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8. Much could be written about the ageless conflicts the individual feels between society’s demands and his or her urges toward personal freedom. It seems to me that no matter what role in any life the individual decides upon before birth (to incorporate Seth’s ideas here), that individual will carry consciousness’s innate drive toward personal expression — but still within the protection furnished by social organization. [...]

[...] I don’t mind noting that I wish she had.² She might have been able to offer insights about it that I couldn’t come up with, especially concerning the seemingly endless abilities of the psyche — call it personalized energy, consciousness, or what-have-you — to travel through its own space and time.

[...] Seth referred to Nebene in the 721st session also.⁹ Here too, through that individual, the ramifications of authority are confronted again; if in a way less drastic than one involving death, still certainly in a very dogmatic manner, as expressed through Nebene’s rigid personality. [...]

[...] I feel (as Seth mentioned in the 721st session) that I wasn’t Nebene, or two different Roman soldiers per se, but rather that my whole self chose to manifest such personalities together; that I, too, am such a manifestation at a “later” time, then, and that from my own vantage point I can tune in to those other lives. [...]

You must start from your present position, of course, but there is no person who cannot better his or her position to a considerable degree, if the effort is made to follow through with the kind of new hypotheses that we will here suggest. [...]

Ruburt can start at his present position, as each person must begin with the situation at hand. [...]

I painted Seth, that ageless “energy personality essence,” from a vision I had of him five years after Jane began speaking for him in 1963. [...]

[...] There is an excellent book, called The Nature of Personal Reality. It will help many. It will help the two of you particularly, because your personal realities are so involved in it. [...]

You are to begin the book together, making notations as what I say applies personally, and together each of you following through with the exercises given. [...]

[...] Since Sue herself is a Sumari, like Jane and me, I asked her to write an account of her feelings, thinking it would furnish a good example of one person’s emotional and intellectual involvement with a family of consciousness other than their own — and yes, of their reincarnational memories of those activities.

[...] In Jane’s final class, Rob read Seth’s explanation having to do with family ‘mergings.’ Right away, right there in class, I knew what was behind the feeling I’d had about this family: Members of the Grunaargh, and I personally, were involved in the invention of movable type. [...]

7. In Session 692 for Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality see the material on Sue’s double dreams in the opening notes and in Note 2. Personally, at least, I see strong connections between the idea of double dreams and the kind of conscious reincarnational memory — or knowledge — detailed by Sue in this appendix.

Ruburt found great comfort in the church as a young person, for if it created within its members the image of a Sinful Self, it also of course provided a steady system of treatment—a series of rituals that gave the individual some sense of hope the Sinful Self could be redeemed, as in most of Christianity’s framework through adherence to certain segments of Christian dogma. [...]

[...] The Sinful Self concept is a personal one for each who holds it, but it is also projected outward onto the entire species, of course, until the whole world seems tainted. [...]

[...] It is not possible to say in words what one person or another looks for in life, or what unique features best promote his or her growth and development. [...]

(Long pause.) Ruburt broke through both psychically and creatively—that is, the sessions almost immediately provided him with new creative inspiration and expression and with the expansions needed psychologically that would help fulfill his promise as a writer and as a mature personality. [...]

I am again, as I have said often, an energy personality essence, which means quite simply that I am a personality who does not now operate within the physical reality. [...]

[...] Ruburt and I engage in a cooperative venture, truly a psychological gestalt, in which our personalities meet, rather in a dimension that is neither here nor there. [...]

[...] The individual petals would merely change, as the personalities of men change in what seems like a series of before and after reincarnations.

[...] The personality that you have now is simply the flower of the moment, not realizing that it has the knowledge of its own past histories; and all of this would be but one cosmic flower. [...]

[...] The fanatic is usually also a person whose vitality is blocked in important ways—yet he manages often to summon great energy, so that even in his denunciations he shows many people who are more timid the demonstration of personal exuberance and energy, however misdirected.

People act as they do for their own reasons, yet each person also is to one extent or another an example of certain kinds of characteristics.

[...] As long as you are not bothered, as long as you do not have to mix with fools—the same fools who compose the various psychological, scientific, or medical societies—the same fools whom you sometimes say do not bother contacting you as long as the Enquirer, that rag, does not annoy you for interviews, and as long as people are not personally affected enough to bother you in any immediate fashion.

A man may be a fool, so to speak, in his spiritual or political judgments, as a father or as a brother; or in perhaps only one relationship he may be an artist, bringing out in that other person the greatest abilities and potentials.

(Class had been discussing dream realities, personality, etc., for about an hour; Pat and Sheila began talking back and forth on Sheila’s ideas on separate personalities, when Jane interrupted to say that she had the impression that the “hole in the universe” had opened up in Dr. Sam Levine’s house next-door and a crowd of people were flying from it into the room. [...]

Far beneath however, at any given time in your terms, there is a dominant, characteristic, unique feeling-tone that pervades the personality and colors all of the other activities, feelings and thoughts. [...]

Now we are leading here into some personal and yet generally applied material.

What seemed to be a time of most uncomfortable and unhappy circumstance was indeed a re-evaluation and adjustment, most necessary if the personality were to continue to function as a strongly creative effective individual.

[...] On Monday and Wednesday evenings he furnished material on this book, plus some personal material for us; discoursed at length Tuesday night in ESP class; spoke briefly Friday afternoon to a visiting editor from Time magazine — subject, Freudian psychology; and on Saturday evening talked informally to a group of our friends about daily life in Italy during the time he had been a minor pope in the fourth century a.d. [Reincarnation-wise, Seth had first mentioned his papal experience in an ESP class session in May, 1971. [...]

[...] I cannot say this often enough: Your beliefs form your reality, your body and its condition, your personal relationships, your environment, and en masse your civilization and world.

If — now, a brief innocuous-enough example — you meet an individual often enough and think, “He gives me a pain in the neck,” it is surely no coincidence that you find yourself with a painful neck in future encounters with this person. [...]

(Pause at 10:55.) When a man or a woman feels no connection between personal reality and experience and the surrounding world, then he [or she] loses even an animal’s sense of pure competence and belonging. [...]

[...] If you hate another person, that hate may bind you to him through as many lives as you allow the hate to consume you. [...]

[...] If you look about you at your relatives, friends, acquaintances, and business associates, you will also see what kind of a person you are, for you are drawn to them as they are drawn to you, through very basic inner similarities.

[...] You may find after death a much stronger relationship emotionally with a personality from a past life. [...]

[...] You have all kinds of opportunities now to recreate your personal experience in more beneficial ways, and to change your world.

(Pause.) The Nature of Personal Reality¹ is an excellent handbook, one that will enable people to manipulate in the world they know with greater effectiveness. [...]

[...] It is the result of one line of “development” that could be taken by your particular earth personality in flesh. [...]

[...] “For reasons too personal to go into here, we haven’t yet tried to “tune into” my mother in her new environment. [...]

[...] Give us a moment … In the life that you know, as given in Personal Reality, your beliefs act to specify the particular probable events that will become “real.”¹⁰ Because you are a probable self, an understanding of your own nature will show you some of the abilities, not used here, but present, that you can indeed choose to actualize. [...]

We are dealing here with something rather unusual, in that we are attempting to permit two personalities to exist side by side, so to speak. [...] I do not supersede his own personality. [...]

[...] It may be in the nature of a license, but it is of some legal nature rather than a personal note, blue or green and white, the handwritten material on printed lines. [...]

It seems that another person is also somehow involved with it, a male.

[...] Another person, Bill Macdonnel, is involved with the symbol. [...]

I will not introduce you to my own big brother personality this evening. [...]

[...] The letters C A R are part of the last name of a person I was thinking about prior to the session and this could be the reference. [...]

The intellect is brilliant, but on its own, now (underlined), it is indeed in its way isolated both in time and in space in a way that other portions of the personality are not. [...]

Now those tendencies are not natural to the intellect, but only appear when it is forced to operate in such an isolated fashion — isolated not only in time and space, but psychologically isolated from other portions of the personality that are meant to bring it additional information that it does not possess, and a kind of magical support.

[...] The rationality that you accept is then but one small clue as to the spontaneous inner rationality that is a part of each natural person.

[...] The intellect, then, can and does form strong paranoid tendencies when it is put in the position of believing that it must solve all personal problems alone — or nearly — and certainly when it is presented with any picture of worldwide predicaments.

Many illnesses are physically experienced facades that are meant to alter the person’s relationship with the world. They act often like barriers, or coats of armor, and according to the situation another person must first confront this condition or coat of armor, if he ever hopes to establish contact with the personality. [...]

[...] (Pause.) The real personality, however, is never satisfied with such a procedure, and seeks a much fuller, freer expression.

[...] You seem to be, no longer, the person that you were. You are quite correct — you are not the person that you were, and your world has changed, and not just symbolically.

[...] So, you see, the personality cannot be defined as being thus-and-so.

[...] In the most personal terms each individual creates his own world. [...]

Various emotional factors within each personality cause what we may call a characteristic emotional climate. [...] Since these are electrical actions, they set up strong electrical fields of attraction within the personality, easy electric paths. [...]

So does the personality, through negative charges, cause boundaries to be set about its own emotional system. [...] It is, therefore, most advantageous to study well those thoughts and emotions which are habitually accepted by any given personality.

[...] The viruses, however, also represent tensions that the person involved is getting rid of. [...]

[...] [Because of that, and for other personal reasons], he could find no release for the intense energy he felt, so he got rid of it, protected himself, and threw out his threatening biological posture: the viruses.

“The particular atmosphere surrounding your personalities just prior to the animals’ deaths was destructive, short-circuited, and filled with inner panics. [...]

“When your own personalities are more or less in balance, you have no trouble at all in looking out for these creatures, and actually reinforcing their own existence with residues of your creative and sympathetic powers. [...]

[...] It was vital that the person so disapproved of be cast out. If any doubt was present then another person would be cast out or sacrificed. [...]

[...] None of this has anything to do with natural guilt, as described in Personal Reality. [...]

You have disapproved of yourself, thinking yourself not spontaneous, and so your belief has often hampered your natural spontaneity, so that you struggled for notes because you thought you must; that was the kind of person you thought you were.

[...] The call was a follow-up to a long-distance one she’d taken shortly after supper tonight, and concerned a missing person and a government agency. [...]

[...] To that degree, then, there are indeed “tree gods,” gods of the forest, and “gods of being” connected with each person.

[...] Encouraged, she now gave additional impressions; these were more specific and personal. [...]

[...] They are indeed connected with flora and fauna, but also with the animals and yourselves, and they are the “earth gods” that Ruburt imagined as a young person.