“Sunday, June 8, 1980: As I went about the day, showering, doing my hair, reading the paper, doing my exercises and so forth, I kept getting stuff from Seth on … the next chapter of his book, I think to be called ‘Master Events and Overlays.’ There can be overlays of one civilization onto another, so that a ‘real’ civilization in one sphere of existence can appear as myth in another…. Our civilization appears as myth in other worlds; that kind of thing represents only one kind of overlay.

MASTER EVENTS AND REALITY OVERLAYS

She’s been most intrigued by Seth’s referrals to the concept of “master events” ever since he gave them in the final session for Chapter 8—preparations, she hoped, for his material this evening. She came to play her own conscious part in those preparations, too: Yesterday she’d received many insights from Seth on “master overlays,” and made notes. She typed some of her information after supper tonight, and I’m presenting this in Note 1, just to show how closely at times the body of the Seth material lies to her “ordinary” consciousness.)

Now: Dictation. New chapter (9): “Master Events and Reality Overlays” (all with much humorous emphasis).

(See yesterday afternoon’s session, re “overlays of meanings.” [...]

[...] Her self-distrust was the conscious overlay for the culturally forbidden activities. [...]

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Time overlays are the time versions of certain events, then. These time overlays always exist. [...]

[...] Lots I’ve completely forgotten about people who loved you in particular lives always in some way being supportive; that we’re caught up in time-to-time overlays Seth has referred to in his late book dictation; that rhythmic time overlays happened as various anniversaries or significant events from various lives overlapped, bringing them momentarily closer (like comets) when entries back and forth, and interchanges, are particularly easier.

[...] If Seth did discuss her experience, Jane replied, it would be in connection with “time overlays.” [...]

Time overlays are versions of master events, in that they occur in such a fashion that one “face” of an overall event may appear in one time, one in another, and so forth.

Such images have little to do with your own basic or natural personalities, or with your own individual backgrounds, but you apply such images upon yourselves like overlays. [...]

[...] Strangely, the spasm episode in the dream involved the color effects I knew I’d get when I glazed the painting: I was vividly aware of the texture of the underpainting as the green color was altered into flesh color by the overlay of warm flesh colors in oil.

(5:37 PM.) One small note: these sessions also carry overlays of meanings doubled in upon themselves that are connected with the words but are not part of the words, but carried by the sounds. [...]

[...] Do not overlay the personal daily aspects of your life with preconceived ideas about who you are, what you are, where you are, why you are. [...]

[...] Social beliefs, beliefs from childhood or whatever are (underlined) overlays. [...]