Jane Roberts - The Nature of Personal Reality: Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know

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BOOKS BY JANE ROBERTS

The Bundu. A short novel in The Magazine of Fantasy and ScienceFiction (March, 1958) The Resellers (1963) How to DevelopYour ESP Power (1966) (Also published as TheComing of Seth)

The Seth Material (1970)

Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul (1972)*

The Education of Oversoul Seven (1973)**

The Nature of Personal Reality. A Seth Book (1974)*

Adventures in Consciousness: An Introduction to Aspect Psychology (1975) Dialogues of The Soul and Mortal Self in Time (1975) Psychic Politics: An Aspect Psychology Book (1976) The "Unknown"

Reality. A Seth Book in two volumes (1977-1979)** The World View ofPaul Cezanne: A Psychic Interpretation (1977) The Afterdeath Journalof an American Philosopher: The World View of William James (1978)

The Further Education of Oversoul Seven (1979)**

Emir's Education in the Proper Use of Magical Powers (1979) The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression. A Seth Book (1979)**

The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events. A Seth Book (1981) **

The God of Jane: A Psychic Manifesto (1981) If We Live Again: Or, Public Magic and Private Love (1982) Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time (1984) Dreams, "Evolution," and Value Fulfillment. A Seth Book in twovolumes (1986)**

Seth, Dreams, and Projection of Consciousness (1986) The Magical Approach: Seth Speaks About the Art of Creative Living (1995)

The Way Toward Health. A Seth Book (1997) * New editions co-published by Amber-Allen / New World Library, 1994 and 1995.

** New editions published by Amber-Allen Publishing, 1995, 1996, and 1997.

THE NATURE OF PERSONAL REALITY

1974 Jane Roberts

1994 Robert F. Butts

Co-published by Amber-Allen Publishing and New World Library Editorial Office:

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Seth, (Spirit), 1929-1984
The nature of personal reality : specific, practical techniques for solving everyday problems and enriching the life you know /[channeled] by Jane Roberts : notes by Robert F. Butts, p. cm.
"Through channeler Jane Roberts, Seth reveals a power we all possess"

Cover.
Originally published: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1974. (A Seth book) ISBN
1-878424-06-8 (alk. paper)
1. Spirit writings. 2. Reality-Miscellanea. 3. Self-perception -Miscellanea-I. Roberts, Jane, 1929-1984 II. Butts, Robert F. III. Title. IV.
Series: Seth (Spirit), 1929-1984. Seth book BF1301.S38 1994
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ISBN 1-878424-06-8

Printed in the U.S.A. on acid-free paper

First Printing: May, 1994 Distributed by

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This book is dedicated to Robert Butts

"Joseph"

Without whose dedication and work it could not appear in its present form

CONTENTS

Introduction by Jane Roberts
Preface by Seth: The Manufacture of Personal Reality

PART ONE: WHERE YOU AND THE WORLD MEET
Chapter 1: The Living Picture of the World
Chapter 2: Reality and Personal Beliefs
Chapter 3: Suggestion, Telepathy, and the Grouping of Beliefs
Chapter 4: Your Imagination and Your Beliefs, and a Few Words About the Origin of Your Beliefs
Chapter 5: The Constant Creation of the Physical Body
Chapter 6: The Body of Your Beliefs, and the Power Structures of Beliefs
Chapter 7: The Living Flesh
Chapter 8: Health, Good and Bad Thoughts, and the Birth of "Demons"
Chapter 9: Natural Grace, the Framework of Creativity, and the Health of Your Body and Mind. The Birth of Conscience

PART TWO: YOUR BODY AS YOUR OWN UNIQUE LIVING SCULPTURE. YOUR LIFE AS YOUR MOST INTIMATE WORK OF ART, AND THE NATURE OF CREATIVITY AS IT APPLIES TO YOUR PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
Chapter 10: The Nature of Spontaneous Illumination, and the Nature of Enforced Illumination. The Soul in Chemical Clothes
Chapter 11: The Conscious Mind as the Carrier of Beliefs. Your Beliefs in Relation to Health and Satisfaction
Chapter 12: Grace, Conscience, and Your Daily Experience
Chapter 13: Good and Evil, Personal and Mass Beliefs, and Their Effect Upon Your Private and Social Experience
Chapter 14: Which You? Which World? Your Daily Reality as the Expression of Specific Probable Events
Chapter 15: Which You? Which World? Only You Can Answer. How to Free Yourself From Limitations
Chapter 16: Natural Hypnosis: A Trance Is a Trance Is a Trance
Chapter 17: Natural Hypnosis, Healing, and the Transference of Physical Symptoms into Other Levels of Activity
Chapter 18: Inner Storms and Outer Storms. Creative "Destruction" The Length of the Day and the Natural Reach of a Biologically Based Consciousness
Chapter 19: The Concentration of Energy, Beliefs, and the Present Point of Power
Chapter 20: The Dream Landscape, the Physical World, Probabilities, and Your Daily Experience
Chapter 21: Affirmation, Love, Acceptance, and Denial