Now imagine another adjacent road or line parallel and still further away from your normal consciousness. Now pause to feel the difference in your consciousness as you move from one line or road to another. And this one represents A-II.

Now imagine again a third line or path, still parallel and adjacent. Examine the feel of your consciousness as you do so. Move now, further on this time, to another path or road that you will call A-IV, and that is still further in distance from your normal consciousness. Now imagine still another line which we will call A-V.

Now here, pause for a moment. If you can, imaginatively look behind you to see these other four roads or paths that run adjacently and parallel. Now turn, step back to the previous road or path to A-IV. Step again back to A-III. Step again back to A-II. Now carefully step back to A-I and pause. Feel your own consciousness at this point.

And now imagine a step above A-I. Not adjacent or parallel, but above, and feel yourself step up upon it. And we will call it A-I-a, though the names make little difference. Pause there and imaginatively look down to A-I, but hold your position.

[...] Kendall leaves main road and takes a country road that parallels Route 14 from Watkins Glen to Horseheads—he guns car. [...]

4. Two roads that run parallel. [...]

1. Parallel Man

[...] This automatically meant that emerging man, in that framework, must let go of a certain kind of animal comprehension that was extremely valuable overall, but could inhibit ego growth … For many centuries there was no clear-cut differentiation between various species of man and animal … There were also, of course, parallel developments in the emergence of physical man. [...]

1. One might say that Seth himself provided for Jane’s material here when, back in the 681st session, he talked about parallel events, alternate realities, and probable selves and worlds.

[...] While development of the two universes overall is parallel, no exact evenness in all respects is achieved. [...] But overall there is parallel development.

[...] I am speaking here of identity between your selves and the existence of a parallel self in the world of negative matter. That parallel self would not be recognized by you, as psychologically identical, and is indeed quite independent, and a by-product. [...]

I would like to speak concerning the parallel development of the universe of matter as you know it, the universe of negative matter, and what is truly the universe of dreams.

[...] Nevertheless our last session, with its simplified explanation of development in terms that you can understand, should lead you to realize that because of the parallel development of the dream universe with the physical universe, the study of the dream universe will help you comprehend the basic inwardness behind the physical world that you inhabit.

Now I want each of you to examine the feeling, hold the feeling while you listen to me but remember to hold the feeling for they are the connections, these feelings, with parallel selves. [...]

[...] Now I want you to give that feeling freedom to expand, to change into another feeling, for there is for each of you at least one other individual in a parallel existence who is conducting the same experiment that you are conducting now. [...]

PARALLEL MAN, ALTERNATE MAN, AND PROBABLE MAN: THE REFLECTION OF THESE IN THE PRESENT, PRIVATE PSYCHE.

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

I also have the impression of a tavern of some sort, or place of refreshment; of tall parallel lines, and of horizontal parallel lines. [...]

(From the sketch on page 250 it can be seen that parallel lines, both horizontal and tall, or vertical, are present; these are the customary wavy lines of cancellation. [...]

[...] We wondered if by horizontal Seth, or Jane, could possibly mean parallel, since the leaves are quite parallel to each other on the Bristol.

[...] She held it in the same position as noted before, the small dimensions parallel to the floor. [...]

[...] As noted Jane held the envelope to her forehead with the long axis parallel to the floor. [...]

[...] Seth elaborates a bit here now, although Jane now sat holding the envelope in her lap, and with its short dimensions parallel to the floor.

(“Parallelogram, or something parallel, rather emphatically so. [...] The ribbon arrangement on the Bristol of course is an X shape rather than parallel; both shapes are geometrical. [...]

Parallelogram, or something parallel, rather emphatically so. [...]

This came from the parallel line connection. [...]

The parallel lines and the tree did refer to the wooden boards of the wall, which are obviously parallel, each board being distinct and clear.

I have an impression of a road or a tree; that is, of such parallel lines. [...]

[...] The last time she’d done this had been early on March 4; her material then was on parallel man, alternate man, and probable man; Seth mentioned it that same evening in the 687th session, and it furnished the basis for Section 2 of this volume. [...]

[...] She said the notes were intended to furnish a mundane account of our lives that would “parallel” Seth’s more complicated data on probabilities and other concepts. [...]

My “work” is not adjacent to the world or parallel exactly but at a different level.... [...]

(“Three of a kind here, perhaps three strong parallel lines on the object.” We regard this as a good reference to the parallel lines dividing the subject matter on the object. [...]

[...] Three of a kind here, perhaps three strong parallel lines on the object. [...]

To parallel these sessions, it would be nice if the two of you kept Framework 2 in mind, and utilized it with a bit more confidence, and became alert again to those “coincidences” that always appear in current experience.

[...] There are parallel developments. [...]

[...] Their development paralleled man’s in many respects, in that they lived simultaneously upon the earth, and shared the environment.

[...] There are, for example, parallel events that are followed as easily as you follow consecutive events.

The structure of probabilities deals with parallel experience on all levels. [...]

[...] Others go on about you all the time, and other probable selves of your own experience their “histories” parallel to yours. [...]

(See Appendix 6 for the material on parallel man, alternate man, and probable man that Jane began dictating to me shortly after last mid-night.

(Pause.) Speaking now in those historic terms that you understand, let me say that there was no single-line development from animal to man, but parallel lines, in which for centuries animal-man and man-animal coexisted cooperatively. [...]

[...] I have more senses, so to speak, in operating use that is, than you have, because not only am I aware of my own plane but of yours and other parallel planes, even though I myself have not existed in some of those parallel planes.

[...] I’ve often had the feeling that Seth’s material parallels Jane’s own situation, whatever that may be at that moment. [...]

[...] Parallel with the belief that vision will fail, you may have the before-mentioned belief that hearing will dim, and these two ideas may be reinforced by a belief that age automatically makes you less a person, turning you into an individual who can no longer relate in the daily pattern of environment. [...]