Water has healing qualities, and walks by the river when practical, will be of benefit. Therapeutic dreams should be requested each night for now, as standard practice. [...]

[...] Let Ruburt read over these last sessions closely, and the house-cleaning procedures should be carried out when it is practical. [...]

[...] You do not have to try and make poetry practical.

In such a situation, Ruburt thinks of work as work, and finds himself wanting—for a doctor after all heals patients, a lawyer solves cases or whatever, so it seems to Ruburt that his work must—underlined three times—make truth practical, and of course beneficially so. [...]

[...] It must appear in time, but its nourishment is not like that of a baker’s loaf, and its “practicality” cannot be reduced to such terms. [...]

[...] The idea behind the question does of course spring partially from your private, practical concerns right now, and yet it also springs from Ruburt’s and your great natural curiosity.

[...] You realize that knowledge alone is not enough, that practice and ability play a considerable part. [...]

[...] These become valid limitations for all practical purposes however. [...]

You will become practically concerned with the extension of the self as you know it in these terms. [...]

[...] Such cleaning has always been very painful for her because of heavy tartar deposits, but today she withstood an hour’s heavy scraping with practically no discomfort.

(Jane said she thinks her practice with psychological time experiments had much to do with the ease with which she put herself into a good state, since she achieved it in about five minutes. [...]

[...] For practical purposes it is excellent policy to check often with the personal subconscious through use of the pendulum.

I was going to suggest, for practice, that you yourselves find out from the pendulum. [...]

[...] You forgot ideas of being practical in terms of Framework 1, and as a result of course your creativity became highly practical, and in the most profound terms.

To Ruburt that is taken for granted—for there he operates extraordinarily well, mixing and merging the realities of Frameworks 1 and 2. The practical results of course appear in Framework 1, while the real creativity takes place in Framework 2. Understand that I make these divisions for simplicity’s sake, for the realities are merged. [...]

It did not seem particularly practical to stop worrying about money. [...]

[...] So in certain terms everyone exists in Framework 2. Many people, however, live out their lives, practically speaking, in Framework 1. Ruburt’s physical condition has been most troublesome to you both, for in that area you have stressed impediments and felt a lack of control. [...]

Much training and practice would be necessary before it would be possible for the personality to be aware of such journeys on a conscious, egotistical level. [...]

The unscheduled session is beneficial in that it gives Ruburt practice. [...]

[...] But the practice is to the overall advantage of the material.

This simply involves practice again, as I learn how much energy is necessary to get certain effects. [...]

“The therapy of value fulfillment will attempt to put individuals in touch with their basic instincts, to allow them to sense the impulsive shapes of their lives, to define their own versions of the ideal through the recognition of it as it exists in their own impulses and feelings and abilities, and to help them find acceptable and practical methods of exerting their natural power in the practical actualization of those ideals.”

[...] Then we will have less frightened people, and fewer fanatics, and each person involved can to some extent begin to see the “ideal” come into practical actualization. [...]

(Possibly reflecting his early Speaker practices — which may be continuing on subjective levels — Ron is active in lay church work, and knows much about the Bible and related subjects. [...] Jane, since she knows practically nothing about the historical periods in question, was very pleased that Seth’s data was so evocative.

[...] Biblical allusions associate the name with some of the “high places” of cultic practice. [...]

The full practical implication here should be understood: No course is irrevocably set or beyond change. [...]

[...] This is not an impractical, but very practical, endeavor in all areas. [...]

[...] More, what does it have to do with the practical world? [...]

[...] It seems that you can seed the clouds with chemicals and bring forth rain when it is needed, and therefore obtain a power over the environment that is quite practical. [...]

Now: Here, and throughout this book there will be sections dealing with Practice Elements — in capitals — where to some extent you can see how certain of these concepts can be practically experienced, and receive at least a hint of their application.

[...] The future was blocked, practically speaking (long pause), to preserve freedom of action and to encourage physical exploration, curiosity, and creativity. [...]

New paragraph (and more rapidly): As egotistical consciousness expands to include hereto largely neglected data, then it will experience, practically speaking, a new kind of identity; knowing itself differently. [...]

PRACTICE ELEMENT 1

[...] Deeper, however, is the fact that the belief in an unsafe universe sets up certain habits of resistance, and more practically, of self-protection. [...] It shows itself in fears that seem perfectly realistic, and indeed highly practical—the feeling itself is not let go of easily, for you and others rely upon it. [...]

[...] In that context you do not trust good fortune—indeed, it seems practical not to trust it. [...]

In your world, however, and according to your beliefs, some “realistic” events had to prove out the practicality of the safe universe in publishing terms —so you have a creative conflict.

[...] Now, these become “practical,” where before they were not considered so. [...]

[...] Jane thought, idly, that some foods would not be practical for Bill to eat. She then received the brief message from Seth, to the effect that our ideas of practicality are often hardly practical.

It is extremely difficult, but it is possible for the human system to close off, for all practical purposes, a channel that has been used for the flow of such an impeding action. [...]

We will discuss what you call suggestion in more practical terms, for your particular uses. [...]

2. In Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality, Seth designed all but two of his eight exercises, or practice elements, to help the reader directly explore some of the aspects of probable realities — although even the exceptions (numbers 6 and 8) aren’t far removed from probability concepts. His first practice element grew out of Jane’s projection into a probable past in her hometown of Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

PRACTICE ELEMENT 9

I want to begin a series of sessions dealing in rather practical terms with those events that follow immediately after physical death.

[...] He will want perhaps practical experience in communication with others. [...]

[...] With the change in Ruburt’s whole attitude, I hope that I can make many of my points more clearly, and give you quite practical training. [...]

What Seth is alluding to is that the practice of Psy-Time does stretch normal consciousness. [...]

These achievements begin with the simple practice of Psy-Time. [...]

[...] So I want you all to practice on your own. I will not say that practice makes perfect, but at least it gives you a chance. [...]

This sort of experience involves a sudden psychic awareness that all boundaries are for practical purposes only … There are many kinds of science, however, besides your own. [...] Had the human race gone into certain mental disciplines as thoroughly as it has explored technology, then its practical transportation system would be vastly different and far more efficient.

[...] Even the mental enzymes themselves are interchangeable, as far as the principle behind them is concerned, though for practical purposes they maintain separate and distinct qualities in their materializations in one plane.

In practical terms, these mental enzymes must — and do — give a predictable, more or less dependable, result. [...]

[...] To conform to the laws of a particular plane is a practical necessity, and at this time, the ‘saucers’ cannot afford to stay betwixt and between for any indefinite period.

The situation made, you examine your own beliefs also, and to realize that you are generally in a state of excellent, practical health. [...] Despite beliefs you have that are less than advantageous, you have been in good practical health. [...]

Now: This discussion is not meant to be an esoteric presentation with little practical meaning in your daily lives. The fact is that while you hold limited concepts of your own reality, then you cannot practically take advantage of many abilities that are your own; and while you have a limited concept of the soul, then to some extent you cut yourself off from the source of your own being and creativity.

[...] In later chapters of this book, I hope to give you some practical information that will enable you to alter practically the very nature and structure of daily life.

[...] The information is not practical in your terms, because it denies your direct experience. Upon request, however, and with some practice, you can suggest in the middle of a dream that it expand to its larger proportions. [...]

[...] Your mind dreams in joyful pleasure at using itself, freed from the concerns of practical living. [...] The spontaneous activity, however, is at the same time training in the art of forming practical events.