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UR1 Section 1: Session 686 February 27, 1974
neurological
selectivity
carriage
pulses
corporal
– The "Unknown" Reality: Volume One
– © 2012 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Section 1: You and the “Unknown” Reality
– Session 686: Man’s Early Consciousness and the Birth of Memory. Selectivity, Specialization, and “Official” Reality
– Session 686 February 27, 1974 9:45 P.M. Wednesday
Mankind’s consciousness, however, experimented along time-specific lines. As he developed along those lines, various biological and mental methods of selectivity and discrimination were utilized. When in historic terms mankind became aware of memory, and recalled his past as a past in your terms, it was possible for him to confuse past and present. Vivid memories, out of context but given immediate neurological validity, could compete with the brilliant focus necessary in his present.1
Though the past is actually quite as immediate, alive, and creative as the present is, man made certain adjustments, on several layers, that would focus definite distinctions and set past and present experience apart. While your particular kind of consciousness was developing, it began to intensify selectivity, to concentrate specifically in a small area of activity while blocking out other data. This was necessary because the particular kind of physical manipulation of corporal existence required instant physical response to immediately present stimuli.
(9:55.) Such selectivity and specialization therefore represented a pertinent method, as consciousness familiarized itself with earthly experience. Hunters had to respond at once to the present situation. In time terms, the “present” animal had to be killed for food — not the “past” animal. That animal — the past one — existed as surely as the one presently perceived, yet in man’s context, physical action had to be directed to a highly specific area, for physical survival depended upon it.
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UR1 Section 1: Session 682 February 13, 1974
units
propensities
unpredictability
probable
selection
– The "Unknown" Reality: Volume One
– © 2012 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Section 1: You and the “Unknown” Reality
– Session 682: Basic Units of Consciousness (CU’s). Immortality and Probabilities
– Session 682 February 13, 1974 9:27 P.M. Wednesday
(10:36.) Propensity is a selection of significance, an inclination toward the formation of selected experience.
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These basic units move toward organizations then of a selective nature. Having an unpredictable field to draw from, they select activity according to those significances.
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What you think of as daily life is then a focus upon certain probable events above others, a choosing of significances, a selection of pattern. Other portions of the self follow different selections.
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UR1 Section 1: Session 685 February 25, 1974
Preface
network
selectivity
desultorily
ostensibly
– The "Unknown" Reality: Volume One
– © 2012 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Section 1: You and the “Unknown” Reality
– Session 685: The Body as Your “Home Station.” More on Basic Units of Consciousness
– Session 685 February 25, 1974 9:51 P.M. Monday
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Now, because of the selectivity mentioned earlier,1 certain directions may be easier than others, and some may appear impossible.
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The conscious mind as you normally think of it directs your overall action, and its ideas determine the kind of selectivity you use.
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1. Seth discusses selectivity in the 682nd session at 10:36.
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UR1 Section 1: Session 684 February 20, 1974
units
fluctuates
poised
blink
selectivity
– The "Unknown" Reality: Volume One
– © 2012 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Section 1: You and the “Unknown” Reality
– Session 684: CU’s, EE Units, and the Body. “The Cells Precognate.” Heredity and Precognition
– Session 684 February 20, 1974 9:42 P.M. Wednesday
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On one level the body’s very survival is largely determined by the units’ propensities for selectivity and significance.
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However, the particular selectivity of your kind of consciousness rides over lapses that you do not recognize.
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The “holes (spelled) of nonexistence” are plugged up by the process of selectivity.
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UR1 Appendix 4: (For Session 685)
sidepools
neurological
bypass
Saratoga
linear
– The "Unknown" Reality: Volume One
– © 2012 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Appendix 4: Sidepools of Consciousness. Probable Neurological Connections and New Memories
– (For Session 685)
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(As I type I add: We forget anything not pertinent to our selected series of probable actions.
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“Now, physically, neurological action is a code for other actions that usually can’t be experienced at once because of the selectivity mentioned earlier.2
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He was moving into other selectivities.
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TPS4 Deleted Session October 10, 1977
Dineen
James
Carol
Rusty
Hal
– The Personal Sessions: Book 4 of The Deleted Seth Material
– © 2016 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Deleted Session October 10, 1977 9:58 PM Monday
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Our young woman selectively interpreted her experience with the interpretation of names, for example, as given this evening—but that selectivity led her exactly where she wanted to go, and in certain terms she actually did ignore any data that did not lead her in a desired direction. So, while it may seem impractical, you do the same thing when you selectively pay attention to Ruburt’s improvements and selectively ignore areas of difficulty.
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The living people, so involved in this network, will have their own other encounters, of course, but again through a psychological selectivity.
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TES3 Session 92 September 28, 1964
dreamer
dream
cohesiveness
object
universe
– The Early Sessions: Book 3 of The Seth Material
– © 2013 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Session 92 September 28, 1964 9 PM Monday as Scheduled
He would wonder what collective madness made or permitted man to select, from a virtual infinity of what would appear as chaos, to select a handful, a mere handful, of similarities and call it a universe.
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If a dream object or event does so straddle what you call not only time but space, and if as I say dream objects and creations maintain some independence from the dreamer, then you must see that although the dreamer creates his dreams for his own purposes, selecting only those symbols which have meaning to him, he nevertheless projects them outward in a value fulfillment and psychic expansion.
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The dream means something to the individual who originates it, selects its elements most carefully, but in order for him to use it he must create it.
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NoPR Part One: Chapter 5: Session 623, October 25, 1972
sound
assessment
Speakers
glasses
inner
– The Nature of Personal Reality
– © 2011 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Part One: Where You and the World Meet
– Chapter 5: The Constant Creation of the Physical Body
– Session 623, October 25, 1972 9:45 P.M. Wednesday
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It is because of this highly selective quality that you can “tune into” the particular range of activity that is physical.
In their own way, animals also possess this selective consciousness.
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Now the animals’ conscious minds, connected with their physical brains, make this necessary selectivity possible.
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UR1 Section 1: Session 683 February 18, 1974
bulb
multipersonhood
personhood
units
herd
– The "Unknown" Reality: Volume One
– © 2012 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Section 1: You and the “Unknown” Reality
– Session 683: “You are Multipersons.” Reincarnation, Probabilities, and Other Versions of Consciousness
– Session 683 February 18, 1974 9:39 P.M. Monday
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(Pause.) The particular kind of significance settled upon would act both as a directive for experience and as a method of erecting effective boundaries, within which the selected kind of behavior would continue. The units can and do intermix, yet because of the propensity for selectivity and significance, whole groups of them will “repel” other whole groups, thus providing a protective inner system of interaction.
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Selections are made as to the areas of concentration.
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Your idea of one soul, one self, forms a significance and a selectivity that blinds you to these other realities that are as much “here and now” as your present self.
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SS Part One: Chapter 7: Session 530, May 20, 1970
superself
intense
shadowy
perceive
table
– Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul
– © 2012 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Part One
– Chapter 7: The Potentials of the Soul
– Session 530, May 20, 1970, 9:19 P.M. Wednesday
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You choose one particular group of these, and latch upon this group of events as the only ones possible, not realizing that you have selected from an infinite variety of past events.
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In this probable evening (humorously) I select that probable alternative.
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DEaVF2 Chapter 9: Session 919, June 9, 1980
master
overlays
Christianity
events
original
– Dreams, "Evolution", and Value Fulfillment: Volume Two
– © 2012 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Chapter 9: Master Events and Reality Overlays
– Session 919, June 9, 1980 9:15 P.M. Monday
I am not here specifically blaming Christianity, for far before its emergence, your ideas (underlined) and beliefs about good and evil [were] far more important in all matters regarding the species than any simple questions of genetic variances, natural selection, or environmental influence. In man’s case, at least, the selection of who should live or die was often anything but natural.
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NoPR Part Two: Chapter 15: Session 656, April 16, 1973
loneliness
robbers
age
convictions
unhealthy
– The Nature of Personal Reality
– © 2011 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Part Two: Your Body as Your Own Unique Living Sculpture. Your Life as Your Most Intimate Work of Art, and the Nature of Creativity as It Applies to Your Personal Experience
– Chapter 15: Which You? Which World? Only You Can Answer. How to Free Yourself from Limitations
– Session 656, April 16, 1973 9:14 P.M. Monday
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The actual work involved in the selection of data is still made according to the beliefs in the artist’s conscious mind as to who he is, how good an artist he is, what kind of artist he is, what “school” of artistic beliefs he subscribes to, his ideas of society and his place in it, and esthetic and economic values, to name but a few.
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The present as you think of it, and in practical working terms, is that point at which you select your physical experience from all those events that could be materialized.
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WTH Part Two: Chapter 14: August 1, 1984
choked
recovery
panic
tougher
pillow
– The Way Toward Health
– © 2011 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Part Two: Starting Over
– Chapter 14: Nirvana, Right is Might, Onward Christian Soldiers, and the Human Body as a Planet Worth Saving
– August 1, 1984 3:13 P.M. Wednesday
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I selected them at random this morning, but picked just those I wanted, for their import is that Jane has no disease, as Seth has insisted all along.
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TES6 Session 254 April 27, 1966
kettle
Lilliard
teapot
gliddiard
looming
– The Early Sessions: Book 6 of The Seth Material
– © 2013 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Session 254 April 27, 1966 9 PM Wednesday as Scheduled
It is of course necessary at this stage of your development that selectivity be used, and that some standards be drawn that will effectively define apparent limitations and boundaries.
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All events are known in advance, but still there is a selectivity that is unknown.
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UR1 Section 3: Session 695 May 6, 1974
Mama
Papa
ancestors
children
official
– The "Unknown" Reality: Volume One
– © 2012 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Section 3: The Private Probable Man, The Private Probable Woman, The Species in Probabilities, And Blueprints for Realities
– Session 695: Practice Elements 2–5. A Session of Exercises for the Reader
– Session 695 May 6, 1974 9:29 P.M. Monday
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In the 686th session he referred to “official data” when he considered ancient man’s selection of certain mental and biological pulses as physical reality; later in the same session, he used the self-explanatory “official history.”
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TES9 Jane’s Notes Tuesday October 22, 1968
giant
pyramid
peering
massive
shrinking
– The Early Sessions: Book 9 of The Seth Material
– © 2014 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Jane’s Notes Tuesday October 22, 1968
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The meaning of the experience is stated in the final part of the session, so there is no need to go into it here; suffice it to say that the experience had a meaning, was not random but highly selective, and would be listed in our classification as “experiencing a concept.”
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DEaVF2 Chapter 7: Session 910, April 23, 1980
genetic
mice
thymus
research
idiots
– Dreams, "Evolution", and Value Fulfillment: Volume Two
– © 2012 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Chapter 7: Genetics and Reincarnation. Gifts and “Liabilities.” The Vast Sweep of the Genetic and Reincarnational Scales. The Gifted and the Handicapped
– Session 910, April 23, 1980 9:06 P.M. Wednesday
But granted or not, the idea of any sort of genetic preparation for future contingencies collides with the very powerful theory of evolution, which holds that evolutionary, genetic changes take place only through natural selection and chance mutations (although random or chance mutations are generally regarded as mistakes on nature’s part).
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It still has value, and recently has been employed in some remarkable scholarly studies that show how, in scientific terms, evolution can take place through means other than natural selection and chance mutations.)
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UR2 Appendix 12: (For Session 705)
evolution
Darwin
appendix
dna
realism
– The "Unknown" Reality: Volume Two
– © 2012 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Appendix 12: Seth’s Ideas on Evolution and Related Subjects. A Discussion of Evolution as Seen by Science, Religion, and Philosophy
– (For Session 705)
(Ironically, Charles Darwin’s natural selection, “the survival of the fittest,” [a phrase that Darwin himself did not originate, by the way], allows for all sorts of pain and suffering in the process — the same unhappy facts of life, in Darwin’s view, that finally turned him into an agnostic, away from a God who could allow such things to exist!
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Instead, he assigned the pain and suffering in the world to the impersonal workings of natural selection and chance variation [or genetic mutation].
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(I think it more than a coincidence that in these excerpts from Seth Speaks, Seth mentions Darwin’s theory of evolution and the Biblical story of creation in the same sentence, for those systems of belief represent the two poles of the controversy over origins in our modern Western societies: the strictly Darwinistic, mechanistic view of evolution, in which the weakest of any species are ruthlessly eliminated through natural, predatory selection, and the views of the creationists, who hold that God made the earth and all of its creatures just as described in the Bible.
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Instead, I think that what has been learned so far offers only possible variations within the idea of evolution, for the talk is still about the origin of life out of nonlife, followed by the climb up the scale of living complexity; most evolutionists think that natural selection, or the survival of the fittest, still applies.
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