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Crystallization follows crystallized experience. Art comes from raw emotion, within your system at least, that is then crystallized and disciplined. The seemingly chaotic is recognized, felt, and then put into patterns. What is not generally understood however, is that the seemingly chaotic experiences do have purpose. The state of your inner physical organism, viewed from another perspective, is a chaotic one, but it works to find purpose.

I have given you a few examples simply to clarify my remarks. But these evidences of action, apparently chaotic and undisciplined, are parts of inner frameworks that do have both purpose and reason.

[...] They try desperately to control themselves and their environment against what seems to be a raging, spontaneous mass of primitive impulses from within, and against a mindless, chaotic, ancient force of nature. [...]

— chaotic, destructive activity as one and the same.

It is only because you seem to expect dream experience to be like daily life that you find so many dreams chaotic. [...]

[...] It is the daily ego’s ignorance and limited focus that makes it view so-called unconscious activity as chaotic.

[...] It is the fear that the “unconscious” is chaotic that causes psychologists to make such statements. [...]

[...] Following such beliefs, you find yourselves thinking of dreaming as chaotic, unreasonable, and as completely divorced from normal conscious direction, purpose, or function. [...]

4. Seth discussed the basic unpredictability from which significances arise in sessions 681–82, in Section 1. After break at 11:47 in the 681st session, he incorporated this line in his material: “From the ‘chaotic’ bed of your dreams springs your ordered daily organized action.”

[...] since on the other side so to speak there was an incomprehensible frightening chaotic dimension, malevolent, powers beyond our imagining; and that to question the stories was to threaten survival not just personally but to threaten the fabric and organization of reality as we knew it. [...]

[...] This is why many such experiences, even if recalled, seem chaotic and without meaning. [...]

[...] The emotional intellect therefore would seem chaotic. [...]

When you believe in a universe accidentally formed, and when you think you are a member of a species accidentally spawned, then private life seems devoid of meaning, and events can seem chaotic. [...]

[...] It is the daily ego’s ignorance and limited focus that makes it view so-called unconscious activity as chaotic. [...]

[...] (Pause.) It is the fear that the unconscious, so-called, is chaotic, that causes psychologists to make such statements, and there (pause) is also something in the nature of those who practice psychology, a fascination, in many cases, already predisposed to fear the so-called unconscious in direct proportion to its attraction for them.

[...] This evening however Ruburt’s subconscious is in a rather chaotic state, and I shall not attempt now to carry on a regular session.

Most such people expect a period of chaotic time, in which all laws are broken down. [...]

[...] And when it is believed that the inner self is indeed a bed of chaotic impulses, then it becomes less and less possible for an individual to express normal ranges of activity. [...]

[...] But if there is order to being, then there is order—and even the most chaotic-seeming episodes must and do have a larger meaning, and a constructive purpose.

[...] Since the universe is indeed meaningful, then there must be a reason and a cause even for conditions that appear chaotic, cruel, or grotesque. [...]

[...] The dream state appears chaotic, shadowy, suspicious, or even meaningless, precisely because in life you are so brilliantly focused in daily reality that dreams appear to be staticky objective background noise, left over from when you sleep. [...]

[...] Some projections will involve you in nontime, but these are advanced projections and would be chaotic to you unless you were prepared.

[...] When you try to make them fit into your recognized picture of reality, they may seem chaotic. [...]

[...] In a chaotic world of twisted reasoning he thinks his symptoms will take your mind off your own problems, and relieve you to some extent. [...]

In sleep your ordinary brain waves as you understand them register a chaotic jungle of experience not normally processed. [...]

Without an understanding of these rhythms, the activity of the units would appear haphazard, chaotic, and there would seem to be nothing to hold the units together. [...]