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[...] Until our sessions began, he followed the official line of consciousness, and though he railed against those precepts he could find no other solution. [...]

[...] There would have been no unofficial roads for Ruburt to follow, to lead him from the official beliefs of his time. [...]

[...] The body is equipped to perceive many other kinds of experiences that are not officially recognized as native to human experience. [...]

[...] When such seeming miracles occur, it is because you have transcended your usual official beliefs about your body and its health, and disease, and so allowed nature to take its course. [...]

[...] The official told all listeners that the flu season had officially begun. [...]

The official mentioned, by the way, that there was indeed no direct evidence connecting past flu shots with the occurrence of a rather bizarre disease that some of those inoculated with the flu vaccine happened to come down with.⁴ All in all, it was quite an interesting announcement, with implications that straddle biology, religion, and economics. [...]

[...] Christianity, however, officially asks children of sorrow to be joyful and sinners to find a childlike purity; it asks them to love a God who one day will destroy the world, and who will condemn them to hell if they do not adore him.

[...] For a while it had to be tested in the world of beliefs that you knew, even while the evidence seemed to be on the side of official pronouncements. [...]

[...] All such concepts appear in one form or another at most official levels of thought and education. [...]

[...] (Pause.) From the standpoint of Ruburt’s official mental focus, and from the standpoint of the neurologically accepted present, that past environment had to remain off-center, or blurred. He could experience it only by sidestepping officially accepted neurological activity. [...]

[...] These pulses or messages became the only official data that, translated into sense perception, formed physical reality. [...]

[...] History, however, is but your official line of accepted stimuli. [...]

[...] The particular string of probable actions that you call your official experience does not just dangle, then, out in space and time — it interweaves with other such strands that you do not recognize. [...]

[...] The rich tapestry of probable actions from which you choose your official life becomes just as invisible. [...]

[...] Nothing wrong with that of course but we’re still in the same arena only our explanations are better than official ones. [...]

(My personal problems developed in force when I began to be overly concerned with my creative “work” as work, as it applied to the world, as it would be received and interpreted; when I tried to compare its reception to other officially accepted activities—that people understood—when I tried to look at my “work” through their eyes, and when I began to expect the kind of honor and approbation given to others—who conformed.

3. Note 2 for Session 695 lists some of the ways in which Seth uses “official” and “officially” in connection with our ideas of physical reality.

[...] They are actually in the process of putting their own personalities together long after most people have settled upon one official version or another—and so their behavior gives glimpses of the ever-changing give-and-take among the various elements of human personality.

[...] In some situations, however, there are definite, quite valid instances of telepathy or clairvoyance, vivid out-of-body experiences, and other excursions beyond the officially accepted realm of reality.

[...] This meant that a certain conformity to official culture was maintained.

[...] It does mean that your concepts force you to misinterpret and distort any “intrusive” information, or experience, that is part of portions of your own being that you do not recognize as your official self.

[...] According to your beliefs, you may interpret such data in any of many ways, but because such experiences are not an accepted part of recognized, official activity, they can appear frightening. [...]

[...] Give us a moment … In those conditions the atoms pursue their own probable activities, and indeed make astounding calculations, bringing into your actuality the necessary probable actions to insure official life forms. [...]

4. In Appendix 4 for Session 685, Jane wrote of her attempts while in the dream state to sort out multidimensional, probable data of her own, and of how they collected for processing in sidepools of experience “before flowing into the ‘official pool of consciousness.’” Then, she added a bit later, through bypassing direct neurological activity, and using the “side pockets or pools where data are still unprocessed … you can pick up several other strands of consciousness ‘at once,’ though retention may be difficult.”

[...] Even now local civil defense officials monitor the air several times daily with radiological survey meters—equipment similar to Geiger counters. [...]

Worry, fear, and doubt are detrimental to good health, of course, and these are very often caused by the officially held beliefs of society.

The official line of consciousness is a certain mental stance, a kind of convention. [...]

[...] In those terms Pat, who did not attend the physical class, attended a probable one; and Carol, who was not present for the end of the official class, was a participant in the probable one.

[...] A vague uneasiness was growing in my mind: It seemed that Prentice-Hall was taking unusually long to officially clear The God of Jane and Seth’s The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events. [...]

[...] You are each gradually leaving the official level of consciousness behind, in that its beliefs no longer serve as your criteria of reality.