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The so-called stream of consciousness is simply that — one small stream of thoughts, images, and impressions — that is part of a much deeper river of consciousness that represents your own far greater existence and experience. [...]
[...] You may at times for example, hear words, or see images that appear out of context with your own thoughts. [...]
Some of these may involve the thoughts of what you would call a reincarnational self, focused in another period of history as you know it. [...]
[...] In view of earlier material I remembered, I thought the 67th- year information was a distortion, and that such a distortion was natural enough when one talked about one’s own passing. I also thought that all such predictions, whether favorable or not, depended upon probabilities, in line with the latest material we have been getting. [...]
(Before the session, Bill G. told Jane he thought she possessed healing ability—to her surprise. [...]
[...] Through your own thoughts you direct the body’s expression, and it can be of health or of illness. [...]
[...] As you learn to use your thoughts, or even as they naturally change, resulting alterations take place within the cells. [...]
[...] It is true that the old interactions between an associative pattern of thought and its habitual action may be broken down, but it is also true that the inner-ordered structure has been shocked psychically and biologically.
[...] Consciously he thought the light must have been caused by lightning, even while he knew with another portion of himself that that was not the case.
[...] Since it was lying unobtrusively among my things on a shelf I thought Jane had not been aware of it. She later confirmed this, saying she thought I had thrown it out at the time we removed it.
No physical matter is without this electromagnetic reality, and no thought exists which does not exist within this reality. [...]
[...] Last night, we had reminders that a natural rhythmic cycle was completing itself six months later: As we retired I thought I heard the barking of geese migrating north, although Jane didn’t. I woke up around four a.m., though, and heard a flight clearly in the silent hour. [...]
[...] I thought she might not want to go back into trance tonight, but at 9:30 she said she was ready. [...]
Man is so highly verbal that he finds it difficult to understand that other species work with idea-complexes (with a hyphen) of a different kind, in which of course thought as you consider it is not involved. [...]
Such “thinking” exists, using the analogy, within the framework of instinct, whereas your own verbalized thoughts can also intrude outside of that framework. [...]
Now when I said in the last class session that I preferred, if you must project your thoughts and images upon me that, instead of thinking of me as a wise old man, you thought of me as a lark in the morning, I meant because I am such an old bird. [...]
You have been much given to thoughts of death this evening. [...]
[...] I just wasn’t sure if I had misunderstood that you had said this set of circumstances had been decided by a previous personality, in our terms, and I thought you had probably meant by the whole self.”)
[...] The feeling also in your early past you had thought of escaping, looked in that direction and found structures. [...] The structures also represented neat pyramids of thought that were bright, shiny, smooth and prefabricated in a way. [...]
[...] But Ruburt did not want to add his ideas to this discussion, he wanted to find out what you thought, and so I should, by rights, not add mine. [...]
(Pause at 10:01.) Like many, however, he was brought up to believe that the intellect’s function was mainly to dissect, criticize, and analyze, rather than for instance to creatively unite and build, colon: and analysis was thought of as separating the elements of a concept rather than restricting original concepts. New concepts were thought of as intuitional or psychic, as opposed to the conventional duties of the intellect, so the two seemed separate. [...] This actually provided an excellent transitory working method, for what he thought of as intuitions would instantly come up with a new psychic construct in answer to what he thought of as intellectual scrutiny and skepticism. [...]
[...] I thought: ‘I’m being filled to the brim’; and for a moment I wondered if I’d been fitted with a spectacular new pair of glasses. [...]
[...] Given Seth’s concept of simultaneous time, I thought I might have glimpsed another existence — whether a reincarnational one or a probable one — that I was living now.
This afternoon, Monday, I decided upon a nap once again, and once again I was aware of myself as the Roman officer; at least I thought I was that individual. [...]
[...] “Boy, if it’s still here, I’ve had it,” I thought. [...] I thought of waking Rob to tell him, but decided not to interrupt his sleep.
[...] So I got up, drank a glass of milk, and thought of all the things I should have done—like saying grandly: “Get thou behind me, Satan,” or some such. The least I could have done, I thought, was bite back.
[...] In one man’s mind he has seen your image however, and there is some telepathic communication operating both ways, but both of you accept the thoughts as your own.
[...] I now knew which two Seth referred to; strangely enough, I hadn’t thought of them as being of the same personality at all. [...]
[...] In one way she forces him to stay when he would retire, and when her thoughts are not strongly with him he will attempt to escape further.
[...] But he still feels arousement at her thoughts of him as well as her visits.
In your society, it is generally thought that a person must have a decent livelihood, a family or other close relationships, good health, and a sense of belonging if the individual is to be at all productive, happy, or content.
[...] Disastrous events thought to originate in a god’s wrath could at least be understood in that context, but many of you live in a subjective world in which the events of your lives appear to have no particular reason — or indeed sometimes seem to happen in direct opposition to your wishes….
[...] The thought had crossed my mind that by deliberately waving the card at her from my second-floor studio window, I could almost make that part of that dream come true.
(It wasn’t until I was typing up these notes at 9 PM on the same day, that Jane realized she could have been in at least a light trance while giving the material; at first she thought she had not been, but then realized she retained only a hazy idea of the material’s content—just that it was optimistic. [...]
[...] She felt a rather light sense of strain from the weekly routine, she said, and thought the change would be revitalizing. We thought it would be possible also to recoup on the Instream objects.
[...] How cruel we could be to ourselves, I thought, and this reminded me of my old questions about why the body consciousness itself didn’t just rebel at times and refuse to let itself be so beaten down by erroneous beliefs. [...]
[...] Nor do I. Perhaps, even knowing Jane’s unique creative abilities as well as we do, we’re each somewhat daunted by the thought that consciously we might not be able to concentrate enough on two such projects at once. [...]
Illness and Neurological Prejudice
Thoughts and beliefs as stimulating and directing probable cell reactions.
[...] She’d written the dreams down, as usual, while wondering about their significance without being able to explain them: “But this material doesn’t go into Adventures,” she noted after one of the dreams, since she’d thought of that possibility first.