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(Pause at 9:57.) Let those who will, laugh at tales of spirits turning into the trees⁵ — a simplistic theory, certainly, yet a symbolic statement in such societies: The dead were buried at home in the same close territory, to form in later times the very composition of the ground upon which religions grew. [...]

[...] Your inclusion of the hospital mixup in the tale was, as, you suspected, connected with the medical ideas you have been dealing with of late (in extra notes for Mass Events, and the book by the physician) — and here was an excellent fictional idea, you see, that could, among other things, bring those ideas into prominence.

(Seth:) You have tales, but tonight is not the night of telling. [...]

[...] His tale showed that Jane’s efforts of the night before had largely been futile. [...]

[...] To listen to all the tales that your selves tell you, to the secrets that fly through the air, and that is what I have been telling you all this time. [...]

[...] But had I not inserted these little sessions with emotion, and they are, indeed, fairy tales, then there would have been no chance for any joint ventures such as those that I have in mind and have had in mind for some time. [...]

[...] Since his first tale to Jane we have heard subsequent stories about his car, the most recent being how he stripped several gears.

Some ancient tales have come down through the centuries that tell of various gods and demons who guard the gates, so to speak, of other levels of reality and stages of consciousness. [...]

[...] Sex, regardless of all your fleshy tales, is a psychic phenomenon, merely certain qualities which you called male and female. [...]

[...] Remember early tales he tells about feeling guilty for buying a lipstick. [...]

At about the same time many intelligent persons were realizing that organized religions’ ideas of God, and of heaven and hell, were distorted, unjust, and smacked of children’s fairy tales. [...]

He will write a story otherwise not only excellent but saleable, and put in one or two lines and a tinge throughout the tale, to make it unsaleable.

[...] In his dreams by then he would be a well-known writer, and that was the glorious end of the tale.

From the 742nd session in Section 6: “Atlantis is a land that you want to inhabit, appearing in your literature, your dreams, and your fantasies, serving as an impetus for development … It carries also, however, the imprint of your fears, for the tales say that Atlantis was destroyed. [...]

[...] Animals know of weather conditions ahead of time, as old tales say. [...]

You will have your tales, but tonight is not the night of telling. [...]

New paragraph: Despite all “realistic” pragmatic tales to the contrary, the natural state of life itself is one of joy, acquiescence with itself — a state in which action is effective, and the power to act is a natural right. [...]

From Session 838 for March 5: “I want to avoid tales of the transmigration of the souls of men to animals, say — a badly distorted version of something else entirely. [...]

[...] The movie on TV’s channel 2 was a bloody tale of youths being killed one by one by wicked, deranged men, near monsters, in dark summer woods. [...]

In terms of this life, the justification of existence entered in, as I told you; the tale that he told himself in other words to see that he did his work.