“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Now John had finished his chart in the studio. While Jane continued to pace about the room, dictating in her clear strong voice, John entered, poured himself a glass of wine and lit a cigarette. I pointed to a pad and pen I had laid out in case he wanted to take his own notes. But John shook his head and settled down on the couch. Jane continued without a break.)

The third inner sense, as I have told you, will enable you to some extent to free yourselves from the constructions of past, present and future, and will permit in theory instant cognition. As far as practice is concerned you will never achieve such instant cognition, but you will be able to set aside now and then the boundaries of time, and you will be able at least to glimmer the reality and the concepts of which I speak.

This inner ego knows the outer ego well. The outer ego is but a counterfeit image of the inner ego. The outer ego as a rule is not aware of what you may think of for now as the thoughts or communications of the inner ego; but the inner ego knows every step you take, every particle of air you breathe, every dream you have; and it is the source of your own personality and is the representative of the entity of which it is part.

I now suggest a brief break, though I hope you are not at the breaking point.

(Now Jane’s voice became a little stronger yet.)

I went into the connection between the third inner sense and concepts for a reason, and this will now be an introduction into the fourth inner sense. And I am appalled: Getting this through Ruburt’s subconscious should be quite a trick.

The fourth inner sense is the conceptual sense. Now you think of a concept in terms of an idea, which you can only understand in intellectual terms. However, the fourth inner sense involves again direct cognition, only now of a concept in much more than you would call intellectual terms.

Concepts have what we will term for now electrical and chemical composition. Nothing exists in any universe or on any plane that does not have form of one sort or another. You may not be able to perceive the form but it always exists. Direct experience of a concept therefore involves the transformation of one pattern into another.

Now returning to the inner conceptual sense. You cannot truly understand or appreciate any other thing unless you can become that thing. This is definite. Otherwise you only receive an approximation and a distortion.

You cannot displace it completely, except at your own peril. Nevertheless you can learn to trick it. You can learn to cease focusing now and then and let the inner senses look out through the ego’s eyes.

When this focus is finished, when the subject tells himself “Now I will come to, now I have solved the problems that I set out to solve,” then what happens is the withdrawal of the self from the plane. The construction vanishes and is heir to the materials which compose the particular universe.

I will also go into this more deeply. You should be able to see now why a concept such as I refer to is difficult to achieve on your plane. You cannot focus upon it thoroughly. When the fourth inner sense is exercised, and I will outline exercises and all three of you would certainly benefit by following my suggestions, you will discover what an idea really is.

Mankind thought that killing worked. It was the most practical solution, or so it seemed, to many problems. You know now that killing is not practical, since it is being brought home to you in a very practical manner that in the long run he who kills will not survive.

One man you have known in a previous life. There was a debt involved which was paid off. There is no need now for you to humiliate yourself to seek his favor, as you have paid off in full your debt to him. There is also a man’s wife who would intuitively know what you were up to. Such practicality doesn’t seem very practical to me.

(By now Jane’s voice had lost its first scathing tone, and softened somewhat. It will be remembered that in the 26th session Seth also mentioned that a present business acquaintance of John’s had been involved with John in a previous life, in Belgium in 1632.)

(“Well, we’re all tired by now, Seth, so I guess we better end it.”