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The vision will take another form, but if you have faithfully followed through, then the vision and its adopted form become one moment point. (Pause.) Allow the vision to express itself in form; again, do not attempt to impose the form upon the vision. The form should grow out of the vision.

Therefore concern yourself with the vision and the other matters will take care of themselves. The vision must always be allowed freedom, for it is greater than its form. That is important. The vision shapes itself. Let your hand follow your intuitions then, and the form will be seen to vibrate, for then the form and the vision are one.

The development will come naturally from within, following the general trend followed by these inner visions. Because you are you, you will attract your own unique visions, and if you follow these suggestions each vision will indicate its form and medium, and the general pattern of these will then be seen to be following along certain lines.

The technique can follow beautifully through as a handmaiden of the intuitions. The technique can be channels of line through which feeling may flow. (Long pause.) Let the medium and technique follow naturally from the original vision. Allow the vision then to take its own form. But do not impose (underlined)a form upon it. Then this fine technique will be truly used to advantage.

[...] I had not mentioned the vision to them, and asked Jane to wait before she did so. As Bill Gallagher walked down the hall away from us upon departing, I saw that he wore a long black coat with I believe a hood upon it—a garment quite like that he wore in the vision, and one I possessed no special knowledge of in his wardrobe.

(Yesterday afternoon, November 28, while working in my studio in the back of our apartment, I had a vision of a painting. [...]

(The vision was very clear, lasted for a long enough period to observe easily, and gave me strong thrilling sensations. [...]

(The vision had one oddity—I stood at my desk working at something else when I became aware of it to my left. [...]

(The effect, which always reminded me of a mirage, began with a smallish, bright sawtooth pattern of light just to the right of my direct line of vision. Now, with memory of almost-forgotten episodes returning, I knew that this brilliant, shimmering pattern could spread so that as I looked at an object it would be obliterated, even while I still had peripheral vision.

[...] At the same time Jane began to describe the smile she perceived in the painting; I could see the painting well enough when she asked me to check it, although my vision effect was still building. [...] By 9:15 the last traces of it were gone and my vision was clear.

(2. My effect concerns an interference in my vision, without an actual loss of sight. [...]

[...] When the interference had been strong, covering most of the field of vision, I had experienced a peculiar sense of both darkness and light, with the objective world indistinguishable within what I can only describe as a field of patterned, alternating lightness and darkness that possessed a velvety depth.

(Before the session I described to Jane my dream of Wednesday, December 6;and the second vision I had, of another painting, on the evening of Thursday November 30; the first painting vision being the one of Bill Gallagher on November 28,1967, and discussed by Seth in the 382rd session.

(I also described to Jane a vision I had upon awakening on Saturday morning, Dec. [...]

The visions will continue on your part. [...]

[...] (Long pause, eyes closed.) These will be, I believe, a series of visions, extending over some time. [...]

[...] You sense the overall shape of the book, often clearly, but because of the workings of functional consciousness, when you must focus upon a particular passage, that focus necessarily precludes the overall vision at the same time.

When you are involved in such work, it is handy to idly switch back and forth with no particular passage in mind, then often the first passage your eyes fall upon will be precisely seen, and yet its part in the whole also instantly apparent, so that the two visions merge.

Sit with your eyes open easily, letting your vision take in whatever is before you. [...] On the other hand, do explore the entire field of vision simultaneously. [...]

[...] Make no attempt to unify vision and hearing. [...]

[...] You may feel that it has a certain position in your inner vision, or in your head, or you may find that you have your own symbol to represent it. [...]

In our just-previous exercise, when I spoke of having you let your clear perception drop away, and told you to disconnect vision from hearing, you were drifting in terms of your own home station. [...]

[...] In conventional art you end up with a product on many such occasions—a book or painting or whatever—as you attempt to define in physical terms the reality of an inner existence with which you have always been familiar, and to leave in physical reality some evidence, however slight, of inner visions that flicker within all consciousness. [...]

[...] The concerns of the world, its progress or lack of it, the nature of existence—none of those issues would interfere with such an artistic vision. [...]

[...] He could have been a far better artist still, for if his vision was intense, my dear friend, it was cramped, and it moved within itself in an agony to find a creative release that could never be found in the creative product alone, but in the psyche from which that product emerges. [...]

[...] Add to that list the belief that the great artist or writer concentrates upon his or her art so intensely and single-mindedly, and single-heartedly, that the focus itself forces the artist or poet to use those abilities to their utmost, or that great genius demands one-sided vision and a denial of the world. [...]

[...] Although this vision was gone before I realized what was happening, I felt that as far as its duration was concerned I had been somewhat successful in maintaining it; by comparison this one lasted much longer than any of my previous visions.

(The second vision came, I believe, soon after the first one. [...] The vision was of a bald male head, off center on this screen to my right as I looked at it. [...]

(I am now going to make drawings of the two visions, as I did of my vision of Dick.

(Last night, Thursday, April 23, 1964, while trying psychological time before dropping off to sleep at about 9:30 PM, I had two separate and distinct visions.

(10:02.) Paul (Saul of Tarsus) had his vision. Now the vision (in which Paul not only saw the light of Christ, but heard his voice) happened in the world of fact. [...] Paul had a vision in response to the needs, desires, and dictates of his own psyche as it was connected to the world of his time, following the patterns of stories about Christ that he had heard that had begun to release within him a great yearning that was, in that vision, then, expressed.⁴

[...] Jane had told me earlier in the week that she didn’t think Paul had received a vision or communication from Jesus Christ.

[...] Jim agreed with us—and Seth, incidentally—that Jane’s trouble with double vision was muscular in nature. He decided against using prisms to unify her visions because of frequent problems people had with nausea, etc. [...]

[...] He also promised to call an ophthalmologist friend of his, to explain Jane’s case to him and hear what this individual—a Dr. Werner—had to say about Jane’s double vision. Thus, tonight in his call Jim told me that Dr. Werner had said that Jane’s double vision was “the end result” of something muscular in nature. [...]

[...] Events began to come to a head last week with the professional visit of “our” optometrist, Jim Adams, to check Jane’s double vision problems.

(9:27.) Visions of an entirely different nature, seemingly saying different things, can still be highly legitimate visions, leading in fact by different routes toward other larger reconciliations. [...]

[...] It is important to realize that in usual terms even great visions need not agree with each other. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Because your world is built around a certain charged acceptance of beliefs so thoroughly, it usually seems as if reality as you perceive it is the one that must be inevitably perceived, while all others have the status of hallucinatory visions at the very best. [...]

The earliest poets were probably half shaman, half prophet, speaking for the forces of nature, for the “spirits” of the living and the dead, voicing their visions of man’s unity with the universe. They spoke their messages, sang their songs, chanted their visions aloud. [...] Perhaps the Seth sessions themselves harken back to some ancient time when we received much of our pertinent information about ourselves in just such a fashion: one of us journeying for the others into the “mass unconsciousness” — a journey that somehow altered and expanded the personality — and then communicating our visions as best we could.

[...] I see it as harking back to the poet’s original role; to explore the reaches of his or her private psyche, pushing against usual psychological boundaries until they give, opening up a new mystical territory — the psyche of the people, of the species itself — perceiving a spectacular vision of inner reality that the poet then communicates to the people, translating that vision through words, rhythm, or songs.

[...] And we weren’t given any magical immunity from the unfortunate results of such cramped vision. [...]

(In answer to some questions I asked, she said that when she reads with her right eye open and the left one closed, she gets no double vision. [...] I told her her vision would continue to improve, and am very enthusiastic about this. [...]

[...] Increased circulation in the head and shoulder area is also responsible for the improvement of his vision. [...]

(I then showed Jim and Bill the two drawings of my visions of the night before; I did the drawings this afternoon. [...] As it happened, both drawings were rather successful; I felt I had done a good job of getting my memory of the visions down on paper.

Nor is it any coincidence that the picture which you drew as a result of your vision struck him so forcibly. [...]

The picture which you drew was the result of a vision you received last night, and my dear friends, the picture represents two things. [...]

[...] You knew he was coming consciously, and in your inner vision you saw many things and made of them one image. [...]

Give us a moment … It’s your version of worrying that desired effects may not be brought into the present — that is, will not come into your close vision. When you feel that way, close your eyes, if only for a moment, reassure yourself that you can trust your vision — mental and physical — and that indeed your goals will be brought into clear focus.

(“I hadn’t planned on asking about this this afternoon — but lately I’ve noticed that my close-up vision without glasses isn’t as sharp as it used to be. [...]

With the vision came its explanation. [...] The vision was so clear that Rob instantly made a quick sketch of it. [...]

It is true that Joseph receives much more data through inner visions. In the past, he has more or less translated this data automatically, without realizing it, into paintings, with no memory of any vision at all. [...]

[...] With no transition or advance notice, a vision appeared to him. [...]

Rob’s vision was spontaneous. [...]

(On page 177 of the last session Seth mentioned a recent vision of mine, and promised to discuss it further this evening. [...] It took place in December, as I lay in bed suspended in that pleasant interlude between waking and sleeping; I’ve had other visions while in this state, incidentally.

[...] Jane began to question me; she told me the next morning that I described the vision to her while speaking in a sleepy monotone. [...] This is certainly true; this vision is as vivid and clear in memory today as it was a second after it ended. [...]

[...] At the fringes of my field of vision I saw that the face containing these magnificent eyes was quite hairy, covered by long black shining hair almost as though I was visualizing a throwback to more primitive man. [...]

[...] I blamed myself for not knowing enough to suspend any conscious judgment; I felt I had enough background knowledge to go along with this vision, to see what developed, yet I had reacted in what I thought a foolish way.

(Tuesday, May 12, 8:15 PM: Upper center of my field of vision; I saw [...]

(Also at this same time: Lower center of my field of vision; I saw a pack of dogs of various breeds and sizes, one of them a Dalmatian. [...]

[...] But in the meantime there is much variation, unevenness, and times when the vision is quite unclear. [...]

The right leg is immediately before his vision, however — it is highly visible, so that he often compares its position unfavorably with that of the other leg. [...]

[...] It might help if now and then he imagines his walking taking place as easily and naturally as his thoughts come and go, and in ways as mysterious as the way his vision operates, when it is suddenly clearer, and he reads so much more quickly — for the quick reading will soon be the norm.

[...] The glasses came up cleansed, but together again, and the frames were updated—so that Ruburt’s fears, encountered as he is doing of late, actually allow him to see better and clear his vision. For they dissolve, and vision is restored.

He is afraid, of course, that if he “gives into” impulses other than writing for a day or so that he is lax, yet the exercise and relaxation of the body refreshes the soul and allows the intuitions their clear vision. [...]

[...] This shows that he was worried for his vision, and thought that only the one right eye would operate properly. [...]