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(This is the first session since the deleted one of January 7, which was held just before the script for Personal Reality came back to us. [...] Today I described the question in my mind as I fell asleep last night: With such a situation developing, why hadn’t she at least asked—let alone demanded—sessions, in order to find out what was going on? [...]

[...] The two of you are doing what you have decided to do, and producing what you have decided to produce. [...]

(A note: Late this morning Jane and I drove up to the Hoffman Street post office and mailed the corrected script of Personal Reality to Prentice-Hall. [...]

[...] Still, your part in it conflicted with his ideas of you and what you wanted.

[...] Once out of trance, Jane again expressed her peculiar regret that Seth’s book was done, even though this was what we’d been working for. “What’s he going to do now?” she asked. [...]

[...] We made various joking remarks about what would come next in the sessions, but I could see that Jane didn’t really feel humorous. Actually, Seth’s own book contained so many ideas for future sessions that our problem would be what to explore first — and we would have the unaccustomed opportunity to carry out these studies at our leisure.

[...] The introduction applies to each reader, for I hope that you will now be able to meet yourself face to face with a greater understanding of who and what you are.

[...] Only by looking quietly within the self that you know can your own reality be experienced, with those connections that exist between the present or immediate self and the inner identity that is multidimensional.

(The idea seemed to be that creativity, mine and anyone’s, is initially playful, curious, seeks expression—and is one of the highest kinds of psychic play—the artist playing with concepts no matter what the art; and actually inserts his or her reality onto the world, superimposed upon it. [...]

(Its very difficult for the practical world—for people who aren’t primarily “artists or creators” to deal with that sort of thing; they don’t know where to place it and ideas alone make them uncomfortable—they aren’t real or unreal according to their way of looking at reality.

(Late Friday afternoon—I begin to read Seth sessions for last summer and a line reminds me of what else I was getting from Seth last night and today.

[...] They are the ground rules of your reality—but not the ground rules of all realities or of all probabilities. Your firewalker inserts another probability, and hence reacts to and with that reality of the fire in ways that are not considered normal. [...] Actually, what I can only call an invisible shield protects him from the flames, so that his feet and ankles are surrounded by an aura that repels the fire actively. [...]

Now: apropos of your firewalker, fire of that temperature would indeed burn the flesh if it touched it in your practical reality.

What you actually have is a case of cold flame. [...]

You do not seem to understand the importance of your organizations, particularly your habitual biological ones, for they dictate the ways in which you examine your reality, and they program also your biological reaction in very practical ways.

[...] You each protested, yet did what you wanted to do. You just kept trying to fit what you did into a framework that you had outgrown. [...]

[...] He always waited to see what you would do, and these episodes, again, occurred after enough improvement, so that first he wanted to go out. [...] But despite what you said, he saw that you did indeed disapprove.

(Some used —see Appendix 2 for Session 680 in Volume 1of The “Uknown” Reality.)

[...] Earlier, it was all that you knew—that is, both of you more and more in young years began to identify with what you thought of as your artistic selves, more or less to the exclusion of other portions of the self.

[...] Your God is part of a larger reality. We see what we can see... This larger reality is also a part of our dreams: it is more important and vital than breath, for you are all part of this individually. There is a give and take between you and the stars on a physical basis, just as there is also a connection between selves and what you call a god.

[...] I learn through many existences, but I do not set myself up as many of you set yourself up, and I do not determine what shall be destroyed or who or what shall remain... [...]

[...] Jane has made copies of the clairvoyant material from the three sessions involving the Gallaghers; they are to write in their account of what actually transpired after each of Seth’s predictions or statements. [...]

[...] Someday we shall show that face, and this face (Jane pointed to herself) for I am a stubborn gentleman, and in my own time we shall indeed give quite adequate proofs of what I am.

It is exactly what you must avoid, and what you tell Ruburt he must avoid, for it does reinforce the present condition. [...]

[...] You do not add reality, physical reality then, to improvements as they first show—you do not nurse them expectantly as you would a seed. [...]

[...] The negative patterns, many of them, came from conscious deductions made about the nature of reality. [...]

[...] But both of you are overanxious, and even you concentrate too much upon what seems to be the enormity of the difficulty, or Ruburt’s present predicament.

[...] A change to a different level entirely occurs when the individual switches focus from physical reality to other realities. [...]

(Jane now took what I term a long pause, lasting about a minute. [...]

[...] Our study of the dream state will take us into many other discussions, for you will learn much about the nature of uncamouflaged reality.

(“We’ll take a break and see what Jane says.”)

[...] (Pause.) This is what I know of reality, but there is more to be known.

“Outside” in quotes of the realities of which I am aware and others are aware, there are systems that we cannot describe. They are massive energy sources, (pause), cosmic energy banks, who make possible the whole reality of probabilities.

[...] This was after she had gone through an auto accident; Seth has told us this accident is in reality two accidents, one involving B. Macdonnel in California, the other a future possible event involving Tam’s girl Eve, in or near New York City. [...]

[...] Simply as an analogy, it would be as if within physical reality you lived, say, the life of a rich man of great talent, the life of a poor man with entirely different talents, and the life of a mother and career woman. [...]

(Our conversation about this during break led me to what I think is an exceptionally good idea for a book—one done even in conventional terms. It would be for the author to conduct a survey of the surviving members of families involved in such accidents, to study the after-effects, see what changes the tragedy had brought about in their lives, their habits, ways of thinking and looking at life—in short, the detailed study of each family case history would comprise an intimate, in-depth probing of all the complicated effects that had resulted from that single tragic event.

[...] We talked about the difficulties that might be involved in getting family members to talk openly to strangers, too, about what had happened to them. [...] I suppose that part of any such survey could also go into the refusal of certain families to restudy what had happened to them in the light of Seth’s ideas.

[...] We’ve given up using the pendulum to check out such things, and I wanted to know what might be operating to either slow up Jane’s recovery—which, after all, is still moving along—or perhaps to delay it indefinitely. [...]

[...] It’s attached to this session as page 302 and describes what seems to be in ordinary terms a senseless and horrendous story: A 20-year-old drunken driver crashed head-on into another auto, killing two people, the father and an aunt, and putting the other five passengers, all members of the same family, into the hospital. [...]

(Pause.) The peculiarly physically oriented self that you know has its reality in that context, but even in physical terms its reality is more than any analysis of its entirety would show. [...]

Learning is not simply passed on from living tissue to living tissue — this your biologists have discovered — but it is also passed on through the body’s present corporeal reality, sometimes entirely changing the messages to past cells, that in your terms no longer exist.

[...] If you ask, “What is my individuality in all of this?” or, “Which ‘I’ am I?” then you are automatically thinking of yourself as a psychological entity with definite boundaries that must be protected at all costs. [...]

[...] The moment as you think of it, then, is the creative framework through which you, the nonphysical self, constantly form corporeal reality; and through that window into earthly existence you form both its future and its past.

[...] The electrical reality of emotions and thoughts represents a thought dimension that has been completely neglected; and in it there are other dimensions; as within your field there is apparent space and time and height and thickness, so in the electrical system there is intensity and what I will call space reality, electrical mass and potentiality, which is different from intensity and polarity.

Many psychological intangibles, including dreams, have such an electric reality, and do exist as electric actions. [...] The connections between the emotional climate and physical health have never been clearly understood, because emotions were not known to have such electrical reality. [...]

[...] These thoughts are things, so to speak, as real as a chair; but you are acquainted only with their purely subjective reality. [...] If you could fully understand or comprehend directly the reality of a thought in its full actuality, you would be amazed at the power behind it.

You can see now how a subjective experience can have an electrical reality, and through this reality directly affects the human physical structure. [...]

In each person the imaginative world, its force and power, merges into historical reality. [...] Man’s imagination can carry him into those other realms — but when he tries to squeeze those truths into frameworks too small, he distorts and bends inner realities so that they become jagged dogmas.

Give us a moment… You are a part of nature that has learned to make choices, a part of nature that naturally and automatically produces dreams and beliefs about which you then organize your reality. There are many effects which you do not like, but you possess a unique kind of consciousness, in which each individual has a hand in the overall formation of a world reality, and you are participating at a level of existence in which you are learning how to transform the imaginative realm of probabilities into a more or less specific, physically experienced world.

[...] During the session Seth said that he was “preparing some special material for Ruburt,” but except for the excellent relaxation effects Jane has experienced since then, we have yet to learn what else may be involved.

[...] Just recently I quoted her in Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality; from Note 6 for Appendix 19, in part:

[...] Ruburt was then using Larry’s, knowing that to some degree it would pierce both levels, and he hoped to compare what Larry said in each reality.

Our (ESP) classes occur in your physical reality. [...]

Carol left the physical class (early), but still participated at that other level of reality in the entire proceeding. [...]

[...] The monkey was used, also because it is “humanistic,” or has what you think of as incipient human characteristics.

[...] But in contrast to what you could use, this is nothing. [...] These dimensions and these realities you can understand. [...]

But when you are born again into a tiny and helpless organism and when your intellect may still be operating strongly, then there is a shock, for you cannot do what you want to do. [...]

(There was discussion with Maureen as to Seth’s reality.)

In my own book, for an intellectual exercise—and simply for that, since I do believe that all of you do exist—I am going to deal in one chapter with the difficulties of proving—from my vantage point—that three-dimensional reality does exist and is inhabited by creatures—thinking creatures. [...]

[...] It would exist regardless, now, of the particular theories of time which might be held, for it is strongly anchored as a specific manipulator of physical reality. And physical reality, believe it or not, is not dependent upon the theory of time as a series of moments.

[...] Therefore my earlier remark that physical reality was not dependent upon time as a series of moments should be obvious. Physical reality is dependent upon your sensual perception of action, and that is all.

(Since Peggy has now been made aware of Seth’s predictions, Jane and I now wonder what part, if any, suggestion might play in the events that transpire in Washington DC. [...]

The psychological feeling of intensity has its own electromagnetic reality. [...]

[...] Your stereophonic setting can be compared to what we have termed the inner ego. Now each of these selves experience time in their own manner, and as you should see by now this only means that they build their own realities according to the nature of their own perceptions. [...] Their various realities merge in the overall perceptions of the whole self.

[...] However past, present and future has reality only to the ego. [...] The portion of the self, or rather the portions of the self, that experience action in terms of what the ego would term probability, is further divorced from the ego, however, and this probability reality appears to the ego very rarely, and only very occasionally.

[...] Other portions of the self, that deal in what you would call probable realities, are very different in their psychological makeup.

[...] It is not enough that the inner ego knows what is going on. [...]

[...] You do each create your own reality, however (intently), and en masse you create the realities of your nationalities and your countries — so at that time the Germans saw themselves as victors, and the Jews saw themselves as victims.

[...] In his grandiose, idealized version of reality, he saw that race “set in its proper place,” as natural master of mankind.¹

[...] What happened?

The nation served as an example of what could happen in any country if the most fanatical nationalism was allowed to go unchecked, if the ideas of right were aligned with might, if any nation was justified in contemplating the destruction of others.

[...] For this energy is never still, and it goes without saying that no electrical impulse is stable from one instant of reality to the next. [...]

[...] Therefore electricity to some degree is recognized as a reality within many fields.

[...] That is, in sending the thought, in trying to duplicate the thought, he himself still retains it, so what is passed on to receiver B? [...]

[...] But no such identical duplication is possible, as far as I know, within reality of any kind.

In the picture of reality he has been accepting, for the reasons given in past sessions, he did not believe he could move capably. [...] You must act in accordance with your idea of reality. [...]

[...] A woman choosing to have no children is not a woman they can understand, yet each wonders what other abilities of their own they might have nourished, or what they would have been. [...]

[...] While I could make intuitive guesses as to connections here, I preferred to hear what Seth had to say.

[...] If the suggestions in the session are followed, they will alter his picture of his own reality, and through action. [...]