So include it in The Nature of Personal Reality, for it is the birth of the book in your personal reality.

[...] I will not tell you in what particular way this sneaks by some of your problems now, or which ones are involved. [...]

[...] “It’s so different from what I’ve been thinking about, or doing. [...]

Now: This book will be a good advertisement for the later book that I will do — and if you insert what I have told you in the book I am doing now, people will already begin to look forward to your book.

[...] This does not apply to the two of you alone, but to your world at large: you make your own reality through your beliefs. You want to keep your beliefs yet change your reality—I am not referring to you personally here now—but this is impossible.

In your terms and in your probability, your parents’ lives are over, completed, and when in your reality you paint a picture it is finished, completed; and yet even in that context it outlives your completion of it, and endures. [...]

[...] The memories and realities within that portrait are yours to learn from and to use as a model for other such living portraits in time and space.

[...] It means that you make your own reality.

[...] (Long pause.) It will be useful if Ruburt remembers this when he views other systems of reality. You make your own reality in “a thousand times.” [...] You merge what is seemingly fiction or fantasy with what is seemingly factual. [...]

[...] They each see “reality” from a different angle, and thus create a different view. [...]

[...] (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. [...]

As I have tried to explain, however, your assumptions about reality do indeed form it. [...]

Other shapes and forms that you could perceive, you do not; even in explaining other realities to you I must use the words shapes and forms, or you would not understand what I mean.

[...] In that respect at least you are no different than I. Consciousness is the force behind matter, and it forms many other realities beside the physical one. It is only because your own viewpoint is presently so limited that it seems to you that physical reality is the rule and the mode and the purpose of existence.

It is highly difficult for you to perceive any knowledge or reality unless it is interpreted in physical terms, even though such interpretation highly distorts the information itself. When you allow yourselves freedom in the dream state, when you allow yourself direct experience of reality, when you do not remember it.

The inner portions of your own identity and reality are not known to you, for you cannot objectify them and therefore you do not perceive them. So much of your energy is used in these productions that you cannot afford to perceive any reality except your own. [...]

[...] The world of inner reality would then be imagined as existing at the other end of this tube. And in the same manner that one end of the tube would represent the extension of the self into the world of physical reality, then so too would the other end of this tube represent the extension of the self into the inner world of reality.

Next you will undoubtedly suggest that I pose, contemplate what might pass for my navel, carve a likeness, and set it up in the middle of your table.

[...] Good intentions are highly important, and what you think will work, will work.

Now this is what you attempt when you experiment with psychological time, when your communication comes through the inner rather than the outer senses. [...]

[...] What is matter to you might be “empty space” for beings equipped in an entirely different fashion. [...] The greater inner reality of the psyche, however, is as extensive as outer space seems to be.

[...] By its nature, however, that precise specialization and tuning of consciousness in to space and time largely precludes other less-specialized encounters with realities. Dreams often present you with what seems to be an ambiguity, an opaqueness, since they lack the immediate impact of psychological activity with space and time. [...]

[...] Beliefs are ways of structuring reality. If you overstructure reality, however, then you will end up with a formal mental garden — whose precise display may be so rigidly structured that the natural aspect of the plants and the flowers is completely obscured. [...]

Creativity connects waking and dreaming reality, and is in itself a threshold in which the waking and dreaming selves merge to form constructs that belong equally to each reality. [...]

[...] The inner senses led him into a reality he could not manipulate as easily as he could physical camouflage, and he feared what he thought of as a loss of mastery.

[...] I thought sardonically, “A guest from another layer of reality is one thing, but do you really want your friends to meet him?” Finally my nervousness was so apparent that Rob asked me what was wrong. [...]

[...] (No one knew what we were up to, for that matter, except for one close friend. [...]

[...] This sensation was so strong that I put down my sandwich and took off my glasses, because I literally didn’t know what might happen next. [...]

[...] Although one can say that her life is over in this reality, her lifework isn’t. Many have written that her books are new each time they read them — that they’re constantly finding new material in them. [...] What wonderful signs of survival all of these things are!

During her last days in the hospital Jane simply stopped eating, and I knew that her transition to another reality was near. [...]

[...] What else was I to do?

I’m proud to have helped Jane and Seth make their contributions in our complex and very creative system of things in this reality. [...]

[...] He is quite importantly beginning to change the viewpoint from which he previously viewed his reality. [...]

[...] What you want is a second life in life, in which to appreciate and examine life’s experience. [...]

[...] A bold venture, and one that fits in quite will with your intents jointly to understand and preserve fleeting reality, and one that conflicts with your attempts to do this in the context of one physical time that passes.

[...] The painting becomes the creation, and also it is the passing time of reality. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Such events are t-o-o (spelled) multidimensional to appear clearly in your reality, so that you see or experience only parts of them. [...] Their main thrust is in what you can call the vaster dimension of dreams, the unknown territory of inner reality. [...]

In a fashion man also is equipped with the ability to initiate actions on a nonphysical level that then become physical and continue to wind in and out of (pause) both realities, entwining dream events with historic ones, in such a fashion that the original nonphysical origins [are] often forgotten. Man overlays (underlined) the true reality quite spontaneously. [...]

MASTER EVENTS AND REALITY OVERLAYS

[...] New chapter (9): “Master Events and Reality Overlays” (all with much humorous emphasis).

Basic reality has no need for words. Words are but symbols, but without symbols you cannot intellectually understand what I have to say to you, and so I must use them. [...]

You are in your apprenticeship period, and soon we shall see how you can develop and what you can produce. [...] They will come as you learn to use your own inner senses, and the material will explain what these inner senses are and how you can use them. [...]

Your idea of reality will indeed begin to change and you must learn to manipulate within the new system as you learn of it for the old rules will no longer apply. [...]

[...] You must realize that basic reality is joyful and that the way of life upon which I hope you shall embark is joyful, and if my actions and communication can show you this then I have done well indeed. [...]

[...] This is craftily done, for the inner self knows exactly what will impress the ego, and what kinds of personalities will be best able to personify the message at any given time. [...]

[...] It looks outward for answers because this is its nature: to manipulate within physical reality. [...]

[...] It then projects these outward into the area of physical reality. [...]

[...] They play the part of the blessed inner self that actually cannot operate within physical reality uncloaked by flesh. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Now, as simply as I can put this, thoughts and emotions form, of their own electromagnetic reality, vitalized physical products called atoms and molecules. This is basically what I told you in our early analogy with the mazes and the wires.

Remember that you are a part of what you perceive. Now in many instances of so-called paranormal perception there is what would seem to you a reversal of focus. [...]

[...] Not to be nitpicking, but others as well as ourselves are sure to want to know just what you mean by this alteration.”

The entire act has its own electromagnetic reality, and the event is actually electromagnetic motion. [...]

[...] What you do not understand is that from that given point of silence, which is your point of non-perception, sounds also begin that grow deeper and deeper into silence, yet still have meaning and as much variety as the sounds that you know, and these are also symbols. The thought unspoken has a “sound” that you do not hear, but that is very audible at another level of reality and perception.

[...] They will affect not only your own physical reality, but all realities in which you are involved. [...]

There may seem to you to be no logic to these inner pictures, and certainly no connection between them and what you were thinking a moment before, or even an hour before. [...]

[...] Because the images may seem to have no direct connection logically to these thoughts and feelings, you do not recognize them either as your own, nor are you able to tie them up with what they represent.

10:10 P.M. “He slips it in on me, that’s what he does,” Jane remarked, when I kidded her about saying the session couldn’t be for Dreams. [...] “And here’s Seth saying that it’s actually happened that way—at least in some probable realities,” she said. [...]

[...] In those terms (pause), your world’s reality stretches back far further than you imagine, and in those terms—you need the qualifications—your ancestors have visited other stars, as your planet has been visited by others. [...] There are, then, other species like (underlined) your own, and in the vast spectrums of existence that your reality cannot contain, there have been galactic civilizations that came together when the conditions were right.

[...] The terms of reality within your universe cannot hold or contain that vaster context in which such master events happen. [...]

While I am doing that I am also trying to introduce you, intuitively at least, to a larger framework, in which events straddle the reality that you know. [...]

People write you or call as they would to dearly beloved parents, parents in another level of reality. [...] I’m not speaking of transforming it through great dogmas, but of concepts that put people in touch with their own reality.

(Certainly the house affair is a good demonstration of at least some of the elements contained within The “Unknown” Reality—But then, The “Unknown” Reality can just as well be translated in ordinary terms like houses and neighborhoods as any other way....)

[...] See what he makes of that.

[...] 63 as of 11/75], with additional ones entering our reality every so often. [...]

[...] You can only create it as a reality in so many dimensions. You cannot appreciate, for that matter, all the systems of reality in which the painting does have reality. [...]

[...] Most systems have more reality than a painting, but not all of them. [...] They are limitations because their reality is necessarily limited by the elements you have chosen. [...]

[...] They may be necessary at one time or another, but they can never be primary realities. [...]

Your own thoughts have a reality that you do not understand, and their own kind of form, or psychic content, and this content exists not as pure energy, but as energy with form and shape. [...]

The core of the self is obviously aware of all realities to some extent. [...]

[...] We mentioned in an earlier session something to this effect, in that you simply perceive a small portion of such action, label it as a unit, can perceive no further, and so suppose that what you see or perceive is all there is to see or perceive.

[...] This has much to do with your conception of the reality of dreams, for it appears to you that dreams cease when you are no longer aware of them. [...]

In many instances this is exactly what happens. [...]

[...] Automatically in daily life you translate symbols into what you call reality. [...] You form appearances from symbols but you are so lost in the world of appearances that you forget the symbols upon which you have formed the reality. [...]

[...] Very briefly this evening some of you dealt with the reality of symbols, and this is extremely important for the physical body that you know is a materialization of symbols that you have created. You do not know the symbols for yourselves but you can discover what they are, and I will expect you all to do so. [...]

[...] You will know what it is, and you know what it is now. [...]

And what (to Ned) I said to you still goes, if you remember what I said, having to do with the service. [...]

[...] But none of you perceives the same reality. Those whose ideas and perceptions of reality are completely out of line with the general agreement are called insane. The terms only show that reality as you know it is the result of private perceptions. Reality is built up as a result of these private perceptions.

It is possible (underlined) that the psychedelic experience for these individuals would involve consciousness expansion directed toward (underlined) usual physical reality, and bring about a more unified personality structure from society’s standpoint. [...] All mental life is characterized by divergent perceptions of any given set of sense data that is recognized as Reality, with a capital R.

[...] Some individuals therefore will simply not telepathically receive the dominating reality assumptions, but will be tuned to different ranges, highly unsatisfactory to them. It becomes quickly apparent that their view of reality is entirely different from their neighbors’.

[...] In true expansion of consciousness then, you become more and more aware, more conscious, underlined, of inner realities that were previously never realized on a conscious level. [...] It simply changes not only its form, but its inner core, accepting as a part of itself realities which it previously ignored out of fear, ignorance and insecurity.