SETH

THE NATURE OF PERSONAL REALITY

by Jane Roberts

Bantam Books, 4th Printing of Bantam Edition, Dec. 1980

1. You make your world

A. YOU CREATE YOUR REALITY

1. The events that appear to happen IQ you are initiated by you within your mental or psychic environment. (1:4)

2. Altering the state of the psyche automatically alters the physical circumstances. There is no other valid way of changing physical events. (1:10)

3. You make your own reality. There is no other rule. (1: 14)

4. The joy of creativity flows through you as effortlessly as your breath. From it the most minute areas of your outer experience spring. Your feelings have electromagnetic realities that rise outward, affecting the atmosphere itself. They group through attraction, building up areas of events and circumstances that finally coalesce, so to speak, either in matter as objects - or as events in "time". (1: 1 1)

5. Look about you. Your entire physical environment is the materialization of your beliefs. Your sense of joy, sorrow, health or illness - all of these are caused by your beliefs. (2:25)

6. Your beliefs form your reality, your body and its condition, your personal relationships, your environment, and en masse your civilization and world. (4:71)

7. If all of your beliefs, not just your "fortunate" ones, were not materialized, you would never understand on a physical level that your ideas create reality. (5; 103)

8. The conscious mind is meant to direct the flow of your experience through your beliefs. (1 1;235)

9. The inner self keeps the physical body alive even as it formed it...'.But in all cases the inner self looks to the conscious mind for its assessment of the body's condition ... and forms the body in line with the conscious mind's beliefs ... You form reality through your beliefs and your most intimate production is your physical body.... You organize on an unconscious level the atoms and molecules that compose your cells to form your body. But the blueprint is made by your conscious beliefs. To change your body you change your beliefs, even in the face of physical data or evidence that conflicts .... Except for some conditions, which will be mentioned later, you can become healthy if you are HI, slim if you are overweight... or alter your physical image in profound fashion through the use of your ideas and beliefs. (5:86)

10. You change even the most permanent-seeming conditions of your life constantly through your varying attitudes toward them.... Interactions with others do occur, of course, yet there are none that you do not accept or draw to you by your thoughts, attitudes or emotions. (1: 10)

11. YOU MUST TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR BEING. (2:27).... IF YOU BELIEF THAT YOU ARE AT THE MERCY OF PHYSICAL EVENTS, YOU ENTERTAIN A FALSE BELIEF. IF YOU FEEL THAT YOUR PRESENT EXPERIENCE WAS SET IN CIRCUMSTANCES BEYOND YOUR CONTROL, YOU ENTERTAIN A; FALSE BELIEF.

You had a hand in the development of your childhood environment. You chose the circumstances. This does not mean that you are at the mercy of those circumstances. It means that you set challenges to be overcome, set goals to be reached. (2:31)

12. The inner self is embarked upon an exciting endeavor in which it learns how to translate its reality into physical terms. The conscious mind... is often so dazzled by what it perceives that it is tempted to think physical phenomena is a cause, rather than a result. (2:32)

B. YOU CREATE YOUR FUTURE

1. What suggestions and ideas are you giving yourself? Realize that these will be materialized in

your personal experience. (2:32)

2. A family can constantly reinforce its joy, gaiety and spontaneity by concentrating on ideas of

vitality, strength and creativity. (3:46)

3. Suppose you have a particular goal in mind as a youngster, toward which you work. Your intent, images, desires and determination form a psychic force that is projected out ahead of you, so to speak. You send the reality of your self from your present into what you think of as the future. (21.441)

4. Your acceptance of yourself and your own integrity can, at any moment in your present, alter your past and future. (21:441)

2. You are of greater dimensions

A. YOU ARE A MULTIDIMENSIONAL SELF

1. You are aware, alert and participating in many more realities than you know, as your soul expresses itself through you. (1:5)

2. Taking it for granted that you are indeed multidimensional, you can perceive only so much of your own experience at a time because of the characteristics of physical creaturehood; the three-dimensional system automatically specializes in before-and-after effects. You exist, say, in seven different centuries at once. However the normal experience of your temporal being prevents any comprehensive view of all those lives in creature terms. (19:388-389)

3. During certain stages in sleep states you short-circuit the neuronal structures, and perceive experiences of a multidimensional nature that you then attempt to translate ... into stimuli that can be physically assimilated - hence you often convert these into symbolic images, that can be understood ... by your bodily structure. (14;294)

RAIN CREATURE

4. One night Ruburt (without drugs)...saw a rainy puddle below suddenly turn into an alive, beautifully fluid creature who stood up and walked while the rain slid off its liquid sides .... He knew that in the physical world the puddle was flat, but that he was perceiving another just-as-solid reality; a larger one in fact, in which that rain creature had its being. (10;183)

B. WITH MANY SIMULTANEOUS (REINCARNATIONAL) LIVES

1. All time is simultaneous.... Reincarnation is a conscious-mind interpretation in linear terms. On the one hand it is highly distorted. On the other hand it is a creative interpretation.... But there is no karma to be paid off as punishment unless you believe there are crimes for which you must pay. In larger terms there is no cause and effect either, though these are root assumptions in your reality. (9;160)

2. These multiple [reincarnational] existence, however, are simultaneous and open-ended. In your terms the conscious mind is growing toward a realization of the part it has to play in such multidimensional reality. It is enough that you understand your part in this existence.

WHEN YOU FULLY COMPREHEND THAT YOU FORM WHAT YOU THINK OF AS YOUR CURRENT REALITY, ALL ELSE WILL FALL INTO PLACE.

Your beliefs, thoughts and feelings are instantly materialized physically. Their earthly reality occurs simultaneously with their inception, but in the world of time, lapses between appear to occur. So I say one causes another, but all are at once...... At once" does not imply that all things have been done, for all things are still happening. You are still happening - but both present and future selves; and your past self is still ... experiencing events that you do not recall, that your linear attuned consciousness cannot perceive on that level. (9;161)

3. The lives you have lived are not you, [but] they are of you .... Think of your breath as lives, and you [as] the entity through which they have passed and are passing. Then you will feel your state of grace. (9;162)

4. Not only do children choose their parents ahead of time, but parents choose their children, of course. (19;384)

5. [Some] ask..."Am I bound to follow the rules of karma? Since all is simultaneous, your present

beliefs can alter your past ones, whether from this life or a previous one. (19;387)

6. Within the abilities of your creaturehood, your current beliefs can change your experience; you can reconstruct your "reincarnational past You have a gigantic pool of information and experience to draw upon, but this will be utilized according to your present conscious beliefs. If you understand that the point of power is in the present, then you have an inexhaustible realm of ability and energy at your command. (19;387) 7. Consciously ... you will interpret those simultaneous lives in reincarnational terms, one seemingly before the other. (9;164)

C. YOUR MANY SELVES MAKE UP THE ENTITY - OR GREATER SOUL

1. The you that you consider yourself is never annihilated. Your consciousness is not snuffed out, nor is it swelled, blissfully unaware of itself, in some nirvana. (9;163)

2. All of your cells that make up your physical form obviously exist at once. Imagine that you have many lives enduring in the same fashion. Instead of cells you have selves .... Think of the greater you - call it the entity if you want to - as forming a psychic structure quite as real as your physical one, but composed of many selves The cells, however, while a part of this body, are not aware of the entire dimension in which your consciousness dwells. They do not perceive all of the elements that are available even in 3 - dimensional experience. Yet your present consciousness physically rests upon cellular awareness. (9;163)

3. So the entity is aware of much larger dimensions of activity than you are, yet in the same way its more sophisticated consciousness rests upon your own, and one is necessary to the other. (9;164)

4. In terms of consciousness, the entity or greater you knows as much more than you know, as you know more than your cells. (9,;165)

5. A group of cells forms an organ. A group of selves forms a soul [on page 170 Seth decides to call it an oversoul]. I am not telling you that you do not have a soul to call your own. You are part of your soul. it belongs to you and you to it. You dwell within its reality .... The entity then, or greater self, is composed of souls .... The entity has its existence in multitudinous dimensions, its souls free to travel within boundaries that would seem infinite to you. (9; 165)

6. Your recognition of the soul and entity can help you direct energies from these other dimensions into your daily life. (9;166)

7. 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. (19;395)

8. The inner portions of your being operate spontaneously, joyously, freely; all of this occurs because your inner self believes in you. (2;20)

FREQUENCY

9. The physical reality into which you are born is not nearly as solid or predetermined or definite as it appears to be. Instead there is a field of rich interaction. Your consciousness must be focused at one particular range of frequencies before it can even perceive matter, much less solidity. In sleep your consciousness fluctuates between ranges of intensities, literally flowing into and out of the physical-matter grouping, and forming from more plastic pre-matter stages, the final shape that matter will take in your world. (20;413)

10. You have great energy and power

A. INEXHAUSTIBLE ENERGY IS AVAILABLE TO YOU

1. In this existence you are learning to handle the inexhaustible energy that is available to you. (1:10) ....The energy comes from the core of BEING ... and represents the source of never ending vitality. (1:13)

2. The energy of your being exists outside your system, and impinges upon it in your terms, becoming 'alive' physically at certain points of time and space. Your own greater energy dips in and out of the space-time continuum as you understand it. (19;388)

3. What ... happens is that the energy of your being impinges, say, at seven (moment] points into the three dimensional system. At each of these points what seems to be an isolated life is experienced. Just beyond these intersections, however, there is a more or less unitary and overall recognition of wholeness that 'rides' above them. This represents the multidimensional entity .... The great miracle ... is that each consciousness, whatever its degree, is itself and no other, even while in the unending fields of interaction it may be a portion of another - as ... an individual is part of a family. (19;389)

ENERGY CYCLES

4. There are rhythms having to do with energy. Practically speaking, this means that certain times are more effective than others for these communications in the dream state .... The energy of the personal self constantly comes from the entity. (19;391)

5. These cycles merge at several points, so that you do not have major changes in all areas in any span of two thousand years.... These are simply rhythms depicting the greatest impact of spirit as it intersects with flesh and time.... In a manner of speaking you can say that the energy of an entity is dispersed, striking the space-time continuum at certain angles and always bouncing back. (19:391-392)

6. There are peak periods when the self and the soul (or entity) coincide - when communication is at its best. All of this happens through the window of your present. (19;392) 7. Apexes are therefore formed within each self. These apexes serve as attractions, now opened, through which the magnified potency of the entity can flow.... Privately, this is when human beings find themselves aware of greater lluminations...and experience new strengths. (19;393)

B. THE MOST CONCENTRATED FORMS OF ENERGY

(1). EMOTIONS

1. Imagination and emotion are the most concentrated forms of energy that you posses as physical creatures .... Emotions ... send thoughts from this interior reality through the barrier between nonphysical and physical into the "objective' world - no small feat. (5;99)

2. Your feelings have electromagnetic realities that rise outward, affecting the atmosphere itself. (18;361)

3. Your conscious thinking largely determines your emotions .... You are not at the mercy of you emotions ... for they are meant to follow the flow of your reasoning .... If your beliefs about existence are fearful, then the emotional reactions will be those leading to stress. (4;67)

4. You must accept the validity of your feelings while realizing that they ... are not necessarily factual statements of your reality. [For example] 'I feel that I am a failure'. This is an emotional statement and should be accepted as such .... [But] you may be most successful in reaching your goals while still thinking yourself a failure. (1 1;222)

5. You may believe that you are too easily swayed...and are afraid of your emotions ... You think that all reason can be drowned within them .... You will nevertheless accept certain emotions that you think of as safe, and ignore others, because you are afraid of following them further. (1 1;223)

THE INNOCENCE OF ALL EMOTIONS

6. The emotions follow beliefs .... To refuse them is futile. They are one of the means by which personally attuned consciousness knows itself. They are not destructive. One emotion is not good and another evil. Emotions simply are. They are the elements of the power of consciousness, filled with energy. They merge into a powerful sea of being when left alone. You cannot affirm one emotion and deny another without setting up barriers. (21;417)

7. It is very important that you understand the true innocence of all feelings, for each of them, if left alone and followed, will lead you back to the reality of love .... Trust no one who leads you away from the reality of yourself. Do not follow those who tell you that you must do penance, in whatever form. (22;452)

8. Dogmas that tell you to rise above your emotions can be misleading - even ... dangerous. Such theories are based on the concept that there is something innately...base or wrong in man's emotional nature, while the soul is depicted as being calm, 'perfect,' passive and unfeeling. Only the most lofty, blissful awareness is allowed. Yet the soul is above all a fountain of energy, creativity, and action that shows its characteristics in life precisely through the ever-changing emotions. Trusted, your feelings will lead you to psychological and spiritual states of mystic understanding, calm and peacefulness. (21;422)

9. Experiencing your emotions as such is not the same as accepting them as statements of fact about your own experience. (1 1;217)

10. [Suppose a] man inhibits the expression of many of the normal irritations ... between, say, his superior and himself at work ... All these inhibited reactions seek release .... When his system has had enough, [he] ... may react with violent behavior .... The sense of power felt during such episodes is the result of repressed energy suddenly released, but the individual is always at the mercy of that energy then - submerged within it and passively carried along with it .... The fear of your own emotions can do far more damage than their expression. (I 1;21 1)

(2) IMAGINATION

1. The birth of imagination initiated the largest possibilities, and ... put great strain upon the biological creature whose ... structure would now react to not only present ... situations, but imaginative ones. (12;242-243)

2. Often you do not trust your imagination, considering that it deals with phenomena that cannot be called fact ... You do not understand the great clues (your imagination] gives you. (19;396)

3. Often you inadvertently use [your imagination to prolong "negative" circumstances, as you think of all the things that could go 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 ... 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 .... 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 thatyou know. (19;397)

4. You must, of course, be able to distinguish between the world of imagination and the physical world of fact in order to be able to manipulate effectively. But physical reality springs from the imagination, which follows the path of your beliefs. (19;398)

5. Such work with the imagination acts as a trigger, drawing information to you from other levels of your greater reality, and concentrating it on the specific problem at hand. It will then appear in terms [you can understand] .... Such practice also activates within the self all of its unconscious but quite valid experiences, drawing out similar episodes on the part of other simultaneous lives. In one existence the old person is young. The unloved person is indeed loved. These unconscious realities become turned on through the use of imagination. Each day is a window into each life. (19;399)

C. POWER

1. Your effective power of action follows the lines of your beliefs. To believe in your own weakness is to deny yourself the power of action. To accept uncritically all beliefs that come to you is to open yourself to a barrage of conflicting data at best. (6; 108)

2. You are not at the mercy of unconscious events. (7; 132)

3. The need to act and be in control of action is paramount to conscious beings. (17;351)

4. You [may] consider goodness and powerlessness to be somewhat synonymous, and equate power with evil. Not wanting to face such 'evil" in yourself, you may then direct it outward and transfer it to some other area .... As a society you may project it upon the criminal, as a nation upon a foreign country. As an individual, you may place this power upon an employer, labor union, etc. (17;351)

5. Power does not necessarily imply superiority over. There is the power of love for example, and the power to love. Both imply great action and vitality, and an aggressive thrust that has nothing to do with violence. (17;351)

6. You are the power of God manifested. You are not powerless. Through your being the power of God is strengthened, for you are a portion of what He is. You are not simply an insignificant ... lump of clay through which He decides to show Himself. You are He manifesting as you. (21;429)

7. If you recognized the power of your own being, you would know that it ever seeks greater realms of creativity and experience, in which new challenges are inherent - for all problems are challenges. (19;380)

D. AGGRESSION IS NOT THE SAME AS VIOLENCE

1. NATURAL AGGRESSION IS SIMPLY THE POWER TO ACT. (17;353)

2. The real nature of aggressiveness, in its truest sense, simply means forceful action. This does not necessarily imply physical force, but the power of energy directed into a material action .... Birth is perhaps the most forceful aggression, in your terms, of which you are capable. (8; 143)

3. Your problem is ... how to handle [normal aggressiveness] when it has remained unexpressed, ignored and denied over a long period of time .... Consider this blocked energy. Consciously most people are afraid of it they did not repress it because they considered it good. When I use the word "repressed' I do not mean ... shoved into the unconscious or beyond reach. You may pretend that such material is hidden but it is quiet within your conscious reach. You only have to honestly look for it. 8;(144)

4. A cat playfully killing a mouse and eating it is not evil. It suffers no guilt. On biological levels both animals understand. The consciousness of the mouse, under the innate knowledge of impending pain, leaves the body. The cat uses the warm flesh. The mouse itself has been hunter as well as prey, and both understand in ways that are difficult to explain. (145) .... They will struggle to live, but...they have a built-in unconscious sense of unity with nature in which they know they will not be lost or immersed. Man, pursuing his own way, chose to step outside of that framework- on a conscious level. The birth of compassion then took the place of the animal's innate knowledge. (8;146)

5. In your fear of negative thoughts you often attempt to deny all normal natural aggressiveness. (8; 147)

6. If you cut your finger it bleeds. In so doing the blood clears away any poisons that may have

entered. The bleeding is beneficial and the body knows when to stop it. (150) .... When you consider aggressive thoughts wrong, using this analogy, you do not even begin to allow the system to clear itself. Instead you shut up the poisons inside. (8;151)

VIOLENCE

7. You confuse violence with aggression, and do not understand aggression's creative activity or its purpose ... to prevent violence ... Violence is a distortion of aggression. Birth is an aggressive action - the thrust outward with great impetus of a self from within a body into a new environment. Any creative act is aggressive. Violence is not aggressive. It is instead a passive surrender to emotions which is not understood or evaluated, only feared, and at the same time sought .... In all violence there is a great degree of suicidal emotion, the antithesis of creativity. Both killer and victim in a war, for instance, are caught up in the same kind of passion, but the passion is not aggressive. It is ... the desire for destruction. Know that yearning is made up of feelings of despair caused by a sense of powerlessness ... Aggression leads to action, to creativity and to life. It does not lead to destruction or violence. (I 1;2 10)

E. LOVE

1. Love is outgoing, as aggression is. You cannot inhibit one without similarly affecting the other. (8;154)

2. Love perceives the grace in another ... The state of grace is unconscious in the animals .... They do not have conscious memory, but the instinctive memory of the cells and organs sustains them. (9; 157)

3. Natural aggression is the creative loving thrust forward, the way in which love is activated, the fuel through whose agency love propels itself .... Aggression in the most basic terms has nothing to do with physical violence...

[Aggression is the force through which love is perpetuated and creatively renewed. When you think in other terms, then you fall into distorted views in which power is ... seen as threatening, or wrong, or even given demonic connotations. In contrast good is seen as powerless, passive, and in need of great defense.

(11;218)

4. Love is propelled by all the elements of natural aggression, and it is powerful; yet because you have made such divisions between good and evil, love appears to be weak and violence strong. (17;352) 5. You must first love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and joyfully being what you are, you fulfill your own abilities, and your simple presence can make others happy. (21;427) 6. When you love others you grant them their innate freedom and do not cravenly insist that they always attend to you. There are no divisions to love. There is no basic difference between the love of a child for a parent, a parent for a child, a wife for a husband, a brother for a sister. There are only various expressions and characteristics of love. It can accept deviations from the ideal without condemning them. (21;428) 7. To some extent you want to identify with those you feel deeply about .... You often do love another individual because such a person evokes within you glimpses of your own "idealized' self. (21;423)

F. HATE (IS A CALL FOR LOVE)

1. In their way the hateful or revengeful thoughts are natural therapeutic devices, for if you follow them, accepting them with their own validity as feelings, they will automatically lead you beyond themselves; they will change into other feelings, carrying you from hatred into ... fear - which is always behind hatred. (1 1;220-22 1) 2. Regardless of what you have been told, hatred does not initiate strong violence ... The outbreak of violence is often the result of a built-in sense of powerlessness. (21;418) 3. There are adults who quail when one of their children say, "I hate you'. Often children quickly learn not to be honest. What the child is really saying is, “I love you so. Why are you so mean to me?' or 'What stands between us and the love for you that I feel?' (21;423)4. You become conditioned so that you feel guilty when you even contemplate hating another. You try to hide such thoughts from yourself. You may succeed so well that you literally do not know what you are feeling on a conscious level. The emotions are there but they are invisible to you because you are afraid to look. To that extent you are divorced from your own reality and disconnected from your own feelings of love. (21;424)

5. Even your hateful fantasies, left alone, will return you to a reconciliation and release of love. A fantasy of beating a parent or a child, even to death, will if followed through lead to tears of love and understanding. (2 1;424)

6. You may love a parent, and if the parent does not seem to return the love...you may 'hate' the parent .... Hatred is not a denial of love then but an attempt to regain it. (2 1;422)

G. THE SENSE OF POWERLESSNESS

1. [A lady, Dineen felt she had no power in the moment. This is an abdication of the severest kind .... The withheld power is itself transferred then. In Dineen's case it was put onto another. If she could not make decisions, this other person could, through long-distance hypnosis, force her to act whether she wanted to or not.... Dineen believes in good and evil ... Convinced she was at the mercy of demoniacal forces, she began to pray.... However the prayers themselves were merely a weak surrender to the idea that evil is so powerful. They were not based on any real belief in the power of good .... Anytime you assign elements of your experience to exterior sources, you are already doing the same thing that Dineen did. (17;342)

2. If you believe that you come down with a cold every time you are in a draft, you are using natural hypnosis. If you think you must come and go at everyone's beck and call, then you are like Dineen, who believes she must do what this hypnotist tells her to do. (17;343)

3. Remember Augustus .... He felt powerless, considering power in terms of aggression and violence, so he isolated that portion of himself from himself and projected it into a "second self". Only when this self became operative could he display any power. Because his basic concept held aggressiveness and power as one,...then the strength to act automatically meant the strength to be aggressive. And here aggression was equated with violence .... He had to pretend amnesia to hide this mechanism from himself. (17;350-351)

4. It is a sense of powerlessness that also causes nations to initiate wars. This has little to do with the 'actual' world situation or with the power that others might assign to them, but to an overall sense of powerlessness even, sometimes, regardless of world dominance. (21;419)

CRIMINALS

5. Most criminals, in or out of prison, share a sense of powerlessness and a feeling of resentment because of it. Therefore they seek to assure themselves that they are indeed powerful through antisocial acts, often of violence .... They feel isolated and alone, unappreciated, filled with rage which is constantly being expressed - in many cases but not all -through a steady series of minor social crimes .... In the case of criminals and their belief systems, aggression has a positive value. (17;348-349)

6. You isolate the criminal element .... The entire framework of a prison - with its bars - is a constant reminder to the convict of his situation, and reinforces his original difficulty .... In their ways the warden and guards subscribe to the same set of beliefs as that held by the prisoners - the idea that force and power is accentuated on both sides, and each believes the other is its enemy. The guards are certain that the prisoners are the dregs of the earth and must be held down at all costs. Both sides accept the concept of human aggression and violence as a method of survival. (17,350)

DEPRESSION

7. One of the strongest general causes of depression ... is the belief that your conscious mind is powerless either in the face of exterior circumstances ... or before strong emotional [tides] from within. (I 1;206)

4. Within certain limits

A. CREATUREHOOD (See Topic #7)

1. You are confined only to the extent that you have chosen physical reality, and so placed yourself within its context of experience. (1: 14)

2. Within the basic framework of the body chosen before physical birth ... the individual has full freedom to create a perfectly healthy functioning form. The form is, however, a mirror of beliefs, and will accurately materialize in flesh those ideas held by the conscious mind .... That is one of the body's primary functions. A sick body is performing that function then, in its way, as well as a healthy one. (5:102)

3. You cannot appreciate your spirituality unless you appreciate your creaturehood. It is not a matter of rising above your nature, but of evolving from the full understanding of it. There is a difference .... You can learn more from watching the animals than from a guru or minister - or from reading my book. (I 1:212)

DESIRE

4. You may follow one of the schools of Buddhism in which great stress is laid upon the denial of thebody and the avoidance of desire. These elements are quite characteristic of charismatic of Christianity also Philosophies that teach denial of the flesh must ultimately end up preaching a denial of the self and building a contempt for it The soul is meant to experience that reality, not to re fute it. In whatever terms, the devotee is told that there is something wrong with earthly experience. You are, therefore, considered evil as a self in flesh by virtue of your very existence. (12:244)

I L.)

BOTH THE PHYSICAL AND THE SPIRITUAL ARE IMPORTANT NOW

5. You attempt then to further banish the characteristic enjoyment of your own creaturehood, denying the lusty spirituality of your flesh and the strong corporeal leanings of your soul. You will try to rid yourself of very natural emotions, and so be cheated of their great spiritual and physical motion. (12:245)

6. You are now rooted in your creaturehood, graced to perceive through your. body a unique, living experience. So when I mention techniques that will allow you to perceive other fields of reality besides your own,...realize that these should be used to enhance your enjoyment of that creaturehood, and to enrich your sensual as well as spiritual expression. (14:294)

CHANGE THE PAST

7. The past is still happening. You create it from your present according to your beliefs. A removed apendix will not reappear physically. There are certain frameworks that are accepted, built into your reaturehood. There is far greater freedom, however, even on the cellular level. (15:313)

TIME

8. All existence are simultaneous. Within the bounds of creaturehood certain things are possible and certain things are not. You cannot regenerate a limb, or grow a new one. You can cure yourself of an 'incurable' disease if you realize that your point of power is in the present. (381)

9. There may be physical circumstances involving birth defects that are beyond alteration, where experience must be focused along other than usual pathways. (19:397-398)

10. There is no condition you cannot change, except one indisputably physically accepted at birth within the realms of creaturehood, such as a liability in terms of a missing organ, or a functional lack. (22:452)

B. LAG TIME

1. Usually there is a lag, a lapse of time, during which your beliefs cause material actualization. When you try to change your convictions in order to change your experience, you also have to first stop the momentum that you have already built up, so to speak. You are changing messages while the body is used to reacting smoothly, unquestioningly, to a certain set of beliefs .... When you alter these conscious beliefs through effort, then a period of time is necessary while the structure learns to adjust to the new preferred setup. If the beliefs are changed overnight, comparatively less time is required. In a manner of speaking, each belief can be seen as a powerful station, pulling to it from fields of probabilities only those signals to which it is attuned and blocking out all others. When you set up a new station, there may be some static or bleeding-through from an old one for a while. Any ability you have, then, can be "brought in more clearly', amplified, and become practicable instead of probable. But in such a case you must concentrate on the attribute - not ... upon the fact that you have not used it well thus far. (15;301)

5. And governed by your beliefs

A. BELIEFS

1. If you find great exuberance, health, effective work, abundance, smiles on the faces of those you meet, then take it for granted that your beliefs are beneficial .... But if you find poor health, a lack of meaningful work, a lack of abundance, a world of sorrow and evil, then assume that your beliefs are faulty and begin examining them. (2;35)

2. Ideas have an electromagnetic reality. Beliefs are strong ideas about the nature of reality. Ideas generate emotion. Like attracts like. (3;38)

3. You make your own reality. I cannot say this too often...."Wealth is everything." Now this idea is far from truth. The person who accepts it completely, though, will be wealthy and in excellent health .... Yet this is a belief about reality, and so there will be invisible gulfs in his experience of which he is ignorant. While the person seems quite content, beneath there will be the knawing knowledge of incompletion .... [Such a] rich man ... may suddenly realize that his belief is limiting .... The shattered belief may leave him open to illness. (3;48-49) 4. No idea slips insidiously past your awareness to affect your involuntary system unless it fits in with your own conscious beliefs. (5;101)

5. Your beliefs about yourself will automatically attract thoughts that are consistent with your ideas. (11;222)

TIME

6. Although time does not basically exist as you "know' it, you are neurological forced to perceive your life as a series of passing moments. As creatures you are born young and grow older. Yet the animals, as creatures, are not as limited in their experience in that regard. They have no beliefs in old age that automatically shut down their abilities: so left alone, while they do physically die as all creatures must in those terms, they do not deteriorate in the same way .... If you could convince yourself that you were ten years younger, or ten years older, then it would be faithfully reflected in your personal environment .... If you were sixty, you would be able to use the physical strength [you had at twenty but that] you imagine was denied you now, but available then. (15;305) 7. (Suppose a child] is told that is [good looking] and has a likeable personality. The idea takes hold. The person acts in line with this belief in all ways; but also a variety of subsidiary beliefs grow up about the main one. The belief in personal worth draws about it the belief in the personal value of others .... He may or may not be as attractive, feature by feature, as dome other individuals who believe, in fact, that they are unattractive. The belief in his own comeliness is so important that others will react to him in the same fashion. An individual can have great native beauty, for example, but this beauty is not apparent to others, or to the individual. The person does not believe that he or she possesses it, and mars the actual physical features so that the comeliness becomes literally invisible. (16;332-333)

8. You must understand ... that your ideas and thoughts do not exist as phantoms or shadow images without substance. They are electromagnetic realities. They affect your physical being. (6;107)

INHIBITED ABILITIES

9. If you believe that wealth is evil .... you automatically rob yourself of any ability that might bring you riches. Talents that are accepted as good in themselves may be inhibited simply because their fulfillment might lead to success in financial terms. (17;354)

B. OPPOSING BELIEFS

1. You may ... [hold] two quite conflicting ideas simultaneously, and with equal vigor. In such cases, you stalemated yourself. You may believe that you have a right to health, and yet with equal intensity believe that the human condition is by nature tainted. (4;66)

2. You may be poor ... You may try to alter the belief and say, 'My wants are taken care of and I have a great abundance'. Yet you may still find yourself unable to meet your bills .... So you think, "My conscious thoughts mean nothing". Yet upon examination of your beliefs you may find a deep conviction of your own unworthiness. You may find yourself thinking, 'I am no one to begin with", or "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer' or "The world is against me" or 'Money is wrong. People who have it are not spiritual". You may discover [many] beliefs that lead to the fact that you do want to have money or are afraid of it. (4;77)

3. [A woman, Andrea] has been told often that a woman without a man is in a very difficult situation, particularly a woman with children. She believes that a new mate will be almost impossible to find. She has been informed that children need a father, and feels at the same time that no man wants to become involved with a woman with children .... So her beliefs put her in a state of crisis. Change them and no crisis exists. (216) .... Andrea believes that her desirability as a woman decreases with the passage of each day. So she feels and acts less attractive when that belief holds sway. (I 1;217)

4. [Rubert] came face to face with two conflicting core beliefs. His 'writing self" followed one belief, in which writing certain material was permissible and good .... [Then] he found himself wanting to write about {his psychic experiences]. The previous beliefs in himself as a writer, however, clashed with these new urges because he did not consider anything but fiction as the [proper] work of a writer - except for poetry. (I 1;23 1) 5.

Rubert also saw that he believed he had to justify his existence through his writing. This is because he did not trust the basic right of his being as it existed, and does [exist now], in space and time. (1 1;233)

C. LINKED BELIEFS

1. I have frequently said that beliefs cause reality, and that no symptom will simply fade away unless the 'reason' is ascertained - but such reasons go far beneath your current ideas of cause and effect. They involve intimate philosophical value judgments on the part of each individual. (15;308)

2. You condition your body to react in certain fashions. Dealing with this is not a simple problem, of course, for the original suggestion of dis-ease was in itself given because of another belief. (16;330)

3. [Make a list of your beliefs]. You will finally come to what I call core beliefs, strong ideas about your existence .... Subsidiary beliefs ... appear as offshoots of core beliefs .... It is the core belief which is strong enough to so focus your perceptions that you perceive from the physical world only those events that correlate with it .... (An example:] It is a blanket belief: human nature is inherently evil. (3;47)

4. Questions you cannot seem to answer as you study your own ideas may lead you to suspect the existence of such invisible core beliefs... They are consciously available. (1 1;227)

D. BELIEFS VERSUS DESIRES

1. The unconscious accepts those orders given to it by the conscious mind When you [are] dissatisfied question the orders you are giving in that particular area of experience. The results do not seem, now, to follow your conscious desires. But you will find that they do follow your conscious beliefs, which may be quite different. (16;323)

E. CHANGING YOUR BELIEFS

1. There are two ways to get at your own conscious beliefs. The most direct way is to have a series of talks with yourself. Write down your beliefs .... 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. (11;222)

2. [Me other way:] You can work backward from your emotions to your beliefs .... Both approaches require honesty with yourself. (11;222)

3. Your point of power is in the present ... You hold beliefs that you can alter at any time. Many individuals die young, for example, because they believe so strongly that old age represents a degradation of the spirit and an insult to the body. They do not want to live under the conditions as they believe them to be. (18;366)

4. 'Mere are various ways of altering [a] belief .... Generate the emotion opposite the one that arises from the belief you want to change, and turn your imagination in the opposite direction .... Consciously assure yourself that the unsatisfactory belief ... is not an aspect of reality. (4;65)

5. You have not as yet completely examined your beliefs. [Example:] You are overweight .... You say “I will think of myself at my ideal weight". But you still overeat. In your mind's eye you still see yourself as overweight .... [But] examine your beliefs further .... You may, for instance, find that you believe you are not worthy, and hence should not look attractive. Or that health means physical weight and it is dangerous to be slim .... Or you may find that you feel and believe that you are so vulnerable that you need the weight so people will think twice before they shove you around. In all cases these ideas are conscious. (4;76)

F. YOU MUST ACT ON THE BASIS OF YOUR NEW BELIEF

1. You are not at the mercy of past beliefs ... On the other hand, the sooner you begin to act upon new ones the better. Otherwise you are not trusting them in the present. If you are poor and want to have more money, and try to maintain a belief in abundance - while still faced with the present fact of poverty - you must in your reality make some symbolic move that shows you are willing to accept a change. As foolish as it may sound, you should give some money away, or in whatever manner it suits you, act as if you did have more money than you physically have. You must respond to the new belief, so that neurological the new message gets across .... If you willfully change some of those [related] habits then you are also getting the message across. The initiative must come from you, and in the present .... This means changing your viewpoint. (15;310)

G. BELIEF IN NEGATIVES

1. Many who make a practice of "denying" negative suggestions from others, asserting positive affirmations instead, actually do so because they are fully convinced that the power of negative beliefs is stronger than that of positive ones. (16;320)

H. THE LAW OF ATTRACTION WORKS THROUGH BELIEFS

1. This operates in individual and mass terms. Suppose that today your home was robbed .... In one way or another, through your conscious thought you attracted such an event, and drew it from probability into actuality. The occurrence would be an accumulation of energy- turned into action - and be brought about by corollary beliefs. You may be convinced that human nature is evil, or that no one is safe from another's aggression, or that people are motivated by greed. Such beliefs attract their own reality. If you have anything worth losing, you are then automatically convinced that someone else will take it from you, or try their hardest to do so. In your own way you send out messages to just such a person. (15;300)

2. The fear of robbers attracts robbers. (15;301)

3. You can overcome fear

A. FEAR BLOCKS YOUR FLOW

1. When you are aware of the existence of the entity and of the soul, you can consciously draw upon their greater energy, understanding and strength .... Your conscious intent brings about certain changes in you that automatically trigger such benefits. The benefits will be felt down to the smallest cells within your body, and will affect even the most mundane events in your daily life .... Your understanding and desire are [very] important. The processes initiated are beyond your normal awareness. They occur automatically within your intent if you do not block them throgh fear, doubt or opposing beliefs. (9; 166-167)

2. If you do not believe in the natural healing processes you will simply block them. Your fear of not seeing a doctor then will only cause more damage ... If you have faith in medical help, this alone will bring therapeutic benefit. This can only go so far, though, if the inner problems are not dealt with. Often they are resolved regardless of what you do or believe, simply as a result of the vast creative energies within your being. (10;202203)

3. You may believe that good mental health means always being cheerful ... and kind, and never crying or showing disappointment. That belief alone can lead you to deny quite natural dimensions of human experience, and to impede the flow of emotions that could otherwise cleanse your body and your mind. (10;208)

4. When you refute such emotions ... you impede the flow ... You set up dams. Any emotion will change into another if you experience it honestly. Otherwise you clog the natural movement of your entire system. (I 1;22 1)

B. PERFECTION IS NOT DESIRABLE

1. Trying to be perfect all the time can be disastrous because of your misunderstanding. (8;141)

2. If you have been told that the spirit is perfect, and that you must be perfect in all your ways, while at the same time you believe in the imperfection of the body, you will always be in conflict with yourself. Many people are convinced that anger is always negative. It can be the most arousing and therapeutic emotion under certain circumstances. (I 1;209)

3. Perfection is not a state of being, for all being is in a state of becoming. This does not mean that all being is in a state of becoming perfect, but in a state of becoming more itself. (21;427)

C. EXERCISE #1

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 this 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. See this image exploding into your own consciousness, which is unbelievably bright. Realize that it is a portion of a far greater multidimensional structure, spread out in an even richer dimension. 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 there is a physical event that you strongly desire, then use that energy to imagine its actual occurrence as vividly as you can .... Energy may be directed to any portion of the body, and if you do not block its actions by disbelieves, that portion will be cured .... Here we are speaking about conditions that can be physically cured -but not the growth of an arm if you were born without one, for example, or the correction of other lacks in the body at birth. (9;167)

Starting with your right to BE

A. AFFIRM YOUR RIGHT TO EXIST (See Topic #4A)

1. Affirmation means saying 'yes' to yourself and to the life you lead, and to accepting your own unique personhood .... Affirmation means that you embrace the life that is yours and flows through you. Your affirmation of yourself is one of your greatest strengths. You can at times quite properly deny certain portions of experience, while still confirming your own vitality. You do not have to say "yes" to people, issues, or to events with which you are deeply disturbed. Affirmation does not mean a bland wishy-washy acceptance of anything that comes your way, regardless of your feelings about it. Biologically, affirmation means health. You go along with life, understanding that you form your experience, emphasizing your ability to do so. Affirmation does not mean sitting back and saying, "I can do nothing. It is all in Fate's hands, therefore whatever happens, happens."....[Affirmation] is the acceptance of your individuality in flesh. Basically it is a spiritual, psychic and biological necessity, and represents your appreciation of your singular integrity. (21;415-416)

2. Affirmation means accepting your soul as it appears in your creaturehood ... You cannot deny your creaturehood without denying your soul, and you cannot deny your soul without denying your creaturehood. (21:417)

3. [Affirmation] means saying 'yes' to your own being. It means acquiescing to your reality as a spirit in flesh. Within the framework of your own complexity, you have the right to say 'no" to certain situations, to express your desires, to communicate your feelings. If you do so, then in the great flow and sweep of your eternal reality there will be an overall current of love and creativity that carries you. Affirmation is the acceptance of yourself in your present as the person that you are. Within that acceptance you may find qualities that you wish you did not have or that annoy you. You must not expect to be "per-fect"...Your ideas of perfection mean a state of fulfillment beyond which there is no future growth, and no such state exists. (21;425-426)

4. Affirmation always involves the acknowledgment of your power in the present ... Denial is the surrendering of that power. Affirmation then is the acquiescence to your ability, as a spirit within flesh, to form the physical reality of your creaturehood. (21;440-441)

5. YOU ARE GIVEN THE GIFT OF THE GODS; YOU CREATE YOUR OWN REALITY ACCORDING TO YOUR BELIEFS; YOURS IS THE CREATIVE ENERGY THAT MAKES YOUR WORLD; THERE ARE NO LIMITATIONS TO THE SELF EXCEPT THOSE YOU BELIEVE IN. I AM SETH. I SPEAK MY NAME JOYFULLY, THOUGH NAMES ARE NOT IMPORTANT. THEN EACH OF YOU SPEAK YOUR NAMES WITH AFFIRMATION EACH MORNING. (22;452)

B. ACCEPT PRESENT POSITION

1. If you have a loving regard for yourself, then you will trust in your own direction. You will accept your present position, whatever it is, as being part of that direction, and realize that from it can come all the creative elements that you need. (22;442-443)

C. DO NOT SACRIFICE

1. Regardless of what you have been told, there is no merit in self-sacrifice.... A child who says, “I gave up my life for my parents and devoted myself to their care" means "I was afraid to live my own life, and afraid to let them live theirs. And so, in "giving' up my life I gained the life I wanted. (21:426-427)

D. KNOW YOU ARE IN A STATE OF GRACE

1. The feeling of grace is your emotional recognition of the necessity, purpose and freedom, the innate appreciation, of your rightness and your place in existence. (9;164)

2. When you are fairly happy and content in your daily life, you can be said to be in a state of grace. On those occasions when you feel at one with the universe, or come upon an exceptional experience in which you seem to go beyond yourself, you can said to be in a state of illumination, and this has many degrees and levels. In any such state your physical health benefits. (10;175-176)

3. You certainly have as much of a place in the universe as a squirrel, an ant or a leaf. You do not question their right to exist. Why question your own? (I 1;233)

4. The state of grace is, practically speaking, the cause of your sense of well-being and accomplishment. (12;238)

E. SAY NO WHENEVER YOU WISH

1. A frown is a natural method of communication, saying,..."I am upset". If you tell yourself to smile when you feel like scowling, then you are tampering with your natural expression and denying to another a legitimate communication that tells how you feel. (1 1;212)

2. Many who say they believe in the power of thought are so afraid of it that they inhibit it in themselves, avoiding any that appear negative or harmful. (1 1;212)

3. Individuality grants you the right of making decisions of saying 'yes" or "no'. By implication, to always acquiesce may very well mean that you are denying your own personhood A person who says "I hate' is at least stating that he has an "I" capable of hating. The one who says 'I have no right to hate", is not facing his own individuality Many disavow the experience of feelings they consider negative. They try to 'affirm' what they think of as positive emotions. They do not permit themselves the dimensions of their creaturehood, and by pretending to not feel what they feel, they deny the integrity of their own experience. (21;416)

4. Many who unexpectedly commit great crimes find it difficult to express the most normal denial, or to go against their given code of conventionality and respect. (21;418)

F. DON'T USE DENIAL

1. Each of you must work from the point of your own reality.... 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 often they will be quite obvious. You simply did not want to face them.... The knowledge of your own power releases you from all fears, and hence all rage. (17;357)

2. You can change your past and prescribe your future

A. THE ILLUSION OF THE PRESENT

1. 'Me nerve pattern's activity... causes the illusion of a present... In certain terms 'future" events exist now, but they are too fast. They jump over the nerve endings too quickly, and physically you cannot perceive or experience them as yet. [Nerve] impulses possess a far different reality than physicists or biologists suppose. As you think now, "past" is still occurring. The "drag" still leaps the synapses, but again, is not physically recorded. Past events continue. (13;286)

2. In such a way the cells retain their memory, though you do not perceive it, and the body is aware of so-called future occurrences, though as a rule you do not consciously perceive it. (13;287)

B. YOU HAVE MANY PROBABLE SELVES

1. It is natural for you to have probable selves as well as reincarnational existence’s. (7; 127)

2. There is within the rich makeup of your being a literally endless variety of what you may call

probable selves. In one reality or another these will all be experienced. In your present existence however you will utilize only those psychological characteristics that you believe you possess. (14;285)

3. In your terms probable events are brought into actuality by utilizing the body's nerve structure through crtain intensities of will or conscious belief. These beliefs obviously have another reality besides the one with which you are familiar. They attract and bring into being certain events instead of others. Therefore they determine the entry of experienced events from an endless variety of probable ones..... You only remember the portion of your identity that is physically realized. (14;286)

4. Each physical cell is in its own way a miniature brain, with memory of all its personal experiences .... An alteration in just one cell is instantly noted by the body consciousness ( the combined consciousness of the cells). This information is used together with all other data from the body, and a prediction is made. This body prediction is assessed...The 'picture' is shown in the invisible arena where flesh and spirit meet. The arena ... is an inner state of gestalt consciousness. (7; 129)

5. This predictive picture is then set against two models. First it is checked against the body's ideal standard of health in its individual case - its own greatest fulfillment. Then it is checked against the image of the body sent to it by the conscious self. (7; 130)

C. CHANGE THE PAST NOW

1. There are elements in your past that are as unpredictable... as the elements of your future now appear to be. There is creativity in your past waiting for you even as there is in your future, but to utilize such experiences you must learn to alter your beliefs, and to some degree escape from the particular kind of limited conscious focus that you habitually use. (13:288)

2. Beneath your usual consciousness, your physical organism can react to future events without your

knowledge, as it can to past ones. (13;289)

3. A new belief in the present... can cause changes on a neuronal level.

YOU MUST UNDERSTAND THAT BASICALLY TIME IS SIMULTANEOUS. PRESENT BELIEFS CAN INDEED ALTER THE PAST.

In some cases of healing, in the spontaneous disappearance of cancer, for instance, or of any other disease, certain alterations are made that affect cellular memory, genetic codes or neuronal patterns in the past .... A strong belief in a particular ability generated in the present will reach into the past and effect whatever changes would have had to occur there in order to make the ability apparent. (13;290)

4. While your physical body wears its solidity only in present time to your senses, beneath this both the ever-changing elements of your body and your consciousness are relatively free in time. They exist in a multidimensionality with which rational consciousness is not yet equipped to deal .... You may say, "I was born in a house on a certain street in a certain town, and no present belief to the contrary will change that fact. If, in the present, one past event can be altered within your neuronal structure, however, then basically no event is safe from such change. (13;291)

5. A sudden contemporary belief in illness will actually reach back into the past, affecting the organism at that level, and inserting into the past experience of the cells the initiation of those biological events that will then seem to give birth to a present disease. (13;292) 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 but that in the 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. (13;293) Dear friend, you repattern your past from the present. (15;309)

D. DETERMINE YOUR FUTURE NOW

1. This does not mean that the future cannot be predicted sometimes, for in practical terms you will continue with certain lines of probability which can be seen "ahead of time'. (14;292)

2. Each individual, generally speaking, knows his challenges and overall programs, and the time of his death. But even such decisions can be altered at any time in your "now'. (14;292)

3. Since your conscious beliefs determine those unconscious functions that bring about your personal experience, your first step is to enlarge those beliefs. (15;298)

4.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. (15;299)

5. The images in your mind draw to themselves all the proper emotional energy and power needed to

fill them out as physical events. 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 number of probable ones .... The abilities and variants that you may want to actualize are already latent and at your disposal. Suppose you are unhealthy and desire health. If you understand the nature of probabilities, you will not need to pretend to ignore your present situation. You will recognize it instead as a probable reality that you have physically materialized. You will then begin to bring a different probability into physical existence. You will do this by concentrating on 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 on the present unhealthy situation will only prolong it. Each condition is as real or unreal as the other .... You have choice, broadly, within certain frameworks that you have chosen as a 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 present experience outside of your beliefs about them. (15;302)

6. 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 you do not understand seek out new connections on much deeper levels far beyond consciousness.(15;303)

7. The present is your point of power in your current lifetime, as you think of it .... For an exercise, sit with your eyes wide open ... 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 ... is the result of action in other such presents.

DO NOT BE IN TIMIDATED THEREFORE BY THE PAST OR 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. (15;303).... IF YOU LEARN TO GET HOLD OF THIS FEELING OF POWER NOW, YOU CAN USE IT EFFECTIVELY TO ALTER YOUR LIFE SITUATION IN WHATEVER WAY YOU CHOOSE - AGAIN, WITHIN THOSE LIMITATIONS SET BY YOUR CREATUREHOOD.

If you were born without a limb, for example, your power in the present cannot automatically regenerate it in this life, although in other systems of reality you do posses that limb. (15;304-305)

9. Diseases can be eliminated, even those that seem fatal - but only if the beliefs behind them are erased or altered enough so that their specific focusing effect upon the body is sufficiently released. (15;304)

10. Through the use of computers ... you try to assess "future probabilities"...The mind can do this far better than any computer. If it believed this, then certain portions of the brain would be activated ... and the probabilities of future events would be made consciously available. (21;440) 1 1. You get what you concentrate upon. There is no other main rule. (3;46)

E. THE PRESENT IS THE POINT OF POWER

1. As far as you are concerned, the present is your point of action, focus and power, and from that point of volition you form both your future and past. Realizing this you will understand you are not at the mercy of a past over which you have no control. (13;29i)

2. You are not at the mercy of the past, or of previous convictions, unless that you believe

that you are. If you fully comprehend your power in the present, you will realize that action at that

point also alters the past, its beliefs and your reactions. (15;307)

3. YOU FORM YOUR REALITY NOW. (15;312)

4. There is a constant interaction in this multidimensional point of power ... so that in your terms one incarnated self draws from all the others what abilities it wants, according to its own specific ... beliefs. (15;313)

5. The point of power, again, is in the present, when your nonphysical self merges with corporeal reality. The recognition of that alone can revitalize your life. (17;355)

6. If you utilize the point of power properly, 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 .... You will no longer need to transfer your power to others. All of the exercises in this book are prerequisites; they are necessary so that you understand how the point of power is to be used. (17;356)

7. The point of power exercises is meant to familiarize you with your own energy and your ability to direct it. The natural hypnosis exercises allow you greater effectiveness in directing and focusing that power. (17;357)

F. POINT OF POWER EXERCISE

A 5-minute period can be of great benefit. In this period concentrate upon the e 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 5 minutes only direct all of your attention toward what you want.

USE VISUALIZATION OR VERBAL THOUGHT -WHATEVER COMES MOST NATURALLY TO YOU. BUT 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 ....

In health terms, it involves conducting yourself once a day as though you were not sick Sometimes [this] brings literally awesome results. The effects will occur however only if you cease looking into the past "for what is wrong", and stop reinforcing your negative experience You who believe in reincarnation can make the [same] error It is bad enough to believe you are at the mercy of one past. (16;31 1)

G. DON'T LOOK FOR THE REASON IN THE PAST

1. The future - the probable future - is being altered in the same way, of course. To look backward for the cause of current problems can lead you into the habit of seeking only negative episodes from your past .... Those given to such practices - constant examination of the past in order to discover what is wrong in the present - too oftenmiss the point. Instead they constantly reinforce the negative experience from which they are trying to escape. Their initial problems were caused precisely as a result of the same kind of thinking. A great many unsatisfactory conditions result because individuals become frightened at various periods in their lives, doubt themselves, and begin to concentrate upon -negative" aspects. A person may begin to doubt his ability to get along with others, So he may begin to look into his past - with that belief in mind - and then find within previous conduct all kinds of reasons to support that idea .... If he ... [looked for a] different kind of proof instead, then in the same past hewould also discover instances when he did relate well with others. (15;307-308)

2. The question, 'What is wrong with me?" will only lead you to create further limitations, and to reinforce those that you do have. (15;309)

3. If you constantly focus on the belief that [your childhood] was damaging and negative, then only such experiences will flow into your present life from the past. It does no good to say, ‘But my life was traumatic," therefore reinforcing the belief. You must in one way or another modify that conviction, or preferably change it entirely - or you will never escape from its effects. This does not mean lying to yourself; but if it seems to you that your background held no joys, accomplishments or pleasures, then you are lying to yourself now. You have concentrated on the negative to such an degree that anything else seems invisible. From the present you have hypnotized yourself, viewing the past not as it was to your experience, but as it appears now in the light of your current beliefs. You have reconstructed it. So when I tell you to restructure your past, I am not telling you to do something that you have not already done. (15;316)

H. YOU ARE YOUR OWN HYPNOTIST

1. Natural hypnosis is the acquiescence of the unconscious to conscious belief. (16;322)

2. Hypnosis clearly shows in concentrated form the way in which your beliefs affect your behavior in normal life ... (It] focuses all of your concentration upon a specific area, shutting out any distractions. Your beliefs act like a hypnotist then. As long as the particular directions are given, so will your "automatic" experience conform. The one belief that can break through is this "I create my reality, and the present is my point of power." If you do not like the effects of a belief you must alter it, for no manipulation of the exterior situation will release you. If you truly understand your power of action and decision in the present, then you will not be hypnotized by past events. (15;315-316)

3. Popular demonstrations lead [you] ... to believe that the subject [in hypnosis] must fall asleep or be completely relaxed, yet this is not the case. The one prerequisite is an intense concentration upon specific incoming data to the exclusion of everything else....The shutting out of superfluous data and the narrowing of focus are the two most important ingredients Relaxation can help simply because the body messages are also quieted, and the mindnot concerned with them. (15;316)

4. One of the troubles is that too specific distinctions are made between the conscious and the unconscious minds. They overlap. Hypnosis, used properly without the mumbo jumbo usually assigned to it, is an excellent method of inserting new beliefs and getting rid of old ones - if you realize the power of your conscious mind in that moment, and understand the ability of your consciousness to mobilize unconscious reactions. (15;317)

5. You have 'hypnotized' yourself into all the beliefs that you have .... Formal hypnosis merely brings about an accelerated version of what goes on all the time. It is a perfect example of the instantaneous results possible ideally. (15;317)

6. 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. Whenever you have your own undivided attention you act as hypnotist and subject simultaneously. (16;320)

7. In formal hypnosis ... if you are a good subject ... then blisters can arise on your skin if [the hypnotist] tells you that you have been burned .... Unfortunately ... it is [commonly] thought that the conscious mind is lulled and its activity suspended [in hypnosis]. Quite the contrary. It is focused and intensified ... and all other stimuli are cut out.

THIS INTENSITY OF CONCENTRATION CUTS DOWN BARRIERS AND ALLOWS THE MESSAGES TO GO DIRECTLY TO THE UNCONSCIOUS, WHERE THEY ARE ACTED UPON.

The hypnotist, however, is important in that he acts as a direct representative of authority .... All of the gestures, dances and other procedures are shock treatments, startling the subject out of habitual reactions so that he or she is forced to focus upon the present moment. The resulting disorientation simply shakes current beliefs and dislodges set frameworks. The hypnotist, or witch doctor, or therapist, then immediately inserts the beliefs he thinks the subject needs. (16;324) WESTERN MEDICINE

8. Western medicine is in its way one of the most uncivilized hypnotic devices. The most educated Western doctors will look with utter dismay and horror at the thought of a chicken being sacrificed in a primitive witch doctor's hut, and yet will consider it quite scientific and inevitable that a woman sacrifice two breasts to cancer. The doctors will simply see no other way out, and unfortunately neither will the patient. A modem Western physician - granted with the greatest discomfiture - will inform his patient that he is about to die, impressing upon him that the situation is hopeless, and yet will react with scorn and loathing when he reads that a voodoo practitioner has put a curse upon some innocent victim .... Through advertisement, young doctors impress upon [people] ... that they must have a physical examination every six months or you will get cancer; that you must have medical insurance because you will become ill. (16;325)

9. In the medical field, as in no other, you are faced with the full impact of your beliefs, for doctors are not the healthiest, but the least healthy. They fall prey to the beliefs to which they so heartily subscribe. Their concentration is on disease, not health .... Your doctors are also the victims of their own belief system. (16;326-327)

ALTERNATE MEDICINE

10. Luckily you have other "underground" beliefs, in chiropractic, health foods, and even quacks. These all provide some other framework in which problems can be solved in matters of health. At least damaging drugs are not given, and the integrity of the body is not further maligned. (16;326)

11. 'Me quacks end up with those who are hopeless, who realize the ineffectiveness of other belief systems, find them wanting and have no other place to go. Some of the quacks may be unscrupulous and dishonest, yet many of them posses an intuitive understanding, and can work "cures" through the instant alteration of belief. The medical profession is fond of saying that such individuals prevent patients from seeking proper treatment. The fact is that such patients no longer believe in the doctor's system of belief, and so could not be helped by them. (16;326-327)

12. To a medical man all of this will seem like the sheerest heresy, because disease will always be seen as an objective thing in the body, to be objectively treated and removed. But a man who feels "that he has no heart" will not be saved by the most sophisticated heart transplant, unless first that belief is changed. (16;327)

CHANGING YOUR SITUATION

13. In those areas in which you are dissatisfied, you feel that you are powerless, or that your will is paralyzed, for that conditions continue despite what you think of as your intent. Yet if you pay attention to your own quite conscious thoughts, you will find that you are concentrating upon precisely those negative aspects that so appall you. You are hypnotizing yourself quite effectively .... In those positive life situations you are certain of your initiative. There is no doubt. Your beliefs become reality ... This is also so in] the unsatisfactory aspects ... there is no doubt. You are utterly convinced that you are sick or poor or lonely ... or unhappy .... What should you do, then? First of all, you must realize you are the hypnotist. You must seize the initiative ... Whatever the superficial reasons for your beliefs, you must say:

NOTICE IF YOU'RE TIRED

14. What should you do ... if you feel yourself getting tired? This is your conscious assessment of your body's reality at a given time. Instead you say mentally that the body can now begin to rest and refresh itself .... You can, if the conditions warrant, physically rest by lying down [or such]. If [this is not] 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 ... reinforces the condition. (5; 8 8)

(EXERCISE)

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 mine completely. (16;327-328)

I. HYPNOSIS EXERCISE

For 5 or 10 minutes a day at the most, 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 on it for this time ... Do not allow distractions, but if your mind insists upon running about then channel its images in line with your declaration. The repetition, verbally or mentally, is important because it activates biological patterns and reflects them. Do not strain .... During this period ... remember that you are using the present as a moment of power to insert new beliefs and that these will be materialized. When the exercise is finished do not dwell upon it .... Three days at the very least are necessary before you can tell, through results, how effective it has been .... You may experience spectacular results at once. But continue the exercise even if this happens. Inner channels must be repatterened. There will be a feel to this that will serve as your own individual guideline. (16;321)

Don't stay sick or lonely or sad

A. SICKNESS

1. If you are sick ... there is a reason. To recover thoroughly without taking on new symptoms, you must discover the reason. You may dislike your illness, but it is a course you have decided upon. While you are convinced that the course is necessary you will keep the symptoms. (2:34) 2. An illness may be used as a method for achieving another constructive end. Such a person would have to believe that an unhealthy condition was the best way to serve another purpose .... The belief in illness itself depends upon a belief in human unworthiness, guilt and imperfection. (5:68) 3. When you believe that only glasses will correct poor vision then only glasses will. Instead you must find the reason for the belief behind the ... nonfunction, and if this is done the condition will automatically clear up. Now for most people it easier to get glasses. (5:89)

B. LONELY

1. Which you? Which world? If you are lonely it is because you believe in your loneliness in this present point that you acknowledge as time You are also denying your own point of action within the present. (15;305)

2. If you are unloved, [you say] "I did not want to be lonely'. Yet for your own reasons you began to believein loneliness rather than affection But [that belief] can be changed if you utilize the power of action in the present....'The suggestions you give yourselves constantly operate overall as beliefs that are reflected in our experience. Some of you are simply mentally lazy. You do not constantly examine the data you receive. (16;320)

3. 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.... 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 powers to bear ... Do not try to overdo this, going through the entire day worrying about beliefs, for example. (16;328) 4. A person who has hypnotizes himself into a state of loneliness will be desolate although surrounded by a hundred friends or admirers. (16;327)

C. DON'T CONTINUE GRIEVING

1. If you pursue sorrowful thoughts persistently you are reactivating that body condition. Think of one of the more pleasant events that ever happened to you and the reverse will be true - the process is the same These mental associations are living things. They are formations of energy assembled into invisible structures Thoughts thrive on association. They magnetically attract others like themselves. (8:137)

D. HEALING

1. Your conscious thoughts regulate your health. The persistent idea of illness will make you ill. While you believe that you become ill because of viruses, infections or accidents, then you must go to doctors who operate within that system of belief. And because you believe in their cures, hopefully you will be relieved of your difficulty. Because you do not understand that your thoughts create illness you will continue to undergo it ... and new symptoms will appear ... While you are in the process of changing beliefs - when you are beginning to realize that your thoughts and beliefs cause illness - then for a while you may not know what to do .... You may realize that the doctor can at best give you temporary relief, yet you may not be completely convinced as yet of your own ability to change your thoughts; or you may be so cowed by their effectiveness that you are frightened. (3;49)

2. When you feel joyful your body benefits and becomes stronger. (8;140)

3. While you believe that only doctors can cure you, you had better go to them .... While you may be cured of one difficulty, you will only replace it with another as long as your beliefs cause you to have physical problems....'The healing energy [is] always within you. (5;92)

4. Out of a knowledge of the contents of your own conscious mind you can definitely heal most maladies of the body, within conditions to be given later. (10;181)

HEALTH

5. You health is an extension of your creativity. So is your relationship with your mate, your boss etc.(9; 168)

LOSS OF POWER

6. The more powerless you feel, the less able you are to utilize your own healing abilities. You are then forced to project them outward upon a physician, a healer or outside agency. If your own belief in the physician "works" and you are cured of symptoms .... your own belief in yourself may be further infringed upon. If you are making no effective efforts to handle your own problems, then the symptoms win simply reappear in a new fashion. (17;354)

HYPNOSIS

7. [Consider] a gentleman who has ulcers .... If his belief in poor health remains unchecked, the medicine will no longer serve as an adequate counter measure. It would seem only good sense to refrain from the foods that bring on the condition. Yet each time this is done, the individual acquiesces more and more to the hypnotic suggestion. He fully believes he will become ill if he eats the forbidden foods, and so he does. It never occurs to him to dispense with the belief - to realize that it alone sets up the conditioning process through the operation of self-hypnosis. (16;334-335)

E. FACE THE PROBLEM

1. Fear, faced and felt with its bodily sensations and the thoughts that go along with it, will automatically bring about its own... resolution. (11;221)

2. If you have a physical symptom, do not run away from it. Feel its reality in your body. Let the emotions flow freely. These will lead you, if you allow them to, to the beliefs that cause the difficulty. (I 1;224-225)

F. HEAL THE INNER PROBLEM; RELEASE GUILT

1. You do not need drugs, hypnotism, or even meditation. You only need to allow and direct the freedom of your conscious mind. Left alone, it will flow through thoughts and images that provide their own therapy. You often avoid this natural treatment, however, and run from frightening conscious thoughts that would in their turn lead you to the source of 'negative' beliefs, where they could be faced; you could travel through them into feelings of joy and victory. Instead many of you (turn to] drugs. (10; 194-195)

2. If [medicine] improves the immediate situation, the inner problems must still be worked out. Otherwise other illnesses will be substituted Unfortunately, the more you rely upon exterior methods the more it seems you must rely on them. You will o often become 'allergic' to a drug simply because the body realizes that if the drug was accepted, all recourse to the solutions of a particular problem would be cut off, or another more severe illness would result from the physical cover 'up' of the dilemma. (10;203)

3. A problem caused by guilt, physically materialized as a malady, is meant to lead you to face and conquer the idea of guilt, the belief in it that you hold in your conscious mind. (10;204) IDENTIFY THE PROBLEM

4. When you feel the rise of unpleasant emotions,...[try] to identify their source. The answers are far more available than you have previously believed. Accept such feelings as your own in the moment. Do not shove them underneath, ignore them or try to substitute what you think of as good thoughts. (10;207)

5. The free flow of your emotions will always lead you back to your conscious beliefs if you do not impede them. Your feelings always change the chemical balance of your body and alter its hormonal output, but the danger comes only when you refuse to face the contents of your conscious mind. Even the intent to know yourself, to face the reality of your experience, can be of great benefit. (10;208)

6. The 'negative' subjective and objective events that you meet are meant to make you examine the contents of your own conscious mind. (1 1;220)

7. Illnesses usually represent unfaced problems.... and these dilemmas embody challenges meant to lead you to greater achievement and fulfillment. (17;346)

8. You are not separated

A. MINDS ARE CONNECTED

1. All beliefs are communicated to others, not only through unconscious bodily mechanisms, but telepathically. (I 1;216)

2. You are a sender and a receiver. Ideas have an electromagnetic reality. Beliefs radiate strongly.... You react only to those telepathic messages that fit in with your conscious ideas about yourself and your reality. (3;41)

3. Telepathic communication is constant. This is usually at an unconscious level. (3;46)

4. On a physical level you seem to be separated from everything that is not yourself. This is not true. (5;98)

B. CONSCIOUS MIND

1. The ego and the conscious mind are not the same thing. (I; 14)

2. In purely physical terms, what you think of as consciousness of the self arises from a certain peak of intensity reached by the gestalt consciousness of the atoms and molecules, and cells and organs, that compose the body.(16;293)

11. Pay attention

A. BE VIGILANT

1. Attention to your own stream of consciousness is highly important. This alone will help you see in what areas you are denying impulses or giving yourself directions that lead to powerlessness. (17;357)

B. NOTICE YOUR DREAMS

1. You may request dreams in which proper direction is given, and you will receive them. If you ask on the one hand, however, and do not believe in the therapeutic nature of dreams on the other, you will short-circuit any such activity. (7;132)

2. Dreams are one of your greatest natural therapies, and one of your most effective assets as connectors between the interior and exterior universes. Dreams give you all kinds of information concerning the state of your body, the world at large, and the probable exterior conditions that your present beliefs will bring about. (10;195)

3. No one really knows the meaning of [your dreams] but yourself .... The real work of the dream is done during the event itself, on deep psychic and biological levels. The dream's happening affects your entire physical condition-In (the dream drama] the problems or challenges of your existence are worked out. Many probable actions are taken; these are then projected into the probable future. (10;201)

4. Often there are dreams in which "you" are two separate people ... each asking questions of the other. (1 1;232)

5. When you trust yourself then you will trust your own dream interpretations - and these will lead you to greater self-understanding. (14;276)

6. In dreams you often do work quite as valid as any performed in the day, and in the dream state you meet and interact with your own reincarnational selves .... There are as yet undiscovered, bizarre changes in the brain during certain dream states, an acceleration that quite literally propels the consciousness out of its usual space-time continuum into those other realities from which it comes. (19;390)

7. In waking reality beliefs take time before their materialization is apparent. From infinite probable acts, only one can be physically experienced as a rule. The dream world operates as a creative situation in which probable acts are materialized instantly ... From these you choose the most appropriate for physical expression. (20;401)

8. If you are afraid of your dreams, you are afraid of yourself. (20;404)

9. It may take some time before your conscious mind accepts or recognizes a diagnosis given in a dream. It may come to you later 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 .... You can also go...beyond this into the dream condition itself, requesting certain dreams, certain solutions, and shortening the time ... that may be involved. (20;404)

10. In the dream you allow yourself greater freedom, trying out certain ideas and beliefs in this more plastic framework .... In dreaming the conscious mind is far more lenient and playful .... In the dream state consciousness ignores space-time relationships to a large degree. (20;405)

11. Both privately and en mass, then, mankind utilizes the dream world as a preliminary working ground .... Your wars are fought, lost or won in the dream world first of all, and the physical rendition of history follows the thin line of only one series of probabilities. (20;408)

12. Again, in your dreams you work with probabilities and decide which ones will become your physical 'true facts"....By suggesting before sleep that solutions of a problem be given to you, you automatically begin to utilize your dream knowledge to a greater extent. (20;409)

13. You use your beliefs like searchlights in the dream state, looking for other events that fit in with your ideas about reality. (20;412)

14. In a manner of speaking you travel back and forth each night through atmospheres and entry points of which you are not aware. (20;412)

15. Your deepest dreams have nonmaterial comprehension’s, however. Your dream though clearly remembered, is already a translation of the physical brain. (19;392)

16. If you want to clear up an argument, tell yourself that you will do so in the dream state. There you can speak freely with those who may avoid you otherwise. Many reconciliation’s take place at this level. Request the answer to any problem and it will be given, but you must trust yourself and learn to trust your own dreams. (41320;414)

17. Your beliefs about food and medicine matter

A. MEDICAL PROFESSION

1. The present medical profession is sadly hampered because of its own beliefs. Often it operates as a framework in which poor health and disease are not only accepted as normal, but the concepts behind them strengthened. (5;90)

2. The naming and labeling of 'diseases' is a harmful practice that to a large extent denies the innate mobility and ever changing quality of the psyche as expressed in flesh..... Me patient...often feels relatively powerless and at the mercy of any stray virus that might come along. The facts are that you choose even the kind of illness that you have according to the nature of your beliefs. You are immune from ill health as long as you believe you are. (5;9 1)

B. WESTERN MEDICINE

1. A Western doctor may give vitamin shots or pills to a native child in another culture. The child need not know what particular vitamin is being given, or the name for his disease, but if he believes in the physician and Western medicine, he will indeed improve, and he will need the vitamins from then on. So will all the other children. (16;333)

2. The same applies to the "public service' announcements dealing with tobacco and drugs alike. The suggestion that smoking will give you cancer is far more dangerous than the physical effects of smoking, and can give cancer to people who might not otherwise be affected. (16;334)

3. You put your ill into hospitals ... What you do ... is to isolate a group of people who are filled with negative beliefs about illness. The contagion of beliefs spreads .... Women delivering babies are placed in the same environment .... For all practical purposes the ill are put into prison. They are forced to concentrate on their condition. All of this applies quite apart from any other dehumanizing effects, such as overcrowded conditions, the denial of human privacy, and often the negation of dignity. The individual is made to feel powerless, at the mercy of doctors and nurses who do not have time or energy to be personable, or explain his condition in terms he can understand. The patient is therefore forced to transfer his own sense of power to others, which further deepens his misery. (17;345-346)

C. DRUGS

1. The body knows how to handle "natural' drugs coming directly from the earth .... A large variety of "manufactured' drugs offer an unfamiliarity to the body's innate structure, which can lead to strong defense mechanisms. (7; 126)

2. In therapy, using massive doses of LSD, a condition of chemically enforced insanity takes place. By insanity, I mean a situation in which the conscious mind is forced into a state of powerlessness. (10;176)

3. The body is equipped to deal with ingredients that come from the earth. Great doses of ... artificial drugs are not easily assimilated, and bring about biological confusion. Within their native framework, some American Indians use peyote in their own way - but not as gluttons, stunning and annihilating their systems .... They do not use it to try to blast themselves out of existence .... They become part of the All That Is - as they should - without dying as they are. (10;179)

4. If you believe, however, that the chemicals in certain foods will harm you drastically and bring about disastrous consequences, then even small doses of these can do you harm. (10;186) CHEMICALS UPSET YOUR SYSTEM

5. Any chemical upsets in the body will right themselves after the inner problems have been worked out...The new balance signals the organism that an inner problem has been resolved (202)

D. MEDICAL INSURANCE AND RETIREMENT PROGRAMS

1. Not only do you operate within your own personal beliefs, of course, but within a mass system to which you subscribe to one degree or another. Within that organization medical insurance becomes a necessity for most of you, so I am not suggesting that you drop it. Nevertheless... you are paying in advance for illness that you are certain will come your way. You are making all preparations in the present for a future of illness. You are betting upon disease, not health. This is the worst kind of natural hypnosis, and yet within your system insurance is indeed a necessity, because the belief in illness so pervades your mental atmosphere. Many become ill only after taking out such 'insurance'....Even more unfortunate are the special policies for the elderly that detail in advance all of the most stereotyped and distorted concepts about health and age. There is a great correlation between the kind of policies that people take out and the illnesses that they then fall prey to. (16;331)

2. [Consider] the cancer drive literature, and television 'public service' announcements, in which the seven danger signals of cancer are given ... Within the framework of your beliefs, this becomes almost a necessity for many - especially for those who, because of previous experience ... with the disease, are almost irrational in their fear of it. (16;332)

3. Ideas of retirement fall generally into the same pattern, for hidden within them is the belief that at one time or another, at a specific age, your powers will begin to fail. These ideas are usually accepted by young and old alike. In believing them the young automatically begin the gradual conditioning of their own bodies and minds. The results will be reaped. (16;332)

E. HEALTH FOODS

1. Generally speaking, those who advocate health foods or natural foods subscribe to some of the same overall beliefs held by your physicians .... Some...subscribe to philosophical ideas that moderate those concepts, recognizing the importance of the mind. Often though, some strong suggestions of a very negative character are given, so that all foods except certain accepted ones are seen as bad for the body, and the cause of diseases. People become afraid of the food they eat, and the field of eating becomes the arena .... In this system at least the body is not insulted with a bewildering assortment of drugs for therapy. It may, however, be starved for very needed nourishment. Beyond that the whole problem of health and illness becomes simplistically applied, and here food is scrutinized. You are what you think, not what you eat - and to a large extent what you think about what you eat is far more important. What you think about your body, health, and illness will determine how your food is used, and how your chemistry handles fats, for instance, or carbohydrates. Your attitudes in preparing meals are highly important. Physically it is true, but again more generally speaking, that your body needs certain nourishment’s. But within that pattern is great leeway, and the organism has the amazing capacity to make use of substitutes and alternates. (16;332-333)

F. FOOD AND BELIEFS

1. If certain foods are good then other foods must be bad. If he had a symptom after eating specific items, then he avoided those. Before he read the book [on health foods], the idea would not have occurred to him in that context. The refusal to eat particular foods, therefore, became a symbol for the avoidance of certain beliefs, so that for a while the beliefs were not faced while the foods were not eaten .... In his case, the realization that he can eat those foods means that he understands that he can encounter those beliefs in himself .... With each 'triumph,'...he shows himself that beliefs and not food are important .... He has read a book that discusses massaging the feet...The natural consideration given to the body during such 'therapy" is highly beneficial because the body's rights are taken into consideration, without the value judgment of right and wrong, carried by the health foods .... The less contaminated your food is]...the better off you are, but not if you believe that the body in its wisdom cannot handle the ordinary foods with which you are provided.... (Natural massage] will not solve inner problems ... but it can help in promoting relaxation momentarily. (12;240)

G. DIETS

1. Diets... [are] based on the idea that you are overweight because you eat too much. Instead you eat too much because you believe that you are overweight. The physical picture always fits because your belief in being overweight conditions your body to behave in just such a manner. In the oddest fashion, then, your diets simply reinforce the condition - since you diet because you believe so deeply in your overweight condition. (16;335) 2. You must...willingly suspend that belief. Using the exercises given...,you must make a conscious effort to insert a different belief, employ natural hypnosis in this new way. (16;335-336)

2. Your beliefs affect natural phenomena

A. WAR AND WEATHER

1. As creatures you are a part of nature. The change of thoughts, feelings and beliefs into physical objectively perceived phenomena is as natural as water changing into ice, for example. (17;358) 2. Your beliefs (often as opposed to your desires) cause wars. Your feelings represent the inner reality behind what you think of as purely natural phenomena, such as the weather.... You each participate in the creation ofeach thunderstorm, each new spring, etc. (17;359)

B. WEATHER AND THE PLANET

1. The rhythms of your body and of your consciousness follow the patterns of your planet. The planet itself is composed of atoms and molecules, each with their own kind of consciousness .... Your feelings are as natural a part of the environment as trees are. They have a great effect on the weather. There are even connections that can be made, for instance, between epilepsy and earthquakes. (18;361)

2. Earthquakes are very associated with periods of great social unrest, and from such locations the fault lines originate and are projected outward. They may ... cause a tidal wave on the other side of the world, even as a stroke might affect a portion of the body far from the original damage. (18;363)

3. When lightening strikes the earth, it changes it. There are also changes that come about through the impact of your thoughts upon the atmosphere. (18;363)

4. On other than conscious levels you are well aware of impending storms, floods, tornadoes, earthquakes, etc. There are many hints and signs ... in terms of minute electrical differentiation’s of which the skin itself is aware. On that level the body is often prepared for natural calamities before they occur. Defenses are set up. (18;364)

C. CHOOSING A CRISIS OR DISASTER

1. You felt before, unconsciously, that you were drifting and that life had little meaning. Beneath the surface of events you felt unfulfilled, and felt that you had great courage and abilities with never a chance to use them Unconsciously, therefore, you chose a situation in which a crisis was precipitated, rousing all the greatest element of heart and soul, so that they must strain to understand and triumph And you will learn more and be more fulfilled than you would (otherwise] have been This does not mean that there were not other ways available that you could have chosen. (1 1;236)

D. NATURAL DISASTERS

1. There are always reasons why an individual is involved in a disastrous natural catastrophe. In many cases a near conscious realization of the circumstances occurs beforehand. In other cases [it] is reflected in dreams .... Some people change their plans and leave town a day before a disaster comes about. Others stay. None of this is accidental. Unconscious material is admitted into consciousness according to those beliefs an individual holds about himself, his reality and his place in it. No one dies in a disaster who has not chosen todo so. There is always some conscious recognition although a person may play tricks with himself and pretendit is not there. (18;364-365)

2. those who want to use their unconscious precognition of such an event will take advantage of it - savethemselves and choose to not be involved. If they do not believe in such advance warnings and deny themselves conscious knowledge, yet still believe in their overall security, they will unconsciously act without knowledge of their reasons. (18;365)

3. There will be others who are part of the calamity for their own reasons. Psychically, mentally and physically, they will be as much a part of such an event as say, the water that sweeps through the town in a flood. They will utilize the physical catastrophe as an individual might use a symptom for purposes of challenge, growth, or understanding - but they will choose their disaster just as they will choose their symptoms ... It will not be thrust upon them .... An illness of a severe nature may be used by an individual to put him or her into intimate contact with the powers of life and death, ...to mobilize buried survival instincts, to vividly portray great points of contrast and summon all of his or her strength. (18;365)

4. There are no accidents. No one dies under any circumstances who is not prepared to die. (18;366)

5. Some ... prefer to die in what others would consider to be the most dire circumstances - swept away by the raging waves of an ocean, or crushed in an earthquake .... Slow death in a hospital, or an experience with illness,would be unthinkable to these same people. (18;366)

6. Many more human beings are aware of their own impending deaths than is generally known. They know and pretend they do not know. (18;366)

7. Those who die in catastrophes ... prefer to leave physical life ... battling for their lives .... fighting and not acquiescent. (18;366)

8. While man fears the unleashed powers of nature and tries to protect himself from it, he revels in it and identifies with it at the same time. The more civilized man becomes, the more his social structures ... separate him from intimate relationship with nature - the more natural catastrophes there will be, because underneath he senses his great need for identification with nature .... As nothing else can, a great encounter with the full energy of the elements puts man face to face with the incredible potency from which he springs .... Under such conditions men who feel a part of nothing, of no structure or family or country, can understand in a flash their comradeship with the earth. (18;367)

9. Obviously, many riots are quite consciously instigated. Certainly thousands, or millions of them, do not consciously decide to bring about a hurricane, etc. ... In the first place, on that level they do not believe such a thing possible. While conscious beliefs have a part to play in such cases, on an individual basis the "inner work' is done as unconsciously as the body produces physical symptoms. The symptoms seem to be inflicted on the body just as natural disaster seems to be visited upon the body of the earth .... The basic causes of both, however, are the same .... To some extent the same can be said of wars .... War will finally teach you to revere life. Natural catastrophes will remind you that you cannot ignore your planet or your creaturehood. (18;368)

10. Natural disasters are brought about more at an emotional level than at a belief level, though beliefs have an important part to play, for they generate the emotions to begin with. (18;368-369)

11. A rock in the stream will divide the water so that it must flow around the impediment. Your emotions are as quite as real as rocks. Your collective feelings affect the flow of energy and their force ... can be seen quite clearly in a thunderstorm. (18;369)

12. Storms or tornadoes are brought about by angry men precisely as wars are. (18;379)

E. ANIMALS FEEL BUT DO NOT BELIEVE

1. Man grants rich psychological activity to his own species but denies it in others. There as many luxuriant and diverse kinds of psychological movement as there are species. (12;248)

2. Man is so highly verbal that he finds it difficult to understand that other species work with idea-complexes of a different kind, in which thought as you consider it is not involved .... It is as if ideas are built up not through sentence structure ... but by mental patterns structured through touch and scent - in other words thinking but within a... different framework .... Animals understand the beneficial directing elements of disease. They also comprehend the nature of stress as a necessary stimulant to physical activity. (12;248)

3. When an animal is sick it immediately begins to remedy the situation, and unconsciously knows what to do.(12;251)

4. An animal feels but it doesn't believe. (18;363)

14. There is a purpose in old age

A. OLD AGE

1. In old age the organism is, in certain terms, preparing for a new birth. (1 1;224)

2. The individual, when it is time then, begins to see beyond temporal life, to open up to dimensions of awareness that ... he could not afford while involved in the intense physical focus of normal adult life .... Drugs are often used as depressants, clouding the clarity of what seems to be distorted vision....There are no teachers to guide them. Old age is a highly creative part of living .... Even the chemical and hormonal changes that occur are those conducive to spiritual and psychic growth at that time. (13;263)

2. As the mind within the body clearly sees its earthly time coming to an end, mental and psychic accelerations take place ... with the preparation for a completely new kind of personality growth and fulfillment .... Many [of them] are interpreted by you as senility. (13;262)

B. GETTING READY FOR DEATH

1. No one who decides on death is saved from it by the medical profession... When that [time] arrives the person knows it, and the great vitality of the spirit no longer wants to be encased by a suffering physical body. Yet here the medical profession often takes care to see that every technological advance is brought to bear to force the self to remain within the flesh, when naturally soul and flesh would part. There are normal interlocking mechanisms, that prepare the self for death, even chemical interactions that make this easier physically - bursts of acceleration, in your terms, to propel the individual easily out of the body. Drugs can only hamper this. (17;347-348) 2. So at your normal physical death, you come to the point where earth-attuned consciousness can no longer handle further data without a "longer rest". (19;394)

15. So, what is real: the world, nirvana or the devil?

A. THE SEPARATION

1. On the side of consciousness, [original sin] represents the birth of the conscious mind in the species as a whole, and the emergence of self-responsibility. It also stands for the separation of the self who perceives - and therefore judges and values - from the object which is perceived and evaluated. It represents the emergence of .. the strongly oriented individual self from that ground of being from which all consciousness comes. (12;239)

B. YOUR PRESENT PURPOSE

1. You are in physical existence to learn and understand that your energy, translated into feelings, thoughts and emotions, causes all experience. There are no exceptions. (2;23)

2. Unfortunately the ordinary man or woman looks for the solutions to personal problems outside of the self,where they can least be found. (22;448)

3. The false beliefs must be weeded out so that the conscious mind can become aware of its source [the inner self) once again. (2:32)

4. You are a being unlimited by nature, born into flesh to materialize as best you can the great joy and spontaneity of your nature. (3;50)

C. THE REALITY BEHIND REALITY

1. What is the reality behind reality? Is physical life a hallucination? Is there some definable concrete reality,of which your own is a mere shadow? You’re reality is the result of a hallucination, if by this

you mean that itis only the 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 thesenses 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 really is. (16;319)

2. Your reality exists independently of your physically oriented consciousness, but while you are a creature your awareness must be interpreted through your neurological structure and your corporeal aliveness. (18;360)

D. IF THE WORLD IS REAL

1. If you [believe] that "GOD' creates only "good", then any physical deficiency, illness or deformity becomes an affront to your belief, threatens it, and makes you angry and resentful You can [also] fall into

the other extreme, glorifying sickness as a necessary enabling experience You can even seek out illness to prove to yourself the strength of your own spirituality - and to impress others. (12;255)

E. WESTERN RELIGION NEEDS BOTH A DEVIL AND A GOD

1. If you do not understand that you create your own reality, then you may assign all good results to a personified god, and need the existence of a devil to explain the undesirable reality. So churches as they now exist in Western society need a devil as well as a god. (17;352-353)

2. If you believe in demons you will meet them - in this life as enemies, and in other realms of consciousness as devils or 'evil" spirits. If you are frightened by your emotions and believe them wrong, then when you try " psychic' experiments you may believe you are possessed. Your feelings, the repressed ones, will seem demonic. You will be afraid to assign them to yourself, and so you will think they belong to a disembodied spirit. (22;452) 3. There is no evil in basic terms ... You meet with effects that appear evil, but as you each move individually through the dimensions of your consciousness, you will understand that all seeming opposites are other faces of the one supreme drive toward creativity. (12;253)

F. UNENDING VALUE FULFILLMENT IS OUR DESTINY, NOT NIRVANA

1. The concept of nirvana and the idea of heaven are two versions of the same picture, the former being one in which individuality is lost in the bliss of undifferentiated consciousness and the latter one in which still-conscious individuals perform mindless adoration. Neither theory... contains an understanding of the functions of the conscious mind, or the evolution of consciousness...No energy is ever lost. (12;245) 2. "I am giving this material to you in as simple a form as possible. If growth is one of the most necessary laws of your camouflage universe, value fulfillment corresponds to it in the inner-reality universe.' (footnote, 9;166)

1. You make your world

A. YOU CREATE YOUR REALITY........................................... 3

B. YOU CREATE YOUR FUTURE............................................ 3

2. You are of Greater Dimensions 4

A. YOU ARE A MULTIDIMENSIONAL SELF 4

B. WITH MANY SIMULTANEOUS (REINCARNATIONAL) LIVES 4

C. YOUR MANY SELVES MAKE UP THE ENTITY - OR GREATER SOUL 4

3. You have great energy and power 5

A. INEXHAUSTIBLE ENERGY IS AVAILABLE TO YOU 5

B. THE MOST CONCENTRATED FORMS OF ENERGY 6

C. POWER 7

D. AGGRESSION IS NOT VIOLENCE 7

E. LOVE 8

F. HATE IS A CALL FOR LOVE 8

G. THE SENSE OF POWERLESSNESS 8

4. Within certain limits 9

A. CREATUREHOOD 9

B. LAG TINE 10

5. And governed by your beliefs 10

A. BELIEFS 10

B. OPPOSING BELIEFS 11

C. LINKED BELIEFS 11

D. BELIEFS VERSUS DESIRES 12

E. CHANGING YOUR BELIEFS 12

F. YOU MUST ACT ON THE BASIS OF YOUR NEW BELIEFS 12

G. BELIEF IN NEGATIVES 12

H. YOUR BELIEFS AND THE LAW OF ATTRACTION 12

6. You can overcome fear 13

A. FEAR BLOCKS YOUR FLOW 13

B. PERFECTION IS NOT DESIRABLE 13

C. EXERCISE #1 13

7. Starting with your right to BE 13

A. AFFIRM YOUR RIGHT TO EXIST 13

B. ACCEPT YOUR PRESENT POSITION 14

C. DO NOT SACRIFICE 14

D. KNOW YOU ARE IN A STATE OF GRACE 14

E. SAY NO WHENEVER YOU WISH 14

F. DON'T USE DENIAL 15

S. You can change your past and prescribe your future 15

A. THE ILLUSION OF THE PRESENT 15

B. YOU HAVE MANY PROBABLE SELVES 15

C. CHANGE THE PAST NOW 15

D. DETERMINE YOUR FUTURE NOW 16

E. THE PRESENT IS THE POINT OF POWER 17

F. POINT OF POWER EXERCISE 17

G. DON'T LOOK FOR REASONS IN THE PAST 18

H. YOU ARE YOUR OWN HYPNOTIST 18

I. HYPNOSIS EXERCISE 20

9. SO don't stay sick or lonely or sad 20

A. SICKNESS 20

B. LONELY 20

C. DON'T CONTINUE GRIEVING 21

D. HEALING 21

E. FACE THE PROBLEM 22

F. HEAL THE INNER PROBLEM; RELEASE THE GUILT 22

10. You are not separated 22

A. MINDS ARE CONNECTED 22

B. THE CONSCIOUS MIND 22

11. Pay attention to what you think 23

A. BE VIGILANT 23

B. NOTICE YOUR DREAMS 23

12. Your beliefs about food and medicine matter 24

A. MEDICAL PROFESSION 24

B. WESTERN MEDICINE 24

C. DRUGS 25

D. MEDICAL INSURANCE AND RETIREMENT 25

E. HEALTH FOODS 25

F. FOOD AND BELIEFS 25

G. DIETS 26

13. Your beliefs affect natural phenomena 26

A. WAR AND WEATHER 26

B. WEATHER AND THE PLANET 26

C. CHOOSING A CRISIS OR DISASTER 26

D. NATURAL DISASTERS 26

E. ANIMALS FEEL BUT DO NOT HAVE BELIEFS 27

14. There is a purpose in old age 24

A. OLD AGE 24

B. GETTING READY FOR DEATH 24

15. So, what is real: the world, nirvana or the devil? 28

A. SEPARATION 28

B. PURPOSE 28

C. THE REALITY BEHIND REALITY 28

D. IF THE WORLD WERE REAL 28

E. WESTERN RELIGION NEEDS BOTH A GOD AND A DEVIL 28

F. NIRVANA 28

G. VALUE FULFILLMENT 28