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[...] The magnitude of the physical stimuli with which you are surrounded, makes it possible, of course, for any number of like situations to come to your physical attention during any given day. [...]
This has to do also with larger events that you might for convenience’s sake think of for now as psychological objects—that is, events seen and recognized by large numbers of people in the same way that objects are.
[...] Amid the economic difficulties in our own country, and after a number of often very expensive delays, the second flight of our shuttle spacecraft, Columbia, came due on November 4. Of primary importance was to be the testing in space of the 50-foot-long remote-control robot arm, which had been designed to place satellites in orbit and retrieve them for service and repair. [...]
4. Following superscript number 7 in the opening notes for Session 931, in Chapter 9 of Dreams, see my information on how we were trying to cope with Jane’s physical difficulties back in March 1981.
5. After superscript number 14 in the opening notes for Session 931, see my accounts of tailoring the straight chair for Jane, and of her vain attempts to get on her feet.
[...] Those gatherings were disrupted almost seven years ago, when we moved from our downtown apartments into the hill house, and for a number of reasons we did not resume them. [...]
[...] An infinite number of other “alternate” compositions were also latent within the same note, however, but were not played last night. [...]
[...] Yet all are in the same overall composition, in “time,” so that time itself serves as the scale (gesturing) in which the [musical] number is written — chosen as a matter of organization, focus, and framework.
[...] The newly begun sessions already contained a number of unfamiliar terms and ideas: In the 4th session three days earlier, for instance, Seth had just given us our entity names [Ruburt for Jane, Joseph for me], and touched upon the psychic links connecting the three of us. [...]
[...] Over the years Seth has also come through with a modest number of reincarnational experiences involving the three of us, as well as others concerning any two of us. [...]
[...] And a number of old disciplines thought that before the creation of Eve from his body, Adam, the first, original man, was really male and female.
(I understood the import of last night’s dream much better than its predecessor, however, having learned what that first dream meant — my own fears on a number of counts.
[...] … (A one-minute pause.) These units of consciousness, however, add themselves up to form psychological beings far greater in number than, say, the number of stars in [your] galaxy (over 400 billion of them), and each of those psychological formations has its own identity—its own soul if you prefer—its own purpose in the entire fabric of being.
Those human abilities that you consider to be characteristic of your species are, again, dependent upon the existence of infinite numbers of variations that appear in the aggregate, to give you often obviously opposing states. [...]
I’m sure that Seth would be the first to agree that consciousness obviously contains an unlimited number of viewpoints, regardless of which ones we humans may choose to call “true” at any particular time. [...]
Give us a moment … I am putting this as simply as possible; but when your “original self” enters [part of] itself into three-dimensional life from an inner reality, the energy waves carrying it break — not simply into one particle, following our analogy, but into a number of conscious particles. [...]
3. A number of subjects related to Seth’s discussion of waves and particles can be found in the following sources (some of which contain their own references) in Appendix 18: the quotations from the 755th session (Seth: “My own psychological reality is not particleized”), and notes 24 and 35. [...]
Many people no longer believe in life after death, and so large numbers of the population are philosophically denied a spiritual or a physical future.
[...] Consciousness generally can be divided into certain characteristics, hardly the number, the small number, presently given to it, for example, in charts, the twelve houses. [...]
(“I’ve had a number of dreams about the house in which there was a terrified feeling and the house had an animalistic look, which is contrary to how I feel about it consciously,” I said. [...]
(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. [...]