Now the length of this interval would seem unbelievably brief from some perspectives or systems, and centuries long, you see, if viewed from different systems. [...]

[...] In view of the printed note data on page 290, we believe Jane came very close to allowing Seth to name the envelope object.

[...] When visitors enter your home, they do not see it exactly as you do because they also view it through the screen of their beliefs. [...]

[...] Given those points, she’s bound to have differences of belief with other views of reality.

[...] (See the 644th session in Chapter Eleven.) From the present you have hypnotized yourself, viewing the past not as it was to your experience, but as it appears now in the light of your current beliefs.

[...] The poet’s view of the universe and of nature is more scientific, then, than the scientists’, for more of nature is comprehended.

[...] Basically both the dream world and the ideas of the inner mind do not have their existence in time, although they may be visible from the perspective of time, viewed from the physical form.

If cause and effect were an absolute law, then continuity would also have to be an absolute law, and all or any evidences of clairvoyance, or viewing the future, would be absolutely impossible, even in your universe, and this simply is not so. [...]

[...] You are then “lost” in the writing as much as you feared being lost in normal living, with no way to step aside and view the experience. [...]

[...] The members of each “species” — and you had better put that in quotes — of consciousness relate to physical experience in their characteristic ways, even viewing time, space, and action differently. [...]

[...] But if you could view them, each individual unit would have its poles lined up in the same manner. [...]

There is a reason why you view daily physical existence in a different manner while you are within it. [...]

In a fashion this would indeed represent a very desirable arrangement over a period of years, one that Ruburt could take advantage of, one that could serve you by also presenting you with a different framework through which to view your painting and visual world, one in which the idea of water as motion was always present. [...]

[...] Behind all this, of course, would be the belief that caused the difficulty; but once you have brought about a group of symptoms you must be very careful that you do not begin to view your field of reality from that position. [...]

I have given you my own views as closely as I can. [...]

A GOODBYE AND AN INTRODUCTION: ASPECTS OF
MULTIDIMENSIONAL PERSONALITY
AS VIEWED THROUGH MY OWN EXPERIENCE

Now: We will begin the next chapter, and we will call it: “A Good-bye and an Introduction: Aspects of Multidimensional Personality as Viewed Through My Own Experience.”

An identity can appear, be perceived in more than one place, but in such a case there is but one identity being viewed from many perspectives.

[...] The Sinful Self’s material is too long and complicated to describe here, except to say that it contains the Sinful Self’s own view of reality and its relationship to Jane’s background and work, it’s regrets, its defensive attitudes, its questions, and its genuine puzzlement that man has for so long —perhaps for most of history, indeed—persisted in the creation of and reliance upon such entities as the Sinful Self. [...]

Now, because it seemed to you for so long that you could not move freely in your own life, that you did not paint full time, you got in the habit of automatically viewing all change as negative. [...]

[...] When an artist is painting a landscape, he might unconsciously compare hundreds of landscapes viewed in the past in multitudinous, seemingly forgotten hues that splashed upon the grass or trees, or as he seeks for a new creative combination. [...]

1. Jane’s book (which is now being typeset) is The Afterdeath Journal of an American Philosopher: The World View of William James. [...]

(During our talk I’d cited a long list of things that in my view Jane has given up over the years, at the never-satisfied behest of portions of the personality that were now in complete control. [...]

“A gray view.” [...]

[...] Seth hadn’t first given impressions of the envelope object itself, then neatly moved on to deal with the entire page; he had shifted back and forth between the two, as if viewing both at once. [...]

[...] An earlier test was extremely illuminating from a different standpoint, convincing us that the original extrasensory perception is general, like an overall view of a large area. [...]