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Exercises from the Seth Material
Inner Consent, and Pre-sleep Suggestions

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Suggestion is no more and no less than an inner willingness and

consent to allow a particular action to occur; and this consent is the
trigger which sets off the subconscious mechanisms that allow you to
construct inner data into physical reality.
This is one of the reasons why health suggestions given immediately

before sleep are so effective. Incidentally, they are excellent practice.
Expectation can aid you also.
I would suggest that you tell yourselves that you will henceforth be
able to remember dreams from the deeper levels of your personality,
and you should find that you will be able to do so. You can also tell
yourselves when you wish that you will give special attention to the
nature of time and space, as these appear within your dreams. You
will discover then upon awakening that many perceptions concerning
time and space within the dream state will remain within you.
You can indeed suggest to the subconscious that it carry on in such a

manner regardless of your conscious concern. As a result the ego
can apply itself to the job at hand while the subconscious works for
you and your inner purposes. This is very practical, and works without
much difficulty.
You may obviously also direct your subconscious to react only to

constructive suggestions from any source. This is in fact an excellent
habit to cultivate.
It will indeed be beneficial for you both to suggest to your

subconscious that it enable you to develop your psychic abilities, and
then consciously forget the matter.
...suggestions should always be given before sleep, that the

subconscious will maintain the organic integrity of the physical
organism. This is basic. Suggestions should also be given so that a
harmonious relationship be maintained among all levels of the
personality structure. Suggestions should be given that constructive
tendencies are given free reign. Perhaps more important,
suggestions should be given that only constructive suggestions will
be reacted to.
Suggestion can shape dreams, and the dreams themselves then

operate as action. A strong dream can be a more significant psychic
action than any physical experience, and it can change the course of
the personality completely. The inner senses will also react to
suggestion. If you suggest that you become more aware of their
activities, then so you shall….
Suggestion given before sleep will greatly add to your chances of

conscious projections from the dream state. It is not necessary,
basically speaking, that you notice some small incongruous detail in
order to realize while dreaming that you are dreaming. There is
however one good method to use. The suggestion "I will realize while
dreaming that I am dreaming" can also be used, as another method,
or both of these may be utilized together.
The Muscle-bound Ego, Dissociation, and Yoga

The Early Sessions, Book 1, Session 17, p.108
The ego, as I have said before, is extremely important. It is however

only a part of what you call yourself. Your artistic ability does not
belong to your ego, dear Joseph...
Nevertheless, the ego is the tool by which the hidden self

manipulates in the physical universe. In your case, it enables you to
focus your artistic ability along lines necessary to make it effective on
your plane. However, when the ego becomes involved with fears, it
ceases to be an effective tool and becomes instead a hammer hitting
you incessantly over the head…
Now when the ego becomes overly concerned, it becomes overly

conditioned to negative responses. The creative energies build up
their thickly-dimensioned pseudo-realities of pain. For a certain
amount of time, according to your condition, they automatically create
the patterns of fear that belong to the ego.
These fears do not belong to what you think of as the subconscious.

Then these materializations of panic and pain play about the physical
body, projected by the ego, and steal the powers of the subconscious
mind from their natural constructive tasks…In other words, the ego
becomes a tool to disrupt rather than to create.
In the past you did not understand properly this relationship. You
understood the destructive tendencies but you placed them in the
subconscious. The endless or seemingly endless circle need not
occur now, or in the future. This dissociation of which Ruburt has
spoken to you is an excellent discipline that will insure your use of
energy in the best possible manner. I am not suggesting that the ego
be ignored in any manner, merely that the tool is not allowed to
become the master.
You see, dear Joseph, the subconscious and the ego, of course, are
both you. For simplicity’s sake I will speak of the ego and the
subconscious, though they are actually one. The subconscious forms
and projects the materializations of the ego as a tool to enable it to
attain its goals. When these goals and talents are attributed to the
ego alone they are so to speak decapitated.
Your own subconscious is the fountain of your individuality and

personality; from it springs your talent. When the ego becomes too
concerned with daily matters, with worry, then it becomes far less
effective. The freely working subconscious – or the inner you – is
completely capable of taking care of all practical considerations and
will use the ego as a tool to do so.
Dissociation puts the power back where it belongs... Daily methods of

dissociation are extremely practical… You will notice within a few
weeks time, if not sooner, an added energy. So-called impulses on
your part are often quelled because your ego finds them impractical.
The subconscious knows its own meat and its own sauce, and the
best means for its nourishment.
Begin the yoga exercises and follow them faithfully. Your few
experiments with autosuggestion upon falling asleep have been ego-
bound. Think of this in terms of muscle-bound, and you will see what I
mean. Be in a drowsy state and suggest, Rubert, suggest – suggest,
Joseph. Do not attempt to bully or command the subconscious.
Suggestions are all that are needed. Your love of nature, Joseph, and
Ruburt your love of nature, is another method of dissociation, or can
be if you use it as such...
My affection for you is strong. If I speak heavy-handedly, it is because

I want you to have a light touch. Dissociation brings about a strong
unity with the creative aspects of personality. It puts you back, or it
puts your creative talents back, in the driver’s seat.
Yoga and Self-Hypnosis for Relaxing the Ego and Body

Dreams And Projections Of Consciousness, Book 1, Session 18
Following Seth’s suggestions, Rob began doing a few simple yoga

exercises, and the night before the eighteenth session he used self-
hypnosis to relax his muscles. The results were so immediate and
excellent, and Rob was so limp when he finished, that both of us
were amused. He looked so like a before-and-after advertisement.
Before he began the exercises, he was very uptight, with sore
muscles and a repressive body pose. Afterward, he was like some
happy rag doll…
"Good evening, Seth. What did you think of my performance last

night?"
"Very good, if you are referring to the hypnosis session. Your

condition following this and your first exercise bout should show you
how badly you were in need of the treatment. When I suggested that
you dissociate, incidentally, I didn’t mean that you should break up
into pieces….
"At times, the ego can hold you in a tight vice, which the dissociation
breaks. This is what happened after your exercises. You have been
doing very well…in allowing yourself psychic freedom. However,
conscious fears cause the ego to tighten its grasp, and some effects
of this nature were starting up. This is why I suggested the exercises
at this time.
“The fact that the fearful ego was beginning to tighten explains your
reaction to the exercises. The ego can build up around the inner self
like a glacier, and the exercises help melt it away. Even the prickles
in your neck are like tiny picks chipping away at icy fears….You were
released so quickly as a result of the exercises that you didn’t know
what had happened….
“Incidentally, while we are on the subject, often when you thought you
were dealing with a matter or a person in a dissociated manner, you
were instead exhibiting a cold, conscious detachment. This is a pose
of the ego and is not to be confused with the lithe subconscious
detachment which is actually warm, flexible, and expansive.”
Exploring Empty Spaces

It is only the inner senses which will give you any evidence at all of
the basic nature of life itself. Since very often the vitality or stuff of the
universe seems as innocuous as air might seem to you, then look for
what you do not see. Explore places that appear empty, for they are
full. Look between events. What you see clearly with your outer
senses is camouflage. I am not suggesting that you take everything
on faith, nothing of the sort. I am saying that what seems vacant lacks
camouflage, and therefore if this is explored it will yield evidence. I
hope I have not carried you too far too fast.
Effects would seem to be evidence, and therefore when you probe

into seemingly empty spaces you will receive effects which will be
evidence. In concrete terms, if a tree branch blows you can take it for
granted that something moves the branch. You know wind by its
effects. No one has seen wind but since at times its effects are so
observable it would be idiocy to say that wind did not exist. Therefore
you will come up against the basic stuff of the universe and feel its
effects, though your outer senses will not necessarily perceive it.
An Inner Vibrational Touch Experience
(Similarly, last night I stood at a window and looked out across the
Walnut Street Bridge. I visualized myself walking across this bridge,
feeling the wooden flooring beneath my feet. I felt myself walk
beneath the signal lights at the far end, and continue on up the street.
I tried to reach out and envelop the feeling of the house and trees on
each side of me, to sense then as if by touch as I passed each one
by. Jane resumed dictation at 7:30.)
Your experience yesterday Joseph was an exercise of the inner

senses, and one that you should try for again and again.
A Description of Disassociation
The Early Sessions, Book 1, Session 28, p. 214
You can have two doors open at once. You can listen to two channels
at once. But until you learn to focus in two directions, and this is
simplified to a pathetic degree, in the meantime you simply turn down
the volume of the first channel, while you attract your attention to the
second. This process you call disassociation.
Experiencing an Idea Intuitively

I will also go into this more deeply. You should be able to see now
why a concept such as I refer to is difficult to achieve on your plane.
You cannot focus upon it thoroughly. When the fourth inner sense is
exercised, (I will outline exercises and all three of you would certainly
benefit by following my suggestions) you will discover what an idea
really is.
You will discover this by experiencing the idea directly, and you can
best achieve some approximation of accomplishment by using
psychological time. Your idea of experiencing a concept is
doubtlessly to follow it through from beginning to end. Sweet tootsies,
there is no beginning or end, and this idea of yours is the result of a
complete and utter concentration upon camouflage time.
Nor does the evolution of either an idea or a species involve time. It
merely involves time in your universe. You insist upon labeling as
laws of absolutes what is actually your distorted and limited vision of
concepts as they seem to appear to you. Using psychological time, sit
in a quiet room; and I hope this is not impossible, when an idea
comes to you, and I presume it will, do not play with it intellectually.
You can dissect it to your heart's content after the experience.
Reach out to the idea intuitively. Do not be afraid of or reject

unfamiliar bodily sensations. With practice, and to a very limited
degree, you will find that you can become the idea. You will be inside
the idea, looking out, not looking in. This is thought.
If you think you think you are in for a surprise.
Expanding the Tissue Capsule and Universe

The tissue capsule of which I have spoken earlier surrounds every

living consciousness. To some extent it could be compared to an
extra layer of skin surrounding the physical body, except that it is not
constructed in the same manner upon your plane, and is invisible to
you under ordinary circumstances.
It is actually a field, that is energy field, boundary. It protects the inner

self by acting as a barrier that keeps the whole self’s energy
controlled, and keeps it from seeping away. At the same time it
protects the whole self from certain radiations which do not here
concern you. No living consciousness exists on any plane without this
tissue capsule enclosing it.
The capsule of course is not a solid on any plane. To some

inhabitants of other planes that have access to your plane, all that
can be seen of you is this tissue capsule, since suck inhabitants have
had no experience in your particular type of camouflage construction.
There fore your camouflage patterns are invisible to them, but the
tissue capsules are not.
These capsules can be seen by you under certain circumstances,
and have been called astral bodies - a term which does not meet with
my pleasure...
Now that we have briefly discussed the meaning of a tissue capsule I

will go into the seventh inner sense a bit more deeply. This sense
allows for an expansion or contraction of the tissue capsule.
Theoretically there is no limit to the contraction or expansion allowed,
but practically there are usually definite limitations.
I am only going to hint of something here. For fun, think of the

expanding tissue capsule in terms of or in connection with, the theory
of your expanding universe. Such contemplation should be excellent
exercise. This is quite evocative, and I hope I can peek in sometime
when you are trying to deal with it.
Dream Recall Instructions

Dreams And Projections Of Consciousness, p. 196-198
Seth gave us our first instructions in 1964. The whole idea of

deliberate dream recall was new to us. the methods are not new,
though we had never heard of them at the time. I’ll paraphrase them
here: Simply buy a notebook to be used exclusively for dreams. Keep
it with a pencil or pen by your bed. Before you fall to sleep at night,
give yourself this suggestion: "I can remember my dreams and write
them down in the morning."
You will find that your dreams actually are in your mind when you
awaken. Write them down at once, before getting out of bed. If you
have a tendency to scribble, then use loose sheets of paper and later
transcribe them in the notebook. Don’t worry about neatness, but
concentrate on capturing as much of the dream content as possible.
If you recall several dreams, jot down a quick sentence about each,
then add the details. Leave space after each entry for future notes.
This method is really easy and workable – but it can be sabotaged.

One of my students, Gloria, had great difficulty remembering her
dreams until I discovered that she was using a clock radio to awaken
her in the morning and the news happened to be on. The dreams
must be recalled before you become mentally involved with the
world’s activities….
The method of dream recall just given will allow many people to
remember more dreams in a month than they previously did in their
entire lives. Variations will occur, however. Periods of excellent recall
are sometimes followed by poorer ones, and each individual seems
to have his own cycle of significant activity.
A recorder may also be used, of course. You must still play back the
tape and transfer the dreams into a notebook, however, so that the
records are easily accessible. This actually takes more time, but
many people prefer to speak their dream recollections into a recorder
at once, rather than to write them down.
Dream Locations
Dreams And Projections Of Consciousness, p. 205
Seth had told us to leave room in our dream records to note the
locations and advised us to examine them carefully. I was quite
surprised at the different kinds of dream locations in my own dreams
and made the following list of them. Look for these when you
examine your dreams:
• Dream locations that represent places familiar to you in your

present daily life.
• Dream locations that represent places (such as foreign
countries) to which you have never really traveled.
• Dream locations that represent definite places that appear as
they were in the past. If your dream of your childhood home as
it was, not as it is now, then the location would belong in this
category.
• Dream locations that represent places that no longer exist
physically.
• Strange, completely unfamiliar, dream locations.
• Indistinct dream locations
• Strange dream locations to which you keep returning.
Solving Problems with Dreams
Dreams And Projections Of Consciousness, Session 173
As the personality is changed by any action, so it is changed by its

own dreams. As it is molded by the exterior environment, so is it
molded by the dreams that it creates and which help form its interior
world. To the whole self, there is little differentiation made between
exterior and interior actions. The ego makes such distinctions. The
core of the personality does not….As an individual changes his
physical situation through reacting to it, so he changes his interior or
psychic situation in the same way….
In dreams, you give freedom of actions that cannot adequately be

expressed within the confines of normal waking reality. If the
personality handles his dream activities capably, then problem
actions find release in dreams….
It follows that [by] using suggestion, various problems can be solved

in the dream state. The inner ego of which we have spoken is the
director of such unifying activities. It is the 'I' of your dreams, having
somewhat the same position within the inner self as the ego has to
the outer physical body.
Upon proper suggestion, the personality then will work out specific
problems in the dream state, but if the solution is not clear to the to
the[conscious] ego, this does not necessarily mean that the solution
was not found. There will be cases where it is not only unnecessary
but undesirable that the ego be familiar with the solution. The
suggestions will be followed by the sleeping self in its own fashion.
The solutions may not appear to the conscious self in the way it
expects. The conscious self may not even recognize it has been
given a solution, and yet it may act upon it….
Both psychological and physical illnesses could largely be avoided

through dream therapy. Rather harmlessly, aggressive tendencies
could also be given freedom in the dream condition. Through such
therapy, actions would be allowed greater spontaneity. In the case of
the release of aggressiveness, the individual involved would
experience this within the dream state and hurt no one. Suggestions
could also be given so that he learned to understand the
aggressiveness through watching himself while in the dream state….
If aggressiveness is the problem, for example, then the preliminary

suggestion should include a statement that in the dream, the
aggression will be harmlessly acted out and not directed against a
particular individual. The subconscious is quite capable of handling
the situation in this manner. This may seem like a double censor, but
in all cases it is the aggressiveness itself that is important and not the
person or persons against whom the individual might vent his
aggressiveness.
A Study of the Characteristics of the Dream World

We will be involved with a study of the characteristics of the dream

world in general and attempt to isolate it as a separate reality for the
purposes of examination. Then we shall regard it in relation to
physical reality, using comparisons and dissimilarities.
This will then allow us to proceed into the relationship between the
waking and sleeping personality and discover the many ways in
which the personality's aims and goals are not only reflected but
sometimes achieved in and through the dream condition.
Usually the dream state is considered from a negative standpoint and

compared unfavorably with the waking condition. Emphasis is laid
upon those conditions present in the waking state but absent from the
dreaming experience. We shall consider those aspects of
consciousness which are present in the dream environment and
absent in the physical one. No study of human personality can
pretend to be thorough that does not take the importance of dream
reality into consideration.
In some discussions we will state the ways in which conscious goals

can be achieved with the help of the dreaming self. All of this material
will be reinforced with experiments that, I hope, you will conduct
yourselves.
It is amazing how man regrets the hours spent in sleep. He does not
realize how hard he works when his ego is unaware. We hope to
make this clear. We hope to let you catch yourselves in the act of
doing so. You will realize how productive dream experiences are and
the ways in which they are woven into the tapestry of your entire
experience.
As mentioned previously, we will also deal with the nature of space,

time and distance, as they appear in the dream environment. Some
of our experiments along these lines will be the most illuminating.
Here the ego cannot go, but it can benefit from the information, and
perhaps in time, even a shadow of the ego may pass through that
strange land and feel in some small way at home.
Therapeutic Dreams
We have not spoken of the inner senses for some time. By now, you
should realize that they have an electromagnetic reality also and that
the mental enzymes act as sparks, setting off inner reactions. In the
dream state, these reactions are easily trigged. This is the result of
the lowering of egotistical guards, for the ego sets up controls that act
as resistances to various inner channels {during the waking state]….
A destructive attitude of mind has been changed overnight in the

dream state to a constructive situation in many instances, and the
whole electromagnetic balance has been changed. In such a case,
negative ions form an electrical framework in which healing is
possible. Such healing dreams come most often when the self feels a
sense of desperation and automatically opens up channels to deeper
layers of personality.
Often we find an almost instant regeneration, a seemingly instant

cure, a point from which the organism almost miraculously begins to
improve. The same happens in less startling cases where, for
example, a merely annoying health condition disappears.
Through self-suggestion, these therapeutic dreams can be brought

about with practice. The suggestions (being action) has its own
electromagnetic effect and already begins to set certain healing
processes into action, while sparking the formation of others.
Such inner therapeutics may occur at various levels of

consciousness, where they may be sparked by exterior stimuli of a
aesthetic or pleasing nature. Other exterior conditions also have an
effect. To involve oneself in large groups, for example, is often
beneficial not simply to take attention away from the self for a
change, but because of the larger range of electromagnetic ranges
readily available.
The overall health of the individual is important, as is the delicate

balance of electromagnetic properties… When the organism is set
deeply in destructive patterns, then this is something felt in the dream
state, so that destructive dreams then add to the entire
situation….For this reason, the use of self-suggestion in bringing
about constructive dreams is of great benefit.
Excellent Dream Suggestions

Ruburt's dream notebook is coming along very well. In most cases,

however, he writes only those dreams he remembers upon
awakening in the morning. Suggestions will allow you to awaken
yourself as soon as a dream is completed.
The dream will be fresh. If the recorder is suitably at situated with the
microphone easily at hand, then you can speak you dream with less
effort than is required to write it down. Of course records must be
kept. The simplest part of this experiment will involve the use of
suggestion to awaken yourself at the completion of each dream.
The number of remembered dreams should be much higher than

your present system allows… I also suggest that the first recalled
dream for any given evening be compared with the first recalled from
other evenings, and that the second recalled dream from any one
evening be compared with the second dream from other evenings,
and so forth.
This should prove highly interesting, and if such experiments are
carried on consistently over a period of years, then the results could
lead to excellent evidence for the various layers of the subconscious
and inner self, of which I have spoken for so long.
Particular notice should also be taken of characters and setting and

approximate period in history in which the dream action occurs. If the
dream seems to happen in no specific location and in no particular
time, then these facts should also be noted.
Unknown characters within the dream action, persons unknown to

you in daily life, should be given careful attention also, and the roles
which they play within the dream drama. The primary colors should
be noted. It goes without saying now that all dream events should be
checked against physical reality so that any clairvoyant elements are
clearly checked and recorded…
There are many ways in which you can approach these newer dream
experiments. You may, if you prefer, begin by suggesting that you will
waken after the first five dreams…If possible, we want to get the
dreams in order here…
Now, there is something else to be considered. The very self-

suggestions that will enable you to recall dreams will also change
their nature to some extent. This is all right, and the effect will be
minimized when the newness has worn off. Again, we want the
dreams in the sequence in which they occur. If you do not want to
wake up after each dream of the evening, then the suggestion should
always include 'I will recall the first three dreams…or the first five
dreams, or whatever.'
You may try two different wordings for a start, and now I am speaking
of precise wording. The first: 'I will wake up after each of my first five
dreams and record each one immediately.' The second alternative
wording would be the same as the one I had just given, but the 'wake
up' would be omitted. That is, it is possible for you to record the
dream, speaking into the microphone without awakening in your
terms.
This is not only possible but by far the most convenient. You should
try both methods and discover which one works the best for you. If at
all possible, the recorder should be in the bedroom (not in another
part of the house.) It is the immediate recall we are after. We want
you to record the dream at the instant of awakening or at the instant
the dream is about to dissolve.
The time involved in going from one room to another could result in
the loss of dream content and vividness. The very motor response
demanded on the part of the body and the extra arousal tendency
would force you to lose a good deal of valid material. I would prefer
that you work less, if necessary, using the recorder in the bedroom,
than work more intensively leaving the recorder in another room.
It is the dream we are after, the dream experience in all the vividness
that we capture, and if you are going to get a watered-down version
in any case, then you may as well continue with your present method
(of writing them down in the morning) and save your sleep.
With the method I have just given you, you will be able to capture as
much of the whole dream experience as any investigators manage to
do (in dream labs) when the awakening is done by mechanical device
or by another person. You will also be gaining excellent discipline and
training over your own states of consciousness and this, in itself, will
be an important yardstick of progress for both of you….
Now, mankind uses but a portion of its capabilities. When well along
with these experiments, you will find that you handle them very well,
with no draining of energies. Your sleeping hours are already
productive. We shall also use them to give you training in the
utilization of various stages of consciousness. Added to this, the
training will give you valuable insight into the nature of dream in
general, the stages of the subconscious and the inner life of the
personality when it is dissociated from its physical environment to
some considerable extent.
Much later, there will be other suggestions for you in which you will
direct your dreaming self to perform certain activities, visit certain
locations and bring back information. This is obviously still very much
in the future, but well within the abilities of the inner self.
Awakening after Each Dream, and the Layers of the Inner Self
The Early Sessions, Session 206
Suggestion will allow you both to awaken yourselves as soon as a

dream is completed.
The dream will then be fresh. If your recorder is suitably situated with
the microphone easily at hand, then you can speak your dream with
less effort than is required to write it down. Of course records must be
kept. The simplest part of this experiment will involve the use of
suggestion to awaken yourself at the completion of each dream.
The number of remembered dreams should be much higher than

your present system allows….I also suggest that the first recalled
dream for any given evening be compared with the first recalled
dream from other evenings, and that the second recalled dream from
any one evening be compared with the second dream from other
evenings, and so forth.
This should prove highly interesting, and if such experiments are

carried on consistently over a period of years, then the results could
lead to excellent evidence for the various layers of the subconscious
and inner self, of which I have spoken for so long.
Particular notice should also be taken of characters and settings and

the approximate period of history in which the dream occurs. If the
dream seems to happen in no specific location and in no particular
time, then these facts should also be noted.
Unknown characters within the dream action, persons unknown to

you in daily life, should be given careful attention also, and the roles
which they play within the dream drama. The primary colors should
be noted. It goes without saying now that all dream events should be
checked against physical reality so that any clairvoyant elements are
clearly checked and recorded….
There are many ways in which you can approach these newer dream
experiments. You may, if you prefer, begin by suggesting that you will
waken after each of the first five dreams…If possible, we want to get
the dreams in order here….
Now, there is something else to be considered. The very self-
suggestions that will enable you to recall dreams will also change
their nature to some extent. this is all right, and the effect will be
minimized when the newness has worn off. Again, we want to dreams
in the sequence in which they occur. If you do not want to wake up
after each dream of the evening, then the suggestion should always
include ‘I will recall the first three dreams…or the first five dreams, or
whatever.’
You may try two different wordings for a start, and now I am speaking
of precise wording would be the same as the one I have just given,
but the ‘wake up’ would be omitted. That is, it is possible for you to
record the dreams, speaking into the microphone without awakening
in your terms.
This is not only possible but by far the most convenient. You should
try both methods and discover which one works the best for you. If at
all possible, the recorder should be in the bedroom (not in another
part of the house.) It is the immediate dream recall we are after. We
want you to record the dream at the instant of awakening or at the
instant that the dream is about to dissolve.
The time involved in going from one room to another could result in
the loss of dream content and vividness. the very motor responses
demanded on the part of the body and the extra arousal tendency
would force you to lose a good deal of valid material. I would prefer
that you work less, if necessary, using the recorder in the bedroom,
than work more intensively leaving the recorder in another room.
It is the dream we are after, the dream experience in all the vividness
that we can capture, and if you are going to get a watered-down
version in any case, then you may as well continue with your present
method (of writing them down in the morning) and save your sleep.
With the method I have just given you, you will be able to capture as
much of the whole dream experience as any investigators manage to
do (in dream-labs) when the awakening is done by a mechanical
device or by another person. You will also be gaining excellent
discipline and training over your own states of consciousness and
this, in itself, will be an important yardstick of progress for you both….
Now, mankind uses but a portion of its capabilities. When you are
well along in these experiments, you will find that you handle them
very well, with no draining of energies. Your sleeping hours are
already productive. We shall also use them to give you training in the
utilization of various stages of consciousness. Added to this, the
training will give you valuable insight into the nature of dreams in
general, the stages of the subconscious and the inner life of the
personality when it is dissociated from its physical environment to
some considerable extent.
Much later, there will be other suggestions for you in which you will
direct your sleeping self to perform certain activities, visit certain
locations and bring back information. This is obviously still very much
in the future, but it is well within the abilities of the inner self.
Healing with the Vitality of the Universe

The husband, now, should follow this exercise three times daily: He
should imagine the energy and vitality of the universe filling his wife's
form with vitality and health. Not a wishful thinking sort of thing, but a
definite effort to understand that her form is indeed composed of this
energy, and in this way he can help her use it to her advantage.
If possible he should touch her during this exercise, and it should be

done morning, noon and evening.
Catching Oneself in Simple Actions

As an exercise, occasionally catch yourself in some insignificant

action - speaking, touching. If you speak for example be conscious of
speaking and hearing yourself speak. Try to think of the words, or to
experience them in terms of color. In terms of bulk, density, of
distance. Think of the beginnings of the simple act of which you are
normally almost completely unaware, the muscular motions that must
be made before one word can be uttered.
Catch yourself in a simple thought and try to experience the
beginnings of that action. You will be led into action indeed in a
completely new way. Then try to experience this simple action as it
affects others, not only emotionally and physically in terms of the
changes it elicits from their complicated structures, but also the new
actions it requires of them.
Picking up Symptoms
He picked up her physical symptoms, you see sympathetically, and

he must learn to guard himself now against such occurrences. This
can be done by clearing his mind, and suggesting that all alien
impulses or conditions be removed.
The Three Projection Forms

Dreams and Projections of Consciousness, Session 261
For all practical purposes, of course, you will usually find yourself in
some sort of body form in your out-of-body experiences. These are a
necessary camouflage, for you cannot yet think of identity without
some kind of body, so you project in such a form. It varies according
to your abilities, and without it, you would feel lost indeed. The form it
self is not important, but it can tell you something about the
dimension in which you are having the experience.
The dream body is the one with which you are most familiar. It has
been called the astral. It strikes you as being physical when you are
in it, but you can do things with it that can't be done ordinarily. You
can levitate, for example. As a rule, however, you do not go through
walls with this body. This is the body you use for ordinary dreams.
Levitation is possible with it but on a limited basis.
When you enter a different dimension, the abilities of the body form
change, and for all intents and purposes, it is a different body form -
which we will now call a mind form. It still seems physical in shape,
but you can walk through physical matter with it. You can levitate
much more freely, traveling within the solar system. But you cannot
go further with it.
In the first form, it is possible to perceive the past, present or future
on a limited basis. In the second form, this perception is increased,
the scope of consciousness widened. This is the form you will use if
you meet by appointment with others in the dream state.
The third we may call the true projection form. In it, it is possible to
travel beyond the solar system, and to perceive the past, present and
future of other systems as well as your own. The various forms that
you use do not dictate your experience, however. You may begin in
one form and change into another - or go from the first to the third.
On such occasions you must pass through in reverse direction on
returning. The forms merely represent stages of consciousness.
At physical death, after the last reincarnation, then the normal form is
the dream body, and excursions are made from this point. It is
possible, as mentioned to suddenly switch from the third form to the
dream body, but with a considerable jolt to consciousness.
There are, indeed, others who can who can help you in such
experiences, and they can be of great assistance as guides. You will
find projections much easier if your head is to the north.
Now, when you project from the dream body, consciously you are
already outside of the physical one. You have already made the initial
change away from physical focus.. The mass of valid projections are
made from the dreaming body. When the excursion is over, the return
to the dream body is made with no strain, you see, for the ego is little
concerned. In many such cases, however, the knowledge is not
available to the waking self.
As you become more accustomed to the experience, the waking self

will recall more and more and not become frightened.
Projections from the Dream State

I want to give you some idea of the conditions you may expect to
meet in any successful projections, so that you will be prepare to
some extent. For simplicity's sake, we will call the body form
discussed in our last session forms one, two and three.
Form one will spring out of an ordinary dream state. In spontaneous

projections, you may become conscious in form one, project, return to
the ordinary dream state and from there project again several times.
You can expect these particular projections to be difficult to interpret
now, though you may find the experience intact in the middle of any
given dream record.
Your excursions with form one will be within your own system, largely
earth, although past, present and future may be involved. You may,
for example, visit New York in the year 2000.
The projections here are fairly short in duration, though exceptionally

clear. You may encounter phantoms from your own subconscious,
however, and they will seem exceedingly real. If you realize that you
are projecting, you may simply order any unpleasant phantoms to
disappear, and they will do so. You may banish a nightmare also, if
you realize that it is a product of your own subconscious. If you treat it
as a reality, however, then you must deal with it as such until you
realize its origin or return to the ordinary dream state.
In form two you will not, as a rule, encounter any subconscious

phantoms. Ordinary dream elements will not be as frequent, nor will
they intrude as much. A longer duration of projection is possible. The
vividness is extraordinary. Here you will begin to perceive quite
clearly constructions that are not your own, where earlier these are
but thinly glimpsed. A certain period of orientation will be necessary,
simply because these other constructions may seem bewildering.
Some will exist in your future. Some may have existed in your past,
and some were thought of, but never materialized.
But the reality of all these constructions will be equally vivid, you see,
for they are, indeed, quite real. I will give you a simple example. You
may find yourself in a room with certain people. Later, upon
awakening, you realize that both the people and the setting belong to
a particular sequence in a novel. You think then: 'This was no
projection, then, but only a dream.'
It may, however, be a valid projection. The room and people exist but
not in the way you endorse as reality. They exist in another
dimension, but as a rule you cannot perceive it. [To Rob:] The
paintings that you will paint exist now. It is possible for you to project
yourself into one of your own future landscapes. This would be an
imaginative projection. This is what I'm trying to tell you.
You may find yourself, for example, in the middle of a battle that was
once planned in some general's mind, a battle that never materialized
into physical reality. In such a case, incidentally, you were not a part
of the battle and could not be harmed.
However, you might be attracted enough to project yourself

spontaneously into the body of one of the soldiers, in which case you
could experience pain until your fear pulled you back. As you learn to
control, such mistakes vanish.
There are various situations you must learn to handle, attractions and
repulsions which could pull you willy-nilly in any direction. Experience
will teach you how to handle these. What is needed is a steady
maintenance of identity under conditions which will be new as far as
your conscious awareness is concerned. I cannot emphasize too
strongly that projections into other dimensions do occur. Many such
instances are often considered chaotic dreams because there is no
way to check them against physical events since they did not occur in
physical terms.
It is possible for you to project to a future event in which you will be

involved and by an act that you will make in the projection, will alter
the course the future will take. Such an action would therefore appear
to happen twice, once in your present and once in your future. But in
the future, you would be the one whose course is altered from the
traveling self from the past.
Let us take an example: While asleep, you project into 1982. There
you see yourself considering various courses of action. For a moment
you are aware of a sense of duality as you view this older self. You
communicate with this other self; and we will go into this sort of thing
more deeply in another session. In any case, your future self heeds
what you say. Now in the actual future you are the self who hears the
voice of a past self, perhaps in a dream, or perhaps in a projection
into the past.
Projections from Trance and Dream States

Whatever information I can give you will be of great practical benefit. I

do not want either of you traveling about unless you know what you
are doing. Again I want to mention the matter of subconscious
fabrications. Initially, particularly, you will meet with them. You must
remember that you are wandering in completely different dimensions,
and the rules with which you are familiar simply do not apply.
You may, then, encounter images that are subconsciously formed,

quite valid images that belong in another dimension; or constructions
created by others in other systems. For any control at all, you must
learn to distinguish one from the other. Again, if you meet a disturbing
image, you must first will it to disappear. If it is a subconscious
construction of your own it will vanish. But if you do not will it to
disappear or realize its nature, then you must deal with it.
I have told you that the form in which you are traveling can be a tipoff
to you. If your levitation experience seems to carry you outside the
solar system, then you know that you are in the third form and that
your abilities for the time are almost limitless, comparatively
speaking. Any image you see here must be accepted. It does no
good to call these forms hallucinations, for they are no more
hallucinations than the chair in which my friend Ruburt now sits.
Ruburt told one of your friends to respect physical reality. 'Whether or
not the automobile is a sensory hallucination, it can kill you,' he said.
And I tell you that whether or not these projection images are
hallucinations, they can be dangerous and you must respect the
reality in which they exist. I want to be sure that you realize that some
of these constructions belong to other systems. You are safe as long
as you do not meddle. You may explore, and freely, and that is all.
Now here are my instructions. You may induce a medium trance in

whatever way you choose. On occasion, this will be almost
spontaneous, as you know. For best results in the beginning, make a
projection attempt when you feel slightly drowsy, but pleasantly so.
When you have induced the trance state, then begin to examine your
own subjective feelings until you find recognition of the inner self.
This involves a recognition of yourself as distinct from the flesh fibers

in which you reside. Then, begin to imagine this inner self rising
upward. You should experience at this point an internal sense of
motion. This motion may be from side to side as you gently shake
yourself loose.
It may, instead, be a rushing upward. Whichever motion you

experience, there will be a moment when you feel your identity and
consciousness definitely withdrawing from the physical organism.
Before you begin the experiment, the suggestion should also be
given that the physical organism will be well protected and
comfortable.
When you feel your consciousness withdrawing, the first step is this:
Forget the physical body or what you are to do with it. Will yourself
out in a quick motion. There is no need to experience hallucinations.
If the projection is a success, you will instantly lose contact with the
body using this method. You will simply not be in it.
It will be far from lifeless, of course. Its maintenance is being

controlled by the consciousness of the individual cells and organs of
which I have spoken. I will give you alternative methods of projection,
but I will be concerned now with what you can expect the first few
moments after leaving the body.
Once you are out of body, then you are dealing with a different kind of
reality, but the experience is as valid as any other. You may or may
not have the sensation of traveling through doors or windows. This is
dependent upon the kind of projection involved. The molecular
structure of the projecting self is of a different nature than that of the
physical body. There is no change in the physical nature of the door,
for example. The molecular structure of the traveling self changes.
There is no danger of not returning to the body, generally speaking. If

in your projection you seem to be flying past treetops, then you are
doing so.... You can meet and speak with others on some of these
excursions. It is possible, with training, to arrange such meetings. For
any kind of scientific proof, of course, this would be a necessary
preliminary.
Remembering that I told you that you may visit not only the past,
present and future as it exists or will exist in your terms, but you may
also visit realities that never existed physically. In our earlier
sessions, I mentioned that intensity regulated the 'duration' of
experience. Now, many events that were only imagined never took
place physically, yet they exist. They simply are not a part of your
dimension of reality. You may, therefore, visit a museum that was
planned in the sixteenth century, but never built. Such a museum has
a reality as valid as the house in which you live.
I have been speaking of projection from a trance state. Projection

from a dream is something else again, and when executed
successfully, you have a fine example of the self as it changes the
focus of awareness. Here the critical consciousness can be fully alert
while the body sleeps. Spontaneous, unrecalled projections of this
kind happen often. It is beneficial that they be carried out by the
conscious wish of the projector. You learn, therefore, to manipulate
your own consciousness and to experience its mobility. Quite simply,
such projections allow you practice in dealing with realities that you
will meet when you no longer operate in the physical system.
Using the Inner Senses During Projection

You remember that I listed the three forms used during projections. In
the first form, you usually use certain inner senses. In the second
form, you use more of these, and in the third form you attempt to use
all of them, though very rarely is this successful. You should notice
the overall form of perception that you seem to be using. You
automatically shield yourselves from stimuli that are too strong for
your rate of development. This kind of balancing can lead to an
unevenness of experience, however, in any given projection.
As you know, it is almost impossible for you to be aware of the full

perceptions possible, for the ego would not stand for it. Often, even in
simple dreams, however, you will feel concepts or understand a
particular piece of information without a word being spoken. In some
projections, you will also experience a concept, and, at first, you may
not understand what is happening. In these, you experience as actual
the innermost reality of a given concept.
Ruburt (in a dream given before this session) was in the third form,
and he did project beyond your solar system. This was still a
projection within the physical universe, however. He was given
information that he did not remember. When you explore the inside of
a concept, you act it out. You form a temporary but very vivid image
production. If Ruburt's had only been this, it still would have been
pertinent, for when you understand a concept in such a way the
knowledge is never forgotten. It becomes part of your physical cells
and your electromagnetic structure.
I want to make this clearer, however. Suppose that you suddenly

understand the concept of oneness with the universe, and that this
inner sensing of concepts is to be used. You would then construct
dream images, a multitudinous variety of shapes and forms meant to
represent the complicated forms of life. You would then have the
experience of entering each of those lives. You would not think of
what it was like to be a bird. You would momentarily be one. This
does involve projection of sorts, yet still must be called by contrast a
pseudo-projection. A normal projection would involve one of three
body forms.
Some experiences, then, will be simple attempts to use the inner

senses more fully. They may appear to be projections, and as we go
along, I will tell you how to distinguish between them. You will be able
to look back and see your physical body upon the bed on some
occasions, and in other cases you will not be able to do this. In the
first body form, for example, you can look back and see the physical
body. If you project from this form into the next, in order to intensify
the experience, then from this second form you will not see the
physical one. You will be aware of it, and you may experience some
duality. In the third form, you will no longer be aware of the physical
body, and you will not see it. In the third form, your experiences will
be the most vivid. They may involve you in other systems besides
your own, and you will have little contact with the physical
environment. For this reason, projections in this form are the most
difficult to maintain. There are dangers that do not exist when the
other two forms are used.
Using the third form, there could be a tendency for you not to
recognize your own physical situation. It would be difficult to carry the
memories of the present ego personality with you. This third form is
the vehicle of the inner self. The disorientation that it feels is the
same that it will feel when the physical body is deserted at the point
of death. This disorientation is only temporary, and when at death the
form is severed from the physical body, then all the memories and
identity within the electromagnetic structure become part of the inner
self. This form is sometimes used for purposes of instruction,
however, or to acquaint the whole personality with the circumstances
that strongly affect it.
Most of your projections will be in the first and second form, in any
case. Usually you will project from the physical body into the first form
and then, perhaps, into the second. Occasionally, this will happen
and you will not know it, despite all your attempts to ascertain your
circumstances.
There are ways of knowing when you switch forms, of course, and we
shall see that you get this information. You should both have several
projections within the first and second forms in the following months if
your development continues at its present rate. I want to mention the
difference in experience and sensation between projections from a
dream state and those from a trances state and also what Ruburt
calls awake-seeming dreams, for there are many things here that you
do not know, and they are fairly important.
Awake-Seeming Dreams
There are some notes I wanted to give you concerning dreams in

which you feel certain you are normally awake. When these dreams
are unusually vivid, then the ego is aware and participating, but
generally it is not using its critical faculties. As you know, you can
become critically alert, but when you do so, you realize that you are
not in your normal waking condition.
In awake-seeming dreams you are indeed awake, but within a
different psychological framework, indeed, within a different
framework of reality. You are operating at a high level of awareness,
and using the inner senses. These enable you to perceive an added
depth of dimension which is responsible for the vividness and sense
of exhilaration that often occurs within the kind of dream.
The next step, of course, is to allow the ego to awaken its critical
faculties while within this state. You are then able to realize that while
you are indeed awake as you seem, you are awake while the body is
asleep.
When this occurs, you will be able to use your normal abilities in
addition to those of the dream condition. You will be certain of your
identity, realize that the physical self is sleeping or in a dream state
and that the inner self is fully awake. This represents a definite
increase in the scope of consciousness and a considerable
expansion over the usual limitations set by you upon yourself.
Only then can you fully begin to manipulate the conditions that exist
and communicate this knowledge that you receive to the ego. For the
time, you see, the ego becomes a direct participator in such
experience, at least to a degree.
Almost all of your dreams experiences do involve projection of one

kind or another. These vary in intensity, type and even duration as
any other experiences vary. It takes a good deal of training and
competence to operate with any real effectiveness within these
situations.
All in all, the intellect plays some part, but the intuitional qualities are
the most important. There are chemical changes, also, that occur with
the physical body when projections happen, and electromagnetic
variations. These vary according to the form in which the projection
occurs.
The projected form does make some impressions upon the physical
system. It is possible for it to be detected. It is a kind of pseudo-
image, materialistically speaking, but it has definite electromagnetic
reality and chemical properties. Animals have sense such
apparitions. They react to the chemical properties and build up to the
perception of the image from these.
These chemical properties are more diffused in such an apparition

than in a physical form, however. The chemical composition of a
storm, perhaps, will give you an idea of what I mean.... They cause
small disturbances in the physical system. As a rule, they are not
solid, and yet they have shape and to a certain extent, boundaries
and movement. They definitely have a reality, though you cannot
usually perceive it with the physical senses.
Perhaps this diffused quality is the most important difference, from

your point of view, between an apparition and a physical form. There
is an atomic structure, but in some ways it is less complete than the
physical one. There is always a minute difference in the body's
weight when the individual is projecting.
Projections Hints and Chemical Excesses

Certain chemical changes must come about in the physical organism

before projection can occur. Were it not for these, you would still be
imprisoned within the physical image. You know that dreaming has a
definite chemical basis, that chemicals built up during the period of
waking experience are released through dreams. Not only are these
released, but they form a propelling action that allows energy to flow
in the opposite direction. As chemical reactions allow the body to
utilize energy and form physical manifestations, so the excess
becomes, then, a propelling force, allowing action to flow in what you
would call subjective directions.
This same chemical reaction must also occur, only more strongly,
before legitimate projection can occur. This is one of the main
reasons why deliberate projections are not more numerous. Usually
the chemical access is used in normal dreaming. In periods of
exuberant energy and well being, a more than normal excess
accumulates. This can trigger a projection. In periods of momentary
indisposition, however, the dreaming process may be blocked and
the chemical accumulated. Again, a good time to try projection.
These chemical excesses are a natural byproduct of consciousness
that is bound up in physical materialization. The more intense the
characteristic experience of reality, the greater the chemical excess
that is built up. Consciousness itself, when physically oriented, burns
up chemicals. The more intense the individual, the hotter the fire, so
to speak, and the greater the chemical excesses released.
Released they must be, or the organism would not survive. Periods of
intense activity may also generate this additional chemical propellant.
Although this is generated through activity, it is released, making
projection possible, in alternating periods of quietude and rest. There
must be a disciplined focus, therefore, of this propellant. Periods of
heightened sexual activity of a strong and deep nature will help.
Periods of no sexual activity will also help, however. On the one
hand, the chemical excess is built up as a result of great intensity,
and in the latter case it is built up because psychic and sexual
release has not been granted.
Eggs and asparagus are helpful as far as diet are concerned. I am

obviously not suggesting a whole diet of eggs and asparagus. These
plus fish oils are beneficial, however, but not when taken with acid
foods.
I still suggest a more thorough examination of your dreams for many

of them contain spontaneous projections. They are most apt to occur
in the early hours, between 3:00 and 5:00 A.M. The body temperature
drops at such times. Five in the afternoon is also beneficial from this
standpoint. The drinking of pure water also facilitates projection,
although for obvious reasons, the bladder should be empty. The
north-south position is extremely important, and, indeed, is a
necessary dream recall....
Energy is most easily utilized in this position for one thing, and this
cuts unnecessary restrictions to a minimum.
There is a vast difference between ordinary dreams and projections,

whether or not projections occur from the dream threshold. Dreams
are constructed and sent upon their way. As you know, they maintain
an independence within their own dimension.
Projections involve many more aspects of the whole self and are a
mark that the personality is progressing in important ways. The inner
senses are allowed their greatest freedom in projection states, and
the self retains experience that it would not otherwise. When this
knowledge becomes a part of the ordinary waking consciousness,
then you have taken a gigantic step forward.
An almost automatic determination must be established, however, in

conscious projections are to be anything but rare oddities. With both
of you (Jane and Rob) the problem is somewhat different than it
might be with others. These chemical excesses are used up, for one
thing, in your own creative work. You do this automatically. It goes
without saying that your own work will gain immeasurably through
extended experience of projection. The yoga exercises allow you to
draw an abundance - indeed, a superabundance - of energy. This
energy results, also, in chemical excess that can be utilized in
projections, without drawing energy away from your other work.
The expectations and knowledge that you are a part of all energy will
allow you to realize that all the energy you require will be given. Your
attitude toward what is possible determines what is possible for you in
very definite terms....
Now, there are also electromagnetic changes during projections that

can be perceived with instruments. Certain electrical fields will make
themselves known under these conditions. The fields have always
existed, but they will become apparent to physical instruments only
when they are crossed - in other words, at the very act of projection.
Other hints: A cool body temperature but with room temperature

between 73.8 and 75.9. High humidity is poor. The color of the room
is important. Cool colors are best. Too warm colors are detrimental,
being too closely allied with earthly conditions. In your climate
(Elmira, New York), October, February and March are best. August
can be beneficial, according to the weather. Too warm weather is
detrimental.
More Projection Hints
Projections actually involve change of atomic structure.

Consciousness simply changes its form. When projection is first
accomplished, there is a strong charge of adrenaline in the body and
high activity of the thyroid gland. There is a charge of sexual
hormones which are utilized in projection.
After projection is accomplished, however, there is a marked decline

in chemical activity and hormone action, a drop in body temperature
and a drop in blood pressure. The rapid eye movements noted by
dream investigators cease entirely. The eye muscles are not used.
The normal muscular activity that usually occurs in sleep vanishes.
The physical body is in a deep trance state. The trance may also be
masked by sleep if the projection happens from a dream threshold.
According to the intensity of the projection and to the system visited,

the body may become more or less ridged when consciousness
returns. There is a subtle difference in the way sugar molecules are
utilized. Momentarily, the body uses less sugar. However, the sugar
is important in fueling the consciousness on its journey. It also aids in
connecting the consciousness to the body.
In other words, there is indeed a connection that is and must be

partially physical, between the body and the traveling consciousness,
and it is based upon a certain sugar molecule in a form not normally
seen. Before conscious projections I would therefore recommend that
you take a small amount of starchy or sugar food. A small snack
before bed is a good idea from this viewpoint. Alcohol is of some
benefit, though not to any great degree. Excellent results can be
achieved in a dream-based projection during the day, in a nap. When
these are good they will perhaps be the best of any dream-based
projections. They are also exceedingly safe. The body itself is well
stocked, so to speak, and it is possible to maintain projections for a
longer period than usual in night projections.
Conscious Projection, and Projection into the Future
Your waking consciousness only participates in projections as a rule

when you are in a period of high vitality, and exceptional health.
On occasion the waking consciousness does participate during other

usually very depressed periods. But generally speaking high energy
is needed in order to maintain overall stability, and in order that the
ego is not overstrained. Such conscious projections are automatically
spaced out. In this way there is little danger that problems will arise.
It is the same with the conscious retention of dreams in general. You

are indeed exercising what amounts to an added ability. You are
learning to manipulate within other dimensions of consciousness.
Automatic controls are therefore used. You proceed as your abilities
and control develop.
Suggestion given before sleep will greatly add to your chances of

conscious projections from the dream state. It is not necessary,
basically speaking, that you notice some small incongruous detail in
order to realize while dreaming that you are dreaming. There is
however one good method to use. The suggestion "I will realize while
dreaming that I am dreaming" can also be used, as another method,
or both of these may be utilized together.
At your stage it is of course easier if the actual separation of

consciousness from the physical body occurs without your
awareness. However the experience itself is excellent training. I have
told you that these projections may carry you to different systems. In
the beginning you are safer perhaps in those projections that involve
your own reality.
There is not any great matter of danger, only that you could fall into
blunders. The north-south position is most beneficial. It might be of
benefit if you concentrate before sleep upon a simple projection that
involves leaving the body, walking out into this room, for example,
(the living room) or perhaps strolling around the block.
When falling off to sleep for example, imagine that you are in your
yard, in another room of your apartment, or in front of the house.
When this method is effective you will not be consciously aware of
the actual separation however. I do not suggest at this point that you
or Ruburt attempt to contact me during any projection. Later, when
you have more training.
If by chance you blunder (smile, eyes open) into my territory, then I

will know it, and seek you out. Whenever you find yourself in any
potentially dangerous dream situation during a projection,
immediately terminate the dream. You will then return to an ordinary
state of consciousness.
Now. Mr. Fox is quite correct. When you know you are in a projection
do not be tempted to tamper. There are forces that you do not yet
understand. You will find that these projections become more vivid. I
must repeat that these are quite valid. They are not hallucinations.
Conscious projections do not occur with any frequency as far as a
large percentage of humanity is concerned. Note that I speak only
now of projections in which you are self-consciously aware.
The reasons are somewhat obvious. Conscious projections are

dependent upon abilities and control. Also this ability and control
presupposes a fairly disciplined personality. Otherwise we would
have explosive outbursts of suddenly released aggressions in
systems where they do not belong.
It is quite possible to meet survival personalities, incidentally, during

such projections. This does not happen often, because so many other
issues are necessary. It is also possible of course to move into your
own future. - This occurs regularly, though not always with
awareness. Projections into the past are also frequent.
Because of some matters we have not yet discussed, at any rate

deeply, it is possible to meet your own projection. You are
accountable for acts committed during projections, of course, and
these alter the personality as any acts do. If you have your wits about
you, you can gain information concerning the future by studying your
projection environment, if for any reason you suppose it to be ahead
of you in time.
Some of this is extremely complicated. You may for example request
before sleep that you project into your own future, to see what occurs
there. This is legitimate enough, if you are willing to accept the results
of your projections. For what you see will influence what you do in the
present. You will be projecting of course into the probable future as it
exists for you at this point.
The very act of projecting will alter these probabilities. I am not saying
that this future environment is not real, however. It is as real as your
present.
Eight Root Assumptions of the Inner Universe

You agree to accept certain data in the physical universe. You agree
to form this into certain patterns, and you agree to ignore other data
completely. These now, called root assumptions, form the main basis
for the apparent permanence and coherence of your physical system.
In your journeys into inner reality, you cannot proceed with these
same root assumptions. Reality, per se, changes completely
according to the basic root agreements that you accept. One of the
root agreements upon which physical reality is based is the
assumption that objects have a reality independent of any subjective
cause and that these objects, within definite specified limitations, are
permanent.
Objects may appear and disappear in these other systems. Using the
root assumptions just mentioned as a basis for judging reality, an
observer would insist that the objects were not real, for they do not
behave as he believes objects must. Because dream images may
appear and disappear, then, do not take it for granted that they do not
really exist.
There is a cohesiveness to the inner universe and to the systems that

are not basically physical. But this is based upon an entirely different
set of root assumptions and these are the keys that alone will let you
manipulate within other systems or understand them. There are
several major root assumptions connected here and many minor
ones:
1) Energy and action are basically the same, although neither must
necessarily apply to physical action.
2) All objects have their origin basically in mental action. Mental
action is directed psychic energy.
3) Permanence is not a matter of time. Existence has value in terms
of intensities.
4) Objects are blocks of energy perceived in a highly specialized
manner.
5) Stability in time sequence is not a prerequisite requirement for an
object, except as a root assumption in the physical universe.
6) Space as a barrier does not exist.
7) The spacious present is here more available to the senses.
8) The only barriers are mental or psychic ones.
Only if these basic root assumptions are taken for granted will your
projection experiences make sense to you. Different rules simply
apply. Your subjective experience is extremely important here; that is,
the vividness of any given experience in terms of intensity will be far
more important than anything else. Elements from the past, present
and future may be indiscriminately available to you. You may be
convinced that a given episode is the result of subconscious
fabrication, simply because the time sequence is not maintained, and
this could be a fine error. In a given dream projection, for example,
you may experience an event that is obviously from the physical past,
yet within it there may be elements that do not fit. In an old-fashion
room of the 1700's, you may look out and see an automobile pass by.
Obviously, you think: distortion. Yet you may be straddling time in
such an instance, perceiving, say, the room as it was in the 1700's
and the street as it appears in your present. These elements may
appear side by side. The car may suddenly disappear before your
eyes, to be replaced by an animal or the whole street may turn into a
field.
'This is how dreams work,' you may think. 'This cannot be a legitimate
projection.' Yet you may be perceiving the street and the field that
existed 'before' it, and the images may be transposed one upon the
other. If you try to judge such an experience with physical root
assumptions, it will be meaningless. As mentioned earlier, you may
perceive a building that will never exist in physical reality. This does
not mean that the form is illusion. You are simply in a position where
you can pick up and translate the energy pattern before you.
If another individual under the same circumstances comes across the

same 'potential' object, he can also perceive it as you did. He may,
however, because of his own make-up, perceive and translate
another portion of allied pattern. He may see the form of the man who
originated the thought of the building.
To a large extent in the physical system, your habit of perceiving time

as a sequence forms the type of experience and also limits it. This
habit also unites the experiences, however. The unifying and limiting
aspects of consecutive moments are absent in inner reality. Time, in
other words, cannot be counted on to unify action. The unifying
elements will be those will be those of your own understanding and
abilities. You are not forced to perceive action as a series of moments
within inner reality, therefore.
Episodes will be related to each other by different methods that will

be intuitional, highly selective and psychological. You will find your
way through complicated mazes of reality according to your own
intuitional nature. You will find what you expect to find. You will seek
out what you want from the available data.
In physical experience, you are dealing with an environment with

which you are familiar. You have completely forgotten the chaos and
unpredictable nature it presented before learning processes were
channeled into its specific directions. You learned to perceive reality
in a highly unified fashion. When you are dealing with inner, or
basically non-physical realities, you must learn to become
unspecialized and then learn a new set of principles. You will soon
learn to trust your perceptions, whether or not the experiences seem
to make logical sense.
In a projection, the problems will be of a different sort. The form of a

man, for example, may be a thought-form, or a fragment sent quite
unconsciously by another individual whom it resembles. It may be
another projectionist, like yourself. It may be a potential form like any
potential object... a record of a form played over and over again.
It may be another version of yourself. We will discuss ways of

distinguishing between these. A man may suddenly appear, and be
then replaced by a small girl. This would be nonsensical development
to the logical mind; yet, the girl might be the form of the man's
previous or future reincarnated self.
The unity, you see, is different. Basically, perception of the spacious

present is naturally available. It is your nervous physical mechanism
which acts as a limiting device. But acting in this manner it forces you
to focus upon what you can perceive with greater intensity.
Your mental processes are formed and developed as a result of this

conditioning. The intuitive portions of the personality are not so
formed, and these will operate to advantage in any inner exploration.
You are basically capable of seeing any particular location as it

existed a thousand years in your past or as it will exist a thousand
years in your future. The physical senses serve to blot out more
aspects of reality that they allow you to perceive... yet, in many inner
explorations you will automatically translate experience into terms
that the senses can use.... Any such translation is, nevertheless, a
second hand version of the original - an important point to remember.
Physical Root Assumptions, Perception, and Symbols

Root assumptions represent the basic premises upon which a given

existence-system is formed. These are the ground rules, so to speak.
Your physical mechanisms are equipped to function in such a way
that reality is perceived through the lens of particular root
assumptions, then. Using the physical senses, it is almost impossible
for you to perceive reality in any other way.
Physically speaking, you will find nothing to contradict these

assumptions, since they are all that you can experience or perceive
physically. These root assumptions are the framework of the
camouflage system. As you explore other realities, you almost
automatically interrupt such data in terms of root assumptions of your
own system.
This highly falsifies such information. The inner senses are not bound
by those assumptions, however.... This is why so many psychic or
subjective experiences seem to contradict physical laws. You must
learn the 'laws' that apply to other systems.
The root assumptions that govern physical reality are indeed valid,
but within physical reality alone. They do not apply elsewhere. There
is a natural tendency to continue judging experience against these
assumptions, however. With experience, the habit will lose much of
its hold. Inner experience must be colored to some extent by the
physical system, while you exist in it. In order for such data to rise to
conscious levels, for example, it must be translated into terms that
the ego can understand, and the translation is bound to distort the
original experience....
(Seth discusses LSD…)
Development of the inner senses is a much more effective method of

perceiving other realities, and, followed correctly, the ego is not only
stronger but more flexible. Even consciousness of physical reality is
increased. Such development becomes an unfolding and natural
expansion of the whole personality.
These root assumptions are so part of your existence that they cloud
your dreams. Beneath them, however, portions of the self perceive
physical reality in an entirely different fashion, free of the tyranny of
objects and physical form. Here you experience concepts directly,
without the need for symbols. You have knowledge of your 'past'
personalities and know that they exist simultaneously with your own.
The practice of psychological time will allow you to reach these

portions of the self. The ego is not artificially disorganized by such
practice. It is simply bypassed for the moment. The experience
gained does become part of the physical structure, but there is no
massive disorganization of perception, since the ego agrees to step
aside momentarily.
It is not bombarded, as with the drug experiment, and forced to
experience chaotic and frightening perceptions that can terrify it into
complete disorder. Survival in your system is dependent upon highly
specialized, focused, limited but specific qualities of the ego. It should
not be rigid. Neither should it be purposely weakened.
The root assumptions upon which physical reality is formed represent

secure ground to the ego. We always operate with the ego's consent.
It interprets the inner knowledge gained in its own way, true, but it is
immeasurably enriched by so doing.
The ego can exist only within the context of these assumptions. The
primary dream experience is finally woven into a structure composed
of these assumptions, and it is these you remember. These serve you
as basic information but the information is in symbolic form. Objects,
you see, are symbols. Dream objects are often symbols of realities
that the ego could not otherwise perceive.
Projections into Uncamouflaged Areas and Other Systems of

Reality
You will sometimes automatically translate this reality into physical

terms. Such images will be hallucinatory, but it may take awhile for
you to distinguish their true nature. It must be understood, however,
that all physical objects are hallucinatory. They may be called mass
hallucinations.
There is constant translation of inner reality into objects in waking

state and a constant translation of ideas into pseudo-objects in the
dream state. Within a certain range of dream reality, ideas and
thoughts can be translated into pseudo-objects and transported. This
is what happens when you adopt a pseudo-form in projection, though
I am simplifying this considerably.
When you travel beyond a certain range of intensities, even pseudo-

objects must vanish. They exist in a cluster about, and connected to,
your system. The lack of these, obviously, means that you have gone
beyond your own camouflage system. If it were possible, you would
then travel through a range of intensities in which no camouflage
existed. Then you would encounter the pseudo-camouflage of the
next system. This would or would not be physical matter, according to
the system. You would then encounter the heart of the camouflage
area. The completely uncamouflaged areas at the outer edges of the
various systems should remind you of the undifferentiated areas
between various life cycles in the subconscious. This is no
coincidence.
As a rule, you see, there is little communication within the

uncamouflaged areas. They act as boundaries, even while they
represent the basic stuff of which all camouflage is composed.
(Without the camouflage, you would perceive nothing with the
physical senses.)
The sentence is really meaningless, however, because the physical

senses are themselves camouflage. There would be nothing to
translate. It is only the inner senses that will allow you to perceive
under these circumstances. Theoretically, if you can bridge the gap
between various reincarnations, then you can bridge the gap between
your system and another.
Once more: The undifferentiated layers are composed of the vitality

that forms the camouflage of all systems. Such an area is not really a
thing in itself, but a portion of vitality that contains no camouflage, and
is therefore unrecognizable to those within any given system. You are
in touch with infinity in such areas, since it is only camouflage that
gives you the conception of time....
Now, during some projections, you may be aware of nothing as far as

surroundings are concerned. There will only be the mobility of your
consciousness. If this occurs, you will be traveling through such an
uncamouflaged area. You could then expect to encounter next a
more differentiated environment that seems to become clearer as you
progress toward the heart of another system.
This completely uncamouflaged would be rather bewildering. You

might automatically be tempted to project images into it. They would
not take, so to speak, but would appear and disappear with great
rapidity. This is a silent area. Thoughts would not be perceived here,
as a rule, for the symbols for them would not be understood.
If a certain intensity is reached, however - a peak of intensity - then
you could perceive the spacious present as it exists within your
present native system. You could, from this peak, look into other
systems, but you would not understand what you perceived, not
having the proper root assumptions. I have used the idea of
neighboring systems for simplicities sake, as if they were laid out end
to end. Obviously, such is not the case. The systems [of reality] are
more like various segments of a tangerine, with the uncamouflaged
boundary areas like the white membrane between the tangerine
sections.
The tangerine, then, would be compared to a group of many systems,

yet it would represent in itself but one portion of an unperceived
whole. The tangerine would be but one segment of a larger system.
You can see, then, why some projections would lead you in a far
different direction from your linear sort of travel and why time as you
know it would be meaningless.
Nor do such projections necessarily involve journeys through space

as you know it. There are systems, vivid in intensity, that have no
existence in physical reality at all. It is now thought, I believe, that
time and space are basically one, but they are both part of something
else. They are merely the camouflage patterns by which you perceive
reality. Space as you perceive it in dream states comes closer to the
reality.
Projections within your own system will, of course, involve some kind
of camouflage. If none is present, you will know you are out of the
system. The dream universe is obviously closely connected with your
own, since pseudo-objects are present. Even there, you are to some
extent free from the space-time elements of your own system. Within
the dream state, then, you are in the 'outward' areas of the physically
oriented universe.
One point: There are other systems all about and within your own.
The undifferentiated areas move out like spirals, through all reality.
Little resistance is encountered within them. They represent inner
roads that connect systems, as well as divide them. The traveler must
leave his own camouflage paraphernalia behind him, however, or he
will get nowhere.
It is possible, theoretically, to travel to any system in this manner and

bypass others, you see. Such a traveler would not age physically. His
body would be in a suspended state. Only a few individuals have
traveled in this manner. Most of the knowledge gained escapes the
ego, and the experiences cannot be translated by the physical brain.
However, it is possible to travel under such circumstances and some

of the data would be retained by the inner portions of the self. In a
creative individual, some of this information might be symbolically
expressed in a painting or some other work of art.
Projections in the Middle of the Night

When you awaken - or seem to awaken - in the middle of the night,

try to get out of the body. Simply try to get out of the bed without
moving the body and go into another room.
This is a pleasant and easy method. With some experience you will
discover that you can maintain control, walk out of the apartment and
outside. You may then attempt normal locomotion or levitate. There is
little strain in this method. Keep it in mind so the you are alert to the
initial favorable circumstances. You may be half awake. You may be
in a false awakening. The method will work in either case. You can, if
you want to, look back at your body. You must want to do this,
however. Often, you do not want to see the body by itself, so to
speak, and so choose methods that make this more difficult. Just this
one exercise will sharpen your control greatly. It is an ABC. This
experience is also less startling to the ego than a more abrupt
projection, and the ordinary nature of these activities - walking into
the next room, for example - will be reassuring. You are more calm in
your own surroundings.
Now it is possible for someone within the body to perceive someone

who is not, but it is not usual. The perceiver must be a person of
strong psychic abilities or the projecting personality must be driven by
high emotional intensity to make himself known.
Infinity, Illusions, Basic Reality, and a Projection Experiment
The Early Sessions, Book 7, Session 305, p.199-200
Individual selves will retain identity. They will be able to participate at

a high level of awareness with the whole of which they are part. The
whole is far more infinite than you can conceive. In a basic sense, the
whole is aware of all of its parts, and in a basic sense all of its parts
are aware of the whole. But each self must go its own way and
develop its own abilities and explore the possibilities which it creates
itself, otherwise the whole would stagnate.
The whole gains vivid experience through the life of its parts. The
whole needs its segments. The vitality must constantly create itself in
new patterns and each new pattern, of course, brings forth new
possibilities of development.
Infinity has nothing to do with space or time as you know it. Infinity is
the state of becoming and can never have an end for it is never
completed. Infinity has to do with value fulfillment, and the unfoldings
of ever-new possibilities, the exploration of moment points, the
traveling through dimensions that ever creates the illusion of time. But
since there is no time, what is there to end?
The experience of projection will give you some small glimmering of

infinity. Pretend that in an exploration during a projection you found
yourself beside a tree. You entered the tree. You stayed there and
followed it through the seasons. Then you grew restless and entered
a bird who perched upon the branches and you flew merely several
feet away. A child stands nearby and you entered the child.
You intruded upon the child in no way. You were there within the child
like air. All of this seemed to take no time at all. The child became
old. You traveled to a nearby lake and became a fish. In succession
you entered many things and finally returned to your body. You had
experienced centuries, yet only an hour of your time had passed. The
feeling that you would have inside this highly improbable projection
would give you some idea, though a very weak one, of the feeling of
infinity.
Now, in one sense, all selves are projections of the whole or that
which is. New universes such as your own constantly come into
existence. Systems and planes far different develop and in turn form
other systems. Infinity has meaning only in subjective and psychic
terms. The physical brain cannot contain the idea of infinity.
The concept will not fit into three-dimensional terms. The whole self,
the inner self, moves within the concept of infinity as you move within
physical reality through space. Infinity contains all that will ever be
known, and, of course, all that will ever be known is known within the
spacious present.
Yet these very terms, all that will ever be known, are distortive, for
they suggest an ending of knowledge and experience and there is
none.
Now, "There is no place to go" if you know what is truly meant by that
statement. It is also true that there are as many places to go as you
wish to find. You always create the places and the destinations at
which you arrive. There are no places, and there are infinities of
places. The inner self forms all systems and all places. On the one
hand you can indeed call them illusion. On the other hand, these
illusions are quite real. They are the clothing over the basic reality.
The basic reality is indeed within the illusions. Look beneath them
and within them and you will feel it. But they are themselves
composed of it, and you cannot really separate the two. Words are
inadequate to explain what I mean here.
Basic reality cannot know itself without creating diversity. The

diversity is the various forms that reality takes, the various systems
within which it expresses itself through projecting itself into infinite
individualized experience. Now that sentence is an important one.
Each inner self is a portion of the basic inner reality. It cannot know
itself, however, except through experience, and it must create in
order to experience. The experience constantly deepens the value
fulfillment of basic reality itself There is no alternative between
diversity and nothingness.
That which is, is constantly aware of its growing, surging existence,
through the diversity of experience which it creates constantly and
simultaneously. You are part of that which is, you are that which is. It
is impossible for any part of that which is not to be individualized.
Every part of that which is, is alive, and knows itself.
Projecting Universal Vitality for the Sick

The husband, now, should follow this exercise three times daily: He
should imagine the energy and vitality of the universe filling his wife's
form with vitality and health. Not a wishful thinking sort of thing, but a
definite effort to understand that her form is indeed composed of this
energy, and in this way he can help her use it to her advantage. If
possible he should touch her during this exercise, and it should be
done morning, noon and evening.
Negative Suggestions, and What to Do about Them

The Early Sessions, Book 7, Session 332, p. 333-334
There is an inability to handle his own energy- At times his own

energy frightens him, and then it seems to abandon him completely.
Here, however, he has abandoned it, for he succumbs easily to
negative suggestions. Because he is sensitive to various elements,
he also soaks up atmosphere and suggestions like a sponge, and he
has not learned to protect himself.
In poor periods he is almost completely vulnerable to negative

suggestion, so that it operates through his own psychic and physical
system. He should then often give himself the following suggestion: "I
will only react to constructive suggestions." You may take a break
and we shall continue.
Now, listen to me. When you find yourself facing such negative
images in your mind and projecting them into the future, you should
at once mentally wipe out that image and replace it with a
constructive image, seeing yourself, for example, sitting in command
of a well-ordered room.
This must be done immediately and upon every such occasion and
under every such circumstance. This exercise will indeed wipe out
the previous negative image.
You must mentally wipe out the negative image, for example. If you
think that tomorrow Johnny F will misbehave in study hall, you
should, in your mind, replace this with the image of Johnny F
behaving very well. In the first place, if you imagine that a particular
student will misbehave, you are automatically sending him a
telepathic message to that effect. If he is highly susceptible to
suggestion, he will carry out the suggestions that you have given.
When you replace this with a constructive thought, you are sending
that constructive suggestion to which he will also react. Any time you
see yourself in your mind as unhealthy or staggering, you must
immediately wipe the image away and make an effort to see instead
a mental image of yourself as healthy and strong.
Such images affect your whole physical system through the

manufacture of hormones and chemicals. Suggestions, whether
given to you or given by you, cause an emotional situation that
automatically affects the production of hormones and chemicals.
I told you to tell yourself- I will only react to constructive suggestions.

If however, you find yourself harboring a negative suggestion, then
instantly counter it by replacing it with a constructive one.
This can be compared and correctly to errors in a painting. When you

are in a poor state of mind, you automatically affect the others you
meet, negatively. You then react to their behavior and complete the
circle. Now this leads into a highly charged emotional environment,
which is the cause of the depressions of which you have spoken.
When the peak is reached then self-pity controls your emotions so

completely that there seems to be no escape. In a mood of self-pity
there is indeed an almost perverted luxury, the luxury of despair, for
despair says: There is nothing I can do, and relieves you of any
responsibility for change. This applies not to you only but to such a
state in general. You become incapable of getting out of yourself,
even to the extent of enjoying small pleasures and, little by little it
seems every joy is withdrawn from you until nothing is left but
despair.
This is caused by the culmination of negative suggestions and of

negative thought. They build up until you can take it no longer. In the
natural state of affairs, however, sooner or later, some highly charged
positive suggestion then begins to clear the emotional air.
Tips for Artists

You should in any case whenever possible sketch outdoors, for you
are personally renewed by such an encounter, And the implications
are very different. When you are outdoors sketching there is before
you a large expanse. It is easier to think in terms of size and
expansion. Thoughts of expansion will help your work, so that the
energy and vision are not imprisoned by form but are within form,
even while in the process of change.
When you are sketching outdoors, as a helpful exercise I suggest the

following: attach your focus of attention to one small thing. It may be
a flower or a stone. Something however that catches your own eye.
Imagine the energy within that object perpetual, but in terms of being
endlessly alive and vital.
Pretend that the energy within that object is the center of life, so that
the whole rest of the universe derives its energy within that stone or
flower. Do this until you can feel that energy pulsate within the form of
the object, so that the form itself is ever mobile while it retains the
semblance, as in a stone, of immobility.
Think of the energy as radiating outward from the object, giving life to
all other things, whether or not many specific objects are to be in any
given painting. This will result in paintings in which your chosen point
of attention radiates through the form, illuminating all other objects in
the painting, and psychically radiating outward from the painting.
It will automatically be evocative of other objects not in the painting,

and will automatically remind the viewer of the universe that you did
not paint. Expansiveness is built in psychically in this manner.
I believe that some Spanish artists in the past utilized this same sort
of idea.
Now in other ways it was also utilized by your old masters. The
expansiveness then was also of a spiritual nature. Whatever objects
were shown in the painting automatically presupposed the existence
of spiritual realities, and other universes, though these
presuppositions were highly ritualistic.
The meaning behind them was known to all. Each of the great
masters' paintings somehow suggest the existence of far greater
realities, of which the paintings were a part. They saw the objects
within their paintings as portions of a greater whole that was
suggested by the painting.
Now the suggestion I have given you is the same sort of thing. There
is no dependence upon agreed ritualistic symbol, however. The
exercise itself will allow you to make the necessary transformation,
where the one becomes all. Now this is the expansion of which I am
speaking. It will cause immediate physical evocative reactions. Do
you follow me here?
The timeless quality will be built in, for the painting itself, though
flawless in form, will suggest the changing quality of form, and stress
the permanent quality that gives it its meaning. If you as artist are
also aware that the same energy that fills the form that you paint also
forms your own image, then the transformation into something better
than excellent art is made.
Now the energy can be best suggested by transparents, rather than

opaques, for the opaques arc too ponderous. The opaques can be
used effectively to suggest the form, superimposed lightly over the
transparent energy, but never with a heavy hand.
A good use of transparents in oils will make you more pleased with
using them.
Movement can be best portrayed also with transparents, and even for
rocks. While opaques may be used to suggest physical heaviness,
transparents should be used also to show that in actuality rocks are
as light as air, and to hint at the ever-mobile energy that forms them.
Now again, much of this has to do with your own interest. Opaques
are excellent to suggest a heavy or dark mood. In portraits, while the
inner skeletal structure must be hinted at, and while the figure should
be well done, still the should be the suggestion of the personality
going beyond the image, and of personality's energy radiating
outward.
In a portrait, do the same exercise as given earlier. Imagine the

individual as the center of all life, so that when the painting is
completed it automatically suggests the whole universe of which the
individual is part. Nothing exists isolation, and this is the secret that
the old masters knew so well.
Ideas of Plenty
Your subjective life has been somewhat permeated by thoughts of

want, and literally poverty, until you have indeed exaggerated your
own situation. The exaggerated situation could come to pass
however if you persist in protecting those images outward.
They would not help you get a raise but act to the contrary, and they
have done so in the past. I am giving you advice in very practical
terms. What you do with it is up to you. But you have severely limited
yourself in this respect.
In the past Ruburt helped you generate such negative ideas, but he
has been making an attempt to combat them. His own experience
has proven to him that I was right in other regards. As long as you
believe that others are taking advantage of you, they will do so. The
origin is in yourself, and this is what you have not so far understood.
The origin is not in others. For fifteen minutes a day agree to suspend
critical judgment, and following the Maltz method imagine yourself
vividly in the position you would like to be. The rest of the time
consciously make an effort to control your attitude when you find
yourself thinking in terms of want or poverty. Then switch your
thoughts to ideas of plenty. This need not involve hypocrisy, indeed
must not. You must feel that this is legitimate and practical, because
the thoughts of plenty will automatically begin to attract plenty. This is
sufficient. There should not be an overemphasis (underlined) on
material possessions or security however.
Now this program if faithfully followed will bring results. It will initiate
intuitive concepts, ideas in your work which will automatically attract
others to possess them. It will initiate other actions that will result in
financial betterment Do you have any questions pertaining to this
particular material?
Plunging into Irritating Sounds

The Early Sessions, Book 8 Session 418, p.325-326
Now I have an experiment for you. You may not think much of it. But
try it.
When you are bothered by noise and tumult, by traffic and the sound
of neighbors' voices, by lawn mowers and other irritating sounds, try
this: do not fight them. Purposely plunge into them; go along with
them as action, and they can refresh you.
Do it as an act of will, and your intuitions, oddly enough, will be

refreshed. They need not serve automatically as inhibiting factors
unless you allow them to. But it is not enough in your case to ignore
them and despise them. Let them work for you.
If done in the correct spirit, this will help free your intuitive nature, and
to a large extent help wash away automatic blocks that have been
inhibiting.
You do not have to be afraid of going along with what these sounds
represent. You will not lose your sense of isolation nor your
individuality. This is basically behind your reaction having to do with
your early life. You felt your mother's liveliness and vitality
threatening, for it was not disciplined in any manner, but erratic.
This was added to by the sensed power of your father's inhibited

vitality. You felt the combination could sweep you aside, and literally
destroy you. Undirected vitality and undisciplined vitality has
frightened you, and noise to you represents the tumultuous
undisciplined emotions that you feared.
The exercise will do much to override this, for you are strong enough
and you need inner freedom. There is behind such seemingly
undirected, abstract tumult and energy, direction that cannot be
intellectually perceived, but can be intuitively sensed. And this is the
force that is behind your own art and all creativity.
It can even serve as a framework for creativity, for from these raw
materials you can forge and direct energy for your own purposes.
You can take that tumult and use it, but not if you set yourself up
against it. Then, it is threatening to you.
Various sounds rush at you. From one inharmonious high-pitched yell

for example, if you listen, you as an artist can sense the self that was
forced to make that sound, perhaps emerge with a prize, an excellent
portrait, or simply an unique and individual mouth. Or a landscape
that screams out as the voice did.
From the sound, the assaulting onrushing sound of traffic, if you listen
you can emerge with the prize-perhaps an abstract, with the pulsating
sounds transferred to rhythm and color; or perhaps again a portrait,
here, of a compulsive personality, driven, and yet behind it all the
purpose which is not easily seen, and the reason.
I have given you a few examples simply to clarify my remarks. But

these evidences of action, apparently chaotic and undisciplined, are
parts of inner frameworks that do have both purpose and reason.
As you know, even your physical system reacts when you brace
yourself against these things as irritations. But properly used they can
lead you to exaltations, and you would use such exaltations then in a
disciplined, directed manner.
The struggle; now you must not struggle, Joseph, to close out those
stimuli that annoy you. Your mother has done this. Use them for your
benefit. Those things that annoy you precisely represent the greatest
challenges to your personality and abilities.
Used, they can help you fulfill yourself to the utmost….
The sounds can be used in your paintings like colors. A freedom will
result from this exercise, though you may be uneasy at trying it.
Painting the Future

When your portrait of the artist was done your own psychic abilities
had grown as much as your artistic knowledge. There has been a
leap that you did not realize you had accomplished. It has appeared
in your psychological climate, rather than in specific instances.
You should be able to tune in, so to speak, on some future probable

events, I believe in image form, after a few attempts. Do this as if you
were starting out to paint a picture, requesting to see the images of
certain persons at a given time or situation in the future, and let your
abilities then fill in on the imaginative pattern. This procedure should
suit you well.
Make sure you do not force the images. Imagine a blank canvas or
board, or blank framed picture if you prefer. I will give you an
example. This is not a specific suggestion but an example of what I
mean.
Say that you are going to try to see Prentice-Hall's reaction - will they
accept the manuscript or not? Then imagine the blank picture as if
you were going to paint it in your mind. Either see Ruburt painted in
with the expression on his face as he reads the significant letter, and
instead of the title the date of the letter.
Another method: pretend you are painting Ruburt with a picture of the
book in his hand, then the details as to the publisher and so forth
would be painted in for you. I suggest in your case therefore an
approach using imagery, although there will be several ways of trying
to get given information, as you see.
You should find this a valuable training. Now colors may be

significant, particularly to you, and so the colors used in the imaginary
painting may be symbolic. If so you will have to interpret them. The
painting technique will call forth your creative powers more strongly,
and give impetus to the psychic work involved.
Painting the Viewpoint

Give us a moment. A circle with segments cut into it like a pie may
also be used by you to signify time segments. You will have to work
out your own interpretation here, for the whole circle will represent
various amounts of time, according to what you require.
If you want to discover in what month something will come about for
example, you may visualize the circle cut into 12 segments, or have
this idea in your mind. Then as the painting is painted, so to speak,
so many of these segments would be removed, representing the
months that will pass before the event.
A trick you may use, though you do not need it, when you want an
idea for a new painting, is as follows. Pick a day in your future and
simply request that you see that painting you will be working on at
that time. Now we are involved with something rather tricky here, and
I will explain the mechanics of it but not this evening. The picture of
the painting should be available to you however. You can then use it
in this present. If you are looking for a refreshing change, a
lighthearted experiment, then imagine what painting you would paint
if you were a particular other person, gifted with your own abilities.
The painting would be your own in any case, sifted through your own
individuality. There were paintings planned by various great masters
that were never painted, and these ideas exist. Sifted through your
own individuality they become your own.
Many sessions ago I gave you some information concerning painting

the viewpoint, and suggestions also as to how to approach a natural
object, to become it. (Sessions 400 & 401). You can also imagine
how that natural object would appear to others of various ages and
temperaments, or to me, or how curious it would seem to someone
who does not dwell within your own system.
All of these suggestions tend to activate your creative and psychic
abilities and that is why I have given them to you together. Now
unless you have questions I will end the session. I hope you look
forward to some psychological time experiments of your own. I have
given you a good manual.
Finding the Center of Yourself

Now, with all you have been told about the nature of personality, and
of the many of which you are a part, it would now be a help if you
could find the center of your larger self.
You can intuitively become aware to some extent of your own

reincarnations, so that you feel a recognizable sense of familiarity.
Now there is unity in all. You have been told that there is a point
where all dimensions and systems of reality merge. Now the same is
true of consciousness. You are a part of a larger self, an entity, and
because you are there is a portion of you that has access to the
knowledge of your entity.
All of it would not be translatable. Some of it would have no meaning

for you, but much of this is accessible. There are ways of finding what
I will call this center of yourself. It will give you direct experience with
many concepts that we have been discussing. I will give you more
reincarnational data on your own lives; as you travel to the center of
yourself however you will feel and know your own pasts as directly as
the circumstances permit.
More than this however, your abilities and your challenges will appear
to you in a much clearer light, and uncluttered focus. The experience
will deepen and reinforce your sense of individuality, and you will
know for yourself that you are one in many, and yet many in one.
There are five steps. It is possible to cover all of them at once, or the
process may take you some time. First however imagine your
consciousness out of your body in its astral form. Next, feeling that
you are in the astral form, tell yourself that from that image you will be
able to see the image of the person that you were in your immediately
past life.
I cannot tell you whether you will succeed at once, as you may, or
whether you will find it difficult. You, Joseph, being proficient with
images, may find it easier than Ruburt. Now when you feel that you
have this new image of your past self before you, then imagine that
your consciousness is moving from your astral form into this past self
You should not do this until you see the whole form.
Before you see the whole form you may try to mentally communicate
with it however, asking it questions. This is one approach. You may
for example end up using this as the main method of communication
between your present and your past one. Otherwise will your
consciousness as mentioned earlier into the image, then ask yourself.
Who am I? Where was I born? What memories are mine?
If you have succeeded here, then memories and images will flash
through your mind in the same way that your present self would
ordinarily recall its past.
Then, will yourself to return to your own astral image, then to your
physical body. From here repeat to yourself what you have learned,
and whatever data you have received, reminding yourself that this is
also a part of your identity. This may be done very well imaginatively,
in other stages of the process.
After you have managed to feel yourself above your body in your
astral form, you again tell yourself to see the image of the same past
self You may then imagine its image merging with your own, and its
memories a part of your own consciousness. When you have
succeeded, then still feeling yourself in the astral form, tell yourself
that you will next see the image of the life before last: the image of
the person you were, then repeat the other steps.
The whole exercise, or any part of it, must only be done in order to
avail yourself of wisdom, so that you can use your own abilities to
help yourself and others.
The purpose is very important, for when the purpose is a good one
then it unites the other images about you and your purpose
beneficially. It is part of the equation, as important as a plus sign
rather than a minus sign, and as important to your results.
Various kinds of experiences may develop. You may request

information concerning abilities for example, and hear your answer
internally. You may instead feel the stirrings of memory, and
experience yourself using abilities developed as a past personality. At
any point in the exercise, for it can happen at any stage, you will
suddenly feel the you of you, the center identity that runs through all
the selves of which you have been part. You may also in a flash see
glimpses of further realities that would be future to your present self.
According to the circumstances and your own condition, results can

be amazingly rapid, or slow. You may try many times and then
succeed... the methods are extremely important however, and should
be definitely included in our material. There are also some variations
on these that I will give you.
Those who try the exercises with wrong purposes will not succeed,
for they will not have the proper equation, and it is the one part that
cannot be given to them. Do you understand?
Flexibility Enhancement Visualization

I will then give Ruburt some suggestions as to normal living habits

that if followed will enable him to stay in good health. One of these
will be a mental exercise, taking no more than ten minutes, and if
done properly, only three times a week, will be of great benefit in
keeping joints and muscles loose and free. I should perhaps give you
that exercise now.
When resting, and in a tranquil state of mind, he should simply

imagine the limbs slowly stretching out, becoming somewhat longer,
and then slowly returning to their original length. He should then
imagine the neck revolving easily and normally three times in each
direction; mentally here doing the yoga neck exercise that he recalls.
The lengthening exercise is to be emphasized with the arms

particularly. The toes and fingers should be visualized as lengthening
also, easily and slowly, and then returning to normal position. The
joints should be imagined as moving easily. At the same time, he
should dwell on the idea of flexibility and freedom, mental, spiritual,
psychic and physical flexibility. That is the end of the exercise.
It will do good also if during the day occasionally he imagines the

exercise as he goes about his chores, but he should not do this
willfully, with an intent to command physical performance. The whole
thing should be done with a mental lightness, more as if it were a
children's game, and he must remember this for it is the whole point
of the procedure.
The potato is effective, and highly. The symbolism in holding the

potato, you see, is that tensions and poisons pass from the fingers
into the potato, which is a root vegetable. It is symbolism, but highly
effective for that reason, and for that reason it does indeed draw out
tensions and poisons.
Some Projection Advice, and Destroying Negative

Constructions
The Early Sessions, Book 9, Session 481, Page 285
(Below, Seth discusses a projection experience of Jane’s on Friday,

May 9, that involved her perception of my astral presence of the
apartment, although I was at work at Artistic Card Company that day.)
Now. Rubert’s experience of you was quite legitimate, although you

are not consciously aware of your activities. You are nevertheless
largely responsible for the encounter as it took place. You are
thinking both consciously and below consciousness about Rubert’s
appointment at the dentist. You wanted to give him confidence and to
reassure him. This acted as an emotional impetus.
Rubert was working and without realizing it telepathically was aware

of your emotional presence. It was this that gave him the idea of a
projection experiment that morning. He wanted to see if he could
become aware of your form.
You did not want to project, per se. He wanted to be here to offer
reassurance. The desire got you here. Your conscious mind was
taken up fully with your activities, giving the inner self full reign. In the
same way do you travel in other realities without being aware of your
journeys. You were not frightened, either of you, because of the
familiar surroundings, and you were unusually free to express your
feelings for each other, released from the restraints of time.
You perceive to normal fashion, which should tell you that perception
is not dependent upon the physical image. You were well aware of
your relationship. You have both traveled together in such a fashion
often from the dream state, without your knowledge. There is no
reason why you cannot try such experiments by trying to project at
the same time.
If you try to do this from a dream state that you must set aside two
and one-half hours, for the first portion will be used as preliminaries.
You can also give yourselves such suggestions before you go to
sleep. You might begin by making an appointment to meet each
other, say at three in the morning in the living room.
You would feel more comfortable if your initial journeys were within
the apartment. You sleep more deeply as a rule than Rubert, hence
you must be sure to give yourself the suggestion to awaken to
remember. It might also help you to place an object to which you are
strongly attached to the living room. Impressed yourself with the
thought that you want to get up and retrieve it.
For your own purposes at unfinished painting under on your easel

would help you project to your studio, for you would psychically wish
to return to study it. You have in fact often done this, though you do
not remember. It would be to your advantage to try some experiments
together, however. Besides this the two of you traveling together
could help each other retain proper consciousness and purpose
during projection. It Rubert, knows he is projecting he should try to
remember you, and to rouse you astrally.
He can be of great help to you here when he learns to remember.

You can also suggest dreams in which you are flying airplane, and
tell yourself you will awaken to project. You will know the play is a
dream image but be able to retain it for your convenience, so that you
do not fear falling.
In such instances you are withdrawing your perceptive abilities from
the physical body. They will seem to operate as usual, but they are
more vivid far-reaching. Your thoughts instantly attentive for that you
can perceive. If you think of a dog for example, quite unconsciously
you form the image of a dog, which you do then perceive.
It is because of this instantaneous creation and projection of inner

reality into form that you experience time within the physical system –
to train you literally, to give you time to learn to handle your own
creations. Projection experiments should only be adopted therefore,
when you are in a peaceful state of mind, as Rubert should know
after his creature experience.
Now there are, in quotes, "objective" realities that exist within astral
reality itself.
There are more than your thought forms in other words. Your thought
forms however can be used as definite aids when you are in the
proper mental condition, and they can impede your progress if you
are not. It physical reality a man in a desperate frame of mind is more
apt to emphasize horrible aspects in the news for example, and to
see desperation rather than joy in the faces of those he meets. He
will ignore the contented playful child on one side of the street and
notice instead a dirty ragged boy even though he is further away. So
your frame of mind when projecting will largely determine the sort of
experiences you have, and the environments in which you exist.
Now. The original intensity behind the construction determines the

length of its existence, in your terms, rather than the duration. Do you
follow me?
("Yes." During break, I wondered, for instance, how long it would take
to supplant a negative habit that existed for say ten years with a
positive one.)
Left alone, any such construction will eventually vanish. It will

however leave a trace. This does not necessarily mean it will leave a
trace in your consciousness. A trace in electromagnetic reality, where
it can then be activated by anyone when certain conditions are met,
or are favorable.
Denying energy to such a construction can be like pricking a balloon.

It can instantly disintegrate, be deflated. The prick however is
comparable to a conscious and subconscious denial of the
construction’s validity. Then all attention must be taken from it, for
thrives on attention.
To replace it with the new construction, it is a good idea to suggest

that the old construction has indeed vanished, and in it’s place a new
more acceptable one is being built. Now symbolism may be used
here. The following mental exercise is most effective. It may be varied
according to your interest.
In your mind’s eye however imagine a run-down, shabby,

deteriorating shamble of a house with rotting floorboards and sagging
porches. Then imagine that it is burned to the ground and the
remaining rubble carted away and burned. Imagine the land now free
beneath it, open to the blessing of wind, rain, and sun. Then imagine
a new house being built there, of your preferred choice, with all new
materials, of splendid design, and see this always in your mind where
before you saw the previous image.
Imagine the summer winds that blow over the land that now fills the
interior of the house with scented air. Let the first house represent all
negative ideas or constructions, and the new house represent the
desired ideas or constructions. Have it firmly in your mind however as
to what ideas these refer, specifically.
The first object must be seen as completely destroyed, and the area
cleared before the new object is imagined in its place. The first object
should be deliberately destroyed. What a relief to see it vanish. The
symbolism will help activate those forces that are necessary in any
replacement of ideas. Any object you see can be used in place of the
house. Do you follow me?
("Yes.")
If the exercise is done correctly it is literally impossible for its
continuance and your attention is directed to the desired end. The
object should be something you can visualize easily however. If you
have difficulty imagining the deliberate destruction of the negative
object, this is merely a sign of its hold. You may then instead imagine
its destruction by an act of nature. The house being struck by
lightning for example. If this is the case then the exercise should be
continued until you imagine you yourself deciding upon and bringing
about the destruction and replacement. If you are not ready to burn
down the structure itself, imaginatively, then you are not prepared to
rid yourself of the negative behavior, you see. The symbolic
destruction is the real destruction. The symbolic creation is the real
creation. Such exercises will cut down the physical time involved
however.
Now there is no doubt that you cause your dream environment as you
cause your physical environment. As I have told you negative
patterns of thought are reflected in both states. Proper suggestion
before sleep can doubly work to your advantage then, for you are
holding your ground in two worlds at once.
The same exercise can be done while dreaming, you see.
This is entirely different from Ruburt's attempt with his creature, for he
was trying to form an evil creature, in those terms, to slay-a thing
conscious of its own evil in those terms, and that is always
dangerous. Do you see the difference?
In a very real manner, all conditions exist in your mind.
The amount of conscious thought given to any construction obviously

reinforces it. Ruburt became a writer because he thought of being a
writer constantly. He became ill, generally speaking, for the same
reason.
If a desire for health leads to an emphasis upon symptoms to be

overcome, you would be better off to avoid all thoughts of health or
illness, and concentrate in another direction such as work. This
follows regardless of the desired end, be it wealth, fame, or so forth.
Such an emphasis can lead to a focus upon the obstacles that stand
in the way. This reinforces the negative condition.
Confidence is extremely important. It will lead to more confidence,

and of itself wipes out the fear that causes most negative conditions.
It the exercise you see the house can simply represent fear, for a
basic therapeutic method, and the new house confidence.
Wile Ruburt tells himself he is weak or sick, he causes the organism

to behave in that manner. Dreams of health are of great benefit. He
can tell himself that his dream self becomes his physical image. He
knows his dream self is real.
The energy from any construction can be weakened if it is countered

by another strong energy force. The desire to work well,
enthusiastically and emotionally held, can offset bad health for
example. You do not need the direct opposite. Do you follow me?
("Yes.")
- but something of equal or stronger intensity. Womanly pride in

Ruburt’s case is a help for example. Other elements also come into
play. As your inner environment changes you also begin to attract
others. You will begin to attract people who want to buy paintings for
example. There is a snowballing effect - an acceleration that is quite
evident as soon as the first groundwork has been laid.
First you are clearing up negative debris, you see, and reversing a
trend. When the results show they appear magical.
Stepping Outside Yourself, and Spiritual Healing

[Jim Crosson] "How do you discover those answers for yourself"
Now, there are many ways ... but only one real way. And the way is to
begin the journey, as Ruburt told you, into the nature of your own
consciousness, for the answers are within you and not out from you...
and no one can tell you the answers. Now in one way, each individual
will find his own answer... and yet all answers, in another way, are
one.
You must try to forget for a period of time each day the self that you
think of as yourself ... the adult pretensions, the adult bignesses. You
must remember the childhood spontaneity. You must think of the
freedom that is within a flower. Now it seems to you that a flower
cannot move, and therefore has no freedom. And yet I tell you, you
must think about the freedom of a flower.
You must dissociate yourself from the person that you know. Close
your eyes. Imagine anything that you like that is pleasant to you. It
makes no difference what it is. Then imagine yourself stepping apart
from yourself in whatever way you choose. And then imagine that all
about you there is another dimension and you need only take one
step at a time ... and you will find your answers.
You have only to begin. There is an adventure and it is within you.

And there are answers, and they are within you... and you can find
them. Now. You have more questions?
(Jim Crosson] "How do you develop the power of spiritual healing?
You already have the power of spiritual healing. You want to know
how to use it. Now you use it whether or not you know that you do.
When you think thoughts of peace and vitality, and when you wish a
man well, then you help heal him.
Now in order to direct this power consciously, you must again get
used to the feeling of your own subjective experience...so that you
can tell subjectively when this energy is pouring through you and
outward. You can use your imagination and imagine perhaps that you
hold an arrow and want to direct it to a proper location. But with
practice, there is a subjective knowing that you will recognize and
understand. But you use the ability whether you realize you use it or
not. You are a healer, whether you realize this or not.
Projection and Dream Advice
Your faith in your own work is highly important. Your own out-of-body
experiences, if followed through, will even reinforce the sessions, for
you will be experiencing circumstances of which I have already told
you. You will think of questions, therefore, matters that I take for
granted. Do you follow me here?
The more work you do the better I can help you. There will be
seasonal and other variations in your own out-of-body work. Over a
period of years however this sort of thing will iron out. There are
many factors that operate to help or impede our communications, on
both your side and mine.
The structure of the sessions was set up because I felt that in the
long run the structure itself would be permanent, able to withstand
any natural strains, and also strong enough and flexible enough to
permit maximum fulfillment. Many kinds of experience are possible
within it, for example.
It is a psychological structure, as I have explained, and you and

Ruburt are both a part of it. Now you may take your break or end the
session as you prefer.
I suggest that on the two evenings, Ruburt take a warm shower-not a

hot one-before retiring. I also suggest contrary to Muldoon that you
have a light snack. Not a heavy one, but enough so the body is
comfortable.
You should be comfortably warm, but not overburdened with

blankets. A note to Ruburt: he should keep a robe handy. Use one
book for dreams, and leave it on his desk overnight. As a preliminary
to the instructions I have given you, for 7 days he should give himself
dream suggestions, and on several occasions, though not every
night, tell himself that he will awaken after a dream and record it.
As he knows, this facilitates out-of-body states on his part. This

should be done a week before you begin your joint experiments.
Now you should begin the same week with new suggestions to recall
your dreams, but do it this way, as follows:
Before you sleep, simply imagine your open dreambook in the

morning, with the dreams recorded. Imagine that you see so many
lines of written words. You understand – visualize it, and feel yourself
pleased that you have succeeded. The pleasure at your success is
important. You have been too intellectual. Do you follow me?
The Ego And The Flashlight Of Consciousness

The Seth Material, Chapter 19, p275
"You must, first of all, cease identifying completely with your ego, and
realize that you can perceive more than your ego perceives. You
must demand more of yourself than you ever have before. The
material is not for those who would deceive themselves with pretty,
packaged, ribboned truths that are parceled out cut apart so that you
can digest them. That sort of material serves a need, but our material
demands that you intellectually and intuitively expand….
"You are your identity. Pretend that you hold a flashlight, and the
flashlight is consciousness. You can turn this light in many directions
but instead you are in the habit of directing it along one certain path,
and you have forgotten that there are other paths.
"All you have to do is swing the flashlight in other directions. When

you shift it, the path upon which you have been focusing will
momentarily appear dark, but other realities and images will become
available to you, and there will be nothing to prevent you from
swinging the flashlight back to the earlier position.
"You have more than one conscious mind. We want to change the
channels of awareness…. If you consider the conscious mind that
you usually use as one door, then you stand at the threshold of this
mind and look out into physical reality. But there are other
doors…you have other conscious selves….
"You are not expected to become unconscious, then. There is no

need to feel that when you block out the ordinary conscious mind,
there is only blankness. It is true that when you close one conscious
mind-door - there may be a moment of disorientation before you open
another.
"It is also true that you may need to learn methods by which you can
perceive other realities, simply because you are not used to
manipulating these other conscious portions of yourself. But these
portions are critical - and even as intellectual - as valid and as real as
the consciousness with which you are ordinarily familiar."
Seth insists that there is only one way to learn what consciousness is:
by studying and exploring our own awareness, by changing the focus
of our attention and using our own consciousness in as many ways
as possible. He says, "When you look into yourself, the very effort
involved extends the limitations of your consciousness, expands it,
and allows the egotistical self to use abilities that it often does not
realize it possesses."
Inner Vibrational Touch

Think of the Inner Senses as paths leading to an inner reality. The

first sense involves perception of a direct nature - instant cognition
through what I can only describe as inner vibrational touch. Imagine a
man standing on a typical street of houses and grass and trees. This
sense would allow him to feel the basic sensations felt by each of the
trees about him. His consciousness would expand to contain the
experience of what it is to be a tree-any or all the trees. He would feel
the experience of being anything he chooses within his field of notice:
people, insects, blades of grass. He would not lose consciousness of
who he was, but would perceive these sensations somewhat in the
same way that you would now feel heat and cold.
This sense is much like empathy, but far more vital.
Psy-Time And The Inner Senses

Psychological Time is a natural pathway that was meant to give an

easy route of access from the inner world to the outer, and back
again, though you do not use it much. Psychological Time originally
enabled man to live in the inner and outer worlds with relative ease….
As you develop you use of it, you will be able to rest within its
framework while you are consciously awake. It adds duration to your
normal time. From its framework you will see that physical time is as
dreamlike as you thought inner time was. You will discover your
whole selves, peeping inwards and outward simultaneously, and
know that all divisions are illusions.
Actually, in practice, psychological time leads to the other inner

senses. In psy-time, as we call it, you simply turn your focus of
attention inward. Sit or lie quietly alone and close your eyes. Pretend
that there is a world within as vivid and real as the physical one. Turn
off your physical senses. If you want, imagine that they have dials
and you flip them off, one by one. Then imagine that the inner senses
have another set of dials. Imaginatively, turn them on. This is one
method of beginning.
You may, instead, just lie quietly and concentrate on a dark screen
until images or lights appear on it. Do not concentrate on worries or
daily trivia that may arise as soon as you block out physical
distractions. If such thoughts do come into the foreground of
attention, then you are not ready to proceed. First you must get rid of
them.
Since we can't concentrate fully on two things at once, you may focus
your attention on the screen again or any imaginary image - this will
banish the annoying worries. Or you may pretend that the worries
themselves have images and then "see" these vanish away.
At a certain point you will feel alert and conscious but very light.
Within your mind you may see bright lights. You may hear sounds or
voices. Some may be telepathic or clairvoyant messages. Some may
simply be subconscious pictures. As you practice, you will learn to tell
one from the other.
Gradually as you progress, you will feel apart from time as we know it
during the exercise. You may have various kinds of subjective
experiences, from extrasensory episodes to simple periods of
inspiration and direction. I sometimes have out-of-body travels, for
instance, during psy-time. The sense leads to refreshment,
relaxation, and peace. It can be used in many ways, for different
purposes. Many of my students now utilize this sense quite well, and
use it as a preliminary to other experiences.
Perception Of Past, Present, And Future

"If you will remember our imaginary man as he stand on the street,
you will recall that I spoke of his feeling all of the unitary essences of
each living thing within his range, using the first inner sense. Using
this third sense, this experience would be expanded. If he chose, he
would also feel the past and future essence of each living thing within
his range."
Remember, according to Seth these inner senses are used by the

whole self constantly. Since past, present, and future have no basic
reality, this sense allows us to see through the apparent time barriers.
We are seeing things as they really are. Any precognitive experience
would entail use of this inner sense. It is often used spontaneously
when psy-time is practiced.
Direct Cognition Of A Concept

"The fourth inner sense involves direct cognition of a concept in much

more than intellectual terms. It involves experiencing a concept
completely. Concepts have what we will call electrical and chemical
composition [as thoughts do]. The molecules and ions of the
consciousness change into [those of] the concept, which is then
directly experienced. You cannot truly understand or appreciate any
living thing unless you can become that thing.
"You can best achieve some approximation of an idea by using

psychological time [as a preliminary]. Sit in a quiet room. When an
idea comes to you, do not play with it intellectually, but reach out to it
intuitively. Do not be afraid of unfamiliar sensations. With practice and
to a limited degree, you will find that you can 'become' the idea. You
will be inside it, looking out-not looking in.
"Concepts such as I am referring to reach out beyond your ideas of
time and space. If you become proficient in the use of the third inner
sense [perception of past, present and future] when cognition is more
or less spontaneous, then you can utilize the conceptual sense with
more freedom. Any true concept has its origins outside of your
camouflage system and continues beyond it. Unless you use the
Inner Sense in this manner, you will only receive a glimmering of a
concept, regardless of its simplicity."
I was using this sense, I believe, in the episode described in Chapter

17, experiencing a concept that could not be expressed adequately in
words, when everything in the room seemed to grow to a tremendous
size.
Entering Another Being

"Remember that these inner senses operate as a whole, working

together smoothly, and that to some degree the divisions between
them are arbitrary on my part. The fifth sense differs from the fourth
[conceptual sense] in that it does not involve cognition of a concept. It
is similar to the fourth in that it is free from the past, present and
future, and involves an intimate becoming, or transformation of self
into something else.
"This is difficult to explain. You attempt to understand a friend by

using the physical senses. Use of the fifth sense would enable you to
enter your friend. In the fullest sense, it is not available to you within
your system. It does not imply that one entity can control another. It
involves direct instantaneous cognition of the essence of living
'tissue.' I use the word 'tissue' with caution and ask you not to think of
it necessarily in terms of flesh.
"All entities are in one way or another enclosed within themselves,

yet also connected to others. Using this sense, you can penetrate
through the capsule that encloses the self. This inner sense, like all
the others, is being used constantly by the inner self, but very little if
the data received is sifted through the subconscious or ego. Without
the use of this sense, however, no man would ever come close to
understanding another." This sense is a stronger version of inner
vibrational touch.
Spontaneous Knowing
"This is an extremely rudimentary sense. It is concerned with the

entity's innate working knowledge of the basic vitality of the universe,
without which no manipulations of vitality would be possible-as, for
example, you could not stand up straight without first having an
innate sense of balance.
"Without this sixth sense and its constant use by the inner self, you
could not construct the physical camouflage universe. You can
compare this sense with instinct, as you think of it, although it is
concerned with innate knowledge of the entire universe. Particular
data about specific areas of reality are given to a living organism to
make manipulations within that area possible. The inner self has at its
command complete knowledge, but only portions are used by an
organism. A spider, spinning its web, is using this sense in almost its
purest form. The spider has no intellect or ego, and its activities are
pure spontaneous uses of the inner senses, unhampered and
uncamouflaged to a great extent. But inherent in the spider, as in
man, is the complete comprehension of the universe as a whole."
Seth always maintains that the answers to your questions about

reality lie within us. They reveal themselves to us when we turn out
attention away from physical data and look inward; this is when the
sixth inner sense comes into play. It also shows itself in inspiration,
and episodes of spontaneous "knowing." Surely this sense suddenly
came into operation during my experience with "cosmic
consciousness" and was partially responsible for my "Idea
Construction" manuscript. This sense gives rise to most experiences
of a revelatory character.
The trouble is that we must somehow translate the data into terms
that we can understand, explaining verbally or with images-and
distortions are bound to result. Some such experiences can't be
expressed physically, yet the individual concerned is convinced of
their validity.
Expansion Or Contraction Of The Tissue Capsule
"This sense operates in two ways. It can be an extension or

enlargement of the self, a widening of its boundaries and of
conscious comprehension. It can also be a pulling together of the self
into an ever-smaller capsule that enables the self to enter other
systems of reality. The tissue capsule surrounds each consciousness
and is actually an energy field boundary, keeping the inner self's
energy from seeping away.
"No consciousness exists in any system without this capsule

enclosing it. These capsules have also been called astral bodies. The
seventh Inner Sense allows for an expansion or contraction of this
tissue capsule."
Rob and I have some experience using this inner sense. So have
several of my students. In psy-time this results in a peculiar
"elephantiasis" feeling: I feel as if I am expanding and yet getting
lighter and lighter in weight. The sensation can also arise just before
an out-of-body experience. I have felt this in reverse in several
sessions with the other personality, Seth Two.
Disentanglement From Camouflage

"Complete disentanglement from camouflage comes rarely within

your system, although it is possible to achieve it, particularly in
connection with psychological time. When psychological time is
utilized to its fullest extent, then camouflage is lessened to an
astounding degree. With disentanglement, the inner self disengages
itself from one particular camouflage before it adopts another set
smoothly or dispenses with camouflage entirely. This is accomplished
through what you might call a changing of frequency or vibrations: a
transformation of vitality from one particular pattern or aspect to
another. In some ways, your dream world gives you a closer
experience with basic inner reality than does your waking world,
where your inner senses are so shielded from your awareness."
We've had very little conscious experience with this inner sense. Only
in one small episode, mentioned earlier, when I felt bodiless and
formless, like conscious air, have I ever approached it.
Becoming Aware Of Seth And His Reality

Seth Speaks, Session 510, from Seth’s Introduction
There will be final chapter in which I will ask the reader to close his
eyes and become aware of the reality in which I exist, and of his own
inner reality. I will give the methods. In this chapter I will invite the
reader to use his "inner senses," to see me in his own way.
While my communications will come exclusively through Ruburt at all

times, to protect the integrity of the material, I will invite the reader to
become aware of me as a personality, so that he may then realize
that communication from other realities is possible, and that he
himself is therefore open to perception that is not physical.
Changing The Physical Environment Through Dreams

Seth Speaks, Session 514
You can learn to change your physical environment, therefore, by

learning to change manipulate your dream environment. You can also
suggest specific dreams in which a desired change is seen, and
under certain conditions these will then appear in your physical
reality. Now often you do this without realizing it.
Following Thoughts
What happens to a thought when it leaves your conscious mind?. It

does not simply disappear. You can learn to follow it, but you are
usually frightened of turning your attention away from its intense
focus in three-dimensional existence. Therefore, it seems that the
thought disappears. It seems also that your subjectivity has a
mysterious unknown quality about it, and that even your mental life
has a sort of insidious dropping-off point, a subjective cliff over which
thoughts and memories fall, to disappear into nothingness. Therefore
to protect yourself, to protect your subjectivity from drifting, you erect
various psychological barriers at what you suppose to be the danger
points. Instead, you see, you can follow these thoughts and emotions
simply by realizing that your own reality continues in another
direction, beside the one with which you mainly identify. For these
thoughts and emotions that have left your conscious mind will lead
you into other environments.
These subjective openings through which thoughts seem to

disappear are in fact like psychic warps, connecting the self that you
know with other universes of experience - realities where symbols
come to life and thoughts are not denied their potential.
There is communication between these other realities and your own

in your dream states, and a constant interaction between both
systems. If there is any point where your own consciousness seems
to elude you or escape you, or if there is any point where your
consciousness seems to end, then these are the points where you
have yourselves set up psychological and psychic barriers, and these
are precisely those areas that you should explore. Otherwise you feel
as if your consciousness is enclosed within your skull, immobile and
constricted, and every lost thought or forgotten memory at least
symbolically seems like a small death. And such is not the case.
Developing The Inner Senses

Seth Speaks, Session 522, 10:20
In a large manner, the physical senses actually form the physical

reality they seem to only perceive. they are themselves part of the
camouflage, but they are like lenses over your natural inner
perceptions that force you to "see" an available field of activity as
physical matter; and so they can be relied upon only to tell you what
is happening in a superficial manner. You can tell the position of the
other actors for example, or time by clock, but these physical senses
will not tell you that time is itself a camouflage, or that consciousness
forms the other actors, or that realities that you cannot see exist over
and beyond the physical matter that is so apparent.
You can, however, using your inner senses, perceive reality as it

exists apart from the play and your role in it. In order to do this you
must of course, momentarily at least turn your attention away from
the constant activity that is taking place – turn off the physical senses,
as it were – and switch your attention to those events that have
escaped you earlier…
Your particular set of camouflages is not the only set, you see. Other
realities have entirely different systems, but all personalities have
inner senses that are attributes of consciousness, and through these
inner senses communications are maintained about which the
normally conscious self knows little. Part of my purpose is to make
some of these communications known.
The soul or entity, then, is not the self that reads this book. Your
environment is not simply the world about you as you know it, but
also consists of past life environments upon which you are not
focusing. Your real environment is composed of your thoughts and
emotions, for from these you form not only this reality but each reality
in which you take part.
Your real environment is innocent of space and time as you know

them. In your real environment you have no need for words, for
communication is instantaneous. In your real environment you form
the physical that you know.
The inner senses will allow you to perceive the reality that is
independent of physical form. I will ask you all to momentarily forsake
your roles therefore, and try this simple exercise.
Now, pretend you are on a lighted stage, the stage being the room in
which you now sit. Close your eyes and pretend the lights have gone
out, the setting has disappeared and you are alone.
Everything is dark. Be quiet. Imagine as vividly as you can the

existence of inner senses. For now pretend that they correspond to
your physical ones. Clear from your mind all thoughts and worries. Be
receptive. Very gently listen, not to physical sounds but to sounds
that come through the inner senses.
Images may begin to appear. Accept them as sights quite as valid as

those you see physically. Pretend that there is an inner world, and
that it will be revealed to you as you learn to perceive it with these
inner senses.
Pretend that you have been blind to this world all your life, and are
now slowly gaining sight within it. Do not judge the whole inner world
by the disjointed images that you may at first perceive, or by the
sounds that you may at first hear, for you will be using your inner
senses quite imperfectly.
Do this simple exercise a few moments before sleep or in the resting

state. It may also be done even in the midst of an ordinary task that
does not take all of your attention.
You will be simply be learning to focus in a new dimension of

awareness, taking quick snapshots, as it were, in a strange
environment. Remember that you will only be perceiving snatches.
Simply accept them, but do not attempt to make any overall
judgments or interpretations at this stage.
Ten minutes a day to begin with is quite sufficient.
An Intuitive Understanding Of The Soul

Now, there are no closed systems in reality. In your physical system

the nature of your perceptions limit your idea of reality to some
extent, because you purposely decide to focus within a given "locale."
But basically speaking, consciousness can never be a closed system,
and all barriers of such a nature are illusion. Therefore the soul itself
is not a closed system. When you consider the soul, however, you
usually think of it in such a light - unchanging, a psychic or spiritual
citadel. But citadels not only keep out invaders, they also prevent
expansion and development.
There are many matters here very difficult to express in words, for
you are so afraid for your sense of identity that you resist the idea
that the soul, for example, is an open spiritual system, a powerhouse
of creativity that shoots out in all directions - and yet this is indeed the
case.
I tell you this, and at the same time remind that your present
personality is never lost. Now another word for the soul is entity. You
see it is not a simple matter of giving you a definition of a soul or
entity, for even to have a glimpse in logical terms you would have to
understand it in spiritual, psychic, and electromagnetic terms, and
understand the basic nature of consciousness and action as well. But
you can intuitively discover the nature of the soul or entity, and in
many ways intuitive knowledge is superior to any other kind.
One prerequisite for such an intuitive understanding of the soul is the

desire to achieve it. If the desire is strong enough, then you will be
automatically led to experiences that will result in vivid, unmistakable
subjective knowledge. There are methods that will enable you to do
this, and I will give you some toward the end of the book.
For now, here is one quite effective but simple exercise. Close your
eyes after reading this chapter to this point, and try to sense within
yourself the source of power from which your breathing and life forces
come. Some of you will do this successfully at your first try. Others
may take longer. When you feel within yourself this source, then try to
sense this power flow outward through your entire physical being,
through the fingertips and toes, through the pores of your body,
radiating outward from your physical form like rays in all directions,
with yourself as the center. Imagine the rays undiminished, reaching
through the foliage and clouds above, through the center of the earth
below, extending even to the farthest reaches of the universe.
Now I do not mean this to be merely a symbolic exercise, for though it

may begin with imagination, it is based upon fact, and emanations
from your consciousness and the creativity of your soul do indeed
reach outward in this manner. This exercise will give you some idea
of the true nature, creativity, and vitality of the soul from which you
draw your own energy and of which you are an individual and unique
portion.
Perceiving Other Realities With The Inner Senses

After-death environments exist all about you now.
It is as if your present situation and all its physical phenomena were

projected from within yourself outward, giving you a continuous
running motion picture, forcing you to perceive only those images that
were being transposed. These seem so real that you find yourself in
the position of reacting to them constantly.
They serve to mask other quite valid realities that exist at the same
time, however, and actually from these other realities you gain power
and the knowledge to operate the material projections. You can "set
the machine on idle," so to speak, stop the apparent motion, and turn
your attention to these realities.
First of all, you must realize that they exist. As a preliminary to the
methods I will give later, it is a good idea to ask yourself now and
then: "What am I conscious of at this time?" Do this when your eyes
are open, and again when they are closed.
When your eyes are open, do not take it for granted that only the
immediately perceivable objects exist. Look where space seems
empty, and listen in the middle of silence. There are molecular
structures in every inch of empty space, but you have taught yourself
not to perceive them. There are other voices, but you have
conditioned your ears not to hear them. You use your inner senses
when you are in the dream state, and ignore them when you are
waking.
The inner senses are equipped to perceive data that is not physical.
They are not deceived by the images that you project in three-
dimensional reality. Now, they can perceive physical objects. Your
physical senses are extensions of these inner methods of perception,
and after death it is upon these that you will rely. They are used in
out-of-body experiences so that you can become familiar with the
nature of perception after death, now.
In other words, the environment, conditions, and methods of

perception will not be alien. You are not suddenly thrust into an
unknown; that unknown is part of you now. It was part of you before
this physical birth, and will be after physical death.
Examining Thoughts
If you examine your thoughts for five minutes at various times during
the day for several times a month, you will indeed receive a correct
impression of the kind of life you have so far arranged for yourself in
the next existence. If you are not pleased with what you discover,
then you had better begin changing the nature of your thoughts and
feelings.
Probable Selves, Dreams, Changing The Past And Future

The invisible environment within your mind is not as lonely as you

might think, and your inner isolation is caused by the ego's persistent
guard. It sees no reason, for example, why it should be informed by
information that it does not consider pertinent to day-by-day daily
activity.
I do not like the phrase, "to advance," yet in your terms "to advance"
as a consciousness is to become more and more aware of these
other materializations of your identity. The probable selves are to gain
awareness of the other probable selves, and realize that all are
various manifestations of the true identity.
They are not "lost", buried or negated in some superself, without free
will, self-determination, or individuality. Instead the identity is what
they are, with full freedom to express all probable actions and
developments, both in this reality and in others you do not know
about.
As you sit reading this book in the present moment of time, you are
positioned in the center of a cosmic web of probabilities that is
affected by tour slightest mental and emotional act.
Your thoughts and emotions, therefore, go forth from you not only in
all physical directions but in directions that are quite invisible to you,
appearing in dimensions that you would not presently understand.
Now you are also the receiver of other such signals coming from
other probabilities that are connected with your own, but you choose
which of those probable actions you want to make real or physical in
your system, as others also have the freedom of choice in their
systems.
You originate ideas then and receive them, but you are not forced to
actualize unrealized probable acts that come to you from other
probable selves. Now there is a natural attraction between yourself
and other probable selves, electromagnetic connections having to do
with simultaneous propulsions of energy. By this I mean energy that
appears simultaneously both to you and probable selves in other
realities; psychic connections having to do with a uniting,
sympathetic, emotional reaction and a connection that shows up very
strongly in the dream state.
In that state, with the functions of the ego somewhat stilled, there is
some considerable communication between various portions of the
entire entity. In dreams you may have had glimpses of probable
roads you might have taken. You may think that these are fantasy,
but instead you may be perceiving a legitimate picture of events that
did occur within another system of probabilities.
Now: One event can be actualized by more than one probable self,
however, and you will resemble some probable selves more than
others. Because you are involved in an intricate psychological gestalt
such as this, and because the connections mentioned earlier do exist,
you can avail yourself to some extent of abilities and knowledge
possessed by these other probable portions of your personality.
Your connections make for quite constant "bleed-throughs." Once

you are aware of the probable system, however, you will also learn to
become alert to what I will here call "benign intrusive impulses." Such
impulses would seem to be disconnected from your own current
interest or activities; intrusive in that they come quickly into
consciousness, with a sense of strangeness as if they are not your
own. They can often offer clues of various kinds. You may know
absolutely nothing about music, for example, and one afternoon while
in the middle of some mundane activity be struck by a sudden
impulse to buy a violin.
Such an impulse could be an indication that another probable portion
of your identity is gifted with that instrument. I am not telling you to
run off and buy one, but you could however act on the impulse as far
as is reasonably possible-renting a violin, simply acquainting yourself
with violin concerti, etc.
You would learn the instrument far quicker, you see, if the impulse
was originating with a probable self. It goes without saying then that
probable selves exist in your "future" as well as your past. It is a very
poor policy to dwell negatively on unpleasant aspect of the past that
you know, because some portions of the probable self may still be
involved in that past. The concentration will allow greater bleed-
through and adverse identification, because that part will be one
background that you will have in common with any probable selves
who sprang from that particular source.
To dwell upon the possibility of illness or disaster is equally poor

policy, for you set up negative webs of probabilities that need not
occur. You can theoretically alter your own past as you have known
it, for time is no more something divorced from you than probabilities
are.
The past existed in multitudinous ways. You only experience one

probable past. By changing this past in your mind, now, in your
present, you can change not only its nature but its effect, not only
upon yourself but upon others.
Pretend a particular event happened that greatly disturbed you. In

your mind imagine it not simply wiped out, but replaced by another
event of a more beneficial nature. Now this must be done with great
vividness and emotional validity, and many times. It is not a self-
deception. The event that you choose will automatically be a probable
event, which did in fact happen, though it is not the event you chose
to perceive in your given probable past.
Telepathically, if the process is done correctly, your idea will also

affect any people who were connected with the original event, though
they can choose to reject as well as accept your version.
This is not a book on techniques, so I will not go into this particular
method deeply, but merely mention it here. Remember, however, that
in a most legitimate way many events that are not physically
perceived or experienced are as valid as those that are, and are as
real within your own invisible psychological environment.
There are in your terms, then, unlimited probable future events for
which you are setting groundworks. The nature of the thoughts and
feelings you originate and those that you habitually or
characteristically receive set a pattern, so you will choose from those
probable futures those events that will physically become your
experience.
Because there are bleedthroughs and interconnections, it is possible

for you to tune into a "future event," say of an unfortunate nature, an
event for which you are headed if you continue on your present
course. A dream about it, for instance, may so frighten you that you
avoid the event and do not experience it. If so, such a dream is a
message from a probable self who did experience the event.
So can a child then in a dream receive such communications from a

probable future self, of such a nature that its life is completely
changed. The entire identity is being now. All divisions are merely
illusions, so one probable self can hold out a helping hand to another,
and through these inner communications the various probable selves
in your terms begin to understand the nature of their identity.
Now this leads to other adventures in which whole civilizations may

be involved, for as individuals have their probable destinies, so do
civilizations, nations, and inhabited planetary systems. Your historical
earth as you know it has developed in many different ways, and there
is a deeply unconscious connection that unites all such
manifestations.
Symbols And Other States Of Dream Consciousness

All symbols stand for inner realities, therefore, and when you juggle
symbols, you are juggling inner realities. Any exterior move that you
make is made within the interior environment, within all the interior
environments with which you are involved.
Symbols are highly charged psychic particles and that includes

physical objects that have strong characteristics of attraction and
expansion that stand for inner realizations and realities that have not
been perceived through direct knowing. (By direct knowing here, I
mean instant cognition and comprehension, without symbolization.)
Even the symbols, then, at various stages of consciousness will

appear differently, some seeking to have stability and permanence as
your physical objects following the principles or root assumptions of
corporeal reality, and some changing much more quickly, as in the
dream state, these being more immediate and sensitive indicators of
feeling. Various states of consciousness seem to have their own
environments which these symbols appear, again, as objects appear
in a physical environment.
Seemingly non-stable mental objects appear in the dream

environment at certain levels. The symbols follow rules then in both
cases. As mentioned earlier, again, the dream universe is as
"objective" as the corporeal one. The objects and symbols within it
are as faithful representations of dream life as physical objects are of
waking life.
The nature of the symbol, therefore, can serve as an indication not

only as to your environment but your state of consciousness within it.
In normal dreaming within the normal context of an ordinary dream
drama, the objects seem permanent enough to you. You take them
for granted. You are still physically oriented. You project upon dream
images the symbolism of your waking hours.
In other states of dream consciousness, however, houses may

suddenly disappear. A modern building may suddenly replace a
shack. A child may turn into a tulip. Now symbols are obviously
behaving in a different manner. In this environment, permanency is
not a root assumption. Logical sequence does not apply.
Symbols that behave in this way can be clues to you that you are now
at another stage of consciousness, and within an entirely different
interior environment. Expressions of feelings and of experiences are
not limited to the rigid framework of objects stuck into consecutive
moments. Feelings are automatically transformed and expressed in a
new, mobile, immediate manner. In a way the tune of consciousness
is quicker.
Actualization does not need to wait for hours or days. Experience is

free from a time context. In this realm of consciousness an entire
book may be written, or one's life plans thoroughly scrutinized. Your
present time is one of many dimensions that help form this particular
stage of consciousness. Therefore your past, present, and future
exist within it, but only as portions of that interior environment. You
have to learn your way about, for the states of consciousness and
their environment stretch out in their own way as your world stretches
out, say, in space. It is not difficult, however, to be aware of yourself
in this stage through giving yourself proper suggestions before sleep.
Hypnogogic Images And Their Symbols

To some extent this transmutation of symbol can be observed in

various stages of waking consciousness also. When you are at rest,
awake but with eyes closed, images and pictures will often appear to
your inner eye. Some will be physical-like materializations, images of
trees or houses or people. Others will be simply shapes that change
swiftly and seem to flow one into the other. As a rule, even the
images that are recognizable will quickly be replace by others in a
kaleidoscope of constantly changing forms.
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. To some extent they seem
disconnected from you and not of your doing. Often, however, they
represent the characteristics shown by consciousness when it is
somewhat turned away from physical stimuli. The form of symbols is
changed as the states of consciousness change.
The images that you see in this circumstance represent the thoughts
and feelings experienced just before you closed your eyes, or those
that were paramount in your mind somewhat previously. The minute
your eyes are closed, the thoughts and feeling express themselves
through this symbolism. 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.
I am putting this rather simply here. Imaginatively you have greater

freedom to express feelings than you do practically. An earlier
particular fear felt during the day involving, say, a loss of a job may
then be translated when you close your eyes into a series of
seemingly unrelated symbols, all however connected to that one fear.
You may see in a quick series of pictures a deep hole in the ground.
It may be replaced by a street urchin, obviously poor and from
another century. A casket may appear, or a black wallet fly through
the air. You may see a severe, dark, wintry scene. The picture of a
character from an old book long forgotten may appear and disappear.
In between may be a grouping of opposing symbols, representing
your hope-a spring flower, a table loaded with food, a new suit of
clothes, any sign of abundance that would have meaning to you.
Nowhere would the thought of potential job lose enter in. It would
seem to you that you had forgotten it.
Through the use of symbols, however, your feeling would be given

full play, each image rising and falling in flow with feelings so far
underneath consciousness-pools of emotion-that you were not aware
of them. They would automatically bring about these images
however. Now with reflection you could connect these with their
origins, but usually they would pass you by.
If you let yourself lie still longer with your eyes closed, the symbolism
would continue to change character, losing perhaps some of its visual
characteristics and growing more intense in other directions. You
might think you smell a particular odor, for example, that is distasteful
to you (following through with the situation given). You might, instead,
translate the fear into a frightening physical sensation, and suddenly
feel that you are falling, or that something unpleasant touched you.
Any of these changing characteristics of symbols should alert you to

the altered state of your consciousness. If you let yourself drift off into
sleep here, you would probably manufacture two or three dreams that
symbolize the fear, dreams in which you consider and try out possible
solutions within the dream context. The job situation might never
appear as such within any of the dreams, of course.
Still, to the unconscious the problem has been set and given. In the
following deep protected areas of sleep, the higher centers of the
inner self are allowed to function and come to the aid of the three-
dimensionally oriented portion of the personality. This more liberated
self sees the situation much more clearly, suggests a given line of
action (but does not order it), and informs the dreaming self. The
dreaming self then manufactures a group of dreams in which the
solution is stated within a symbolic dream situation.
The final and more specific interpretation is done in areas of

dreaming closer to the waking self, when the symbols grow more and
more specific. There is a much more narrow aspect to symbolism,
therefore: the closer you get to waking consciousness, the more
limited and narrow the symbol. The handier it is in a given physical
circumstance, the less valuable it is as a waking lifetime characteristic
symbol.
To some extent the more precise the symbol is, the less meaning it
can contain. In the most important dream work, done in the deep
protected sleep periods, the symbols are powerful enough and yet
condensed enough so that they can be broken down, used in a series
of seemingly related dreams as connectives, retain their original
strength and still appear in different guises, becoming in each
succeeding dream layer more and more specific.
Now even as you go about your day, your consciousness fluctuates,

and you can catch yourself "symbolizing" in these different ways if
you get in the habit of observing but not interpreting the state of your
mind. Each physical event that has happened to you is filed away
within your psyche as a definite group of symbols. These do not
represent the experience, they contain the experience. These
represent your personal symbol banks as far as your present life is
concerned.
There is a great unity between your daytime symbols and your
dreaming ones. In a miraculous shorthand, many symbols carry the
burden of far more than one experience, of course, and one symbol
will therefore evoke not only one given experience, of course, but
similar ones. Personal associations, therefore, is highly involved with
your personal bank of symbols, and it operates in the dream states
precisely as in waking life-but with greater freedom, and drawing from
the future, in your terms, as well as from the past.
Therefore, you have greater use of symbolism in the dream state, for
you are aware of the past and future symbols. These vary in intensity;
often they cluster together. Such multidimensional symbols will
appear in many ways, not simply visually. They will affect not only
your physical reality, but all realities in which you are involved. In a
manner of speaking the symbols that you know are but the tail end of
greater symbols.
Blank Spots, Latent Symbols, And The Alpha State

Pauses then occur. To put it as simply as possible, there is an almost

inconceivable moment in which a no-reality occurs, in which a symbol
is caught between motion and no motion, a time of uncertainty. This
is of course translated in many ways, and reflected. In such periods,
certain symbols can be lost to all intents and purposes, dropping out
of an individual's experience, leaving gaps of inertia.
These gaps exist quite literally in many systems. You encounter them
on many levels. You may find yourself experiencing a state of
consciousness, for example, in which nothing seems to happen, and
no psychological landscape or recognizable symbols occur. These
exist not only psychologically or psychically, but as blank areas in
terms of space. The spaces may be filled finally with new symbols. If
you are perceptive enough, you can sometimes catch yourselves
encountering such states of reality in which nothing appears and no
signs of any consciousness outside of your own is apparent.
Such blank spots can be seeded with new symbols, and are often
used as channels through which new creative ideas and inventions
are inserted. These gaps are recognized by others, therefore, and
viewed as dark spaces. They also represent areas of no resistance
for those mind-travelers who are probing inner realities. They
represent uncluttered areas, but also open channels, inactive in
themselves but passively waiting. Now some symbols also wait in
such a passive manner to be activated.
They represent future experience, in your terms, that presently lie

latent. These blank spots of inertia, therefore, are creative to some
extent, in that these other symbols may swim into view within them.
The alpha level is undifferentiated. The energy there is available to be

used as you want to. It is the fountainhead or pool in which the
reservoirs of energy are held in reserve, pulled between the more
interior self and the outer self. Into this area comes signs and
portents from deeper levels of the personality.
Because it is so situated, it is of particular use in manipulating the

physical organism. As you are learning, spontaneity is extremely
important here. Your intent before you enter the alpha state largely
predetermines the kind of experiences you will have, automatically
focusing your attention in those specific areas.
It also beneficial to dip into those areas with no purpose in mind, for
here whatever necessary information that you require without your
conscious knowledge can be made available. When you learn to
explore this region you can use it as a launching pad for other
activities. In doing so you leave your physical body in good hands.
When your consciousness leaves your body, the alpha state

maintains its good condition for you. It does this of course in any
case. The answer to past lives lies in a deeper level, however. You
can fish for it from the alpha state in you prefer.
You can use direction to some extent, but you must seek direction
from the alpha state, requesting it from deeper layers. Or you may
enter those areas yourself, with more training. This is more direct.
The Mental Landscape
With greater practice, the contents of your own mind will become as
readily available. You will see your thoughts as clearly as your inner
organs. In this case you may perceive them symbolically through
symbols you will recognize, seeing jumbled thoughts for example as
weeds, which you can then simply discard.
You can request that the thought content of your mind be translated
into an intense image, symbolically representing individual thoughts
and the overall mental landscape, then take out what you do not like
and replace it with more positive images. This does not mean that
this inner landscape must always be completely sunny, but it does
mean that it should be well balanced.
A dark and largely brooding inner landscape should alert you, so that
you begin immediately to change it. None of these accomplishments
are beyond my readers, though anyone may find any one given feat
more difficult than another. You must also realize that I am speaking
in practical terms. You can correct a physical condition for example,
in the manner just given. If so, however, by examining the inner
landscape of thoughts, you would find the source here that initially
brought about the physical ailment.
Feelings can be examined in the same way. They will appear

differently, with much greater mobility. Thoughts, for example, may
appear as stationary structures, as flowers or trees, houses or
landscapes. Feelings will appear more often in the changing mobility
of water, wind, weather, skies and changing color. Any physical
ailment, then, can be perceived in this state by looking inward into the
body and discovering it; then by changing what you see you may find
yourself entering your body or another’s as a very small miniature, or
as a point of light, or simply without any substance, yet aware of the
inner body environment.
You change what needs to be changed in whatever way occurs to

you, then - by directing the body’s energy in that direction, by entering
the flesh and bringing certain portions together that need this
adjustment, by manipulating areas of the spine. Then from this
adjacent platform of A-1 consciousness, you perceive the mental
thought patterns of yourself or the other person in whatever way you
find characteristic of you.
You may perceive the thought patterns as quickly flashing sentences

or words that are usually seen within your mind or within the other
mind, or as black letters that form words. Or you may hear the words
and thoughts being expressed, or you may see the earlier mentioned
"landscape" in which the thoughts symbolically form into a picture.
This will show you how the thoughts brought about the physical
malady, and which ones were involved. The same thing should then
be done with the feeling pattern. This may be perceived as bursts of
dark or light colors in motion, or simply one particular emotion of
great force may be felt. If it is very strong, one emotion may be felt in
many such guises. In the case of both thoughts and emotions, with
great confidence you pluck out those that are connected with the
malady. In such a manner you have made adjustments on three
levels.
The Many Uses Of Alpha Levels

Let us begin with normal waking consciousness that you know. But
one step away from this is another level of consciousness into which
you all slip without knowing. We will call it "A-1." It is adjacent to your
normal consciousness, separated from it very slightly; and yet in it
very definite effects can appear that are not present in your usual
state.
At this level many abilities may be used, and the present moment can
be experienced in many different fashions, using as a basis the
physical data with which you are already familiar. In your normal state
you see the body. In A-1 your consciousness can enter the body of
another, and heal it. You can in the same manner perceive the state
of your own physical image. You can, according to your abilities,
manipulate matter from the inside consciously, with lucidity and
alertness.
A-1 may be used as a side platform, so to speak, from which you can
view physical events from a clearer standpoint. Using it you are
released momentarily from bodily pressures and with that freedom,
you can move to relieve them. Problems that seem beyond solution
can often, though not always, be solved. Suggestions given are much
more effective. It is easier to form images, and they have a greater
mobility. A-1 is a sidestep away, therefore, and yet an important one.
Now it can be used as the first of a series of steps, leading to

"deeper" states of consciousness. It can also be used as the first of a
series of adjacent steps. Each of the deeper layers of consciousness
can also be used as first steps leading to other adjacent levels. A-1 is
simple to enter. When you listen to music that you like, when you are
indulging in an enjoyable quiet pursuit, you can sense the different
feeling. It may be accompanied by your own characteristic physical
clues. You may tap your fingers in a certain way. There may be a
particular gesture. You may stare or look dreamily to the left or right.
Any such physical clues can help you differentiate between this state
of consciousness and the usual predominating one. You have only to
recognize it, learn to hold it, and then proceed to experiment in its
use. As a rule, it is still physically-oriented, in that the abilities are
usually directed toward the inner perception and manipulation of
matter or physical environment. You can therefore perceive the
present moment from a variety of unique standpoints not usually
available.
You can perceive the moment's reality as it exist for your intestine, or
your hand; and experience, with practice, the present inner peace
and commotion that exist simultaneously within your physical body.
This brings a great appreciation and wonder, a sense of unity with the
living corporeal material of which you are physically composed. With
practice you can become intuitively aware of your internal physical
environment, as [of] your external physical environment.
With greater practice, the contents of your own mind will become
readily available. You will see your thoughts as clearly as your inner
organs. In this case you may perceive them symbolically through
symbols you will recognize, seeing jumbled thoughts for example as
weeds, which can then simply discard.
You can request that the thought content of your mind be translated
into an intense image, symbolically representing, symbolically
representing individual thoughts and the overall mental landscape,
then take out what you do not like and replace it with more positive
images. This does not mean that this inner landscape must always be
completely sunny, but it does mean that it should be well balanced.
A dark and largely brooding inner landscape should alert you so that
you immediately begin to change it. None of these accomplishments
are beyond my readers, though anyone may find one given feat more
difficult than another. You must also realize that I am speaking in
practical terms. You can correct a physical condition for example, in
the matter just given. If so, however, by examining the inner
landscape of thoughts, you will find the source here that initially
brought about the physical aliment.
Feelings can be examined in the same way. They will appear

differently, with much greater mobility. Thoughts, for example, may
appear as stationary structures, as flowers or trees, houses or
landscapes. Feelings will appear more often in the changing mobility
of water, wind, weather, skies and changing color. Any physical
aliment, then, can be perceived in this state by looking inward into the
body and discovering it; then by changing what you see you may find
yourself entering your body or another's as a very small miniature, or
as a point of light, or simply without any substance, yet aware of the
inner body environment.
You change what needs to be changed in whatever way occurs to

you, then-by directing the body's energy in that direction, by entering
the flesh and bringing certain portions together that need this
adjustment, by manipulating areas of the spine. Then from this
adjacent platform of A-1 consciousness, you perceive the mental
thought patterns of yourself or the other person in whatever way you
find characteristic of you.
You may perceive the thought patterns as quickly flashing sentences

or words that are usually seen within your mind or within the other
mind, or as black letters that form words. Or you may hear the words
and thoughts being expressed, or you may see the earlier-mentioned
"landscape" in which the thoughts symbolically from into a picture.
This will show you how the thoughts brought about the physical
malady, and which ones were involved. The same thing should then
be done with the feeling pattern. This may be perceived as burst of
dark or light colors in motion, or simply one particular emotion of
great force may be felt in many such guises. In the case of both
thoughts and emotions, with great confidence you pluck out those
that are connected with the malady. In such a manner you have
made adjustments on three levels.
A-1 may be used also as a great framework for creativity,

concentration, study, refreshment, rest and meditation. You may
evolve your own image of this state to help you, imagining it as a
room or a pleasant landscape or platform. Spontaneously, you will
find your own symbol for this state.
Now: this state may be used also as a step into the next state of
consciousness, leading to a deeper trance condition; still relating
however to the reality system that you understand.
Or it may be used as a step leading to an adjacent level of

consciousness; two steps away, therefore, on the same level from
normal reality. In this case it will lead you not into a deeper
examination and perception of the present moment, but instead into
an awareness and recognition of what I will call alternate present
moments.
You will be taking steps aside from the present that you know. This
leads to exploration mentioned earlier in this book, into probabilities.
This state can be extremely advantageous when you are trying to
solve problems having to do with future arrangements, decisions that
will affect the future, and any matters, in fact, in which important
decisions for the future must be made. In this state you are able to try
out various alternative decisions and some probable results, not
imaginatively but in quite practical terms.
These probabilities are realities, regardless of which decisions you

make. Say, for example, that you have three choices and it is
imperative that you select one. Using this state, you take the first
choice. The alternative present is the moment in which you make that
choice. Having made it the present is changed and what actions and
events will flow from the change into the future that belongs to that
particular alternate present.
You do the same with each of the choices, all from the framework of
that state of consciousness. The methods in each case are the same.
You make the decision. You then become aware in whatever way you
choose of the physical effects within your body. You enter the body
as you did in the way I gave you earlier for healing. With great
sensitivity you are able to see what physical effect the decision will
have-whether the state of the body remains the same, whether there
is a great sense of health within in it, or the incipient beginning of
great difficulties.
In like manner you explore the mental and feeling aspects, then you
turn your attention "outward," toward the environment that results
from this alternate present. Mentally, events will appear to you. You
may experience these strongly, or merely view them. They may
become so vivid that you momentarily forget yourself, but if you
maintain your contact with this level of consciousness, this will
seldom happen. As a rule you are very aware of what you are doing.
According to the situation, you can do the same thing to find out the
effect of this decision on others specifically. You then return to normal
consciousness, going through the A-1 state that you used as a
preliminary. After a period of rest, return and make the second
decision, and again the third, following through in the same manner.
Then in your normal state of consciousness, of course, you make,
you make the decision that you want from the information and
experience that you have received.
The names make little difference. For simplicity's sake call this level
of consciousness A-1-a.
There is an A-1-b, you see, still adjacent to this one, and still starting
off from an alternate present that can be used for many other
purposes.
It is not easy for the ordinary individual to enter, and it deals with
group presents, mass probabilities, racial matters, the movement of
civilization. It is one that would be most beneficial to politicians and
statesmen, and it also can be used to probe the probable pasts as
well. Here it would be of benefit in learning of old ruins for example,
and vanished civilizations, but only if the specific probable past were
probed in which these existed.
The next adjacent level now would be A-1-c, which is an extension of

the one just given, in which there is greater freedom of action,
mobility and experience. Here to some extent there is some
participation in the events perceived. There is no need to go deeply
into any of these beyond this point, because ordinarily you will not be
involved with them, and they lead into realities that have little
reference to your own. They are states of consciousness too divorced
from your own, and under usual circumstances, this is as far as your
present consciousness is able to go in that particular direction.
The first state, A-1-a, is the most practical and easiest for you, but
often you must still have a good feeling for the A-1 level before you
are willing to take the next adjacent step. It allows for great
expansion, however, within its limitations. Using it, you can discover
for example what would have happened if "I did this or the other."
Remember, these are all adjacent levels, going out horizontally.
Directly beneath A-1, now, you will have A-2, which is a slightly
deeper state, using the analogy of up and down direction. It is less
physically oriented than A-1. You still have excellent lucidity and
awareness. This state can be used to explore the past in your terms
of reference, within the probable system that you know.
Reincarnational pasts are known to you here, and if some personal

malady cannot be solved from A-1, you may have to go to A-2
discovering that it originated from another existence. This state is
distinguished by a slower breathing pattern and, unless other
directions are given, by a somewhat lowered temperature and longer
alpha waves; a slower frequency.
There is still relation to environment, however, and awareness of it.

This may be purposely blocked off for greater efficiency, but it is not
necessary. In many cases the eyes may be open, for example,
though it may be easier to close them. Here sensitivity is quickened.
Without necessarily following the method given in A-1, the mental,
physical and feeling aspects of past personalities will appear.
They may be perceived in various ways according to the

characteristics of the individual who is in this state. This can be used
to discover the origin of an idea in the past, or to find anything that
has been lost there, as long as it is within your probable system.
Directly beneath this is A-3. You have an extension, again, here

dealing with mass events, issues-movements of land, the history of
your planet as you know it, the knowledge of the races that inhabited
it, the history of the animals, the layers of gas and coal, and of the
various ages that swept across the planet and changed it.
More Layers Of Alpha

A-4 brings you to a level that is beneath matter formation, a level in

which ideas and concepts can be perceived, although their
representations do not appear in the present physical reality that you
know.
From this layer the deepest inspiration come. These ideas and
concepts have their own electromagnetic identity, nevertheless
appear as "the symbolic landscape" at this level of consciousness.
This is difficult to explain. The thoughts do not appear as
pseudoimages for example, or assume any pseudo-materialization,
yet they are felt vividly, perceived and picked up by portions of the
brain-those seemingly unused portions for which science has found
no answer.
These ideas and concepts obviously came from consciousness.

However, they represent incipient latent developments that may or
may not occur in physical reality. They may or may not be perceived
by any given individual. 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.
The material available, however, represents building blocks for many

probable systems. It is an open area into which many other
dimensions have access. It often becomes available in sleep states.
Complete innovations, world-shattering inventions-these all lie
waiting, so to speak, in this huge reservoir. Strong personal
"conversions" are often effected from this level.
Now an individual can pass through these levels and remain relatively
untouched and unaware, can travel through them unperceiving. The
overall intentions and characteristics of the personality will determine
the quality of perception and understanding. The material mentioned
is available in each of the levels of consciousness given, but it must
be sought out, either through conscious desire or strong unconscious
desire. If it is not, then the gifts available and the potentials simply
remain unused and unclaimed.
The states of consciousness merge also one into the other, and it is
obvious that I am using the terms of depth to make the discussion
easier. Starting with the ego or waking consciousness as the outer
self focused toward exterior reality, these states are broad, more like
plains to be explored. Each one, therefore, opens in great adjacent
areas also, and there are many "paths" to be taken according to your
interest and desires.
As your ordinary waking state perceives the entire universe of

physical data, so each of these other states of consciousness
perceive realities as complicated, varied, and vivid. It is for this
reason that it is so difficult to explain the experiences possible within
any given one.
A-5 opens up a dimension in which the vital consciousness of any

personality can at least theoretically be contacted. This involves
communicating not only with the past personalities in your terms, but
future ones. It is a level of consciousness very seldom reached. It is
not, for example, the layer used by most mediums. It is a meeting
ground in which personalities from any time or place or probable
system can communicate with each other in clear terms understood
by all.
Since past, present, and future do not exist, this is a level of crystal
clear communication of consciousness. Those involved have an
excellent knowledge of their own backgrounds and histories, of
course, but in this state possess also a much larger perspective, in
which private and historical backgrounds are seen as a portion of a
greater perceivable whole.
At this level, messages literally flash through the centuries from one
great man or woman to another. The future speaks to the past. The
great artists have always been able to communicate at this level, and
while living literally operated at this level of consciousness a good
deal of the time. Only the most exterior portions of their personalities
bowed to the dictates of historical period.
For those who reach this state and utilize it, communication is
clearest. It must be understood that this communication works both
ways. Leonardo Da Vinci knew of Picasso, for example. There are
great men and women who go unknown. Their contemporaries ignore
them. Their achievements may be misunderstood or physically lost,
but at this level of consciousness they share in these
communications, and at another level of existence their achievements
are recognized.
I do not mean to imply, however, that only the great share in this
communication of consciousness. A great simplicity is necessary, and
out of this, many of the most lowly in men's terms also share in these
communications. There is an unending conversation going on
throughout the universe, and a most meaningful one. Those from
both your past and your future have a hand in your present world,
and at this level the problems that have been met and will be
encountered are being discussed. This is the heart of communication.
It is most usually encountered either in a protected deep level of
sleep or in a sudden spontaneous trance state. Great energy is
generated.
The information received in any of these states of consciousness

must be interpreted for the normal waking consciousness, if any
physical memory is to be maintained.
In many cases memory remains unconscious as far as the waking

self is concerned, but the experiences themselves can completely
change the structure of an individual life. Disastrous courses can be
averted through such inner communications and illuminations,
whether the ego is aware of them.
The experiences at these various levels may be interpreted

symbolically. They may appear in the form of fantasy, fiction, or art
work, without the conscious self realizing their origin. Now at any of
these various stages of consciousness, other phenomena may also
be perceived - thought forms for example, energy manifestations,
projections from the personal subconscious, and projections from the
collective unconscious. Any or all of these may take symbolic form,
and may appear beneficial or threatening according to the attitude of
the personality involved. They should be regarded as quite natural
phenomena.
Often they are incipient forms given activity by the personality who
encounters them. The nature of their activity, therefore, will be
projected outward from the personality onto the relatively passive
materialization. The person encountering these has only to turn his
attention away to "deactivate" the phenomena. This does not mean
that the phenomena is not real. Its nature is simply of a different kind
and degree.
It has some energy of its own, but needs additional energy from a
perceiver for any interrelationship to take place. If such a
materialization appears threatening, then simply wish it peace and
withdraw your attention from it. It draws its main activating energy
from your focusing, and according to the intensity and nature of your
focus. You must not take the root assumptions of physical existence
with you as you journey through these levels of consciousness.
Divest yourself of as many of them as possible, for they can cause
you to misinterpret your experiences.
There are other layers of awareness beneath this one, but here there
is a much greater tendency for one to merge into the other. In the
next level, for example, communication is possible with various kinds
of consciousness that has never been physically manifested, in your
terms-personalities who do not have physical reality in either your
present or future, yet are connected with your system of reality both
as guardians and custodians.
Almost all experiences from this level will be symbolically
represented, for otherwise they would have no meaning to you. The
experiences will have to do in one way or another with nonphysical
life, noncorporeal consciousness and forms, and the independence of
consciousness from matter. These experiences will always be
supportive. Out-of-body experiences will often be involved here, in
which the projectionist finds himself in an unearthly environment or
one of great beauty and grandeur.
Blank Spots And Memory

As mentioned somewhat earlier in this book, while your normal

waking consciousness seems continual to you, and you are aware
usually of no blank spots, nevertheless it has great fluctuations. To a
large extent it has memory only of itself and its own perceptions. In
normal consciousness, then, it seems as if there are no real other
kinds of consciousness, no other areas or levels. When it encounters
"blanks spots" and "returns" it blots out awareness that the moment
of nonfunction occurred.
It forgets the stumble. It cannot be aware of alternate kinds of

consciousness while being itself, unless methods are taken that allow
it to recover from this amnesia.
It plays hopscotch in and out of reality. It is gone sometimes and you

are not aware of it. On such occasions your attention is focused
elsewhere, in what you might call mini-dreams or hallucinations, or
associative and intuitive processes of thought that go quite beyond
normal focus.
In these lapses you are perceiving other kinds of reality with other
than normal waking consciousness. When you return, you lose the
thread. Normal waking consciousness pretends there was never any
break. This happens with some regularity, and to varying degrees,
from fifteen to fifty times an hour, according to your activities.
At various times many people do catch themselves, the experience

can be so vivid that it leaps the gap, so to speak, with perception so
intense that even normal waking consciousness is made aware of it.
These intervals are quite necessary to physical consciousness. They
are woven through the fabric of your awareness so cleverly and so
intimately that they color your psychic and feeling atmosphere.
Normal waking consciousness weaves in and out of this infinite

supportive webwork. Your inner experience is so intricate that
verbally it is almost impossible to describe. Normal waking
consciousness, while having memory of itself, obviously does not
retain all memory of all the time. It is said that that memory of past
events drops back into the subconscious. It is still intensely alive, and
by alive I mean living and active, although you do not focus upon it.
Inner portions of your personality also have memory of all of your

dreams. These exist simultaneously, and suspended, so to speak like
lights over a dark city, illuminating various portions of the psyche.
These memory systems are all interconnected. Now in the same way
you have your memory of past lives, all quite complete and all
operating in the entire memory system.
In periods of conscious "blank spots" or certain fluctuations, these

memory systems are often perceived. As a rule the conscious mind
with its own memory system will not accept them. When a personality
realizes that such other realities exist and that other experiences with
consciousness are possible, then he activates certain potentials
within himself. These alter electromagnetic connections both within
the mind, the brain, and even the perceptive mechanisms. They bring
together reservoirs of energy and set up pathways of activity, allowing
the conscious mind to increase its degree of sensitivity to such data.
The conscious mind is set free of itself. To a large measure it
undergoes a metamorphosis, taking on greater functions. It is able to
perceive, little by little, some of the content before closed to it. It need
no longer perceive the momentary "blank spots" fearfully, as
evidence of nonexistence.
The fluctuations mentioned earlier are often quite minute, yet highly
significant. The conscious mind knows well of its own fluctuating
state. When once it is led to face this, it finds not chaos, or worse,
nonexistence, but its source of its own abilities and strength. The
personality begins to use its own potential.
Examining Subjective States
You will not find yourself running from teacher to teacher, from book
to book. You will not meet yourself through any particular specialized
method of meditation. Only by looking quietly within the self that you
know can your reality be experienced, with those connections that
exist between the present or immediate self and the inner identity that
is multidimensional.
There must be a willingness, an acquiescence, a desire. If you do not

take the time to examine your own subjective states, then you cannot
complain if so many answers seem to elude you. You cannot throw
the burden of truth upon another, or expect a man or teacher to prove
to you the validity of your own existence. Such a procedure is bound
to lead you into one of the subjective trap after another.
As you sit reading this book, the doorways within are open. You have
only to experience the moment as you know it as fully as possible-as
it exist physically within the room, or outside in the streets of the city
in which you live. Imagine the experience present in one moment of
time over the globe, then try to appreciate the subjective experience
of your own that exists in the moment and yet escapes it-and this
multiplied by each living individual.
This exercise alone will open your perceptions, increase your

awareness and automatically expand your appreciation of your own
nature.
The "you" who is capable of such expansion must be a far more

creative and multidimensional personality than you earlier imagined.
Many of the small exercises given earlier in this book will also help
you become acquainted with your own reality, will give you direct
experience with the nature of your soul or entity, and will put you in
contact with those portions of your being from which your vitality
springs. You may or may not have your own encounters with past
reincarnational selves or probable selves. You may or may not catch
yourself in the act of changing levels of consciousness. Certainly
most of my readers, however, will have success with some of the
suggested exercises. They are not difficult, and they are within the
capabilities of all.
Each reader, however, should in one way or another sense his own
vitality in a way quite new to him, and find avenues of expansion
opening within himself of which he was earlier unaware.
Finding Coordinate Points

The great religions of the world all had their births near the major
coordination points. (See Chapter Five.)
In such localities, changes are apt to appear rapidly, for ideas and
emotions are propelled into physical actuality with great vigor. Ideas
sweep like fire among the people. The psychic atmosphere is fertile.
Creativity springs forth easily, and so such locations are not

necessarily peaceful, although they are the best ground in which
peace could grow. Any ideas for good or bad become materialized
with such strength, however, that the contradictory feelings of
mankind are more apparent near coordination points.
There are effects, not as yet ascertained by your scientist, that

appear in such areas: effects that were known however at the time of
Atlantis, and also utilized by the Lumarians. In a strange manner,
space puckers to an unobservable degree, as far as your instruments
are concerned, near these coordination points.
Some of my readers may be familiar with "black" and "white holes" in

space, that your scientist have recently discovered.
These points have somewhat the same qualities. The

electromagnetic aspect of thoughts and emotions, the animations, are
drawn through points that can compare to miniature black holes. Here
their energy momentarily disappears from your system, is
immeasurably accelerated, however, and returned through what you
might call a miniature white hole-concentrated now, and highly
directed back into your system of reality.
This is only an analogy, but for working purposes it is fair enough
one. There is, again, a wrinkling effect about these points, though not
as yet observable to you, where space itself, it seems, yearns to
disappear inside the first point. There are other distortions in physical
laws. A few of these have been observed, but ignored as pertinent
signs. The activities of atoms and molecules quicken as they
approach these points, but the distance between the atoms and
molecules remains the same. That is important.
These coordination points also serve to give your system additional

source of energy. The law of entropy does not apply, therefore. The
coordination points are actually, then, sources of additional energy.
They only open however when concentrations of energy build-up
within your system. I would like to make the idea clearer. A physical
vehicle, a space ship, for example, could never survive that kind of
exit and reentry from your system.
In Atlantis there were those who utilized this knowledge, accelerating

certain thoughts through concentration, emphasizing certain feeling
so as to send them through these coordination points. Great stability
was therefore achieved as far as road, buildings, and the like were
concerned. Such projects were carried out with great consideration
for their position between various coordination points.
This pocketing-of-space effect can be perceived in certain trance

states. This can be compared to wading up of air.
Now sit quietly with your eyes closed and try to ascertain the
directional proximity of main or subordinate coordination points. Here
are some aids to help you.
With the intent in mind, you will find your inner vision inclining toward
a particular direction of the room, and even your thoughts will seem to
follow in the same direction. An imaginary line will help you properly
identify he place, in any given location, closest to any given
coordination point. Imagine a line drawn from the point of your inner
vision, coming from the inner eye you seem to be using, outward. Let
it be joined by an imaginary line from the top of your skull, following
the same direction in which your thoughts seem to flow.
You have an imaginary line, then, in this case, from here, and here.
There is an angle, and then both lines form together. They will point
unerringly to the direction closest to a coordination point.
The subordinate points permeate space. Ruburt will be able to tell

you, for example, the nearest point in this room. Sometimes the angle
will be longer, but the two lines will point in the right direction. Energy
is, therefore, most effective in those areas.
Using this analogy of the white and the black hole: to make this
clearer, the white hole is within the black hole. Do you follow me?
Electromagnetic properties are drawn into the black hole, and

accelerated beyond imagination. The acceleration and the activities
within the black hole draw unbelievable proportions of additional
energy from other systems.
This greater acceleration changes the very nature of the units

involved. In the meantime, the characteristics of the black hole itself
are changed by this activity. A black hole is a white hole turned inside
out, in other words. The electromagnetic "matter" may reemerge
through the same "hole" or "point" which is now a white hole.
The reemergence, however, again alters its characteristics. It

becomes "hungry" once more, and again, a black hole. The same
sort of activity goes on in all systems. The holes, therefore, or
coordination points, are actually great accelerators that reenergize
energy itself.
Basic Affirmations
The Nature Of Personal Reality, p24
Your beliefs can be like fences that surround you.
You must first recognize the existence of such barriers - you must
see them or you will not even realize that you are not free, simply
because you will not see beyond the fences. They represent the
boundaries of your experience.
There is one belief, however, that destroys artificial barriers to
perception, an expanding belief that automatically pierces false and
inhibiting ideas.
Now, separately:
The Self Is Not Limited
That statement is a statement of fact. It exists regardless of your

belief or disbelief in it. Following this concept is another.
There Are No Boundaries or Separation of the Self
Those that you experience are the result of false beliefs. Following
this is the idea that I have already mentioned
You Make Your Own Reality
To understand yourself and what you are, you can learn to

experience yourself directly apart from your beliefs about yourself.
What I would like each reader to do is to sit quietly. Close your eyes.
Try to sense within yourself the deep feeling tones that I mentioned
earlier.
Using The Pendulum To Uncover Beliefs

The Nature Of Personal Reality, p 69
The pendulum would be a method of allowing you to view conscious

material that is not structured to recognized beliefs.
Rest And Refreshment

The Nature Of Personal Reality, p 98
Now thoughts in general possess an electromagnetic reality, but

whether you know it or not, they also have an inner sound value.
You know the importance of exterior sound. It is used as a method of

communication, but it is also a by-product of many other events, and
it affect the physical atmosphere. Now the same is true about what I
will call inner sound, the sound of your thoughts within your own
head. I am not speaking here of body noises, though you are usually
oblivious to these also.
Inner sounds have an even greater effect that exterior ones upon
your body. They affect the atoms and molecules that compose your
cells. In many respects it is true to say that you speak your body, but
the speaking is interior.
The same kind of sound built the Pyramids, and it was not sound you
would hear with your physical ears. Such inner sound forms your
bones and flesh. The sound exists connected with but quite apart
from the mental words you use in thinking.
It does not matter in which language you are addressing yourself, for
example. The sound formed by your intent, and the same intent - I
am putting this simply now - will have the sound effect upon the body
regardless of the words used.
But usually you think in your own language, and so in quite practical
terms the words and intent merge. For all practical purposes then the
two are one. When you say, "I am tired," mentally you are not only
giving silent messages to yourself - I say messages rather than
message because the general statement is broken down; many
portions of the body must be affected before you feel tired - but
besides this the inner sound value of the messages automatically
affects the body in just that way.
What you should do, then, if you find yourself feeling tired? This is
your conscious assessment of your body's reality at a given time. You
want to change it so you do not reinforce it. Instead you say mentally
that the body can now begin to rest and refresh itself. You take your
initial judgement for granted then without restating it, and instead
suggest the remedy be carried out (positively).
You can, if the conditions warrant, physically rest by lying down or

making whatever adjustments seem appropriate. If none are possible
then several such suggestions-that the body can refresh itself-will
give you benefit. To tell yourself over and over that you are tired,
however, reinforces the condition.
The inner sound value of the countering suggestion automatically
begins to refresh the body.
Inner Visual Beliefs and Om

I told you that thoughts are translated into this inner sound, but
thoughts always attempt to materialize themselves also. As such they
are incipient images, collectors of energy. They build up their own
embryonic form until it is in one way or another physically translated.
Mental images therefore are extremely powerful, combining inner

sound and its effects with a clear mental picture which will seek
physical form. Your imagination adds motivating and propelling power
to such images, and so you will find that many of your beliefs are
entertained by you in an inner visual manner. They will have mental
pictures connected with them.
One such image may represent one particular belief or it may stand
for several. As you make lists of your beliefs you will find some of
these pictures coming into your mind. Look at them as you would a
painting you have created. If you do not like what you see then quite
consciously change the picture in your mind.
These images are interior, yet because they are so a part of your
beliefs you will see them exteriorized also in your experience.
There is then light that you do not see with physical eyes, as there is
sound you do not hear with your ears. These combine to mentally
form the physical image that you know, so you must work from the
inside out. Your beliefs are your palette, using the analogy of a
painting again.
Your thoughts give the general outline of the reality that you
physically experience. Your emotions will fill in the patterns with light.
Your imagination will force these together.
The sound of your inner thoughts is the medium that you actually use.
This is far more than an analogy, however, for in simple terms it
explains quite clearly the way in which your beliefs form your reality.
In quiet moments the word "O-O-O-O-O-M-M-M-M-M," said slowly,
mentally or aloud, will be of benefit in toning up your general physical
condition. The sounds contain within them a built-up impetus toward
energy and well being….
A Dialogue Technique
The Nature of Personal Reality, p232
"Dialogues" is now a book, just completed, but it also represented a

movement of the self through a question-and-answer format, through
which Ruburt recognized and faced many diverse beliefs. Each
reader can utilize the same method whether or not artisitc
achievement is also involved, through objectifying personal beliefs in
a dialogue form. This also happens frequently in the dream state,
when you allow dreams in which "you" are two separate people,
either strangers or familiar, each asking questions of the other.
Emotions Are Reactions To Beliefs

Ruburt advised Andrea to accept the validity of such feeling as

feelings-not to inhibit them, but to follow their flow with the
understanding that they are feelings about reality. As themselves they
are real. They express emotional reactions to beliefs. The next time
Andrea feels inadequate, for example, she is to actively experience
that feeling, realizing that even though she feels inferior this does not
mean she is inferior. She is to say, "I feel inferior," and at the same
time to understand that the feeling is not a statement of fact but of
emotion. A different kind of validity is involved.
Experiencing your emotion as such is not the same as accepting

them as statements of fact about your own existence. Andrea is then
supposed to ask, "Why do I feel so inferior?" If you deny the validity
of emotion itself and pretend it away, then you will never be led to
question the belief behind it.
A Feeling Tone Exercise

Nature of Personal Reality, Session 613, 9:40
Basically you create your experience through your beliefs about
yourself and the nature of reality. Another way to understand this is to
realize that you create your experiences through your expectations.
Your feeling-tones are your emotional attitudes toward yourself and
life in general, and these generally govern large areas of experience.
They give the overall emotional coloration that characterizes what

happens to you. You are what happens to you. Your emotional
feelings are often transitory but beneath there are certain qualities of
feeling uniquely your own, that are like deep musical chords. While
your day-to-day feelings rise or fall, these characteristics feeling
tones lie beneath.
Sometimes they rise to the surface, but in great long rhythms. You
cannot call these negative or positive. They are instead tones of your
being. They represent the most inner portion of your experience. This
does not mean that they are hidden from you, or are meant to be. It
simply means that they represent the core from which you form your
experience.
This is not difficult to do.
Your knowledge of their existence will help you recognize their deep
rhythms within you. Each individual will sense these tones in his or
her own way, so do not worry how they feel. Simply tell yourself that
they exist, that they are composed of the great energies of your being
made flesh.
Then let yourself experience. If you are used to terms like meditation,
try to forget the term during this procedure. Do not use any name.
Free yourself from concepts, and experience the being of yourself
and the motion of your own vitality. Do not question, "Is this right? Am
I doing it correctly? Am I feeling what I should feel?" You are not to
use other peoples criteria. There are no standards but your own
feelings.
No particular time limit is recommended. This should be an enjoyable

experience. Accept whatever happens as uniquely your own. The
exercise will put you in touch with yourself. It will return you to
yourself. Whenever you are nervous or upset, take a few moments to
sense this feeling tone within you, and you will find yourself centered
in your own being, secure.
When you have tried this exercise several times, then feel these deep
rhythms go out from you in all directions, as indeed they do.
Electromagnetically they radiate out through your physical being; and
in ways that I hope to explain later, they form the environment that
you know even as they form your physical image.
Rearranging Belief Furniture

The Nature Of Personal Reality, Session 618
You can stub your toe as easily on a misplaced idea as you can upon
an old chair. It will help you, in fact, if you think of your own beliefs as
furniture that can be easily arranged, changed, renewed, completely
discarded or replaced. It is up to you to accept those that you choose
to accept.
Imagine yourself then rearranging this furniture. Images of particular

pieces will come clearly to you. Ask yourself what ideas these pieces
represent. Open up the drawers inside.
There will be no mystery. You know what your own beliefs are. You
will see grouping, but it is up to you to look inside your own mind and
to use the images in your own way. Throw out ideas that do not suit
you. If you read this, find such an idea in yourself and then say, "I
cannot throw this idea away," then you must realize that your inner
remarks is in itself a belief. You can indeed throw the idea away, the
second one as easily as the first.
You are not powerless before ideas. Using this analogy, you will
certainly find some furniture that you did not expect. Do not simply
look in the center of your inner room of consciousness; and make
sure that you are on guard against certain invisibility that was
mentioned earlier where an idea, quite available, appears to be a part
of reality instead….
Imagination also plays an important part in your subjective life, as it

gives mobility to your beliefs. It is one of the motivating agencies that
helps transform your beliefs into physical experience. It is vital
therefore that you understand the interrelationship between ideas and
imagination. In order to dislodge unsuitable beliefs and establish new
ones, you must learn to use your imagination to move concepts in
and out of your mind. The proper use of imagination can then propel
ideas in the direction you desire.
Imagination And Emotion Changes Beliefs

Your emotions and your imagination both follow your belief. When the
belief vanishes then the same emotional context is no longer
entertained, and your imagination turns in other directions. Beliefs
automatically mobilize your emotional and imaginative powers.
Few beliefs are intellectual alone. When you are examining the
contents of your conscious mind, you must learn, or recognize, the
emotional and imaginative connotations that are connected with a
given idea. There are various ways of altering the belief by
substituting its opposite. One particular method is three-pronged. You
generate the emotion opposite the one that arises from the belief you
want to change, and you turn your imagination in the opposite
direction from the one dictated by the belief. At the same time you
consciously assure yourself that the unsatisfactory belief is an idea
about reality and not an aspect of reality itself.
You realize that ideas are not stationary. Emotions and imagination
move them in one direction or another, reinforce them or negate
them.
Quite deliberately you use your conscious mind playfully, creating a

game a children do, in which for a time you completely ignore what
seems to be in physical terms and "pretend" that what you really want
is real.
If you are poor, you purposely pretend that you have all you need
financially. Imagine how you will spend your money. If you are ill,
imagine playfully that you are cured. See yourself doing what you
would do. If you cannot communicate with others, imagine yourself
doing so easily. If you feel your days dark and pointless, then imagine
them filled and joyful.
Now this may sound impractical, yet in your daily life you use your
imagination and your emotions often at the service of far less worthy
beliefs; and the results are quite clear- and let me add, unfortunately
practical.
As it took awhile for the unsatisfactory beliefs to become materialized,

so it may be a time before you see physical results; but new ideas will
take growth and change your experience as certainly as the old ones
did. The process of imagining will also bring you face to face with
other subsidiary ideas that may momentarily bring you up short. You
may see where you held two quite conflicting ideas simultaneously,
and with equal vigor. In such a case, you stalemated yourself.
Improving Interactions
You are setting out to experience the most fulfilled reality that you
can. To do this you have, hopefully, begun to examine your beliefs.
You may want others to change. In doing so you begin with yourself. I
told you to imagine a game in which you see yourself acting in line
with the new desired belief. As you do, see yourself affecting others
in the new fashion.
See them reacting to you in the new way. This is highly important
because telepathically you are sending them interior messages. You
are telling them that you are changing the conditions and behavior of
your relationship. You are broadcasting your altered position.
Some will be quite able to understand you at that level. There may
those who need the old framework, and someone, if not you, to play
the part you played before. Those people will either drop out of your
experience or you must drop them from yours.
Once more, if you think of daily life as an ever-moving three-

dimensional painting with you as the artist, then you will realize that
as your beliefs change so will your experience.
According to your energy, power and intensity, you can help change
the beliefs of many people, of course.
Listen to your own conversation as you speak with friends, and to
theirs. See how you reinforce each others beliefs. See how your
imagination often follows the same lines. All of this is quite out in the
open if you realize that it is.
Triggering Bodily Memories

The Nature of Personal Reality, Session 633
Try a simple experiment. The results will be self-explanatory. Think of

a sad event from your life. Similar feelings will soon follow, and with
them memories of other such unpleasant episodes strung together
through association. Scenes, odors, words, perhaps half-forgotten,
will suddenly come upon you with new freshness.
Your thoughts will activate the appropriate feelings. Beneath your

awareness, however, they will also trigger the cells’ ever-present
memory imprints of stimuli received when those events occurred.
There is, to some extent now, a cellular memory playback - and on
the part of the entire body, the recognition of its state at that time.
If you pursue such sorrowful thoughts persistently you are

reactivating that body condition. Think of one of the most pleasant
events that ever happened to you and the reverse will be true, but the
process is the same. This time the associated memories are
pleasant, and the body changes accordingly.
Remember, these mental associations are living things. They are

formations of energy assembled into invisible structures, through
processes quite as valid and complicated as the organization of any
group of cells. Comparing them with cells, they are of briefer duration,
generally speaking, though under certain conditions this does not
apply. But your thoughts form structures as real as the cells. Their
composition is different in that no solidity is involved in your terms.
As living cells have a structure, react to stimuli and organize

according to their own classification, so do thoughts. Thoughts thrive
on association. They magnetically attract others like themselves, and
like some strange microscopic animals they repel their "enemies," or
other thoughts that are threatening to their own survival.
Using this analogy, your mental and emotional life forms a framework
composed of such structures, and these act directly upon the cells of
your physical body.
Visualizing Breaths As Lives

In some ways, the rhythm of birth and death is like a breath taken and
exhaled. Feel your own breath as it comes and goes. You are not it,
yet it comes into you and leaves you, and without its continuous flow
you could not physically exist. Just so your lives go in and out of you -
you and yet not you. And a portion of you, while letting them all go,
remembers them and knows their journey.
Imagine where your breath goes when it leaves your body, how it
escapes through an open window perhaps and becomes a part of the
space outside, where you will never recognize it - and when it has left
you it is no longer part of what you are, for you are already different.
So the lives you have lived are not you, while they are of you.
Close your eyes. Think of your breath as lives, and your are the entity
through which they have passed and are passing. Then you will feel
your state of grace, and all the artificial guilts will be meaningless.
None of this negates the supreme and utter integrity of your
individuality, for you are as well the individual entity through whom
the lives flow, and the unique lives that are expressed through you.
Contacting The Entity

When you are aware of the existences of the entity and of the soul,
you can consciously draw upon their greater energy, understanding
and strength.
It is inherently available, but your conscious intent brings about

certain changes in you that automatically trigger such benefits. The
results will be felt down to the smallest cells within your body, and will
affect even the most seemingly mundane events of your daily life.
You are growing in consciousness; therefore using it expands its
capabilities. It is not a thing, but an attribute and characteristic. That
is why your understanding and desire are so important. The
processes initiated are beyond your normal awareness. They occur
automatically with your intent if you do not block them through fear,
doubt or opposing beliefs.
Imagine yourself as a portion of an invisible universe, but one in

which all the stars and planets are conscious and full of indescribable
energy. You are aware of this. Think of the universe as having the
form of a body. If you want to, visualize its outline brilliant against the
sky. The suns and planets are your cells, each filled with energy and
power but awaiting your direction.
Then see this image exploding into your consciousness, which is

unbelievably bright. Realize that it is a portion of a far greater
multidimensional structure. Feel the entity sending you energy as you
send energy to your cells. Let it fill your being and then direct it
physically any place within your body that you choose.
If instead there is a physical event that you strongly desire, then use
that energy to imagine its actual occurrence as vividly as you can. If
you follow these directions and understand the meaning of them as
given, you will find the results most startling and effective. Energy
may be directed to any portion of the body, and if you do not block its
actions by disbeliefs, that portion will be cured.
The Emotional Approach To Discovering Beliefs

There are two ways to get at your own conscious beliefs. The most
direct is to have a series of talks with yourself. Write down your
beliefs in a variety of areas, and you will find that you believe different
things at different times. Often there will be contradictions readily
apparent. These represent opposing beliefs that regulate your
emotions, your bodily condition and your physical experience.
Examine the conflicts. Invisible beliefs will appear that unite those
seemingly diverse attitudes. Invisible beliefs are simply those of
which you are fully aware but prefer to ignore, because they
represent areas of strife which you have not been willing to handle
thus far. They are quite available once you are determined to
examine the complete contents of your conscious mind.
If this strikes you as too intellectual a method, then you can also work
backward from your emotions to your beliefs. In any case, regardless
of which method you choose, one will lead you to the other. Both
approaches require honesty with yourself, and a firm encounter with
the mental, psychic and emotional aspects of your current reality.
…you must accept the validity of your feelings while realizing that
they are about certain issues or conditions, and not necessarily
factual statements of your reality. "I feel that I am a poor mother," or,
"I feel that I am a failure." These are emotional statements and
should be accepted as such. You are to understand, however, that
while feelings have their own integrity as emotions, they are not
statements of fact. You might be an excellent mother while feeling
very inadequate. You may be most successful in reaching your goals
while still thinking yourself a failure.
By recognizing these differences and honestly following the feelings

through-in other words, by riding the emotions-you will be led to the
beliefs behind them. A series of self-revelations will inevitably result,
each leading you to further creative psychological activity. At each
stage you will be closer to the reality of your experience than you
have ever been.
The conscious mind will benefit greatly as it becomes more and more
aware of its directing influence upon events. It will no longer fear the
emotions, or the body, as threatening or unpredictable, but sense the
greater unity in which it is involved.
The emotions will not feel like stepchildren, with only the best-
dressed being admitted. They will not need to cry out for expression,
for they will be fully admitted as members of the family of self. Now,
again, some of you will say that your trouble is that you are too
emotional, too sensitive. You may believe that you are too easily
swayed. In such cases you are afraid of your emotions. You think
their powers so strong that all reason can be drowned within them.
No matter how open it may seem that you are, you will nevertheless
accept certain emotions that you think of as safe, and ignore others,
or stop them at particular points, because you are afraid of following
them further. This behavior will follow your beliefs, of course.
Trusting The Emotions

The Nature Of Personal Reality, Session 644, 10:37
Each individual must examine his or her individual beliefs, or begin

with feelings which will inevitably lead to them. In this area, as in all
others, those of you who are proficient verbally might use the method
of writing. Either write down your beliefs as they come to you, or
make a list of your intellectual and emotional assumptions. You may
find that they are quite different.
If you have a physical symptom, do not run away from it. Feel its
reality in your body. Let the emotions follow freely. These will lead
you, if you allow them to flow, to the beliefs that cause the difficulty.
They will take you through many aspects of your own reality that you
must face and explore. These methods release your withheld natural
aggressiveness. You may feel that you are swamped by emotion, but
trust it - again, it is the emotion of your being, and it arouses your own
creativity. Followed, it will seek the answers to your problems.
Ruburt in his Dialogues has an excellent example, in the way in which

he allowed his feeling to arise, though he was initially frightened of
them. Everyone cannot write poetry, but each person is creative in his
or her own way, an can follow the emotions as Ruburt did whether or
not a poem results.
He will know the passage to which I refer. Use it. (See book)
You must realize that your conscious mind is competent, its ideas
pertinent, and that your own beliefs affect and form your body and
experience.
Getting At Bridge Beliefs And Invisible Beliefs
As you examine the contents of your conscious mind, it may seem to

you that you hold so many different beliefs at different times that you
cannot correlate them. You will find a grouping of core beliefs about
which others gather.
If you think of these as planets, then your other ideas orbit around
them. There may be some "invisible beliefs," and there may be one or
two invisible core beliefs. These, following the analogy, would be
hidden behind the brighter, more obvious "planets," and yet would
show their presence through their effects upon your relationships with
all of the other visible core beliefs in your "planetary system."
Questions you cannot seem to answer as you study your own ideas,
for example, may lead you to suspect the existence of such invisible
core beliefs. Let me emphasize that they are consciously available.
You can find them through approaches mentioned earlier, working
from your feelings or by beginning with beliefs that become most
readily available.
This subject leads to what I call bridge beliefs…. As you examine

your ideas you will discover that even some apparently contradictory
ones have similarities, and these resemblances may be used to
bridge those gaps between beliefs-even those that seem to be the
most diverse. Because you are the individual who holds the beliefs
you will stamp them, so to speak, with certain characteristics that you
will recognize. These aspects will themselves emerge as bridge
beliefs. They contain great motion and energy. When you discover
what they are, you will find a point of unity within yourself from which
you can, with some detachment, view your system of beliefs.
The emotions connected with these bridge beliefs may indeed

surprise you, but standing upon such unifying structures you are also
free to let the emotional flow sweep past, feeling it, but aware for the
first time, perhaps, of the origin of those feelings in your beliefs, and
no longer afraid of being swept away by them.
It is impossible to tell you of the emotional reality of such an
experience. You will have to discover it for yourself. Such bridge
beliefs often allow you to perceive the "invisible" beliefs mentioned
earlier this evening, and these can appear to you as a revelation. On
second thought, however, you will realize that another belief blocked
that one from your view, but that you were always aware of it; and
that in a strange way it was also invisible because you took it for
granted. You did not consider it a belief about reality but reality itself,
and never questioned it.
Andrea never doubted the "fact" that life was more difficult for a
woman than a man. (See the 643rd session.) When she examined her
beliefs this escaped her. The invisible belief, however, affected her
behavior and experience. Now she understands it and can deal with it
as belief, and not as a condition of reality over which she has no
control.
Bridge beliefs may become available to you in the dream state. If so,
the conscious knowledge may appear suddenly in the middle of your
waking day. A reconciliation will be felt within the self following such a
conscious understanding, though the dream itself may not be
consciously remembered. In the dream various symbols may be
used. Each person will vary in this regard. When such dreams are
remembered, however, individual symbols, such as crossing a river
safely or an ocean, or bridging a gap or an abyss, are often involved.
At such times there can also be strong emotional content, as of finally

triumphing over psychological chaos, or even rising from the dead.
You can suggest to yourself the emergence of such bridge beliefs.
The conscious idea itself represents a statement of intent. Various
core beliefs, not well assimilated, will give you conflicting self-images.
Now there is a difference between freely experimenting with and
enjoying various styles of dress, attitudes and behavior-and finding
yourself "lost" in a compulsion to change your appearance, attitude
and behavior. The latter usually involves contrary core beliefs that are
alternately pulling you one way and then the other.
Usually exaggerated opposing emotions will also be apparent. Once

you understand this, it is not difficult to look at your beliefs to identify
these, and to find a bridge to unite the seeming contradictions.
Altering Sleep Patterns
As mentioned in Seth Speaks, my earlier book, great distinctions are

made between your waking and sleeping states. (See the 532nd
session in Chapter Eight of that book.) They are neatly divided, with
little effort really made to relate the two. Many of you will not find it
practical to alter your sleeping hours because of work commitments.
Some of you will be able to do so, however, those of you who are
really interested in this endeavor can at least achieve some variation,
on occasion, that will allow you to connect your sleeping and waking
activities with far greater effectiveness.
Those of you who are able will discover that a somewhat altered
arrangement will work greatly to your advantage. I suggest a six-hour
sleeping block of time at one session, and no more. If you still feel the
need for a greater amount of rest, then a two-hour-at-the-most nap
can be added.
Many will find that a five-hour steady sleeping period is quite

sufficient, with a nap required. A four-hour block is ideal, however,
reinforced by whatever nap feels natural.
In such circumstances, there are not the great artificial divisions

created between the two states of consciousness. The conscious
mind is better able to remember and assimilate its dreaming
experience, and in dreams the self can use its waking experience
more efficiently.
Often in the aged you find such frameworks coming into being
naturally, but those who awaken spontaneously after four hours
consider themselves insomniacs because of their beliefs, and cannot
utilize their experience properly. Both the conscious and unconscious
would operate far more effectively, however, under an abbreviated
sleeping program, and for those involved in "creative" endeavors this
kind of schedule would bring greater intuition and applied knowledge.
Individuals following such natural behavior would feel much greater

stability in themselves. Within the general patterns I have mentioned,
each will, of course, find his or her own particular rhythm, and some
experimentation might be necessary until you learn the maximum
balances. But the flow of vitality would be heightened.
It is true that the patterns will have their own flow at certain points in
your life. Following your own rhythm, longer or shorter periods will
naturally ensue. Your consciousness as you think of it will be
expanded through such practices. Generally speaking, eight-hour
sleep periods, or longer ones, are not beneficial, nor in larger terms
are they natural for the race.
There is a give-and-take chemical reaction, or rather chemical

rhythms of reactions, that are far more effective in the shorter sleep
periods. Many of you sleep through periods that should be those of
your greatest creativity and alertness, in which the conscious and
unconscious are most beautifully focused and at one. The conscious
mind is often drugged with sleep just when it could be deriving is
greatest benefits from the unconscious, and be able to poise most
meaningfully in the reality that you know. In these instances the
beauty and illumination of your dream state can be clear in the
conscious mind, and used to enrich your physical life. Contrast in
your experience will appear to you in their united clarity.
Concentrate On Subordinate Abilities: A Point Of Power

Exercise
Cellular memory can be changed at any point. Present beliefs can

insert into the past new memory, both psychologically and physically.
The future is in no way predetermined in basic levels. This does not
mean that the future cannot be predicted sometimes, for in practical
terms you will often continue with certain lines of probability which
can be seen "ahead of time."
Such predictions can affect the probabilities, of course, and reinforce

a present line of belief….
You rule your experiences from the focal point of your present, where
your beliefs directly intercept with the body and the physical world on
the one hand, and the invisible world from which you draw your
energy and strength on the other. This applies to individuals,
societies, races and nations, and to sociological, biological and
psychic activities.
In daily practical experience, try to concentrate for awhile upon

seemingly subordinate abilities, ones you think of as latent. If you do
so consistently, using your imagination and will, then those abilities
will become prominent in your present. The current beliefs will
reprogram and alter past experience. It is not simply that past,
forgotten, unconsciously perceived events will be put together in a
new way and organized under a new heading, but that in that past
(now not perceivable), the entire bodily response to seemingly past
events will change.
Your desire or belief will literally be reaching back into time, teaching
the nerves new tricks. Definite reorganizations in that past will occur
in your present, allowing you to behave in entirely new fashions.
Learned behavior therefore alters not only present and future but also
past conduct. Your power as a rational consciousness focused in the
present provides you with opportunities for creativity that you are but
vaguely learning to understand. As you do learn, you will
automatically begin to appreciate the multidimensional nature of not
only your own species but of others as well. 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 past.
Drawing Upon Probable Abilities And Events

Nature Of Personal Reality, Session 655, 10:47
… Since your conscious beliefs determine those unconscious

functions that bring about your personal experience, your first step is
to enlarge those beliefs.
The concepts given in this book should have already helped you to
do that to some extent. Within your own subjective reality are traces
of all those roads not taken, those abilities not used. You may think of
yourself as primarily a parent, or mainly in terms of your job or
profession. As much as possible, for now, forget the normal familiar
light in which you see yourself, and consider your identity.
Write down or enumerate all of your known physical and mental
abilities, whether they have been developed or not, and all of those
inclinations toward particular activities - even those only remotely
considered - as well as those that have come at all vividly to mind.
These represent the varied and probable characteristics from which
you have chosen to activate your particular main interest. Out of
these attributes, therefore, you choose what you now consider to be
your hard-bed reality.
Any of those directions, followed, can enrich the existence that you
know, and in turn open up other probabilities that now escape you.
The main image of yourself that you have held has, to a large extent,
also closed your mind to these other probable interests and
identifications. If you think in terms of a multidimensional self, then
you will realize that you have many more avenues open to expression
and fulfillment than you have been using. These probable
achievements will lie latent unless you consciously decide to bring
them into being.
Whatever talents you sense you have can be developed only if you
determine to do so. The simple act of decision will then activate the
unconscious mechanisms. You, as a personality, regardless of your
health, wealth or circumstances, have a rich variety of probable
experience from which to choose. Consciously you must realize this
and seize the direction for your own life. Even if you say, "I will go
along with all life offers," you are making a conscious decision. If you
say, "I am powerless to direct my life," you are also making a
deliberate choice-and in that case a limited one.
The path of experience is nowhere settled. There is no one road that

does not have avenues to another. There are deep veins of probable
actions ever available to you at any given time. Your imagination can
be of great value, allowing you to open yourself to such courses; you
can then use it to help you bring these into being.
If you are poor, you chose that reality from many probable ones that
did not involve poverty-and that are still open. If you chose illness,
again there is a probable reality ready for initiation in which you
choose health. If you are lonely there are probable friends you
refused to meet in the past, but are readily available.
In your mind, therefore, see those probable abilities or events taking

place. As you do, the intensity of your desire brings them into your
experience. There are no boundaries, again, set about the self. There
are literally many other probable yous. You can draw upon their
abilities, as in their own way they call upon your own, for you are all
intimately connected.
You must realize that you are indeed a probable you. Your
experience is the result of beliefs. Your neuronal structure
necessitates a certain focus so that other experiences counter to your
conscious assumptions remain probable or latent. Alter the beliefs
and any probable self can, within certain limitations, be actualized.
Probabilities, The Past And Future, And The Point Of Power

You can change the picture of your life at any time if only you realize
that it is simply the one portrait of yourself that you have created from
an unlimited amount of probable ones. The peculiar aspect of your
own probable portraits will still be characteristic of you, and no other.
The abilities, strengths and variants that you may want to actualize
are already latent, in your terms, and at your disposal. Suppose that
you are unhealthy and desire health. If you understand the nature of
probabilities, you will not need to pretend to ignore the present
situation. You will recognize it instead as a probable reality that you
have physically materialized. Taking that for granted, you will then
begin the process necessary to bring a different probability into
physical experience.
You will do this by concentrating upon what you want, but feeling no
conflict between that and what you have, because one will not
contradict the other; each will be seen as a reflection of belief in daily
life. As it took some time to build up your present image with its
unhealthy aspects, so it may take time to change that picture. But
concentration upon the present unhealthy situation will only prolong it.
Each condition is as real or unreal as the other. Which you? Which
world? You have your choice, broadly, within certain frameworks that
you have chosen as part of your creaturehood. The past as you think
of it, and the subconscious, again as you think of it, have little to do
with your present experience outside of your beliefs about them. The
past contains for each of you some moments of joy, strength,
creativity, and splendor, as well a episodes of unhappiness, despair
perhaps, turmoil and cruelty. Your present convictions will act like a
magnet, activating all such past issues, happy and sad. You will
choose from your previous experience all of those events that
reinforce your conscious beliefs, and so ignore those that do not; the
latter may even seem to be nonexistent.
As mentioned in this book (in Chapter Four, for instance) the

emerging memories will then turn on the body mechanisms, merging
past and present in some kind of harmonious picture. This means
that the pieces will fit together whether they are joyful or not.
This joining of the past and present, in that context, predisposes you
to similar future events, for you have geared yourself for them.
Change now quite practically alters both the past and the future. For
you, because of your neurological organization, the present is
obviously the only point from which past and future can be changed,
or when action becomes effected.
I am not speaking symbolically. In the most intimate of terms, your

past and future are modified by your present reactions. Alterations
occur within the body. Circuits within the nervous system are
changed, and energies that you do not understand seek out new
connections on much deeper levels far beyond consciousness.
Your present beliefs govern the actualization of events. Creativity and

experience are being formed moment by moment by each individual.
You must understand that your present is the point at which flesh and
matter meet with the spirit. Therefore the present is your point of
power in your current lifetime, as you think of it. If you assign greater
force to the past, then you will feel ineffective and deny yourself your
own energy.
For an exercise, sit with your eyes wide open, looking about you, and
realize that this moment represents the point of your power, through
which you can affect both past and future events.
The present seen before you, with its intimate physical experience, is
the result of action in other such presents. Do not be intimidated
therefore by the past and the future. There is no need at all for
undesirable aspects of your contemporary reality to be projected into
the future, unless you use the power of the present to do so. If you
learn to get hold of this feeling of power now, you can use it most
effectively to alter your life situation in whatever way you choose -
again, within those limitations set by your creature hood.
…the point of power is the present, and from that moment you
choose which you, and which world. The experience of a country is
the cumulative result of the choice of each individual in it, so as you
choose your own circumstances you affect each other person within
your country and your world.
Restructuring The Past, Acting Symbolically On Beliefs

To rid yourself of annoying restrictions then, my dear friend, you

repattern your past from the present. Whatever your circumstances,
you use the past as a rich source, looking through it for your
successes, restructuring it. When you search it looking for what went
wrong, then you become blind to what was right, in those terms, so
that the past only mirrors the shortcomings that now face you….
As foolish as it may sound, you should give some money away, or in

what ever manner that suits you act as if you did have more money
than you physically have. You must respond to your new beliefs, so
that neurologically the message gets across.
You perform habitually in certain manners as a result of your beliefs.

Now if you willfully change some of those habits then you are also
getting the message across. The initiative must come from you, and
in the present. In a very real manner of speaking, this means
changing your viewpoint, that particular perspective with which you
view your past and present and imagine your future.
You must look within yourself for evidences of what you want in terms
of positive experience. Examine your past with that in mind. Imagine
your future from the point of power in the present. In such a way at
least you are not using the past to reinforce your limitations, or
projecting them into the future. It is only natural to contrast what you
want with what you have, and it is very easy to become discouraged
in so doing, but looking for errors in the past will not help you. A
correctly utilized five-minute period can be of great benefit, however.
In this period concentrate upon the fact that the point of power is now.
Feel and dwell upon the certainty that your emotional, spiritual and
psychic abilities are focused through the flesh, and for five minutes
only direct all of your attention toward what you want. Use
visualization or verbal thought-whatever comes most naturally to you;
but for that period do not concentrate upon any lacks, just upon your
desire.
Use all your energy and attention. Then forget about it. Do not check
to see how well it is working. Simply make sure that in that period
your intentions are clear. Then in one way or another, according to
your own individual situation, make one physical gesture or act that is
in line with your belief or desire. Behave physically, then, at least
once a day in a way that shows you have faith in what you are doing.
The act can be a very simple one. If you are lonely and feel
unwanted, it can merely involve smiling at someone else. If you are
poor, it can involve such a simple thing as buying an item you want
that cost two cents more than the one you would usually buy-acting
on the faith, even that feebly, that the two cents will somehow be
given to you or come into your experience; but acting as if you had
more than you do.
In health terms, it involves conducting yourself once a day as though

you were not sick in whatever way given you. But the belief in the
present, reinforced for five minutes, plus such a physical action, will
sometimes bring literally awesome results.
Such effects will occur however only if you cease looking into the past
"for things that went wrong," and stop reinforcing your negative
experience. These same principles can be used in any area in your
life, and in each you are choosing from a variety of probable events.
Changing Beliefs Through Hypnosis
What is behind reality? Is physical life a hallucination? Is there some

definable concrete reality, of which your own is a mere shadow?
Your reality is the result of a hallucination, if by this you mean that it is

the only picture shown by your senses. Physically, of course, your
existence is perceived through the senses. In that context corporeal
life is an entranced one, with the focus of attention largely
concentrated through the senses' belief in the reality of their
sensations. Yet that experience is the image that reality takes for you
now, and so in other terms earthly life is one version of reality-not
reality in its entirety, but a part of it. It is in itself an avenue through
which you perceive what reality is. In order to explore that
experience, you direct your attention to it and use all of your other
(nonphysical) abilities as corollaries, adjuncts, additions. You
hypnotize your very nerves, and the cells within your body, for they
will react as you expect them to react, and the beliefs of your
conscious mind are followed in degree by all portions of the self down
to the smallest atom and molecule. The large events in your life, your
interactions with others, including the habitual workings of the most
minute physical events within your body-all of this follows your
conscious beliefs.
Again, if you are ill you may say, "I did not want to be sick," or if you
are poor, "I did not want to be poor," or if you are unloved, "I did not
want to be lonely." Yet for your own reasons you began to believe in
illness more than health, in poverty more than abundance, in
loneliness more than affection.
You may have accepted some of these ideas from your parents.
Their effects may have surrounded you, or you may have switched
beliefs in one particular area of your life; but each can be changed if
you utilized the power of action in the present. I am not saying that
every one of you must or should be healthy, wealthy and wise. I am
only addressing those here now who have effects in their lives with
which they are dissatisfied. In one manner of speaking, then, the
suggestions you give yourselves constantly operate as beliefs that
are reflected in your experience.
Some of you are simply mentally lazy. You do not consciously
examine the data you receive. Many who make a practice of
"denying" negative suggestions from others, actually do so because
they are so fully convinced that the powers of negative beliefs is
stronger than that of beneficial ones.
Each of you will find habitual thought patterns in your own life backed
up by resulting action-conditional behavior as it were-by which you
continually reinforce negative aspects, concentrate upon them to the
exclusion of conflicting data, and so bring them into experience
through natural hypnosis.
Many people assign great power to a hypnotist, yet whenever you

have the undivided attention of another, you act as a hypnotist to a
large degree.
When ever you have your own undivided attention you act as
hypnotist and subject simultaneously. You give yourselves post-
hypnotic suggestions all the time, particularly when you project
present conditions into the future. I want to impress upon you the fact
that all of this simply follows the natural functions of the mind, and so
to dispel any ideas you have about the "magical" aspects of hypnosis.
For five or ten minutes a day at the most, then, use natural hypnosis
as a method of accepting desired new beliefs. During that period
concentrate your attention as vividly as possible upon one simple
statement. Repeat it over and over while focusing upon it for this
time. Try to feel the statement in whatever way possible-that is do not
allow distractions, but if your mind insists upon running about then
channel its images in line with your declarations.
The repetition, verbally and mentally, is important because it activates

patterns and reflects them. Do not strain. This exercise should not be
done along with the point of power exercise given earlier. (See the
657th session in Chapter Fifteen or exercise #21.) One should not run
into the other, but should be carried out on separate occasions during
the day.
During the period, however, do remember that you are using the
present as a moment of power to insert new beliefs, and that these
will indeed be materialized. When the exercise is finished do not
dwell on it. Put it from your mind. You will have utilized natural
hypnosis in a concentrated form.
You may have to experiment some for the proper wording of your
message, but three days at the very least are necessary before you
can tell, through results, how effective it has been. A change of
wording may in order. When you feel right about the statement, then
continue it. Your attention should be completely relaxed otherwise, for
the time needed. You may experience spectacular results at once.
But continue the exercise even if this happens.
Inner channels must become repatterned. There will be a feel to this

that will serve as your own individual guideline. There is no need to
continue the practice over ten minutes. In fact, many will find that
difficult to do. Spending a longer period of time simply reinforces the
idea of problems involved.
A Hypnosis Belief Script

In those areas in which you are dissatisfied, you fell that you are
powerless, or that your will is paralyzed, or that conditions continue
despite what you think of as your intent. Yet if you pay attention to
your own conscious thoughts, you will find that you are concentrating
upon precisely those negative aspects that so appall you. You are
hypnotizing yourself quite effectively and so reinforcing the situation.
You may say, horrified, "What can I do? I am hypnotizing myself into
my overweight condition (or my loneliness, or my poor health)." Yet in
other facets of your life you may be hypnotizing yourself into wealth,
accomplishment, satisfaction - and here you do not complain. The
same issues are involved. The same principles are operating. In
those positive life situations you are certain of your initiative. There is
no doubt. Your beliefs become reality.
Now: In the unsatisfactory aspects, you must understand this: there is

no doubt. You are utterly convinced that you are sick, or poor, or
lonely, or spiritually opaque, or unhappy.
The results, then, as easily and effortlessly follow. Natural hypnosis,
in the terms given here, operates as well in one case as in the other.
What should you do, then? First of all, you must realize that you are
the hypnotist. You must seize the initiative as you have in other
positive aspects of your life. Whatever the superficial reasons for your
beliefs, you must say:
For a certain amount of time I will momentarily suspend what I

believe in this area, and willfully accept the belief I want. I will pretend
that I am under hypnosis, with myself as hypnotist and subject. For
that time desire and belief will be one. There will be no conflict
because I do this willingly. For this period I will completely alter my
old beliefs. Even though I sit quietly, in my mind I will act as if the
belief I want were completely mine.
At this point do not think of the future, but only of the present. If you
are overweight, insert the weight that you think is ideal for you while
following this exercise. Imagine that you are healthy if you have a
belief that you are not. If you are lonely, believe that you are filled
with the feeling of companionship instead. Realize that you are
exerting your initiative to imagine such situations. Use visual data, or
words - whatever is most natural to you. And again, no more than ten
minutes is required.
If you do this faithfully, within a month you will find the new conditions
materializing in your experience. Your neurological structure will
respond automatically. The unconscious will be aroused, bringing its
great power to bear, bringing you the new results. Do not try to
overdo this, to go through the entire day worrying about beliefs, for
example. This can only cause you to contrast what you have with
what you want.
Forget the exercise when it is completed. You will find yourself with
impulses that arrive with these newly inserted beliefs, and then it is
up to you to act on these and not ignore them.
The initiative must be yours. You will never know unless you try the
exercise.
Conscious Creation, The Point Of Power, And Emotions
In your terms, you are in a state of evolution as a species. Part of this

experience includes a natural fascination with exterior events. You
are developing properties of consciousness that are in their own way
uniquely your own, as your environment is. A strong focus is a
necessary counterpart, since you are involved in a learning process
in which all elements inherent in the situation will be explored.
Throughout this venture however you are, in the dream state, always
kept in touch with the realities from which your physical experience
springs. As you understand time, you will eventually be able to merge
your inner comprehension with your physical self, and form your
world on a conscious basis. Such manuscripts as mine are meant to
help you do precisely that.
The more involved you become with complicated physical organisms,

the more energy you project outward and the more entranced you
become with "exterior" manifestations. In itself this was - and is - a
natural learning method. Your inner life is being translated into
corporeal reality. As you perceive it and relate to it, you begin to
question first its origin and then its meaning.
This leads you back into yourself and to a recognition of your own
abilities. What you now create unconsciously your species will create
consciously. The infinite abilities of consciousness become
individualized, focused into a particular reality which then becomes
expanded. Your own temporal creations add to the abilities with
which you made them. You learn through your creations. Mind, as
physically directed, utilizes the greatest sources of power and energy
along with unlimited aspects of creativity, so that each physical day is
indeed absolutely unique. You cannot expect any portion of your
environment to remain static, therefore, and the condition of your
body is constantly in a state of flux and change.
Your social structure, from the largest metropolis to the smallest farm,
from the wealthiest areas to the poorest ghettos, from monasteries to
the prisons, reflects the inner situation of the individual self and the
personal beliefs that each of you hold.
If you utilize the point of power properly (as described in the 657th
session in Chapter Fifteen), you will feel the nonphysical energy
translated into effective personal power through your intersection with
flesh. You will be able to use that power consciously, with purpose, to
change your personal experience and so to change the social
framework at least partially. Such exercises aid in the evolution of
your consciousness, and will also serve you in fashions you may not
suspect. The acquiescence to your own power will automatically flow
through your own experience, activating your dream life as well as
providing additional helpful impetus to your waking reality. You will no
longer need to transfer your sense of power to others. All of the
exercises given earlier in this book are prerequisites, however: they
are necessary so that you understand how the point of power is to be
used. The recognition of personal feelings and working through of
beliefs-all of this will expand your understanding of yourself.
If you hate a parent, for example, you cannot use the point of power
to tell yourself that you love the parent instead. The earlier exercises
will have helped you understand the reasons for the hate.
You cannot use the point of power to gain control over another, for
your own beliefs will automatically trap you. In any case you must be
aware of your own power and believe you are worthy of it. Many of
the previous chapters in this book have been written precisely to
convince you of your own worth. You have been told to experience
your own feelings and not to deny them, so you are not to use the
point of power as an attempt to refute the reality of your emotions at
any given time.
As you understand the nature of natural hypnosis, you will no longer

feel the need to generate new negative feelings. Your load of
inhibitions will recede. As you trust yourself more you will naturally
express your feelings, and their suppression will not bring about
explosive reactions any more. They will come and go. The channel of
power will be opened more clearly. Attention to your stream of
consciousness is highly important. This alone will help you see in
what areas you are denying the impulses or giving yourself directions
that lead to powerlessness.
The point of power exercise is meant to familiarize you with your own
natural energy and ability to direct it. The natural hypnosis exercise
allows you greater effectiveness in directing and focusing that power.
Each of you must work from the point of your own reality. There is no
other way. Period. If you feel filled with rage, then do not say, "I am
filled with peace," and expect results. You will only be blanketing your
feelings and inhibiting your energy and power. If you are furious, then
beat a pillow and experience the rage, but without violence to
another. Work it through until you are physically exhausted. If you do
this honestly, the reasons for the fury will come to you, and they will
often be quite obvious. You simply did not want to face them.
In almost all cases [of this kind], your feelings will represent a sense
of powerlessness on your part, where you delegated strength to a
situation or an individual and felt your effort futile in contrast. Then
use the point of power and feel the energy of your own being surge
through your experience. The knowledge of your own power releases
you from your fears, and hence all rage.
Reincarnation And Imagination

Each day therefore is an incarnation, so to speak, but not only

symbolically - for through soul's intersection with the flesh, each self
mirrors daily its "reincarnational" or simultaneous selves.
The same applies on what you may think of as a more practical level,
in that each day also holds within it the answers to current problems.
If your are aware of a particular problem (challenge), therefore, you
can be assured that its solution is as much there and with you as the
problem is. The solution is simply the problem's other side, upon
which you may not be focusing. There will even be clear clues as to
the proper direction for you to take-these will already be within your
experience, but unrecognized because you are concentrating so
upon the problem.
This applies to any kind of dilemma.

Although you are an individual and with free will, you are also part of
another you. You simply do not identify with your greater self now.
You have your own unique characteristics. Your greater being also
possesses its own originality, yet there will be what you may think of
as a family resemblance, and so overall you and your other self often
choose the same kind of challenges, if in dissimilar ways.
In their own ways, other portions of your multidimensional being are

involved in experiences, then, somewhat similar to your own, though
on the outside the situation may be completely different. Their
progress lies latent within the window of the moment point-the
moment point simply being your current intersection with the reality
that you know.
The adventures of your simultaneous selves, again, appear as traces

in your own consciousness, as ideas or daydreams or disconnected
images, or sometimes even is sudden intuitions. They can be drawn
upon, drawn out, to help you understand current problems.
Now: This does not mean that you will necessarily have a flood of
reincarnational information, instant intuitive recognition of "past" lives,
or experience any such intrusive data. It does mean that in your own
life such information automatically appears in intimate ways, but
couched within the framework of your own comprehensions, even
passing unobtrusively through your conscious thoughts.
Many artists unknowingly paint portraits of their simultaneous selves.

Many mothers find themselves feeling younger than their offspring at
times, or about to call some of their children by different names.
Impulses to try activities you have not tried before may indeed be
messages from other portions of your own being.
There is simply no time as you think of it, only a present in which all
things occur. There are miracles of condensed information within the
cells themselves that scientists cannot perceive, for they exist outside
the scope of physical instruments. In their own way, cellular
comprehension includes a vast recognition of probabilities in your
terms, and works with flashing manipulations in which these
probabilities are contended with and responded to-and therefore
altered.
The physically attuned conscious mind in your now cannot handle
those staggering probabilities while maintaining a sense of identity,
yet there are conscious traces within your daily thoughts that are
psychological representations of such knowledge.
Often you do not trust your imagination, considering that it deals with
phenomena that cannot be called fact. Therefore you artificially form
a situation in which overall traces must be made. If you are too
imaginative, for example, you may not be able to adequately deal
with physical life. This applies only in the cultural media in which you
presently operate, however. Originally, and in your terms of time, it
was precisely the imagination that in its own way set you apart from
other creatures, enabling you to form realities in your mind that you
could "later" exteriorize.
Because you now distrust the imagination so, you do not understand
the great clues it gives you, both in terms of problem solving and
creative expression. Many quite valid reincarnational memories come
as imaginings, but you do not trust them. A good percentage of your
problems can be worked out rather easily through the use of
imagination.
Often you inadvertently use it to prolong "negative" circumstances, as

you think of all the things that you could do wrong. Yet you can
employ it very constructively, altering past, present and future. To do
so in your present, freely imagine a situation in which you are happy.
To begin with your imaginings may seem foolish. If you are elderly,
poor and lonely, it may seem highly ludicrous to think of yourself as
twenty, wealthy, and surrounded by friends and admirers.
Indeed, if after such an enjoyable exercise you look about you and
compare what you have envisioned with what you have, then you
may feel worse than before. You are to realize that this imaginative
world does exist-but not in the world of facts that you know. To some
extent, however, according to your freedom within it, such an
exercise will automatically rejuvenate your body, mind and spirit, and
begin to draw to you whatever equivalent is possible for you within
the world of facts that you know.
Using age as an example now, it may seem that you are a given age,
that within your subjective experience it must be paramount, that
regardless of your age you are to some extent closed off from the
experiences of being any other age. In some simultaneous
existences you are very young, however, and in others very old.
Some of your physical cells are brand new, so to speak-the
regeneration of fresh life is physically within you;, in your terms this is
true not only until your death but even after it, when your hair and
nails can still grow. Identify then with the constantly new energy alive
within you in this now of your being and realize that on all levels you
are biologically connected with that greater identity that is your own.
Dreams, Unconscious Knowledge, And Problem Solving

Your moods and emotions have a greater mobility in the dream state.
You may feel rooted like a tree at one moment and in the next
experience yourself as a beautiful peacock, in which case you will
perceive the tree change into the bird.
Disconnected from their usual daily attention to physical events, your

emotions will often form their own landscapes, utilizing dreams as
their creative medium. I have explained the great correlation that
exists between your feelings and beliefs and physical conditions such
as weather. (See Chapter Eighteen.) In somewhat the same way, you
have a part to play individually in the creation of the dream
landscape. It is also the result of your feelings and beliefs on a
different level, and while it is not perceivable in physical terms-laid out
with its mountains and continents as your planet is, to be examined
by your instruments - it exists in terms quite as valid.
This does not mean that dreams can be deciphered by the use of any
given [general] symbols. As you create and experience your daily life
through your personal feelings and beliefs, so the same applies to
dream reality.
There, however, your thoughts and feelings become "instantly" alive,

springing up one upon another, coming full-blown as it were. The
dream world exists in terms of energy also, of course, but simply at
ranges that are not physically obvious. Much of your interior creative
work and planning is done at this level. There must be some
differentiation between dream and waking experience just so you can
manipulate in the more narrowly focused daily life.
However, there is no great reason for the vast separation that now
exist between your waking and sleeping lives. As I mentioned earlier
(in the 652nd session in Chapter Thirteen, for instance), the division is
largely the result of your mass and private beliefs in the nature of
reality, and in the habits the race has acquired of separating
"objective" data from subjective.
When you are determined to manipulate your environment, then you

separate yourself from it. Since you are a part of it, this also leads
you to try to place yourself apart from your own subjective reality. It is
quite possible to take your normally conscious "I" into the dream
state, to your advantage. When you do this will see that the dreaming
"I" and the waking "I" are one, but operating in entirely different
environments. Therefore, you become familiar with the depths of
experience and knowledge unknown to you before. You acquire a
true flexibility and expanded awareness of your own being, and open
channels of communication between your waking and dreaming
realities. This means you are far better able to utilize unconscious
knowledge, and also to acquaint the unconscious with your present
physical situation.
Such a procedure can bring you in contact with wisdom you have
been denying yourself, help unify your entire life situation, and
release your energy for practical everyday purposes. Even the
decision to try such a venture is beneficial, since it automatically
presupposes a flexibility of attitude on the part of the conscious self.
If you are afraid of your dreams you are afraid of yourself.
As your present situation with all of its challenges, joys and problems
is contained in condensed form within each of your days, so the same
applies to your life. Each night's dreams then provide you with a rich
bed of creativity. Spread out before you in great profusion, you will
find not only any problems but their solutions.
Now, in physical terms it may take some time before your conscious
mind accepts or recognizes a diagnosis given in a dream. It may
come to you later in altered form as a hunch or sudden intuition, or an
urge for action. If you do not trust yourself you may ignore such
impetuses and not take advantage of the answers.
The enlightened conscious mind is always alert for such messages.

You can also steps go beyond into the dream condition itself,
requesting certain dreams, certain solutions, and therefore shortening
the time, so to speak, that may be involved otherwise.
Self-Affirmation And The Spacious Mind

Affirmation then means the loving acceptance of your own unique

individuality. It may involve denial, where you refuse to accept the
visions and dogmas of others in order to more clearly perceive and
form your own.
Such affirmation will lead you to your own inner discoveries, and
attract from the deepest portions of your being the particular kind of
information, experience, or perception that you need. The loving
acceptance of yourself will allow you to ride through beliefs as you
would through to changing characteristics of a countryside. The more
a belief encourages you to use your abilities and vitality, then the
more affirmative it is….
Now: Ruburt's mind is far more aware of other realities than his brain
is, but he consciously believes in the greater reality of himself and his
perceptions. The brain also possesses this belief, and so opens itself
as much as possible to the mind's activities. Because it does, certain
intuitive psychic and "intellectually spacious" experiences can be
physically felt to some extent. The knowledge is interpreted through
alterations on body sensation, which give it an important corporeal
validity. In such cases high mental and psychic activity is reflected in
the body's experience, providing a beneficial unity.
Here I have used the term "spacious" for workings of the mind and
intuitions that exist in what you might call an accelerated range of
action. The normal intellect, oriented so precisely by beliefs to the
inevitability of a one-focused kind of perception, is limited.
A certain kind of affirmation of self allows the brain to tune into these
more spacious methods of perception that are natural characteristics
of the mind. There are very good reasons why this type of assertion
must first occur. The brain (and the entire physical system) is meant
to insure your bodily survival and to follow your conscious beliefs
about reality. There is always a harmonious unifying connection
between your beliefs and activities. Some people feel utterly
confident in certain areas and are timorous in others. Some aspects
of life may be ignored or even refuted for a time while others are
focused upon. The individual will very cleverly and shrewdly go ahead
in those areas in which he or she feels safe, often when in the
process of altering beliefs. You will not use your spacious mind until
you affirm its reality within yourself, and until you are ready to handle
the additional data which will then become consciously available to
one extent or another. But the spacious mind operates through your
creaturehood; in your terms it represents latent abilities of
consciousness that can be more or less normal functions.
There are built-in biological structures that are activated for the
reception of such messages, and they have always been a part of
your physical nature as a species. They will not be triggered on a
personal basis until your own beliefs allow you to perceive the
multidimensional layers of your own experience - or at least to accept
the possibilities.
Self-Worth, Comparisons, And Uniqueness

The Nature of Personal Reality, Session 676
Use your conscious mind and its logic. If you discover that you feel
unworthy, then do not simply try to apply a more positive belief over
that one. Instead discover the reasons for your first belief. If you have
not already done so, write down your feelings about yourself. Be
perfectly honest. What would you say if someone else came to you
with the same reasons?
Examine what you have written. Realize that a set of beliefs is
involved. There is a difference between believing that you are
unworthy and bring unworthy in fact.
Then write a list of your abilities and accomplishments. These should

include such issues as getting along well with others, being attractive,
being good with plants or animals, being a good carpenter or cook.
Any talent of achievement should be noted as honestly as you
recorded the most minute "defects" earlier.
There is no human being alive who does not have creative abilities in
his or her own way, achievements and excellent characteristics, so if
you follow these instructions you will find out that you are indeed a
worthy individual.
When you catch yourself falling into a mood in which you feel inferior,
look at your second list, of abilities and accomplishments. Then use
the positive suggestion in your own worth, backed up by your own
personal self-examination. You may say, "But I know I have great
abilities that I am not using.
When I compare myself to others, then I fall far short. What difference
does it make if I have a few mundane achievements that are shared
by many others, that are in no way unique? Surely my destiny
involves more than that. I have yearnings that I cannot express.
In the first place you must understand that in your own uniqueness it
is futile to compare yourself to others, for in so doing you try to
emulate qualities that are theirs, and to that extent deny your own
miraculous being and vision. Once you begin comparing yourself to
others there is no end to it. You will always find someone more
talented than you are in some way, and so will continue to be
dissatisfied. Instead, through working with your own beliefs, take it for
granted that your life is important; begin with it and where you are. Do
not deride yourself because you have not reached some great ideal,
but start to use those talents that you have to the best of your ability,
knowing that in them lies your own individual fulfillment.
Any help that you give to others will come through the creative
utilization of your own characteristics and no one else's. Do not get
upset with yourself when you find yourself dwelling on negative
issues in your life. Instead, constructively ask yourself why you are
doing so. The answer will come to you.
Use the knowledge as a bridge. Let whatever emotions are involved

happen. If you do this honestly, feelings of self-worthlessness or
despondency will go through and vanish, changing of their own
accord. You may even find yourself impatient with the feelings
themselves, or even bored, and hence dismiss them. Do not tell
yourself automatically that they are wrong, however, and then try to
apply a "positive" belief like a band-aid.
Have a sense of humor about yourself - not a malicious one but a

kindly humorous regard for yourself. High seriousness is fine when it
comes naturally and is not forced. But it can become pompous if it is
prolonged.
If you allow yourself to be more and more aware of your own beliefs,
you can work with them. It is silly to try to fight what you think of as
negative beliefs, or to be frightened of them. They are not mysterious.
You may find that many served good purposes at one time, and that
they have simply been overemphasized. They may need to be
restructured rather than denied."
The Safe Universe And The Reckless Pursuit Of The Ideal

The Unknown Reality, Introductory Notes in Vol. II
Apropos of personal sessions Seth gave Jane and me, in which he

reiterates the importance of the individual and the pursuit of the ideal.
Seth initiated the following passages by talking to me about "the safe
universe" that each person can create, and live within. Although his
words were directed to me, they have a broad general application:
"In your mind you creatively envision the ideal - the sanity of some
future culture that, you hope, our work and [that of] others will bring
about. If not tomorrow, then sometime.
"When you thoroughly understand what is meant by the entire safe-

universe concept, then the physical, culture climate is seen as a
medium through which the ideal can be expressed. The ideal is
meaningless if it is not physically manifest to one degree or another.
The ideal seeks expression. In so doing, it often seems to change or
alter in ways that are not understood. Yet those distortions may be
the very openings that allow others to perceive.
"In a way, with [this] book and with your art, your purpose is the
expression of the ideal, and that expression must be physically
materialized, obviously. Your joy, your challenge, should be in the
manifestations of the ideal as you see it, whether or not you can in
your terms count the consequences or the impediments - whether or
not the expression comes to fulfillment in your terms - and even if it
seems to fall on ground on which it will not grow.
"As an artist alone your purpose is expression, which involves

disclosure, the difference between the ideal and the actual. Be
reckless in the expression of the ideal, and it will never betray you.
Treat it with kid gloves and you are in the middle of a battle.".
Probabilities In Memories
The Unknown Reality, Session 687
Take any remembered scene from your own past. Experience it as

clearly as possible imaginatively, but with the idea of its probable
extensions. Sometime, immediately or after a few tries, a particular
portion of the scene will become gray or shadowy. It is not a part of
the past that you know, but an intersection point where that past
served as an offshoot into a series of probabilities that you did not
follow.
Instead of a shadowy element, you yourself may feel unsubstantial -

"ghostly," as Ruburt did. Instead of any of those things, the imagined
dialogue - if there is any - may suddenly change from the dialogue
that you remember; or the entire scene and action may quickly alter.
Any of these occurrences can be hints that you are beginning to
glimpse the probable variations of the particular scene or action. It is,
however, the subjective feeling that is the important clue here, and
once you experience it there will be no doubt in your mind.
Some people will have little trouble with the exercise, and others will
need to exert persistence before finding any success at all. (Pause.)
This method is even more effective if you choose from your past a
scene in which a choice was involved that was important to YOU.
In such a case, begin imaginatively, following through with the other

decision or decisions that you might have made. At one point a
shadowy effect - grayness, or other characteristics just mentioned -
will occur. One or several of these may be involved, but again your
subjective feeling is the most important clue. Imagination may bring
you a clear picture, for example, that may then become fuzzy, and in
that case the blurred quality would be your hint of probable action.
Until you have tried the exercise and become fully acquainted with it,
you will not understand its effectiveness. You will know, for instance,
when the remembered event and imagination intersect with another
probability. Whether or not you have any great success, the exercise
will begin a neurological reorientation that will be most important if
you hope to glimpse realities that are outside of your present
neurologically accepted sense-reality.
This exercise is a mental and biological doorway that can expand

both your concepts of yourself and reality. There may be instances in
which it seems that little progress is made during the exercise itself.
During the day, however, having made an important decision in one
direction, you may begin to feel the reality of the opposite decision
and its ramifications. The exercise may also result in a different kind
of a dream, one that is recognized within the dream state, at least, as
an introduction to a probable reality. You deal directly with future
probabilities in the dream state in any case. (Pause.) For example, in
a series of dreams you may try out various solutions to a given
problem, and choose one of these. That choice becomes your
physical reality.
Your Earth God

The Unknown Reality, Session 691, 11:02
You each have your own earth god. The term may not be the best,
but it is meant to express that portion of you that is as yet
unexpressed in your terms - the idealized earth version of yourself,
which you are becoming. The idealized earth version is not meant to
mean a perfect self in flesh at all; instead, it represents a psychic
reality in which your own abilities fulfill themselves in relationship with
your earthly environment to the fullest extent possible, within the time
and place you have already chosen.
The earth-god portion of yourself attempts to direct you through

probabilities. Again, on deep biological levels beneath normal
consciousness, and on psychic levels above normal consciousness,
you are aware of the integrity of your being - but also of your great
connection, while living in flesh, with the natural environment of time
and space. The earth-god concept can be consciously used, but only
to your greatest advantage if you understand the purposes of your
conscious mind and its relationship with your biological nature.
The Dimensions Of Events

Take any incident that happens to you the day you read this page.
See the particular chosen event as one that came into your
experience from the vast bank of other probable events that could
have occurred.
Examine the event as you know it. Then try to trace its emergence
from the thread of your own past life as you understand it, and project
outward in your mind what other events might emerge from that one
to become action in your probable future. This exercise has another
part: When you have finished the procedure just given, then change
your viewpoint; see the event from the standpoint of someone else
who is also involved. No matter how private the experience seems,
someone else will have a connection with it. See the episode through
his or her eyes, then continue with the procedure just given, only
using this altered viewpoint.
No one can do this exercise for you, but the subjective results can be
most astonishing. Aspects of the event that did not appear before
may be suddenly apparent. The dimensions of the event will be
experienced more fully.
Probability Pictures
For the second exercise, take a photograph of yourself and place it

before you. The picture can be from the past or the present, but try to
see it as a snapshot of a self poised in perfect focus, emerging from
an underneath dimension in which other probable pictures could have
been taken. That self, you see, emerges triumphantly, unique and
unassailable in its own experience; yet in the features you see before
you - in this stance, posture, expression - there are also glimmerings,
tintings or shadings, that are echoes belonging to other probabilities.
Try to sense those.
Intersection Points In Probabilities

Take another photograph of yourself at a different age than the first

one you chose. Ask yourself simply: "Am I looking at the same
person?" How familiar or how strange is this second photograph?
How does it differ from the first one you picked this evening? What
similarities are there that unite both photographs in your mind? What
experiences did you have when each photograph was taken? What
ways did you think of following in one picture that were not followed in
the other one? Those directions were pursued. If they were not
pursued by the self you recognize, then they were by a self that is
probable in your terms. In your mind follow what directions that self
would have taken, as you think of such events. If you find a line of
development that you now wish you had pursued, but had not, then
think deeply about the ways in which those activities could now fit into
the framework of your officially accepted life. Such musings, with
desire - backed up by common sense - can bring about intersection
points in probabilities that cause a fresh realignment of the deep
elements of the psyche. In such ways probable events can be
attracted to your current living structure.
We have been speaking about probable men, and do intend to deal

more deeply with probable man [or woman], as that is applied to your
species. The events of the species begin with the individual, however.
All of the powers, abilities, and characteristics inherent in the species
are inherent in any individual member of it. Through understanding
your own unknown reality, therefore, you can learn much about the
unknown reality of the species.
A Picture Of A Human
Choose another photograph. I want you to look at this one somewhat

differently. This should also be a photograph of yourself. See this as
one picture of yourself as a representative of your species in a
particular space and time. Look at it as you might look at a
photograph of an animal in its environment. If the photograph shows
you in a room, for example, then think of the room as a peculiar kind
of environment, as natural as the woods. See your person’s picture in
this way: How does it merge or stand apart from the other elements in
the photograph? See those other elements as characteristics of the
image, view them as extended features that belong to you. If the
photograph is dark, for example, and shows shadows, then in this
exercise see those as belonging to the self in the picture.
Imaginatively, examine your image from the viewpoint of another

place in the photograph. See how the image can be seen as a part of
the overall pattern of the environment - the room or furniture, or yard
or whatever.
When you see a picture of an animal in its environment, you often

make connections that you do not make when you see a picture of a
human being in his or her environment. Yet each location is as
unique as the habitat of any animal - as private, as shared, as
significant in terms of the individual and the species of which that
individual is a part. Simply to stretch your imagination: When you look
at your photograph, imagine that you are a representative of a
species, caught there in just that particular pose, and that the frame
of the photograph represents, now, "a cage of time." You, from the
outside looking down at the photograph, are now outside of that cage
of time in which your specimen was placed. That specimen, that
individual, that you, represents not only yourself but one aspect of
your species. If you hold that feeling, then the element of time
becomes as real as any of the other objects within the photograph.
Though unseen, time is the frame.
Now: Look up. The picture, the photograph, is but one small object in
the entire range of your vision. You are not only outside yourself in
the photograph, but now it represents only a small portion of your
reality. Yet the photograph remains inviolate within its own
framework; you cannot alter the position of one object within it. If you
destroy the photograph itself, you can in no way destroy the reality
that was behind it. You cannot, for instance, kill the tree that may be
depicted in the picture.
The person within the photograph is beyond your reach. The you that
you are can make any changes you want to in your experience: You
can change probabilities for your own purposes, but you cannot
change the courses of other probable selves that have gone their
own ways. All probable selves are connected. They each influence
one another. There is a natural interaction, but no coercion. Each
probable self has its own free will and uniqueness. You can change
your own experience in the probability you know - which itself rides
upon infinite other probabilities. You can bring into your own
experience any number of probable events, but you cannot deny the
probable experience of another portion of your reality. That is, you
cannot annihilate it.
As you are looking at one photograph in your personal history, that

represents your emergence in this particular reality - or the reality that
was accepted as official at the time it was taken - so you are looking
at a picture of a representative of your species, caught in a particular
moment of probability. That species has as many offshoots and
developments as you have privately. As there are probable selves in
private terms, there are probable selves in terms of the species. As
you have your recognized, official personal past, so in your system of
actuality you have more or less accepted an official mass history (see
Note 2). Under examination, however, that history of the species
shows many gaps and discrepancies, and it leaves many questions
to be answered.
The Ancestral Land Of Time

In your terms, think of those ancestors in your family history. Now

think of yourself and your contemporary family. For this, try to
imagine time as being something like space. If your ancestors lived in
the 19th century, then think of that century as a place that exists as
surely as any portion of the earth that you know. See your own
century as another place. If you have children, imagine their
experience 50 years hence as still another place.
Now: Think of your ancestors, yourself, and your children as

members of one tribe, each journeying into different countries instead
of times. Culture is as real and natural as trees and rocks, so see the
various cultures of these three groups as natural environments of the
different places or countries; and imagine, then, each group exploring
the unique environment of the land into which they have journeyed.
Imagine further of course that these explorations occur at once, even
though communication may be faulty, so that each group has
difficulty communicating with the others. Imagine, however, that there
is a homeland from which our groups originally came. Each
expedition sends "letters" back home, commenting upon the
behavior, customs, environment, and history of the land in which it
finds itself.
These letters are written in an original native language that has little
to do with the acquired language that has been picked up in any
given country. (Pause, then humorously.) Mama and Papa, back at
the homestead, know where their children have gone, in other words;
they read with amusement, amazement, and wonder the
communications from their offspring. In this homespun analogy,
Mama and Papa send letters back - also in the native language to
their children. As time goes by, however, the children lose their
memories of their home tongue. Mama and Papa know that times are
like places or countries, but their children begin to forget this, too, and
so they grow to believe that they are far more separate from each
other than they actually are. They have "gone native" in a different
way. Mama and Papa understand. The children forgot that they can
move through time as easily as through space.
Give us a moment ... Remember, in this analogy the various children

represent your ancestors, yourself, and your own children. They are
exploring the land of time. Now in your physical world it is obvious
that nature grows more of itself. In the land of time, time also grows
more of itself. As you can climb trees, both up and down the

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Inner Consent, and Pre-sleep Suggestions

Suggestion is no more and no less than an inner willingness and

This is one of the reasons why health suggestions given immediately

You can indeed suggest to the subconscious that it carry on in such a

You may obviously also direct your subconscious to react only to

It will indeed be beneficial for you both to suggest to your

...suggestions should always be given before sleep, that the

Suggestion can shape dreams, and the dreams themselves then

Suggestion given before sleep will greatly add to your chances of

The Muscle-bound Ego, Dissociation, and Yoga

The ego, as I have said before, is extremely important. It is however

Nevertheless, the ego is the tool by which the hidden self

Now when the ego becomes overly concerned, it becomes overly

These fears do not belong to what you think of as the subconscious.

Your own subconscious is the fountain of your individuality and

Dissociation puts the power back where it belongs... Daily methods of

My affection for you is strong. If I speak heavy-handedly, it is because

Yoga and Self-Hypnosis for Relaxing the Ego and Body

Following Seth’s suggestions, Rob began doing a few simple yoga

"Good evening, Seth. What did you think of my performance last

"Very good, if you are referring to the hypnosis session. Your

Exploring Empty Spaces

Effects would seem to be evidence, and therefore when you probe

Your experience yesterday Joseph was an exercise of the inner

Experiencing an Idea Intuitively

Reach out to the idea intuitively. Do not be afraid of or reject

If you think you think you are in for a surprise.

Expanding the Tissue Capsule and Universe

The tissue capsule of which I have spoken earlier surrounds every

It is actually a field, that is energy field, boundary. It protects the inner

The capsule of course is not a solid on any plane. To some

Now that we have briefly discussed the meaning of a tissue capsule I

I am only going to hint of something here. For fun, think of the

Dream Recall Instructions

Seth gave us our first instructions in 1964. The whole idea of

This method is really easy and workable – but it can be sabotaged.

• Dream locations that represent places familiar to you in your

As the personality is changed by any action, so it is changed by its

In dreams, you give freedom of actions that cannot adequately be

It follows that [by] using suggestion, various problems can be solved

Both psychological and physical illnesses could largely be avoided

If aggressiveness is the problem, for example, then the preliminary

A Study of the Characteristics of the Dream World

We will be involved with a study of the characteristics of the dream

Usually the dream state is considered from a negative standpoint and

In some discussions we will state the ways in which conscious goals

As mentioned previously, we will also deal with the nature of space,

A destructive attitude of mind has been changed overnight in the

Often we find an almost instant regeneration, a seemingly instant

Through self-suggestion, these therapeutic dreams can be brought

Such inner therapeutics may occur at various levels of

The overall health of the individual is important, as is the delicate

Excellent Dream Suggestions

Ruburt's dream notebook is coming along very well. In most cases,

The number of remembered dreams should be much higher than

Particular notice should also be taken of characters and setting and