(I am right—meaning in accord with my own nature—when I “forget” each book as it is done... [...] Now this can be expected to some degree for a noncreative career; but it can damage creative activity; the need for creativity naturally is... [...]

(It was: distinguish between the natural and cultural or social world and assure myself I am safe in the natural world.

(To remind the subconscious of its love for the natural world and walking alone or with Rob; being out in the elements. [...]

[...] The probable system of reality opens up the nature of the soul to you. [...] For this reason, the nature of good and evil is a highly important point.

PROBABILITIES, THE NATURE OF GOOD AND
EVIL, AND RELIGIOUS SYMBOLISM

The chapter heading: “Probabilities, the Nature of Good and Evil, and Religious Symbolism.”

Now those who have such beliefs actually lack a necessary deep trust in the nature of consciousness, of the soul, and of All That Is. [...]

Since you both held those attitudes and saw those beliefs everywhere reinforced, naturally enough in your experience, then in the overall it would be most miraculously unusual if one of you did not physically retreat. Your nature allowed you to try. [...]

The body can find no firm stance in such a situation, for the artificial conditions blot out the natural realities of any given day. It is the duty and challenge of the conscious mind to ascertain cultural reality—but cultural reality cannot supersede natural reality. [...]

If you continue to understand your own attitudes, the entire problem of who to see or not to see will be taken care of easily and naturally. [...] That will also follow naturally.

He has been searching for a key of that nature, something about which he could rally his forces. [...]

His creative spontaneous self created the body to begin with, and all of its physical desires were precisely those that his creative abilities needed—a quickness of body and mind working together, a quick perception mentally and physically, a natural exhilaration that is supported by (underlined) the power, of his own nature.

[...] This means that I sidetrack —but not try to repress—those cultural and learned beliefs I’ve let rule my life in large measure, instead of following the natural, creative dictates of my first, or primary man. [...]

(My own activities, then, have aroused in Jane the urge to try the same approach, and I’ve suggested she think of her own women numbers 1 and 2. It seems that she confronts the same basic challenges I do, I told her, so she could delineate the two opposing portions of her personality well enough to understand that many of her cultural beliefs have been imposed upon her natural, spontaneous, free, creative self, and to such an extent that the acquired beliefs have turned into detriments rather than aids, that she envisioned as helping her obtain what she wants in life. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) You have always sensed more than you knew, both of you, so in that area Framework 2 has represented a natural affiliation with your conscious selves. [...]

[...] Each person is born, however, with his or her—let me correct that—each person is born there with a private natural religion—one that rises from the springs of the individual psyche, and one that provides an easy, custom-made method of dealing with inner and outer reality. It is important, therefore, that such persons rediscover their natural heritage, and put themselves in touch once more with this inner, natural “religion.” [...]

When this natural give-and-take continues, the individual is happy, healthy, And feels at one with the universe itself. Children possess this natural ease at a very early age. [...]

Each person has a unique, natural, native way of dealing with the universe, and of relating to inner and outer reality. [...]

[...] In many cases people forget (long pause) their native, natural method of seeing themselves and the world, and turn outward to the stylized version—and in so doing they lose sight of vital portions of their own identities. [...]

[...] It is a portion of your natural heritage. If you begin to concentrate upon the importance of the nature of thought, to become overly concerned with the processes involved with thinking or reasoning, then your very conscious concern would make those processes seem all the more complicated, while instead it is easy to see that those processes are quite naturally equipped to handle their own tasks with remarkable ease. [...]

All processes in nature are intelligent. [...] In a fashion, any one natural process carries within it the implied existence of all others. [...]

(10:17.) There are certain interior physical events that can happen within Ruburt’s body to help him move more naturally, but he cannot possibly consciously comprehend each change that must occur, and when viewed in that light the entire exercise seems so complicated as to be almost impossible. To the body, however, this is the kind of natural action it is always involved in, as it constantly rebuilds itself, maintains life, and it involves the body in work that it is indeed highly equipped to perform. [...]

(Long pause.) It is as if bits and pieces of any and all probable events exist in a jigsaw-like fashion throughout the minds of men, throughout the consciousnesses of plants and all natural things, wanting to be put together—and each individual consciousness has its part to play in directing which of those events occur or do not occur—but the processes involved in the formation of those events are hidden from the conscious mind. [...]

[...] If each of you understood and perceived the graceful integrity of your own individuality, just as you try to perceive the beauty of all other natural creatures, then you would allow your own creativity greater reign. There is order in all elements of nature, and you are a part of it.

Each of you is couched now in the natural world, and that world is couched in a reality from which nature emerges. [...]

(Long pause.) Nature is luxurious and abundant in its expressions. The greater reality from which nature springs is even more abundant, and within that multidimensional experience no individual is ignored, forgotten, dismissed, lost, or forsaken. [...]

Despite all appearances, conditions of an exterior nature do not cause wars, or poverty, or disease, or any of the unfortunate circumstances apparent in the world. [...]

[...] Ancient religions, for example, speak of nature’s spirits, and such terms represent memories dating from prehistory. Part of consciousness, then, transformed itself into what you think of as nature—the vast sweep of the continents, the oceans and the rivers, the mountains and the valleys, the body of the land. [...]

[...] And in a matter of speaking, again, man becomes the earth thinking, and thinking his own thoughts, man in his way specializes in the conscious work of the world—a work that is dependent upon the indispensable “unconscious” work of the rest of nature, a nature that sustains him (all very intently). And when he thinks, man thinks for the microbes, for the atoms and the molecules, for the smallest particles within his being, for the insects and for the rocks, for the creatures of the sky and the air and the oceans.

Man thinks as naturally as the birds fly. [...]

Dictation: Your scientists are beginning to understand man’s physical relationship with nature. The species is obviously a part of nature and not apart from it.

(10:20.) It is quite obvious that people must die — not only because otherwise you would overpopulate your world into extinction, but because the nature of consciousness requires new experience, challenge, and accomplishment. This is everywhere apparent in nature itself. [...]

[...] From that atmosphere flows the natural earthly patterns from which your seasons emerge with all of their variety and effects. You are never victims of natural disasters, though it may seem that you are, for you have your hand in forming them. [...]

(Long pause.) Natural disasters represent an understandably prejudiced concept, in which the vast creative and rejuvenating elements important to planetary life, and therefore to mankind, are ignored. [...]

In the world as you know it, it is quite natural to feel sad, or even despondent at times. [...] These are not negative states on their own, any more than twilight is less natural than dawn. [...] It is natural, then, to feel depressed at times. [...] There are gradations and nuances of feeling and sensation that sweep through your own experience, the result of quite natural variations. [...]

It is natural and healthy to yearn for a comfortable body if you are in health difficulties. [...] All of nature is responsive, pliant, changing, each part connected with each other part. It is quite natural, then, that during a lifetime you experience various assorted periods of temporary illness.

[...] The individual may realize that his or her pace has been too fast, and so natural feelings bring about a lethargy of body, or a slight fever, or an indisposition—all quite natural, resilient activities. [...] A reliance and faith in the natural self, however, would be large enough to accept certain indispositions without fear, panic, or doubt. [...]

Now: you can depress the body and the mind through certain drugs, destroying that great natural resiliency. [...]

[...] The evil animal was the natural predator, for example. It would help here if the reader remembers what has been said about natural guilt earlier in this book. [...]

In terms of simple biological function, you now had a species no longer completely dependent upon instinct, yet still with all the natural built-in desires for survival, and the appearance within it of a mind able to make decisions and distinctions.

It was only natural that certain experiences would seem better than others, but the species’ new abilities made it necessary that sharp distinctions be made. [...]

[...] At the same time members of the species had to cope with the natural environment as did any other animal. [...]

[...] There is no doubt at my level that use of the approach can clear up Ruburt’s difficulties naturally and easily. [...] It opens your options, enlarges your vista of comprehension, so that the difficulties themselves are simply no longer as important—and vanish from your experience in, again, a more natural manner (all intently). [...]

(Long pause at 9:37.) In a fashion, all of the material that I have given you in the annals of our relationship was meant to lead you in one way or another to a place where the true nature of reality could at least be glimpsed. [...] In religious terms you begin to glimpse a promised land—a “land” of psyche and reality that represents unimpeded nature (again all intently. [...]

(With pauses:) Ruburt is truly beginning to understand that the Magical Approach is indeed the natural approach to life’s experience. [...]

Some mountain climbers, when asked why they climb a certain peak, respond “because the mountain is there to be climbed,” so the natural approach, the magical approach, is to be used because it exists—and because it represents an open doorway into a world of reality that is always present, always at the base of all of your cultures and experience. [...]

As I mentioned, a desire that is fitting to your nature automatically in Framework 2 collects all of the resources necessary to bring about its fulfillment in Framework 1. Because the desire is one fitting to an individual nature, it is also fitting in with the overall purposes of nature in general, so that the desire also attracts the limitless resources that are behind nature’s own majesty and power.

The individual is working with his nature, and with nature in general, rather than against it. This causes a transforming reorganization of energy, thought, and creativity—a vast transforming process, for behind the individual is the entire good intent of nature, which springs from the resources of Framework 2.

You will indeed continue to have other experiences with Framework 2, some of a most significant and quite noticeable nature. [...]

[...] They point clearly to the nature of physical events. [...]

[...] If you do not like your experience, then you must change the nature of your conscious thoughts and expectations. [...]

You may finally come to a half-understanding of the nature of reality and wail, “I believe that I have caused these ill effects, but I find myself unable to reverse them.”

Man has been endowed, and has endowed himself, with a conscious mind to direct the nature, shape and form of his creations. [...]

[...] In a manner of speaking, then, the picture of nature is painted by its own consciously vital, esthetic portions. Each portion of nature is also equipped to react to changing conditions, and therefore deals with its own kind of predictive behavior, so that it can grow today into tomorrow’s condition.

[...] They are a part of the esthetics of nature itself. [...]

[...] I am saying, therefore that even insects have an esthetic sense, and again, that each creature, and each plant, or natural entity, has its own sense of value fulfillment, seeking the greatest possible fulfillment and extension of its own innate abilities.

Nature always works with probabilities. [...]

[...] You are both in a good period of transition, and Willy is showing you the nature of healing. You have added to the nature of his consciousness, but then so has he added, in his way, to the nature of yours.

To some extent Ruburt does still set up barriers, when for example Tam comes, but that in its way is all right—a part of his nature. [...]

[...] This lets us briefly examine the nature of our consciousness by allowing us to view its products — the events and experiences that it creates when released from usual physical focus.

[...] Clues as to our creativity and the nature of our existence can be found there and from it emerges the organizational qualities of normal consciousness as we know it.

The nature of this book also meant that the Seth material was chosen exactly because it related to subjective experiences such as dreams and consciousness. [...]

I wanted to show the direction in which we were moving since our first experiences with interior events of this nature, and also generally provide guidelines for others who may wish to do their own investigations. [...]

[...] Used Seth’s Natural data stuff to good advantage. [...] Remembered James, I guess,/ and return to natural data; asked for help from supernatural force working through nature and then concentrated on the TV while eating. [...]

Think instead, “This is a natural talent I have, and it is natural that it appeals to others, and as I have an abundance of talent, so shall it bring me abundance. It will help others, and it is natural that it help me.”

It was only your idea that this was not natural that prevented you from using your abilities fully. Ruburt thought it was natural for him to become ill because of his background, and to overreact for the same reason. He thought it was natural for him to be afraid of life because his mother was.

You thought it was natural and inevitable because of your background that you should not have money, even that you should be a loner for the same reason, and deny yourself natural companionship. [...]

You did not want to give of yourself to the world because you felt that this was a natural reaction, picked up from your father. [...] When you realize that health and abundance are natural, and illness and limitation unnatural, then you are free, free to develop, to use what you have, to give and take.

[...] Spontaneity itself has its own rhythm, with needed periods of rest that follow naturally. These natural rhythms are disrupted when such tampering occurs.

[...] This is natural for the personality. [...]

[...] The spontaneous elements of his nature, as you know, frightened him, since others gave him dire warnings as to possible consequences.

The daily working methods allow for the natural and periodic use and release of both aspects of the personality. [...]