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Dictation. (Long pause.) All elements of life are optimistic.

The fetus, for example, is remarkably optimistic, carrying within itself the miniature pattern for an entire human adult, taking it for granted that conditions will be favorable enough so that the entire pattern of normal life will be fulfilled despite any impediments or adverse conditions.

This expectation to grow and flourish is addressed within each atom, cell, and organ, and all of life’s parts contain this optimistic expectation and are blessed with the promise that their abilities will grow to maturity.

[...] I did not do so because I remembered a dream Jane had had recently, in which I had picked up the mail, then teased her about an optimistic letter from a publisher, concerning the dream book. [...]

(It wasn’t until I was typing up these notes at 9 PM on the same day, that Jane realized she could have been in at least a light trance while giving the material; at first she thought she had not been, but then realized she retained only a hazy idea of the material’s content—just that it was optimistic. [...]

[...] If you truly understood what I am saying, you would realize the importance of encouraging optimistic, jestful feelings of faith, of cultivating them—for it is far more important to collect them than money. [...]

[...] The joyful and optimistic experiences however also bring about biological changes, and serve as imprints, patterns, for future physical improvement. [...]

[...] If, on the other hand, your feelings and subjective experience are fairly well balanced, fairly optimistic and creative in a constructive manner, then it will seem to you that you have been blessed with unusual luck, for your pleasant suppositions will come to pass so quickly.

(Tonight before the session we reread the deleted session for August 1, in which Seth had given some very optimistic forecasts for improvements on Jane’s part. [...]

[...] Once again, then, ideas of the most optimistic nature are the biologically pertinent ones.

In terms of earthly life as you understand it, it is overly optimistic to imagine that eventually all illnesses will be conquered, all relationships be inevitably fulfilling, or to foresee a future in which all people on earth are treated with equality and respect. [...]

[...] For of all the doctors she’d encountered while in the hospital, Jane had liked Dr. C the best, feeling intuitively drawn to him and his optimistic statements that once her thyroid began functioning again she’d find herself getting around much much better than she thought possible. [...]

Now: in somewhat the same way, Ruburt’s more or less newly optimistic thoughts are inserted, say, in the opposite direction, into Framework 2, where then they find their best creative form: in this case they roll into Framework 1 as increased mobility.

[...] You can begin to sense your own good natures, in other words, and those basic natures are automatically optimistic. [...]

[...] I’d like to tell you why I feel optimistic but too much too soon. [...]

[...] I found it almost amazingly optimistic, compared to what we’d been doing today. [...]

Such an optimist will of course not be blind, and he will see that there are indeed many blemishes in the world; but his overall faith not only sustains him, but because of his own state of mind his creativity blossoms to whatever degree he has it. [...]

[...] The very optimistic remarks as to books being published and involving painting sales occurred in this manner.

[...] The optimistic remarks had come through the Ouija board in the first two or three sessions; none of them had materialized, and in the light of Seth’s recent material on distortions Jane and I had thought distortion the reason for this failure.)

[...] She wants us to be as optimistic as we can. [...]

[...] It involved the two of us and was very optimistic; I was sure that in symbolic terms it dealt with our work. [...]

[...] When they visited the author, however, he was optimistic and brusque. [...]

[...] Also you tossed fears between you like a ball, so that when one was optimistic the other one was down. [...]

This might sound like a bit of overly optimistic, though maybe delightful, nonsense. [...]