“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Before tonight’s session I read to Jane this question: “In the 462nd Session, page 232, you say [meaning Seth] that any perception, however slight, alters every atom within our physical structure. Not to be nitpicking, but others as well as ourselves are sure to want to know just what you mean by this alteration.”

Now give us a moment. (Pause.) Returning to the material on perception, there are changes in the positive and negative atomic charges, alterations of movement inside the atoms in the smaller particles (long pause), a change in pulsation rate. (Long pause; eyes closed; smile.) The activity of molecules actually is caused by perceptive qualities. To begin with, atoms do not just move within themselves because they move because they are atoms.

The constant motion within them is caused by the constant perceptive nature of any consciousness, however minute in your terms. Does that answer your question?

(Pause.) Each of the molecules or particles within the atom are perceptively aware of all the other particles within the given atom. They move in response to stimuli received from each other, and to stimuli that come from other atoms.

(Long pause, hand to closed eyes.) Perceptions in general physical terms usually seem to involve information picked up from an arbitrarily designated structure, of an event seemingly occurring in another structure outside of itself. In the entire act of perception, however, there is a oneness and a unity between the seemingly objectively perceived event and the perceiver.

Now. Perception is constant. There is no place where one perception begins and another ends.

Remember that you are a part of what you perceive. Now in many instances of so-called paranormal perception there is what would seem to you a reversal of focus. It seems to you that the burden of perception in on your part as perceiver.

There are constant interchanges on all levels. I will try to explain this to you more clearly. Remember also in your terms that the seemingly independent perceived event and its nature is changed and altered by your own perception of it.

Any physical perception is actually an action response at a psychic level to thoughts and emotions, and these exist independently of their physical counterparts. The thoughts and emotions however also have their own electromagnetic reality. (Pause.)

On the one hand his own personality is enlarged in that the self structure includes far more perceptions than ordinarily. Further actions are recognized and interpreted. The speaking systems however and mental faculties have to be trained to handle the additional data; this of course causing some distortions along the way.

Another dimension in your terms is simply added, a more extensive one, and when this training is done properly, as I have tried to do, then the medium’s personality is not only strengthened but its abilities used far above the usual normal. The process however is highly involved with perception, and is largely a matter in learning to handle, recognize and use constructively perceptions that other personalities are not equipped to handle.