The Nature of Personal Reality

"The body itself can be physically refreshed and rested in much less than eight hours, and after five hours the muscles themselves yearn for activity."

Session 652, Page 263

The Nature of the Psyche

"In the most basic of terms, almost incomprehensible in your vocabulary energy is not divided. There can be no portions or parts of it, because it is not an entity like a pie, to be cut or divided."

Session 787, Page 142

The Way Toward Health

"It also seems that each fetus must naturally desire to grow, emerge whole from its mother’s womb, and develop into a natural childhood and adulthood. However, in those terms just as many fetuses want the experience of being fetuses without following through on other stages. They have no intention of growing into complete human development. In fact, many fetuses explore that element of existence numberless times before deciding to go on still farther, and emerge normally from the womb. Fetuses that do not develop still contribute to the body’s overall experience, and they feel themselves successful in their own existences. An understanding of these issues can greatly help throw light on the question of early deaths and diseases, and spontaneous abortion."

Session 6/15, Page 285

The Early Sessions, Book 7

"Now the dreams that you would have, and had, in shared experience are root dreams. Such root dreams serve as a method of maintaining inner identity, and of communication."

Session 282, Page 13

Seth Speaks

"Personal association, 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, 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 of past and future symbols."

Session 572, Page 263

The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events

"Yet all that you know or experience has its origin in that creative dimension of existence that I am terming Framework 2."

Session 817, Page 83

The Early Sessions, Book 3

"Many concepts, huge advancements and practical inventions, simply wait in abeyance in the world of dreams until some man accepts them as possibilities within his frame of reality."

Session 115, Page 189

The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events

"Any scientist who believes that life has no meaning has simply provided himself with what he thinks of as an unfailing support against life’s vicissitudes. If he says: Life has no meaning, he cannot be disappointed if such is the case, for he is ensconced in a self-created cocoon that has meaning, because it provides a cushion against his deepest fears."

Session 866, Page 269

The Nature of Personal Reality

"If you have physical problems, concentrate instead upon the healthy portions of your body and the unimpeded functions that you have. In the healthy areas, your beliefs are working for you. As I mentioned, inner sounds are extremely important. Each of the atoms and molecules that compose your body has its own reality in sound values that you do not hear physically."

Session 624, Page 89

The Nature of Personal Reality

"A person with several existences stressing intellectual achievement might purposely then decide upon a life in which mental abilities are beyond him, and the emotions allowed a full play that he had denied them earlier."

Session 667, Page 371

The Early Sessions, Book 9

"Now when anything is wrong with your body, it is trying to tell you something. And when you understand what it is trying to say, and if you make an effort to do what is needed, the symptoms are no longer needed as a method of communication. The body is trying to tell you that you have a problem, and because you did not cope with it, and denied it mentally, it is physically materialized in symbolic body language."

Session 502, Page 401

The Early Sessions, Book 5

"...while your physical time, or clock time, has no overall basic reality, and is not a primary reality, that runs through various fields or systems, it is nevertheless an electromagnetic reality within your own system, for you have created is on mental terms... if it were a primary reality, you would not escape from it even in the sleeping state. Those realities which are primary you can never escape from. This should give you an idea, for those realities which run through all systems, and which are primaries, are those which exist for you in all conditions of consciousness and under any circumstances."

Session 208, Page 69

Seth Speaks

"If you have a limited conception of the nature of reality, then your ego will do its best to keep you in the small enclosed area of your accepted reality. If, on the other hand, your intuitions and creative instincts are allowed freedom, then they communicate some knowledge of greater dimensions to this most physically oriented portion of your personality."

Session 512, Page 12

The Unknown Reality, Vol I & II

"You concentrate upon those decisions that you make, and disregard the processes involved. this has been carried to an extreme, you see: Often you are so disconnected from those inner workings that your own decisions then appear to come from someplace else."

The Unknown Reality, Volume 2
Session 742, Page 635

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"At those times that the individual consciousness became so entranced with its experiences, however, that the clear-cut, steady, and conscious communication with the mass consciousness went underground, so to speak."

The Unknown Reality, Volume 1
Session 683, Page 49

The Early Sessions, Book 1

"In fact, the analogy of a plane with an emotional state is much more valid than the analogy between a plane and a geographical state. Particularly since emotional states take up no room."

Session 16, Page 101

The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events

"The desire for suicide is often the last recourse left to frightened people whose natural impulses toward action have been damned up - intensified on the one hand, and yet denied any practical expression."

Session 857, Page 243

The Nature of Personal Reality

"Vague yearnings toward certain accomplishments may be clues that the necessary characteristics are inherent but untrained in the self that you know. In its own way, the twenty-four hour period represents both an entire lifetime and many lives in one. In it, symbolically, you have death as your physically attuned consciousness comes to the end of the amount of stimuli it can comfortably handle without rest."

Session 669, Page 381+

The Unknown Reality, Volume 1

"Since you perceive physically through the body, which is atomically structured, then of course your sense perceptions lead you to block recognition of other probable stimuli or reactions."

Session 694, Page 141

The Early Sessions, Book 3

We have not said nearly enough about the dream universe, to really launch a discussion concerning its by-product. Nevertheless I shall tell you that its by-product is the world of negative matter."

Session 109, Page 158

The Nature of Personal Reality

"What should you 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 judgment for granted then without restating it, and instead suggest the remedy be carried out."

Session 623, Page 85

The Way Toward Health

"Such a person might imagine his or her anger or fury filling up the inside of a gigantic balloon that is then pricked by a needle, exploding in pieces from the pressure within, with debris falling everywhere - out over the ocean, or caught up by the wind, but in any case dispersed in whatever way seems agreeable to the patient."

Session 6/9, Page 279

The Early Sessions, Book 7

"Your physical condition in every way is a reflection of your inner expectations, accomplishments, and failures, and I have told you that any illness is the result of an inner distortion. Now this distortion may possibly be a hangover from a previous existence but it is a distortion."

Session 300, Page 154-155

Seth Speaks

"A chronically ill existence, for example, might also be a measure of discipline, enabling you to use deeper abilities that you ignored in a life of good health."

Session 551, Page 180

The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events

"Creativity is an in-built impetus in man, far more important than, say, what science calls the satisfaction of basic needs. In those terms, creativity is the most basic need of all."

Session 863, Page 265

The Early Sessions, Book 4

"Action is more spontaneous within the dream universe, more fluid. The images appear then disappear much more quickly because value fulfillment is allowed greater reign."

Session 149, Page 4

Exercise: Magically neutralizing cancer cells

Many cancer patients have martyrlike characteristics, often putting up with undesirable situations or conditions for years.

They feel powerless, unable to change, yet unwilling to stay in the same position. The most important point is to arouse such a person's beliefs in his or her strength and power. In many instances these persons symbolically shrug their shoulders, saying. 'What will happen, will happen,' but they do not physically struggle against their situation.

It is also vital that these patients are not overly medicated, for oftentimes the side effects of some cancer-eradicating drugs are dangerous in themselves. There has been some success with people who imagine that the cancer is instead some hated enemy or monster or foe, which is then banished through mental mock battles over a period of time. While the technique does have its advantages, it also pits one portion of the self against the other. It is much better to imagine, say, the cancer cells being neutralized by some imaginary wand.

Doctors might suggest that a patient relax and then ask himself or herself what kind of inner fantasy would best serve the healing process. Instant images may come to mind at once, but if success is not achieved immediately, have the patient try again, for in almost all cases some inner pictures will be perceived.

Behind the entire problem, however, is the fear of using one's full power or energy. Cancer patients most usually feel an inner impatience as they sense their own need for future expansion and development, only to feel it thwarted.

The fear that blocks that energy can indeed be dissipated if new beliefs are inserted for old ones - so again we return to those emotional attitudes and ideas that automatically promote health and healing. Each individual is a good person, an individualized portion of universal energy itself. Each person is meant to express his or her own characteristics and abilities. Life means energy, power, and expression.

Those beliefs, if taught early enough, would form the most effective system of preventative medicine ever known.

Again, we cannot generalize overmuch, but many persons know quite well that they are not sure whether they want to live or die. The overabundance of cancer cells represents nevertheless the need for expression and expansion - the only arena left open - or so it would seem.

Such a person must also contend with society's unfortunate ideas about the disease in general, so that many cancer patients end up isolated or alone. As in almost all cases of disease, however, if it were possible to have a kind of 'thought transplant' operation, the disease would quickly vanish.

Even in the most dire of instances, some patients suddenly fall in love, or something in their home environment changes, and the person also seems to change overnight - while again the disease is gone.

The Way Toward Health
Session 5/11, Page 273

Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment, Volume 1

"Beyond that, however, genetic messages are coded in such a way that there is a constant give-and-take between those messages and the present experience of any given individual. That is, no genetic event is inevitable."

Session 907, Page 271

Seth Speaks

"Alternate focus is merely a state in which you turn your consciousness in other than its habitual direction, in order to perceive quite legitimate realities that exist simultaneous with your own. You must alter your perception to perceive any reality that is not geared practically toward material form. This is something like ’ ); looking out of the corner of your eye or mind, rather than straight ahead."

Session 576, Page 286

The Nature of the Psyche

"If women have felt that their biological survival depended upon the cultivation of certain attributes over others, for instance, then this information becomes chromosome data, as vital to the development of the new organism as any other physical data involving cellular structure."

Session 771, Page 73

The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events

"Do the exercises in my book, The Nature of Personal Reality, to discover what conditions of a mental nature, or of psychological origin, are causing you distress. Instead of taking an aspirin for a headache, sit down, breathe quietly, and remind yourself that you are an integral part of the universe. Allow yourself to feel a sense of belonging with nature. Such an exercise can often relieve a headache in no time."

Session 870, Page 290

The Early Sessions, Book 7

"Insanity, as it is labeled, is sometimes merely the result of a strange situation, in which certain individuals use the ordinarily dormant portions of the brain, as well as, or sometimes largely in place of, the recognized portions."

Session 308, Page 218