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THE
NATURE OF
PERSONAL
REALITY
CONTENTS
Introduction
by
Jane Roberts
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Preface
by
Seth: The Manufacture ofPersonal Reality
.... . ..............
xv
PART
ONE:
WHERE
You
AND THE WORlD MEET ..... . ... . . ...........
1
Chapter 1: The Living Picture of the World ............................. 2
Chapter 2: Reality and Personal Beliefs .............. . ... .......... ..... 16
Chapter 3: Suggestion, Telepathy, and the Grouping of Beliefs ..... 37
Chapter 4: Your Imagination and Your Beliefs, and
a Few Words About the Origin ofYour Beliefs . . ....... ... 56
Chapter 5: The Constant Creation of the Physical Body ..... . ....... . 81
Chapter 6: The Body of Your Beliefs, and the Power
Structures of Beliefs ... . ................... .... .............. 102
Chapter 7: The Living Flesh .. ...................... . ..... ........ ....... 118
Chapter 8: Health, Good and Bad Thoughts, and the
Birth of "Demons" .......................................... 129
Chapter 9: Natural Grace, the Framework of Creativity,
and the Health ofYour Body and Mind.
The Birth of Conscience .................... . .............. 149
. VII .
PART
TWO: YOUR BODY AS YOUR OWN UNIQ!JE LIVING
SCULPTURE. YOUR LIFE AS YOUR MOST INTIMATE
WORK OF ART, AND THE NATURE OF CREATIVITY
AS IT APPLIES TO YOUR PERSONAL EXPERIENCE .......
165
Chapter 10: The Nature of Spontaneous Illumination, and the
Nature of Enforced Illumination. The Soul in
Chemical Clothes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Chapter 11: The Conscious Mind as the Carrier of Beliefs.
Your Beliefs in Relation to Health and Satisfaction ... 198
Ch apter 12: Grace, Conscience, and Your Daily Experience . .. . . . . 229
Chapter 13: Good and Evil, Personal and Mass Beliefs,
and Their Effect Upon Your Private and
Social Experience . . ..... . . ... .. . ... .. .. . .... .. .... .. .... . .. 248
Chapter 14: Which You? Which World? Your Daily Reality as
the Expression of Specific Probable Events ..... . .. . ... 274
Chapter 15: Which You? Which World? Only You Can Answer.
How to Free Yourself From Limitations . . ... . .. . ... . ... 287
Chapter 16: Natural Hypnosis: A Trance Is a Trance Is a Trance .. 307
Chapter 17: Natural Hypnosis, Healing, and the Transference of
Physical Symptoms Into Other Levels of Activity ...... 325
Chapter 18: Inner Storms and Outer Storms. Creative "Destruction."
The Length of the Day and the Natural Reach ofa
Biologically Based Consciousness ... .. ... . .. .. .. . ... .. .. 347
Chapter 19: The Concentration of Energy, Beliefs,
and the Present Point of Power . .. .... ... . . .. . . .. ... .. . .. 367
Chapter 20: The Dream Landscape, the Physical World,
Probabilities, and Your Daily Experience ............ .. . 387
Chapter 21: Affirmation, Love, Acceptance, and Denial . ........ . .. 400
Chapter 22: Affirmation, the Practical Betterment of
Your Life, and the New Structuring of Beliefs . .. . ..... 426
About the Author ........................ . ................ . ....... . .......... 439
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Index
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INTRODUCTION BY
JANE ROBERTS
I
'm proud to publish this book under my own name, though I don't
fully understand the mechanics of its production or the nature of
the personality I assume in delivering it. I had no conscious work to do
on the book at all. I simply went into trance twice a week, spoke in a
"mediumistic" capacity for Seth, or as Seth, and dictated the words to
my husband, Robert Butts, who wrote them down.
I consider the book "mine" in that I don't believe it could have been
written without me and my particular abilities. On the other hand, I real-
ize that far more is involved. I had to read the manuscript to find out
what was in it, for example; and to that extent the book doesn't seem
mine. But what does that mean?
My idea briefly is this: Our usual orientation is focused pretty exclu-
sively in what we think of as the "real" world, but there are many real-
ities. By shifting our consciousness, we can glimpse these alternate
realities, and all of them are the appearance that Reality takes under
certain conditions. I don't believe that we can necessarily describe one
in terms of another.
For years I've been confused, trying to define Seth in the usual true-
and-false world offacts. There he's accepted as an independent spirit
- a spirit guide by those with spiritualistic beliefs - or as some dis-
placed portion of my own personality by the scientific community. I
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