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The Early Sessions: Sessions 149-198 : 4/26/65-10/13/65 (The Seth Material, Book 4)

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In Book 4 Seth continues his discussion on various topics including: ego, action, dreams, inner ego, personality, intuition, health and suggestion to name a few. This series is wonderful and fills in the gaps for those of us who have read all of the previously published material.

Just let me get it out of my system: it is next to impossible to believe that these people, Jane and Rob, were apparently as clueless as they appear. In Book 4 Seth is giving them extremely important information, for science, for psychology and for spirituality, and all they seem to want to do is play parlor tricks to test themselves and Seth and others. Great swaths of the book is simply unreadable or stupid. The last almost 100 pages are utterly meaningless to the average reader.

Seth says, "Dream experiences often, very often, change the course of human events." We want to know more, right? But no. We have to waste page after page as Seth impatiently tries to guess "what is in Dr. Instream's envelopes." He's very important you know, and Jane and Rob want to impress him and get his validation. Now let me see, just who is this Dr. Instream? I can't remember! Or, we get, "Now. We shall speak briefly concerning the health of your cat." And how many times must we read, "Jane's eyes are very dark"?

This volume is excruciatingly repetitive, probably because there were so many interruptions from people attending sessions and everyone wanting Seth to be their crystal ball. What do you see! What do you see! Seth replies, "Something with checks, perhaps a jacket."

Seth is first and foremost a scientist. Therefore, while he is capable of speaking on history, psychology, or spirituality, etc., he prefers science. Book 4 is particularly rife with science facts along these lines: "The electromagnetic reality within the human organism has considerable mass, but the entire physical weight amounts to 3 to 6 ounces at the very most." Okay, moving right along.

A lot of space is given to dreams-- how and why and where they are produced but hardly anything on their meanings. Even so, the book is worth reading just for the dream material and the accompanying nightly sleep suggestions to help you change your life.

Health is touched on in tantalizing ways. Seth declares, "When a person gets sick, they want the illness." Over 150 pages earlier before Jane and Rob got him off track, Seth had averred, "An illness is a failure to solve a mental or psychological problem in the correct manner." Seth is nothing if not pedantic! Nevertheless,
wouldn't we love for him to expound on these two ideas more fully?

There's another huge swath of pages in the middle that go nowhere. Seth seems to be complaining of Jane's and Rob's treatment of him and the sessions and even of themselves. Other tantalizing topics he never really completes are the intriguing idea that emotions create time; that when a person kills they rip out a part of themselves that they have created, and "So far man's behavior has him headed for destruction rather than survival."

Well, maybe Seth speaks further about these topics in a future book. Given the changes in the state of the world since this book was dictated, I, for one, would be immensely curious about destruction and survival. But maybe these three didn't really care since they knew they'd all be dead by the time it happened. I'm kidding.