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Further improvements are taking place in Ruburt’s body of an exciting nature, and I am delighted with the progress that both of you are making. [...]
([Theodore:] “About problems, I’m wondering whether to make a distinction between a problem which is a personal thing in nature that we must solve on our own, and a problem that is not so personally oriented but community oriented where the decision you have affects someone else and can be a wrong solution. [...]
What the material tells you about the nature of your own reality is the closest you can come now to an approximation of the truth. [...]
In later years it’s become impossible for me to close my eyes to the multiple pressing differences that exist between Seth’s explanation of the nature of reality, and of our own private experience of it. [...]
If life has such great potentials, as Seth maintains, if it began—and begins (and continues to begin) at such rich creative and productive levels—then why did our experience so often make it seem that we struggled against unknowing or uncaring cosmic forces, or that we were at the most so ignorant of our own source and creativity that our hands were tied, or that we were forever shut off from our natural heritage?
[...] The return to the natural moment can be used quite effectively, but not if you constantly reinforce your lacks of confidence.
[...] When people form even dreams about other lives, they often draw upon the picture books of history, and there is no such heritage of a cultural nature with which they can flesh out any dreams of future lives.
[...] It would not have added to his health for example either, for he listened to his body so acutely that natural healings followed as he sought from nature what his body needed. [...]
[...] He felt so at one with the land, he and his body, that “a conscious knowledge of it,” it in your terms not only would have inhibited his identification with nature, but his agility within it.
Certain strains were involved that in one way were as natural as growing pains. This has nothing to do with so-called psychic phenomena, but the natural growth and development of a personality whenever it tries to go beyond its space and time context, and takes on challenges of such a nature.
[...] Such activity automatically alters the nature of time in your experience, and is indicative of intersections of your consciousness with another kind of consciousness. [...]
[...] His material is also an extension of much that he gave in the 679th session for Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality, when he discussed the early background of the probable Jane who chose to live in this physical reality, and how that Jane began to contend with her strongly mystical nature. [...]
2. Just as he talks here about the surface nature of our travel, in Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality Seth had a similar observation to make about our ideas of time; see the 688th session after 10:26: “Again, you live on the surface of the moments, with no understanding of the unrecognized and unofficial realities that lie beneath.”
(I do remember that I briefly wondered, as I fell asleep, if the experience reflected a quite natural concern over the moon-landing’s potential hazards.
[...] And conflicts of beliefs, as well as other conventionalized concepts that quite override your natural love of physical bodily activity.
[...] When you began to expand your ideas of reality, you naturally attached them to goals that you held earlier, and tried to make them fit. [...]
[...] Yet you have a nature that demands that you produce it.
[...] Until his own understanding of his nature and the nature of consciousness progressed, he needed those tactics.
The expansions of consciousness on Ruburt’s part did involve some natural feelings of disorientation with his body and the world, that all in all were handled supremely well.
He finds himself naturally wanting grains such as rice and cereals, and has a yearning for potatoes, baked. [...]
[...] The psyche’s grandeur is ignored, the individual’s sense of belonging with nature eroded, for it is at nature’s expense, it seems, that he must survive. [...]
There are intellectual values and emotional ones, and sometimes there are needs of an emotional nature that must be met regardless of intellectual judgments. [...]
(Pause.) It was in many respects a new world, for it was the first one in which large portions of humanity believed that they were isolated from nature and God, and in which no grandeur was acknowledged as a characteristic of the soul. [...]
[...] These in turn trigger other cellular changes, again of a beneficial nature.
[...] He just wanted to watch television and forget it all, and hidden in that crankiness is a good point: The sessions are an expression of your private and joint curiosity, a high and excellent curiosity about the nature of reality, a result of your desire to know; to know whether or not the knowledge can be held in your hands like a fruit, whether or not the knowledge can be dosed out to an ailing world as medicine.
And: “The magical approach takes it for granted that the human being is a united creature, fulfilling purposes in nature even as the animals do, whether or not those purposes are understood. [...] The magical approach takes it for granted that the means for development are within each individual, and that fulfillment will happen naturally. [...]
[...] Given our present ideas about the limitless nature of consciousness, we think our joint quest has been underway since before our births—by choice—and we expect it to continue for the rest of our physical lives. [...]
[...] Hook up those two factors with the quite natural concern that at least some events in any life to come will inevitably be unpleasant, or worse, and we have at least three powerful restraints, or psychic blocks, inhibiting awareness of future lives. [...]
[...] Reactions which you would have accepted as natural in the past, you now accept as being unfavorable, as they are. [...]
[...] You have noticed, I am sure, also, that Ruburt’s reactions are of a more steady nature.
Something in the nature of a fabric with a wooden framework I believe, for our object. [...]
[...] For some reason however there seems to be better chances in his ESP card experiments, though not of as spectacular nature as those earlier achieved. [...]
[...] A person “cured” of bad symptoms then through conventional medicine might actually be interrupting a natural movement toward a larger overall health, by dismissing the particular annoying symptoms that serve as chosen reference points.
It is indeed quite time for us to discuss the true nature and reality of what is so loosely called suggestion. [...]
This first attempt to discover the problem, automatically and because of its nature, immediately aids the sufferer in changing the focus of his attention away from the symptom, which he has himself formed, and already the symptom is weaker.
We ourselves will be concerned for a while with the nature of suggestion in its relationship to action. [...]