By now, I was standing with my back to my body, and I just ‘fell’ backward into it. [...] I walked out to the center of the room which now was perfectly normal, but had difficulty walking and remembered that in my case, at least, this sometimes happens when I’m close to my body. [...]

[...] Right then, Sue Mullin [later Carl’s wife] now appeared, out of thin air. [...] We talked for some time, but now I can’t remember the conversation. [...]

[...] Of course I didn’t. From now on, I will hereby install a pen point in the end of my nose and sleep with my head on a writing table.

[...] Now, so strong is this tendency for vitality to change from one apparent form to another, that what you have here in your flying saucers is something that is actually, as you view it, not of your plane nor of the plane of its origin. [...] Now as this enters your plane a distortion occurs. [...]

(“Seth, why do Jane’s eyes appear to be darker and more luminous now, when she’s delivering your messages? [...]

(By now Jane’s voice had begun to grow somewhat deeper and louder.)

(Notes: Today Jane called Tam about the continuing hassles over the disclaimer for Mass Events, and learned several important things—among them that the legal department is now “drafting” a letter to us, explaining their position in the matter. [...] Many of these have been derogatory; we now plan to ask Tam for the names of the individual board members, and we want to learn how to write to them to be sure they personally receive our messages. [...]

[...] I personally resent a great deal the poor connotations that now have attached themselves to Mass Events; if the material has any validity, this has happened, and would be picked up by readers, even if counterbalanced by other good feelings. [...]

[...] Jane has God of Jane and her book of poetry well in the works now, and both involve Mass Events, or material in it. [...]

Comment: now: for all of the fanatic’s display of energy, he feels basically powerless. [...]

[...] In those terms, now, there is an open forum, and within it you make your own reality. [...]

[...] I am speaking now of this particular group. [...]

[...] But certainly most of you are united in the seemingly irrefutable belief that you are definitely alive now, and not dead. [...]

(Amused:) On the other hand, dead people do not usually write books either — now do they?

Now in the dream state, you suddenly become aware on occasion of greater perspective. [...]

[...] Now theirs, the offices of government, the wealth. [...]

[...] You will not “glimpse eternal life” by attempting to deny the life that you have now — for that life is your own unique path, and provides its own clues for you to follow.

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

[...] Now I realize that while I was priding myself on my open-mindedness, my mental flexibility extended only to ideas that fit in with my own preconceptions. Now I know that human personality has a far greater reality than we are usually prepared to give it. [...]

I don’t mean to imply that I feel myself entirely released from every worry and fear, only that I now know we do have the freedom to change ourselves and our environment, and that in a very basic manner, we ourselves form the environment to which we then react. I believe that we form our own reality—now, and after death.

[...] He had thrown my glasses to the floor in a quick characteristic gesture, yet now I scrutinized each student with sharp, clear focus. [...]

[...] This pattern has persisted for a number of days now. “How can you be more uncomfortable now, when the bedsores are healing, than you used to be?” I asked some time ago. [...]

Now, I bid you another fond good afternoon.

I may return briefly, but in any case I do now activate those coordinates that do increase feelings of self-love, exuberance, and well-being.

[...] I asked her now to dictate to me exactly what she wanted me to record: “Now he’s telling us that to take conscious control of your beliefs and life and everything does involve a new manipulation of consciousness, where I’d been knocking my guts out thinking it should be something you can do real easy. [...] “Like now he’s saying ‘Well, there are a few difficulties involved,’ where before it all seemed so easy. [...]

Now give us a moment.... [...]

YOUR MULTIDIMENSIONAL REALITY IN THE NOW OF YOUR BEING.

(12:01.) Now: Section 2: “Parallel Man, Alternate Man, and Probable Man,” colon: “The Reflection of These in the Present, Private Psyche.” [...]

(Pause.) Separated from that — that is one heading — the next heading: “Your Multidimensional Reality in the Now of Your Being.”

(Now here is the reply Roger wrote to Jane on December 21, 1968, after he’d studied sessions 449 and 450. [...]

(A note: as of now my original single and/or double spaced typewritten record of the Seth material is 4,636 pages long. [...]

[...] I guess I’d rather learn more about that right now,” Rob said.

Now, as Seth, I shoved the board aside and began to dictate:

[...] I hope to make this clearer to you, but it involves part of a larger concept for which you do not now have the proper background. [...]

[...] Now it becomes more resilient.

[...] It is a natural recovery, a natural development in response to Ruburt’s intense desire now to be responsive.

[...] She now amazed me by saying that she now thought she understood that if she turned her focus away from her symptoms toward Prentice, say, or any other “outside” entity or situation, that she could improve physically by giving her body the freedom to do so. [...]

[...] The expected call came as I finished reading to Jane at breakfast time—but it wasn’t from Tam: Ethel Waters apologized for the fact that now Mass Events has been delayed until May 19, or just possibly only May 4. Mass Events and God of Jane are now due to be published in the same month. [...]

(Because of our changed schedule, Jane had gone to the john only twice by supper time, whereas I’d envisioned at least three visits to that abode for her by now. [...]

Now:

[...] Now to some extent it was that poor, unhappy Sinful Self, a psychological structure formed by beliefs and feelings, that was also seeking its own redemption, since even it had outgrown the framework that so defined it. [...]

In the light of this discussion, now, that self was as unrealistic at its end of the spectrum as the Sinful Self was at the other, for Ruburt felt that he was supposed to demonstrate a certain kind of superhuman feat, not only managing on occasion to uncover glimpses of man’s greater abilities, but to demonstrate these competently at the drop of a hat, willingly at the request of others. [...]

Now. [...]

[...] As identity is strengthened through experience then it automatically expands itself to add further realities which it is now able to manipulate.

We will now take our break.

[...] Now Ruburt, again, suspects strongly that my remark concerning my hope that this material be read throughout the world is the result of some inhibited egomania on his part. [...]

Now. [...]

I will now explain to you where the Watts material came from, its significance, and the reason for its distortions.

[...] The people who take such inoculations within your own culture, now, usually do so because they do not want the disease specified, and they believe that the inoculation will prevent it. [...] The mechanisms operate in such a fashion that by now overall belief has come to such a point that the same results would almost be effected if an inoculation of no particular value were given instead. [...]

Now: in large part inoculation, and that type of preventative medicine, is the result of your particular methods of dealing with the world.

You cannot afford that kind of method now, because you do not believe that the mind itself can help protect the body against disease caused by bacteria or virus. [...]

Now: particularly to Ruburt. [...]

[...] The world is being changed through our work—but because that work is primarily a creative endeavor in the fullest, deepest meaning, now, of the word creative. [...]

[...] You are speaking to the younger generations strongly, and they are the people who will make up the fabric of the so-called official establishments in the future, and they will come to those establishments with far different values than those people now ruling. [...]

It is as if, now, the mental atmosphere was clearer—and you would find ideas flowing into your mind in those hours also, particularly with that playfully, now, in mind. [...]

Now; I will be simplifying somewhat, to make several points. [...]

[...] In the usual awake state, in the terms now of this discussion, you deal with the available physical evidence of the world as it appears to present perception, that is, or with what you can see or feel or touch, either immediately or through physical instruments. [...]