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The Nature Of Personal Reality
If I had to choose one Seth Book to represent the old man's work, it would definitely be The Nature of Personal Reality. This is Seth's book that addresses daily life experience, how to solve everyday problems, and how to create a happier life through altering your thoughts and beliefs. It was produced by Seth / Jane Roberts during channelling sessions that lasted from 1972 to 1973.
In The Nature of Personal Reality, Seth talks about how every single thought, belief, expectation, and emotional state we hold within the mind directly causes all of our personal experience. The process though which the mind creates the physical body is covered in great detail with lots of insights provided about disease, aging, and death. Other major areas of discussion are dreams, probabilities, and mankind's natural state of grace.
This is one of his larger works (over 400 pages) and it is full of good information, so I have noted quite a few quotes. These are quotes that I was specifically interested in for my own purposes, so they are a poor substitute for reading this book in its entirety. Since there are a lot of quotes and discussions here, I have broken up this page by chapter:
Preface By Seth
“Experience is the product of the mind, the spirit, conscious thoughts and feelings, and unconscious thoughts and feelings. These together form the reality that you know.” – p. xvi
“What exists physically exists first in thought and feeling. There is no other rule.” – p. xvii
“Each thought has a result, in your terms. The same kind of thought, habitually repeated, will seem to have a more or less permanent effect.” – p. xvii
“Man has been endowed, and has endowed himself, with a conscious mind to direct the nature, shape, and form of his creations.” – p. xviii
“You see and feel what you expect to see and feel. The world as you know it is a picture of your expectations. The world as the race of man knows it is the materialization en masse of your individual expectations.” – p. xix
Chapter One
“There is no effect in the exterior world that does not spring from an inner source. There is no motion that does no first occur within the mind.” – p. 3
“The body of the earth can be said to have its own soul, or mind . . . the inner world of each man and woman is connected with the inner world of the earth. The spirit becomes flesh. Part of each individual's soul, then, is intimately connected with what will call the world's soul, or the soul of the earth.” – p. 3
“You project your thoughts, feelings, and expectations outward, then you perceive them as the outside reality.” – p. 4
“You are the living picture of yourself. You project what you think you are outward into flesh. Your feelings, you conscious and unconscious thoughts, all alter and form your physical image.” – p. 4
“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.” – p. 10
This is an important theme in the Seth Books; thoughts and feelings have an electromagnetic reality. The idea that thoughts attract similar thoughts, both in one's own mind and from the minds of others, relates directly to Abraham's message and that of Napoleon Hill or New Thought authors, such as Atkinson and Troward.
“Space and time are both root assumptions, which simply means that man accepts both, and assumes that his reality is rooted in a series of moments and a dimension of space. So your inner experience is translated in those terms.” – p. 10
“There is nothing in your exterior experience that did not originate within you. 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.” – p. 10
I don't think Seth ever used the expression, Law of Attraction, but there it is in Seth's own words: people, events, and experiences being drawn to you by the contents of your own mind.
“You make your own reality. There is no other rule. Knowing this is the secret of creativity.” – p. 14
Hey, I thought “What exists physically exists first in thought and feeling” got the official “no other rule” disclaimer; unless “You make your own reality” simply means that how I direct my thoughts and feelings will determine the details of my physical existance. In that case, OK, please continue. But I don't want to see this “no other rule” expression being abused, alright?
I have a lot more to go through on this book. It is quite full of quotes and information that I find meaningful. Right now, I'm occupied with my New Thought reading and I'll get back to old man Seth when I can.