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.

(Yesterday, in the magazine section of a leading metropolitan newspaper, Jane and I read a long article on the evolution of ancient man — “ancient” here meaning “true man” at least 2.5 million to 3 million years old. Aside from the question of whether “evolution” in ordinary linear terms has been scientifically proven [concerning which point Jane and I have many reservations], we were drawn to the article because we thought its “factual” information might eventually supplement some of Seth’s material for “Unknown” Reality. Both of us ended up more incensed than informed, however; it seemed to us that even on its own terms the piece contained many unjustified conclusions that were based on very flimsy evidence — and assumptions — at best.

1. Parallel Man

“The growth of ego consciousness by itself set up both challenges and limitations. 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. Again, for many centuries, there were innumerable species of man-in-the-making, in your terms; various postures, and even types of manipulation, as well as alterations in brain size and activity. In some, different kinds of senses predominated. At the same time a great give-and-take was occurring at all levels — including vegetation, for example — so that together the creatures and the earth worked out the kind of stability best suited for the particular kind of developments that were to emerge.

Now if you are delightfully free, and if you are following, you can follow that path into that other reality and to that other consciousness. [...] You can, to some extent, or another sense its reality, its subjective vitality. [...]

(During a class experiment to find the reality of our own probable selves, Seth came through.)

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. [...]

She quotes Seth on dreams in Chapter 14 of The Seth Material, and to some extent he discusses them directly in Seth Speaks and Personal Reality. However, we’ve accumulated quite a bit of unpublished Seth material on dreams, and I’ll start looking for chances to insert some of those data in the rest of “Unknown” Reality.

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

YOUR MULTIDIMENSIONAL REALITY IN THE NOW OF YOUR BEING.

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

You are receiving instructions, you see, now in physical reality. You are also receiving instructions in other realities. [...] Certain portions of your personalities are learning, within their own perspective, to venture into physical reality, as you are learning to venture into nonphysical reality.

You see I would like you eventually to progress to a point where you can manipulate almost as freely within nonphysical reality as you do within physical reality. [...]

[...] A tree in front of the wheel will represent physical reality. [...] As the wheel turns you call the person or the self who faces the tree the ego, simply because this is the portion that faces physical reality, represented by our tree. [...]

[...] Now there is one important point in particular in all this that should be emphasized, and I will repeat it: Certain portions of the self do not manifest themselves directly within physical reality. They do not operate directly within physical reality, and the word directly is significant.

Obviously, physical reality only happens to be the portion of reality you recognize. [...]

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

[...] If you treat it as a reality however, then you must deal with it as such, until you realize its origin, or return to the ordinary dream state.

But the reality of all of these constructions will be equally vivid, you see, for they are indeed equally real. [...]

[...] I continued that I was somewhat concerned because the notes for Unknown” Reality were running considerably longer than they had for either Seth Speaks or Personal Reality. [...] 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. [...]

[...] In one way both concepts are on the same level, and deal with realities in consecutive time sequences. The individual, like the species, exists in multidimensional terms; and hovers around focuses of probabilities, weaving in and out of alternate realities constantly.

(“In the same way, a ‘picture’ of the species represents only one version of the species, ‘snapped’ in a particular time sequence, valid because of the invisible realities not focused upon, but upon which reality rides.”

[...] Through understanding your own unknown reality, therefore, you can learn much about the unknown reality of the species.

[...] They tune in on different realities, and all realities are actual. 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.

[...] 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.

[...] In your reality, experience is dependent upon time, but all experience is not so structured. There are, for example, parallel events that are followed as easily as you follow consecutive events.

[...] People who are still worrying about one soul, gods, and devils, must be helped to relate to greater realities from their own framework, and gently led away from it if possible. Probabilities have been mentioned in such a way that alternate realities are presented, showing such people that choices are available.

[...] In so doing it will experience All That Is through its own being, though interpreted, of course, through that familiar reality of its own. [...] Each probable self, however, will follow through in its own reality — that is, it will experience to the fullest those dimensions inherent to it. [...]

In your terms — the phrase is necessary — the moment point,⁵ the present, is the point of interaction between all existences and reality. All probabilities flow through it, though one of your moment points may be experienced as centuries, or as a breath, in other probable realities of which you are a part.

[...] Their reality explored the ramifications of animalhood in a completely different fashion. Their development paralleled man’s in many respects, in that they lived simultaneously upon the earth, and shared the environment.

[...] Yet as your physical reality personally is largely dependent upon your dreaming state, and impossible without it, so in the same way the first cell was physically materialized and actual only because of its own inner reality of consciousness.

[...] This came about because of a note I’m writing for Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality, and I may quote part of Seth’s material on the subject in that note.

[...] You cannot logically, mathematically explain such emotional reality.

(“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. [...]

He wants to know in what dimension dream locations have their reality, and indeed he has considered all of the possibilities save the correct one. [...]

For you see, you think that you are only conscious when you are focused in physical reality. [...]

In the waking state the whole self is focused toward physical reality. [...]

(Pause at 10:01.) This exercise is a mental and biological doorway that can expand both your concepts of yourself and reality. [...] During the day, however, having made an important decision in one direction, you may begin to feel the reality of the opposite decision and its ramifications. The exercise may also result in a different kind of a dream, one that is recognized within the dream state, at least, as an introduction to a probable reality. [...] (Pause.) For example, in a series of dreams you may try out various solutions to a given problem, and choose one of these.¹ That choice becomes your physical reality.

[...] Whether or not you have any great success, the exercise will begin a neurological reorientation that will be most important if you hope to glimpse realities that are outside of your present neurologically accepted sense-reality.

(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.

(In chapters 3 and 12 of Personal Reality, I inserted notes describing how Jane and I had seen geese during their migrations south, then north, respectively, in 1972 and 1973. [...]

(11:35.) Give us a moment… Framework 2 represents the inner sphere of reality, the inner dimensions of existence, that gives your world its own characteristics. [...]

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.

1. Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality contains a number of references to Carl Jung, the Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist who lived from 1875–1961.

[...] When that point is reached, you will be able, if you prefer, to experience any “Reality-Illusion" at your will, but the self who experiences these “reality-illusions" will know itself as reality. There is no place for it to go, because it is the only reality and will create its own environment.

[...] A rural town perhaps 49th parallel. [...]

[...] Is there any way to distinguish between illusion and reality other than by a creation of my own mind?”)

[...] I am one with what reality I create. [...]

(Being individualists, then, as I wrote in the Introductory Notes for Volume 1, we don’t concentrate upon whatever parallels exist between Seth’s concepts on the one hand and those of Eastern religious, philosophical, and mystical doctrines on the other; while we know of such similarities, we’re just as aware of how different from them Seth’s viewpoint can be, too. I added that even though we have no interest in putting down other approaches to inner reality, still we’re firm believers in the “inviolate nature of the individual consciousness, before, during, and after physical existence, in ordinary terms.”¹ So, here, we leave it up to the reader to make the intuitive and overt connections between Seth’s philosophy and the material Jane wrote today. [...]

Yet Buddhist belief, for instance, maintains that our perception of the world is not fundamental, but an illusion; our “ignorance” of this basic undifferentiated “suchness” then results in the division of reality into objects and ideas. But why call our generalized awareness an illusion, instead of regarding it as one of the innumerable manifestations that reality takes? [...]

[...] Given those points, she’s bound to have differences of belief with other views of reality.

[...] It is a privilege to be here, to look out with this unique focus, with these individual eyes; not to be blinded by cosmic vision, but to see this corner of reality which I form through the miraculous connections of soul and flesh.

Your dreams affect your cellular reality, even as that reality is also largely responsible for the fact that you dream, in your terms, at all. [...]

Such a consciousness is at a state of being in which its reality generates more energy and power than it can physically express in its brilliant intersection with physical reality. [...]

[...] Your consciousness is cellularly-attuned in life, in that it perceives its own reality through cellular function that forms the bodily apparatus. [...] It is intertwined with your own reality as you think of it. [...]

[...] All of these parallel or alternate experiences are then used to construct the physical events that you recognize. [...]

Coming together, the units actually form the systems of reality in which they have their experience. [...] They will always come under the guise of any particular pattern of reality, then. [...]

2. In general, given the nature of the CU’s — Seth’s postulated “basic” units of consciousness that make up all realities — closed systems cannot exist. [...] It appears to be a reality only within your own framework and because of your limited focus.”

[...] They can take any form, organize themselves in any kind of time-behavior, hyphen, and seem to form a reality that is completely dependent upon its apparent form and structure. [...]

[...] Again, you live on the surface of the moments, with no understanding of the unrecognized and unofficial realities that lie beneath. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

[...] They are electromagnetic realities. [...]

(9:36.) Your conscious mind is meant to assess and evaluate physical reality, and to help you chart your course in the corporeal universe of which you are presently part. [...]

(Pause.) Because ideas and beliefs have this electromagnetic reality, then, constant interplay between those strongly contradictory beliefs can cause great power blocks, impeding the flow of inner energy outward. [...]

[...] If you think of your stream of consciousness as transparent, however, then you can learn to look through and beneath it to others that lie in other beds of reality. You can also learn to rise above your present stream of consciousness and perceive others that run, for analogy’s sake, parallel. [...]

Not only are you part of other independent selves, each one focused in its own reality, but there is a sympathetic relationship that exists. [...] You can learn to focus your attention away from physical reality, to learn new methods of perception that will enable you to enlarge your concept of reality and greatly expand your own experience.

(9:35.) You are as actively and vividly concerned in these realities as you are in the one in which your main attention is now focused. [...] The body, in other words, is simply one manifestation of what you are in one reality, but in these other realities you have other forms.

(9:49.) Great creativity always seems greater than its pure physical dimension and reality. [...] Such creativity automatically reminds each man of his own multidimensional reality. [...]

New paragraph: The blueprints for reality will not be found in the exterior universe. [...] They met with varying degrees of success in their attempts to understand the nature of reality, and it is true that their overall goals were different than yours. [...] Your own behavior, customs, sciences, arts, and disciplines are in a way uniquely yours, yet they also provide glimpses into the ways in which various groupings of abilities can be used to probe into the “unknown” reality.

In a manner of speaking, they are indeed learning centers.⁴ Many people have dreams in which they are attending classes, for example, in another kind of reality. [...] All of this, however, is but a beginning for our dream-art scientist, for he or she then begins to recognize the fact of involvement with many different levels and kinds of reality and activity. [...] As he does so, he learns that some of these realities nearly coincide with the physical one, that on certain levels events become physical in the future, for example, while others do not. [...]

[...] If the same amount of time were spent to learn a different kind of science, you could indeed discover far more about the known and unknown realities. [...] The trouble is that many in the sciences do not comprehend that there is an inner reality. [...]

Dictation: You must first of all understand that your own greater reality exists whether you are in flesh or out of it, and that your subjective experience has a far greater scope than the physical brain itself allows.

To make this clear: When you dissect an animal, for instance, you are still dealing only with the “inside” of exterior reality, or with another level of outsideness. [...] It is there that the blueprints for reality are found. There are various ways of studying reality. [...]

[...] The seeds are the physical carriers of future oranges, but the blueprints for that reality are what formed the seeds. [...] Because you think in terms of consecutive time, it seems that there must have been a first egg, or seed.¹ The blueprints for reality exist, however, in dimensions without such a time sequence.

[...] There is, therefore, a quite valid, vital, real and vastly creative inner reality, and an inward sequence of events from which your present universe and life emerges. Any true scientist will ultimately have to learn to enter that realm of reality. [...]

[...] So far the blueprints for reality have been largely unknown. Your methods make them invisible, so here I am suggesting ways in which the unknown reality can become a known one. [...]