“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Different outer senses are necessary at different levels and on various planes to interpret the different camouflage patterns. These outer senses are developed to cope with these particular camouflage patterns which the personality will meet in its various environments. The inner senses always operate regardless of the particular environment in which the personality is presently involved. The inner senses provide the whole personality with balance, and enable it to keep in contact with its vitality source.

This fact is responsible to a large degree for your death shock, and for the more powerful birth shock, when the new personality awakes to the prisonlike clutch of rigid camouflage pattern. Other levels have different and sometimes severe problems of a different type. One of the basic purposes of existence on your plane is to enable the personality to focus powerfully and to form basic vitality into creative pattern. Sometimes the lesson is learned too well. However, it is extremely difficult for personalities to learn to organize vitality well enough to give it form, and therefore some troubles are to be expected.

It is a giant step and a vital one, for without it the personality would be at the mercy so to speak of the very energy of which he is composed. He must learn to organize and command it, and your plane is one of the many where he gains practice and discipline in this respect. Otherwise you would have a willy-nilly chaotic arrangement, with the personality incapable of maintaining any discipline as far as his own chemical and electronic components were concerned.

When I speak of the terms electronically and chemically I do so for simplification, since electronics and chemicals are two facets of the same thing, merely manifestations of something else as heat and cold or fire and ice are manifestations of something else. I can exist electronically or I can exist chemically, and there is no contradiction or distortion in this statement. Many such apparent effects on your plane are also but manifestations.

(“Are you ever in a chemical state on this plane?”)

Rarely. There are just too many interconnections. This will have to wait for later sessions. On your plane mental enzymes cause many chemical reactions. On some other planes the mental enzymes are unnecessary, since the personality on a conscious level can work such transformations; and here again we run into an apparent contradiction, because while these transformations occur consciously on certain levels it is also true that the personalities concerned do not have to be conscious of the transformations. But they can be if they prefer.

On your plane such transformations are carried on without the awareness of the ego with which you are familiar, and therefore other mechanisms become necessary. On some planes the inner senses are the only senses, because all other necessities vanish since the inner senses function at greatest capacity.

Some vivid, usually unfortunate, experiences on your plane will serve as further examples of this in that oftentimes a severe fright or psychological assault will be so vivid that the personality who has it can never forget it.

(“How much of this will we ever be able to approach on this plane?”)

You should approach a fair approximation, which would represent to you an astounding degree of change for the better. It would be impossible for you to experience such inner abilities to the degree that I mentioned, while on your plane. Nevertheless even fair progress would represent a world gain.

This has happened, although in what you would call primitive societies. Such personalities were more sheltered than they would be in yours. This could result in a temporary, but thoroughly frightening existence between planes that would require utmost caution on the part of the entity. Each plane necessitates its own orientation, and such a personality would have none. If the situation should ever arise I would advise that neither of you experiment with such drugs. Ruburt in particular, but this also applies to you, Joseph, and there is absolutely no distortion in this statement.

(“Are others on your plane watching as you give instruction to us?”)

At the same time these personalities had to be disciplined and intuitive. These personality requirements are not easy to find; plus the fact that they had to be well balanced and intelligent, at least for my purposes. I did not want to just fill a vessel. Such was not my intention. I wanted a give and take between myself on one plane and you on another.

(“What others are watching these proceedings from your plane?”)