The Nature of Personal Reality: Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know (Jane Roberts) Paperback – May 17, 1994

I really can't express in words just how amazing this book is. I first read this book about 15 years ago at the age of 21 and at the time I thought it was an amazing book then, though in reading it again 15 years later, I feel like I am now really able to fully grasp the concepts and the amazing implications of life and consciousness as we know it.What shocks and amazes me the most about the Seth books is that there is not a single thing in the books I have read by Seth that I can say "That's a bunch of Bull", and trust me, I'm looking!I am really, truly a reader. I read every night, and I have hundreds if not thousands of books. I read everything from Metaphysical to fiction to biographies, self help, history, etc. There are so many "new age" books out there that are completely full of garbage. People grasping at concepts or pushing their own views on readers, and they leave a bad taste in my mouth. Then there are the only think positive or the world will end new age books, and again they are not helpful, practical, or even possible to follow!But these books are different. If everyone on earth read and understood this book, then we'd be living in a whole different world! A world of peace, love, and able to allow every single person to fully live their lives without judgment or trying to change who they are.I just don't know how to aptly describe this book, and I apologize if I'm not doing it justice with my write-up! It has completely changed my view of myself, my life, my family and loved ones, and my world and how I operate in it. All the concepts in the book that I have worked with really prove that everything in this book is true. If you are searching for the real meaning of life on earth in this physical body, why we are here, what it all means, how to change your life to be what you want it to be, then it's all here. that and so much more.I'm reading my way through every Seth book out there, and so far I've read The Seth Material, Seth Speaks, and The Nature of Personal Reality. I read a couple others 15 years ago, but now I'm reading through in the order they were written and it's so interesting to see the way in which the material builds on itself. It grows and expands, kind of like we do as we grow and change over the years. Anyway, in my opinion this book is the most essential Seth book out there and should be required reading for everyone.If you want to understand your life, your world, and change your life into exactly the life you have dreamed of, get this book, it's the best book ever written hands down.

Profound books and information like this can only be grasped by the few already dabbling in such subjects for quite a while. I was not ready for this book when I bought it but I was ready for it now. This is why many Messengers have come and many more will. Spiritual seekers of truth will have these books land in their laps and know-it-alls are deaf and dumb.

I'm not exactly a newbee to archived Jane Roberts and the Seth materials as I've probably read some of her earliest books at least 25 years ago. I now have 5 of her books in my own collection, and would have sworn that this was one already on the shelf except what I had was 2 volumes of "Unknown Reality". THIS one is the Nature of PERSONAL Reality.There are some differences and new info, but sometimes the material sounds like a review of something previously read. I gave it 5 stars primarily because it emphasizes the key point over and over: We create our own reality. What you have is what you called into being for yourself. If you want a different reality-then embody (think and feel) like you want that different reality to be. If you want your health restored, then believe yourself to be perfect and fully functioning, and send those vibes and energies into your manifesting desires. Create the image in your mind of what this new and better version of you and your life would be, and then replay that image and scenario over and over and over......every day.Its a hypnosis technique of envisioning the future that you create in your mind, then walking into it, and FEELing what it feels like to BE THERE in that ideal future. How happy it makes you. How wonderful everyone in your life is there, and how great your life now feels as you walk into that ideal future YOU living there. Do this daily and you eventually walk into that happier, healthier you, ...in theory.The saddest thing for me is that reading the book, which is composed of her husband's hand-written transcripts of her actual Seth sessions primarily occurring during the 1970's, is to witness Jane's health deterioration from pushing herself too hard, smoking, and not sure how much beer was required to initiate Seth's ease of oration but frequent requests for "another one" were noted. Not meaning to be judgmental, but in the 70's that behavior wasn't that unusual, but now, it seems a little questionable.On some level what Seth says makes perfect sense, and on the other it's like "Really?....I'm just not thinking and emoting joy and happiness and health? That's my entire problem?" And yet, I believe that this IS our problem. The thoughts and emotions we hold daily are those that replay for us the next day and the next. It has made me more aware of how powerful and affecting our thoughts on everything are to our personal welfare and our social/cultural environment.If you haven't read any of the Seth materials, this might not be the book to start with, but I will gladly add it to the others on my own shelf without regrets for the purchase. I don't always buy into channeled materials, but parts of this and the many other books that I have from her, ring true.