The "Guide" and "Key Points" for this chapter were summarized by an AI editor based on the main text below; they are not things Mike said during his lecture. The main text comes from Mike's commentary, and the blockquotes are Seth's original words (the portions Mike read aloud).
Introduction
This chapter is the final session of The "Unknown" Reality. Seth explains that during the transmission of this book he was simultaneously in a larger field of events, and also participating in the writing of other probable versions; Ruburt, by establishing a psychic library, cooperated with Seth in the neutral zone, and Seth respected his boundaries. Seth comments that Ruburt cleared away the debris of his life, and expanded his abilities with the aid of consciousness units. At the end it is recorded that the ESP class stopped, and the counterparts dispersed, and it is pointed out that "invisibility" has meaning only within physical reality.
Key Points of This Chapter
- While delivering The "Unknown" Reality, Seth was simultaneously participating in the writing of other probable versions of The "Unknown" Reality, and those versions are equally real and valid.
- Ruburt established a psychic library as a neutral zone for cooperating with Seth, and drew clear boundaries; Seth respected this arrangement.
- Ruburt cleared away the debris surrounding most people's lives and completed challenges in unfamiliar territory.
- Ruburt stretched his normal conscious abilities by drawing in other consciousnesses, but still had to deal with old consciousness and habits.
- "Invisibility" in the physical world has meaning only within camouflage reality; in the larger reality there is no psychological invisibility.
Main Text
Session 744: This Book and the Probable Books -- Seth's Reality
This session is the final session of the entire book The "Unknown" Reality, begun on Wednesday, April 23, 1975, at 9:33 p.m.1 Rob came up and said he wanted to read to Jane the questions he had written down on Monday night that he wanted to ask Seth, but he guessed that Seth might begin tonight's session by dealing with the third question. The third question was: While Seth was transmitting the book The "Unknown" Reality, what was he doing at other times? However, tonight's material was not entirely in answer to those questions; most of it covered events unrelated to The "Unknown" Reality, and those were deleted.
Where Seth's Time Went
Seth said that when he was creating The "Unknown" Reality, and to some degree inclined his consciousness toward your time orientation, it was very difficult for him to tell you what he spent his time on.
It is rather difficult for me to tell you what I spend my time doing. When I am involved in the production of this book, The "Unknown" Reality, and hence at least to some degree, inclined toward your time orientation.
He said this question was not easy to answer.
In a manner of speaking, the actual reality you experience is composed of events that appear to you to be complete, or relatively complete.
What you see appears to be a complete event -- through one year and four months of time2, the entire book was produced. But from Seth's perspective, the events you perceive are merely part of a larger event. He naturally moves within a larger dimensionalized field of events.
From my standpoint, it is obvious that the events you perceive are but portions of larger events. I move naturally, then, in a larger dimensionalized field of events.
He said he not only sees larger blocks of time than you do, but can also see to a considerable degree the probable realizations of events and time. Within these various larger times, all probabilities are realized.
The Artist's Example
He gave an example, just as an artist does the same thing in a different way:
When you imagine, say, a painting, a book, or a sculpture, as it might take probable versions.
When a painter wants to paint a picture, there are certainly many pictures in his mind, and he ultimately selects one to paint. But the artist usually does not understand that those probable works of art do indeed truly exist. He only perceives that final selected, created work, while those probable works he thinks were never painted -- yet again, in probable realities, they were all painted. Any event you know and consider complete is composed of many probable events; it is a larger event.
Other Probable Versions
He said some of us are able to maintain our identity and essence unchanged while following the probable variant patterns of a role in which we also play a part. After practicing the "bilocation method" discussed in this material, one should have such an ability.
In your reality, I have just finished The "Unknown" Reality, the only version of that manuscript.
That is right, just that one version. Yet it is actually the only version you perceive. When we do such a work in this reality, we are also doing other probable books, and those are just as real and valid as your official book. All these probabilities are connected by certain themes, intents, and purposes -- creating this book is one theme, with your intent, your desire to create this book, to explore the unknown reality.
He gave an example: in your lives there are some secondary points of interest, which sometimes are a measure taken by one of your probable realities. For instance, you are clearly a civil servant, yet you especially love fishing in your ordinary life, and all your spare time is spent on fishing -- perhaps in another reality, that fishing is your primary reality. There are also some so deeply hidden that you cannot become aware of them.
We are in fact, in many probable The "Unknown" Realities, also writing a probable The "Unknown" Reality. Not just another version, but a variation.
In another probable reality, another probable The "Unknown" Reality is being written, and the content and structure of that book are different -- it is not merely a copy of this book. This is very interesting.
Multidimensional Collaboration with Ruburt
Seth said that at other times while writing The "Unknown" Reality with you, he was doing a multidimensional version -- just as when Ruburt writes a book, he writes only in the three-dimensional dimension, thinking the book is the only version, when in fact Ruburt is also writing his book multidimensionally, only he does not know it. And Seth was writing this book in a multidimensional dimension; he completed this book with this pair, Rob and Jane, in this shabby dwelling, and with the other you in the house on Foster Road, in the house in Sayre, completing a The "Unknown" Reality in several probabilities, and the content in each of those versions was somewhat different.
Teacher Xiyu said that he himself seems to have already read six copies of The "Unknown" Reality, and has written interpretations of The "Unknown" Reality more than once. This time, at Mike's invitation, when he reached the end of writing, he turned over memories that did not belong to this lifetime, to this moment, and discovered that he had already written more than one version of the interpretation before.
He said he also contributed to the construction of Ruburt's psychic library. Ruburt built a psychic library, and Seth said he also participated in part of that process. Why participate? Because Ruburt did not want Seth to intrude into his physical world in a channeling manner -- to use the analogy of intruding into your living room -- Ruburt preferred to meet Seth in a neutral place, within his own conscious space, to transmit the Seth material. There he felt more at ease, because there was no conflict with his existing beliefs.
As we discussed earlier, Ruburt actually had a slight resistance to channeling; the influence of the real-world environment still had an effect on him. Seth said:
It was also a reasonable arrangement. He is the one who must first deal with the practical aspects of our relationship, and transfer my reality to your world.
It is quite normal for him to think this way; he did not want to make this material seem mystical or spooky; he wanted to transmit it in a more neutral manner.
I quite agreed with this. Again, I quite agreed with the psychic library idea, because in broad terms, I am not particularly suited to your living rooms.
The reality Seth inhabits is far more evident than any of those ghosts or spirits you think of -- more real, and in a certain sense higher in frequency, while the frequency of ghosts is relatively lower. Ruburt did well; he was able to discover a neutral zone, build a psychic library, and feel more at ease within it. From a certain angle, for Seth to enter our reality, he had to lower his frequency; while Ruburt building a psychic library was equivalent to raising his frequency, elevating his own frequency into a middle zone. Seth was actually not very willing to enter this lower frequency, this physical reality, so it was very good that Ruburt could build such a library.
Boundaries and Respect
Seth said other people had indeed sensed him, such as Sue Watkins, but the relationship there was very different from the one with Ruburt and Jane. For Ruburt, having clearly defined areas was very important, and Seth respected that. Ruburt wanted a very clearly defined boundary -- communicating with Seth on the material every Monday and Wednesday evening at nine o'clock, and not wanting to be disturbed by Seth at other times. He delineated an area and a boundary, maintaining his own sense of identity, maintaining his own reality.
Seth added in passing that any such manifestation would also add much superstitious nonsense. On the other hand, there was still much Ruburt could learn about Seth's reality -- unless he understood the inner rules of events, he could not possibly meet Seth in the psychic library.
Evaluation of Ruburt
In the middle, Seth paused, then began again to touch upon more personal areas, while also answering the first question Rob had asked during the break in the previous session. Rob felt that the information about Jane was very pertinent to her work and to life in general.
I do not want to go into Ruburt's problems in detail here, but I do have some material. Obviously he is in the middle of a learning adventure, trying to do far more with his ordinary consciousness than most people do, and trying not to rely upon the old structures of belief to solve his problems, and facing one of his challenges. He has managed to do this, even though he is working in quite unfamiliar territory, where nothing seems inevitable.
He said Ruburt has been on a learning adventure, using new beliefs to face challenges, beginning contact with Seth, even building a psychic library -- all working in quite unfamiliar territory.
The Nature of Personal Reality is there for others to follow. However, others did not participate in its production.
Actually, that book could have been produced with the participation of others, but no, only Ruburt participated. Many people tried those concepts as much as they could, and learned and gained a great deal, but at the same time they kept safely holding on to the banner of conventional beliefs -- they read The Nature of Personal Reality, tried it out, found it quite effective, but did not dare let go of their old belief systems. But Ruburt did not allow himself that kind of comfort.
He should remember that many people have far greater difficulties, in health, personal relationships, and wealth and profession, without any satisfactory achievements to balance their misfortunes.
Why did others not participate in the production? Because they had health problems, personal relationship problems, financial problems, career inconvenience problems. If Jane had been a nine-to-five worker, she would not have had the energy to do this. It was precisely because her profession was that of a freelance writer that writing a book was not a difficult thing for her. But for ordinary people, after reading the Seth material, could they write a book themselves the way Teacher Xiyu does? Many people feel this is simply too difficult; writing a book report is manageable, but writing a book is impossible. But a writer's profession is writing books, so for Jane this was not a big deal.
Seth was actually encouraging Ruburt: because you do not have so many problems, and you can balance things well, the key is that you can change your beliefs and let go of all the old ones.
Today this may not sound like much to you -- that is because you have not read The Early Sessions. Once you read The Early Sessions, you will know that for Jane and Rob this was truly an enormous challenge. For at least the first seven or eight years, they did this work without any income, not knowing whether this material could ever be published. The content of the early sessions really was not suitable for publication; it had neither beautiful language nor was it easy to understand, and you could not even tell what a given session was about. And what category would this book fall into? It was not biography, not philosophy, not psychology -- the publisher would ask you what genre it was. Two people without regular jobs, one painting and one writing books, with the books not selling particularly well, yet they devoted themselves entirely to this endeavor.
From time to time, I made some suggestions, and from time to time, when you felt it was appropriate, you adopted them.
Seth also had a slight complaint here -- of the suggestions he gave, they adopted some and did not adopt others. But as far as Ruburt's challenge was concerned, he did extremely well:
He cleared away the debris that really surrounds most people's lives.
Many people are anxious and busy over material life. Do not forget, when they were transmitting the Seth material, Jane was 34 and Rob was 433, renting an apartment, with no children and no successful career. But the two of them dared to do this kind of thing. Of course, it was not as lofty as we might imagine; they also struggled and suffered, and everyone has their own problems in life -- you have to eat and live. But the two of them had already reduced it to the lowest standard: simple food and drink, living in an apartment, and when they ran out of money, they would go do temporary work. It was precisely because they dared to do this that the later book The "Unknown" Reality came into being.
Units of Consciousness
Ruburt's progress is dependent upon his state of learning. So he has been stretching the abilities of normal consciousness by pulling in other units of consciousness.
Regarding the idea of units of consciousness, it seems it was discussed in Session 785; everyone can flip back and take a look. Ruburt has many units of consciousness; a unit of consciousness can be imagined as counterparts, probable selves, and the like. Ruburt is very good at pulling in other units of consciousness to help him stretch his normal conscious abilities. For example, creating this psychic library was pulling in a unit of consciousness, using it to help himself expand his normal conscious abilities.
However, because he is the one involved, he must try out each unit of consciousness, while at the same time he still must deal with his old consciousness and other habits.
Ruburt can live within that probable reality in the psychic world of the psychic library, but ultimately he must return to his real life, and still deal with his old consciousness and old habits -- for example, he has opinions about channeling, and thoughts about how others view him. He cannot stay in his conscious library forever; he must return to this present conscious dwelling.
Ending and Opening
Seth said this material is endless, and it was organized for your benefit. If you want to divide it into two volumes, that is fine -- this was in answer to Rob's first question. Then Seth said:
In a manner of speaking, while you are preparing our book, Ruburt's book Psychic Politics will continue this material from another viewpoint. May the gods bless your fingers.
You see, this book is not even finished, and Psychic Politics is coming next; your hand will be tired enough. Then he said good night, and Rob also said, "Good night, Seth." Volume Two of The "Unknown" Reality ended there.
Closing Notes
Afterward there was a brief section explaining to readers about the ESP class. The earlier notes are all quite simple; let us just go over them briefly.
Note two says that according to this passage of Seth material, there are of course other Robs and Janes, busy living their days in a related probable reality, and all those Robs and Janes are just as real to Seth as we are. Rob said he had also thought about this question, and jokingly said to Jane that it was somewhat of a tormenting thought -- from Seth's viewpoint, we may be only one of many of ourselves. For example, the pair living on Foster Road, the pair living in Sayre, and this pair -- this is also a headache-inducing question for us. When we feel we are not the only self in this world, when there are countless cloned selves, probable selves in probable realities, and many counterparts, not to mention those reincarnational selves, many people break down. They begin to doubt their sense of identity -- then who am I, really? This is something normal people all have, but you must move beyond it.
Then Rob let his imagination unfold: perhaps Seth likes one of our many versions more than he likes us. Is it possible that in the pair living on Foster Road, there is much more content after The "Unknown" Reality? Maybe he likes that pair better? It is even possible that the Jane he favors lives in one probable reality, while the Rob he favors lives in another probable reality. What then? How can Seth tell all of us apart? Which one is which? What age differences are there between us? In which reality did we produce the final version of The "Unknown" Reality, or the worst version? And what do all those other Janes and Robs think of their Seth?
Note three holds that what Seth discussed here as units of consciousness is what Jane discussed in Psychic Politics. Note four says Appendix 18 contains much material concerning the complex relationships among Jane, Ruburt, Seth, and Rob and Joseph; Jane devoted the entire fifteenth chapter of Adventures in Consciousness to discussing the inner rules of events and unofficial perceptions.
The last note was added by Jane more than a year after completing The "Unknown" Reality. On February 26, 19754, Jane suspended the ESP class; she was moving. She told the students that the ESP class could only possibly resume after the new home was settled. But she never resumed it; the ESP class came to a complete end at that point. From 1967 to 1975, roughly eight years5, the ESP class was held. Regarding the ESP class sessions, there are four other books in the Seth material called the ESP class material, compiled by students from the records of that time, and basically most of the content is in there. On February 26, 1975, the class stopped.
As could be expected, the gap in the classes soon began to have a chain reaction. The longer they delayed deciding whether there was time to resume classes, the more the students began to scatter. The younger ones, especially some young people who had not originally been local residents, began to spread across the country, and even went abroad, continuing to seek what many of them considered the indefinable essence of truth. However, they carried Seth's ideas with them. Jane and Rob thought with considerable interest that they were not only seeking truth, but would also meet their own counterparts -- according to Seth's viewpoint, such contact with other portions of their whole self would be inevitable.
They also applied the concept of counterparts to themselves. In Session 731, Seth identified several counterparts among their class. In terms of the psychic relationship involving Jane and Rob, a total of nine counterparts were involved. Due to an oversight on their own part, as the ESP class gradually faded into memory, Jane and Rob maintained contact with some of the local counterparts from the class, while seeing others less and less. Each choice seemed to be a mutual, unspoken agreement among all concerned -- an agreement never spoken aloud. Each person had complete freedom of their own to choose whether to maintain contact.
Regarding Rob's counterparts among the class besides Jane -- such as Franklin, Jack Pierce -- they had all begun to go their own ways, and there was almost no further communication with them. But Peter Smith and Rob still saw each other frequently. On Jane's side, one of her counterparts named Rilda traveled far away, still maintaining thin, sparse correspondence. Jane had only met Alan Koch twice, yet felt an alliance with him. And Sue Watkins maintained a relatively close relationship with both of them, although she now lived in a community more than an hour's drive north of Elmira. Since the classes stopped, Jane had only seen her fourth counterpart -- the young man from Pennsylvania -- once.
The longer they went without classes, the more Jane and Rob could see how its dissolution paralleled the ending of The "Unknown" Reality. They finally understood that both events were inevitable; the time for both had passed, the point had been reached. They truly regretted the ending of both, although at the same time they sincerely agreed: in this physical, or camouflage, reality, the essence of life is endless change and renewal.
In a strange way, the word invisibility has meaning only in your kind of physical world.
When you say you can no longer see each other -- this so-called not seeing is a concept that only exists in the physical world. In the larger reality, there is no such thing as true psychological invisibility. Because you are all connected psychically; when you think of someone, the two of you have already made contact and communication on the psychic level. The physical world depends upon the relationships of everything from electrons to molecules, from mountains to oceans, and in the design of reality, all of these are interwoven with exquisite order, spontaneity, and a logic beyond anything you are familiar with. What you think has separated and can no longer be seen is impossible on the level of the larger reality. The concept of counterparts merely hints at that mutual relationship -- not just counterparts, but you are connected with all things.
The last sentence: the interpretation of the entire book The "Unknown" Reality, Volume Two, ends here. What has this book, from Seth's beginning to the end, always been trying to convey to us? It is to let us have a correct understanding of ourselves, and a correct understanding of the world we live in. Afterward, Seth has another book called Dreams, "Evolution," and Value Fulfillment, and I am still thinking about how to present it to everyone. In the process of interpreting this book The "Unknown" Reality, I am very grateful to Teacher Xiyu for providing everyone with a great deal of content, producing a large amount of written material for every session, including many images; and to Helen for the text organization and proofreading, and to their entire group and team, everyone who contributed to this, and to Helen for the recording and transcription.
注释与核实
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This claim could not be verified. ↩
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This claim could not be verified. ↩
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Source: Jane Roberts, The “Unknown” Reality: Volume Two (https://nowdictation.com/q/book%3Aur2%2Bsession%3A744%2Bsession/) ↩
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Source: Wikipedia, “Jane Roberts” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Roberts) ↩