[...] “Maybe Seth will talk about our own things instead of giving dictation — your material on your father [which I received this past Sunday evening], or what you got on your mother this afternoon. Or maybe he’ll talk about what I got on your mother the other day, or my strands-of-consciousness stuff for Psychic Politics.”

[...] As “Unknown” Reality is being produced Ruburt and Joseph are having their own experiences, and uncovering the nature of the unknown reality as it applies to them.

[...] My understanding rests upon what I am, as the mountain’s height rests upon what it is. [...]

“What selves do you encounter in time? And what makes you think that those selves exist in time as you understand it only? [...]

[...] In waking life you have the family that you recognize, or group of friends, or profession, or what have you. [...] In a way dreams are like variations of the theme of your life, though in reality your life is the theme you have chosen from those possible versions.

A direct cognition is involved in which each consciousness knows what each other one is doing, its “position,” and the implications of its experience. The entire fabric and framework of time and reality at each point is ascertained, and the probabilities probed and understood.

[...] In doing so, to some extent you multiply the creative possibilities of the universe, forming from it a personal reality that would otherwise be absent, in those terms; and in so doing you also add in an immeasurable fashion to the reality of all other consciousness by increasing the bank of reality from which all consciousness draws.

(Jane has just finished the final typing of her own The World View of Paul Cézanne, and now I’m ready to type the finished version of Volume I of Seth’s “Unknown” Reality. [...]

[...] You must understand that we experience our own reality in quite a different manner than you do. We are aware of what you would call our past selves, those personalities we have adopted in various other existences.

I communicate with your dimension, for example, not by willing myself to your level of reality, but by imagining myself there. All of my deaths would have been adventures had I realized what I know now. [...]

MY WORK AND THOSE DIMENSIONS OF
REALITY INTO WHICH IT TAKES ME

[...] We have far more friends and associates than you do, simply because we are aware of varying connections in what we call for now “past” incarnations.

[...] You have also formed the reality of your children and it is a good reality. [...]

[...] Far be it from me to speak to you if you would rather not hear what I have to say. [...]

[...] You were also close to hiding within your home with the cat and ignoring physical reality. [...]

([Rachel:]“Is this what happened to my husband?”)

[...] “I’ve been doing this book for so long by now,” Jane commented, “that I don’t know if it’s a great big sprawling thing without any order, or what. [...] “When I come out of trance I don’t know what the thing’s all about….” Out of habit, Jane — and consequently Seth — still talked about “Unknown” Reality as being one entity, even though just five days ago we’d learned from her editor that it would be published in two volumes.

Human capabilities will be seen as what they are, and a great new period of development will occur, in which all concepts of selfhood and reality will be literally seen as “primitive superstition.” [...]

“You are meant to judge physical reality. [...] When you imagine that you can annihilate a reality, you can only assault it as you know it. The reality itself will continue to exist.

In a probable reality, a Ruburt and a Joseph now live there. [...] I am speaking of deeper mechanisms of consideration (pause), in which correlations are made between interior and exterior realities. [...]

[...] None of you are helpless to change events, to change your health or your reality at this moment. [...] Every time you say, I am helpless, and I am slipping into chaos, whether you get laughs or not, or whether you say it humorously or not, you are indeed pushing yourself further into the chaos you are creating with every breath you take because you make no effort to change the nature of your thoughts and this is what you must do, exert your own control. [...]

[...] There is no other place where you can lay the blame and it is up to you, to each of you individually, to watch the nature of your thoughts for with your thoughts you created the body that you have, the individual realities that you know. [...] Now, there is no contradiction here with what I have said about spontaneity. [...]

The point I wanted to make is this—each thought is an electromagnetic reality on its own, a unique electromagnetic reality. [...] You not only attract negative conditions therefore in the physical world that you know, but you open yourselves up to these in the dream reality. [...]

[...] Concentrate upon what you have that is positive. [...] Learn again to re-educate yourself so that you understand what subjective happiness is and then see how you feel and what your problem is. [...]

[...] What we need are more skeptics who are not afraid to judge the claims of science with the same fine discrimination used to examine other alternate disciplines and fields of endeavor. Like The New York Times, science publishes “all the news that’s fit to print,” meaning all of the news that fits into the officially-accepted view of reality. [...]

[...] As was characteristic of us, also, we worked by ourselves for a long time as we attempted to learn more about what we were doing. [...]

[...] If Jane had planned to add to Seth’s original sessions, what might she have included? [...]

[...] It has since found itself denying the realities it arose to tame.

[...] When that point is reached, you will be able, if you prefer, to experience any ‘reality … illusion’ at your will, but the self who experiences these ‘reality … illusions’ will know itself as reality. There is no place for it to go, because it is the only reality, and will create its own environment.”

[...] I am one with what reality I create. [...]

[...] To explain his theories on the nature of physical reality, I’m using excerpts from a session in which he really demonstrated that he knew what he was talking about—if an apparition in the living room can pass as a legitimate approximation.

[...] Not until it was over did I realize what he’d been up to—now that’s a good psychologist! Gene had questioned Seth in what I guess you could call “professional philosophical jargon,” making frequent references to esoteric Eastern theories with which I was totally unfamiliar. [...]

[...] Because you see it in a mirror and experience its reality you take it for granted that it is real. [...] There are other portions of your reality also formed by your thoughts and emotions however, that are not so obvious to you. [...] I am referring to what you may call freewheeling energy that you release filled with your own intent and emotional coloration which has a reality in other spheres beside your own. This reality acts within the physical fear though its main existence is not within it. [...] It is a psychological reality or a psychic one if you prefer. [...] Now when you use all of your energy to manipulate in the physical reality there is little left to form such images. [...]

You are all multidimensional realities. You are learning to use your consciousness to become conscious cocreators of your own reality. [...]

(Sue used the term thought forms in explaining to Jane what Seth had said.)

(To Mary Ellen.) Explain what I did. [...]

(“Now [humorously]: no one asked me what it was like when I go into a trance. To go into a trance is simply to focus intensely in a highly specific area of reality. Therefore, I throw or project a part of what I am here because I am able to utilize greater areas of my personality than those with which you are now acquainted in yourselves. [...]

[...] The stages are there for those who know what they are and how to use them. [...] The other adjacent levels on the horizontal line, now, involve you in various alternate realities, each one a greater distance from your own. [...]

[...] However, they represent incipient latent developments that may or may not occur in physical reality. [...] The characteristic interest and abilities of the personality involved will have much to do with his recognition of the realities within this layer of consciousness.

[...] In the next level, for example, communication is possible with various kinds of consciousness that have never been physically manifested, in your terms — personalities who do not have a physical reality in either your present or future, yet who are connected with your system of reality both as guardians and custodians.

[...] (Long pause.) You form your own reality. That reality contributes to the experience of others, but each of you possesses a unique, original stance in space and time that is yours alone in quite practical terms, regardless of time’s relative existence.

[...] To pretend such situations do not exist, out of fear of them, will only bring the feared reality closer. It is far better to situate yourself firmly in your own reality, acknowledge it as your own, encourage your strength and creativity, and from that vantage point view those areas of the world or of your own society that need constructive help. [...]

[...] In such a fashion, one large portion of the species focuses in physical reality while the other large portion holds a secure foothold in inner reality —

— working on the interior patterns that will form the next day’s realities, and providing probable previews of future events. Waking and sleeping reality is therefore balanced in the world mind — not the world brain.

[...] I’ve been leading up to the actual writing for a couple of weeks now, what with my making chronologies, and so forth, and will be happy to get really into it. At the moment I still feel that I’m searching for that one intense focus-approach to my work for Mass Reality that will finally mean I’m under way on that project.)

[...] At what point did apelike mammals alter their own genetic message, in terms of evolution’s tales? What sperm first knew itself different, knowing it would mature—if it did as a man instead of an ape? And what apelike female changed her genetic messages, knowing that her egg, if it matured, would literally give birth to an entirely new species, one that centuries later would read and write? [...]

[...] Your impulses, intuitions, and creative abilities have always innately provided open channels of communication through which man was guided toward those probable actions most beneficial to his private reality—and those actions would automatically, again, add to the best probable reality for the species as well. [...]

He should indeed reread those sessions that he read today, and you paint because you love to paint, and forget what an artist is supposed to be or not to be. Have Ruburt forget what a writer or a psychic is supposed to be or not to be. [...]

I am more aware of my reality than you are of yours, but the terms of being are the same in every place and every time. [...] (Long pause.) Ruburt experiences now what he calls a massive quality, a physical and psychic expansion of consciousness in which the dear familiar world seems small — yet twice precious. [...]

[...] If you still see it, it is because it is a part of your reality. If you are honestly not greedy, yet you see greed, then perhaps you are serving as an example to others — but you form your own reality.

3. See Seth’s material on his units of consciousness, or CU’s, in sessions 682–83 for Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality. In the 682nd session after 9:47, for example, he discussed relationships between CU’s and probable realities.

7. For material concerning some of Jane’s experiences with massiveness, see the opening pages of Appendix 19, as well as its Note 2. Not only is Seth Two involved; Volume 1, of “Unknown” Reality, as well as Personal Reality, are referred to.

Because of your psychological and psychic structure, there is within the rich makeup of your being a literally endless variety of what you may call probable selves. In one reality or another these will all be experienced. [...]

[...]

(Jane had no idea of what Chapter Fourteen would be about: “I’m just waiting….” [...]

Continuing with the heading: “Your Daily Reality as the Expression of Specific Probable Events.” [...]

You will question, most likely, “Becoming what?” for to you it usually seems that all motion tends toward a state of completion of one kind or another. [...] If I say: “You are becoming what you already are,” then my remark sounds meaningless, for if you already are, how can you become what is already accomplished? In larger terms, however, what you are is always vaster than your knowledge of yourself, for in physical life you cannot keep up with your own psychological and psychic activity.

(9:55.) What you are is implied in the nature of what you are not. By the same token, you are what you are because of the existence of what you are not.

(Long pause.) You read yourselves from the top of the page to the bottom, or from what you think of as the beginning to the end. Your greater reality, however, is read in terms of intensities, so that the psyche puts you together in a different way. [...]

When you ask: “What is my psyche, or my soul, or who am I?” you are seeking of course for your own meaning as apart from what you already know about yourself. [...]

[...] What appears to you as chance or coincidence, however, is actually the result of the amazing organizations and communications active in the psychological reality of Framework 2. Again, you form your reality — but how? [...]

[...] That was some 18 months ago, but actually to one degree or another I’ve been involved with “Unknown” Reality for four years now; I think that temporarily I’ve simply grown tired and overly concerned about the whole project, even while I still have a considerable way to go to finish certain notes and appendixes for Volume 2. Not that I haven’t worked on a number of other things at the same time, of course — but my labors on those two books represent the prolonged, intense focus I always search for in my creative life, and without which I feel incomplete. Jane knows all too well what I mean, for her own attitudes here follow mine very closely.

[...] The dream state involves not only a state of consciousness that exists between the two frameworks of reality, but also involves, in those terms, a connecting reality of its own. [...]

(10:40.) There are intensities of behavior, then, in which the activity, the inside activity, of any being or particle is directed toward [the] physical force [that is] involved in the cooperative venture that causes your reality. There are variances, however, when such activity is directed instead into the interior nature of reality. [...]

[...] Instead, I seem to bask in what he is, or in his presence, if you prefer. [...] But then, for me, the reality of the room vanishes. Though my eyes are wide open, it is Seth who looks out and smiles at Rob; Seth who speaks through my lips, discussing the nature of reality and existence from the viewpoint of someone not confined to the three-dimensional world.

[...] A scuba diver, for instance, explores what he finds on the ocean floor and brings us clues from this vast, submerged area. [...] But if he goes far enough, the scuba diver must somewhere come to the bottom of the ocean, and I don’t believe there is any bottom or boundary to this inner reality. Instead, I suspect that there are even stranger chasms and openings into other worlds of whose existence we are quite unaware — pools of creativity, consciousness and experience, from which not only our three-dimensional reality but also others spring.

[...] What you have is this: In the waking state, the whole self is focused toward physical reality, but in the dreaming state, it is focused in a different dimension. [...]

Actually, this is a simple analogy and only carries us so far, but in the beginning Seth used it as a way of giving us some idea of man’s current (and artificial) relationship to dream reality. [...] Our records show clearly that what we saw in some such episodes were not imaginary places, but locations we visited while the body slept. [...]

[...] It is as if (pause) man could not understand his own potentials unless he projected them outward into a godhead, where he could see them in a kind of isolated pure form, recognize them for what they are, and then accept them—the potentials—as a part of his own psychological reality (all very intently). As a species, however, you have not taken the last step. [...]

The supposedly telepathic messages can be attributed to contemporaries—enemies, gods, devils, or what have you. [...] In most cases, what you have here are expressions of strong portions of the self that are more or less purposefully kept in isolation. [...]

(10:14.) These include man’s ability to identify with the forces of nature, to project portions of his own psychological reality outward from himself, and then to perceive those portions in a revitalized transformation—a transformation that then indeed can alter physical reality.

(Jane’s arms and legs have been sore today, off and on, but she feels that beneficial changes are taking place in them as a result of the sessions on the magical approach to reality. [...]

[...] It is better to concentrate on the subjective reality involved—that is easier, for if successful you will automatically tune into the future self that “emerged” from your present reality. [...]

[...] (See Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality.) In the realities in which you saw him in the dream state, he was a wanderer—lonely, from your viewpoint, not his. [...]

In the face of the belief that the painting or the book would be miserable if produced, each good sentence or artistic stroke would be the opportunity not for rejoicing but for dismay: “Aha, what a fine stroke to be wasted, for the painting will surely go astray.” Or “What a great line thrown away, for surely no others will follow.”

[...] To avoid its getting lost or forgotten, I plan to insert a note calling attention to it in the next regular session we have, which would be a book session on mass reality. [...]

[...] I’ve finished working on the last session for Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality, and today began the last note for the book, on ESP class. Next I start going over what Jane has already done on the Intro and Epilogue. [...]

[...] It is almost impossible to describe some of what I know. [...] To me there is no contradiction between that statement and the statement that the reality of that Rome is even now being affected by present, current concepts and beliefs. [...]

(In sum, we probably got exactly what we expected out of the deal, although it was certainly valuable as a reminder of how the psychic field and its members are regarded by the “straight” scientific community. [...] Although we now see that we should have said more—interrupted more—such behavior doesn’t appear to be too easy for us, whether because of beliefs or what. [...]

[...] Many new versions of reality appear first in art or fiction, and in such a way new ideas are spread through a society, while no threatening advances are made upon the world of fact. In any society, as young people come to maturity, they begin to weigh their individualistic version of reality against the adult authoritative one, and in one way or another, as they attain adulthood, they change the system to whatever degree.