevertheless retains this inner consciousness of all its parts, above and below the ground, and manipulates them constantly.

[...] Man needs artifical methods to operate effectively on land or in water, but the so-called unconscious tree manages nicely in two worlds as diverse, certainly, as land and water, and makes itself a part of each.

Now, in politics and religion, (Prime Minister) Begin believes it much more practical to deal with the Sinful Self and its “evil prerogatives” than he does with the better self that may indeed represent “the Son of God in man.” He is not waiting around, therefore, by relying upon or overrelying upon, in his view, man’s good intent. [...]

[...] In a fashion that particular approach, for all of its reliance upon “sorcery,” is not actually true to the magical approach at all, because it insists so fervently upon the impediments that stand in man’s way, and stresses the importance of rituals and methods, and the almost superhuman effort that is required (pause) in order to meet the “magical ends.” [...]

The system does not practically approach any lively sympathy for the masses of mankind, or any particular understanding of the more mundane events that mark man’s daily ways. [...]

[...] Only one man is for doing anything, and this man is not the man whom Philip suspects. He is not, this man is not, in as strong a position as the man whom Philip suspects.

[...] A more complicated, involved, intricate physical organization, such as man, necessitates on the part of the whole self a tremendous outlay of energy for maintenance of the psychic-(hyphen) physical structural relationship.

[...] Since man is aware subconsciously of a heritage for which he ever seeks, and yet which for many reasons he cannot grasp while in the physical state, he must know and not know, and there is a strain here that no fish or bird or worm experiences. [...]

Because of the fact that bad weather has often saved man from wars in the very early stages of human development, man misconstrued this to mean that sacrifice to the elements could save him from calamities of this kind. [...]

It is really necessary that the young man get a dwelling place away from his family, and in one respect, the attack involving the lungs represented an attempt to put off responsibility. [...]

[...] Incidentally, if I may make a side note in response to a question you voiced, Joseph, during break: Loren was three times a man.

(Talking about distortions during last break, I had been reminded that many sessions ago Jane-Seth had stated first that [my brother] Loren had been three times a woman, then three times a man in a following session. [...]

[...] 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. [...] I thought the other voice belonged to an older man with glasses and white hair, though I did not see this person. [...]

The other man is interested also in music. [...] The man also has a dog.

There is a connection with the man and a foreign country. [...] Some distant connection with the man and Milan, and a parent with an unusual occupation.

[...] The young man whose face you saw is someone much like yourself, as far as personal characteristics and temperament are concerned.

[...] For those of you who need it said, I say it: A woman is as intellectual as a man. A man is as intuitive as a woman. [...]

[...] A woman or a man? [...]

[...] Bill watched such a man from just outside the guest house. [...] Bill watched this man each morning; he noticed the man because he wore a suit and hat as though for business, instead of the usual tourist attire. [...]

[...] Bill clearly remembers a white man, at least 60 years old by his estimate, who stood next to him at the roulette table at the casino. Bill noticed that the man wore three rings on his fingers; he thought this quite unusual.”)

(Peggy quite clearly recalls a man with such a handkerchief in his breast pocket. [...] She cannot recall however whether this man was also the cameraman. [...]

(Today Jane read all day, finishing up J. B. Priestley’s book, Man and Time, which she liked very much. [...]

[...] A man may suddenly disappear, and to be replaced by a small girl, a nonsensical development to the logical mind. Yet the girl could be the form of the man’s previous or future reincarnated self.

[...] He may see the form of the man who originated the thought of the building. [...]

[...] The form of a man for example, may be a thought form, or fragment sent quite unconsciously by another individual whom it resembles. [...]

[...] In such concepts any natural goodness, or natural intent in man becomes not only invisible psychologically to the fanatic, but man’s natural nature appears as a direct threat to the ideal projected by dogma of any kind.

I said before that no man acts out of the desire to be evil, but has always justified to himself his actions precisely by his own “good” intent. [...]

When ideals are set more or less artificially, greatly divorced from man’s nature, he cannot begin to live up to them. [...]