“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(This state is one of thrilling or tingling, or of a singing sensation, that can either suffuse the whole body, or perhaps locate itself in one side of the body or in one limb. Both of us have experienced it in varying degrees during psychological time, sometimes intensely. I have also experienced it outside of psy-time. It can indeed be a thrilling experience, making one feel about to be swept up and away. We have been aware of its relation to sound, since we soon learned while in the state that any sound, be it of running water somewhere in the house, or a robin’s call, would momentarily impart an upsurge to the sensation within the body. Thus sound, even though detected by ear, would act also as a stimulus to the body’s detection of the same sound via feeling.

(Yesterday, deliberately, I mentioned to Jane that Seth had not given us any more material on the inner senses for many sessions. What I meant of course was that he had not catalogued the later material under the various inner senses, as he had originally designated them. I felt that he would eventually do so. Checking the various categories of material against the original list of the inner senses, it was usually easy to see where the two fit together.

In other species within your field, however, some of these various methods have been chosen and utilized. Many animals for example literally see through the sense of smell. They quite literally perceive what you would call the sight of another animal, through the use of the sense of smell.

Again, in this distortion we see the creation, however minute, of a new reality. The universe is cohesive, but it is also more various than you know even now. The nature of our object, our automobile for example, is indeed largely determined by those who perceive it, for it is different things in reality, and not one thing. Electrically it has an identity, and would be perceived as an entirely different phenomena from within an electrical system, where there would be no perceptors of physical data.

Within your field the automobile is perceived mainly as a physical object. Within some systems the same automobile would appear to be no more than a shadow. Within some systems the automobile would not be perceived at all, unless it were in motion. In other systems it would not be perceived at all, unless it were not in motion.

These various conceptions of the automobile would also apply of course to the perception of any physical beings within the car; that is, their reality would also be perceived differently, according to the perspective systems which viewed them.

Reality is indeed not necessarily that which is constant within the various appearances of reality through all systems, as it is the perception of the whole picture of reality, or the sum of all reality as seen within the various systems. This involves quite a complicated point, and implies a complicated position; for true reality would not be completely either the reality of an automobile, say, as it appears within the physical system, or as it appears within the electrical system. It would not be that which appears identical to the two systems, but it would be indeed the sum of the realities of all systems, as applied to our weary automobile.

As always, my heartiest good wishes to you both, and one small note for Ruburt’s edification: a beef bouillon in mid afternoon would serve him well. Incidentally, his system automatically as a rule seeks those foods that tend to build up the particular sort of energy that he uses in the main. As a rule therefore, proteins are indeed a most beneficial food to him, and it is for this reason that he automatically seeks them out.