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[...] You want to be cautious, yet you want to find out what there is about the nature of reality and in this implied bargain you are the one who will make the inroads or seem to go ahead to have the freedom and spontaneity to do so. [...] Now at this time, it seems too much to bear both at the same, and so our friend here is being the critical one for you and then you can free yourself for this trance work knowing that any questions of a critical nature that you might have will be asked by her and, therefore, you will feel free to go ahead. [...]
It was not in the nature of a surprise to me, although I did find your reactions amusing. [...]
They represent a more or less true account of the nature of your camouflage universe, but if they are understood as being limited to your camouflage environment only, then your scientists would not attempt to use them as yardsticks to measure other universes.
The nature of basic reality is known according to the degree to which it is directly experienced, and it can only be directly experienced through the use of the inner senses. [...]
[...] Only through the use of the intuitions and in sleep and dream states, as a rule, can you perceive the joyfully changing nature of your own, and any, consciousness.
Now, many of these freedoms are quite natural to you in the dream state, and you form dream environments often to exercise such potentials. [...]
When you showed impatience with his progress it was sometimes a natural impatience, and sometimes Nebene’s dissatisfaction with a student who should, with those abilities, do better. [...]
[...] Ruburt as a child was highly mystical, and also overly conscientious and overdemanding of himself, and afraid of his own spontaneity and natural appetites.
This deprived Ruburt of the deeply-rooted sense of inner natural unity when he began to rationalize this or examine it intellectually; he already questioned it, and the questioning was on the part of the overly conscientious self. [...]
Many natural abortions are caused when the new personality is having difficulty constructing the new form, projects to others for advice, and is advised not to return.
There has been a breakthrough in those beliefs since the session on muscles; and for him naturally the spring, like the autumn, offers him optimum conditions for improvement in all areas.
About the tests in general, Seth said: “I was teaching him, and I went along with his natural interests and inclinations. [...] In extrasensory perception—as in so-called normal perception—the natural inclinations of the personality dictate the kind of information that will be sought from any available field of data.
[...] Now it is true, generally speaking, that material of an emotional nature actually has a stronger vitality and is easier to perceive. [...]
[...] So we used this tendency here to enlarge the picture and bring in further details that gave you rather respectable data … and in a way that was fairly natural to Rubert.”
[...] Even though I didn’t do a very good job, we learned something about the nature of perception, which was Seth’s intent. [...]
Now those tendencies are not natural to the intellect, but only appear when it is forced to operate in such an isolated fashion — isolated not only in time and space, but psychologically isolated from other portions of the personality that are meant to bring it additional information that it does not possess, and a kind of magical support.
[...] The rationality that you accept is then but one small clue as to the spontaneous inner rationality that is a part of each natural person.
[...] Coupled with this is the idea that magic, as we call it, reflects a basic part of our natural mental equipment and abilities, but that our present course of action, our focusing upon the material and the intellectual — the ‘reasonable’ portions of our psyche — has created artificial divisions, in which magic seems quite ‘unreasonable’ or unreal. [...]
Before we can really study the nature of health or illness, we must first understand human consciousness and its relationship with the body.