“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

We were discussing the nature of perception some while back, and its relation to clairvoyant activities. We were discussing the fact that no knowledge exists apart from consciousness. I told you that any perception alters the perceiver. Not only mentally and emotionally but also alters the electromagnetic reality of the internal physical structure.

In a very literal manner then you are the knowledge that you have. The interchange is constant. Now. Initially and basically perception is not dependent upon your senses. Any perception is first of all a psychic one that is then translated in ways meaningful to the physical organism. To other organisms in different realities perception would therefore be translated in an entirely different manner.

Relying upon such external perceptions therefore, communication between members of various systems would be relatively impossible. You might not perceive each other to begin with, or realize that there is anything to be perceived. Such contact therefore would always take place beneath so-called normal perception, and even then you would have to translate this inner perception, as you do any into terms you could understand as physical creatures.

That translation would be bound to be distortive, and yet it would be the only kind of perception or understanding that would be possible under the circumstances.

Now. Any conceivable method of perceptions is possible to the inner self, latent within it. It can adopt any method of perception it chooses, according to the environment in which it finds itself.

In psychological time therefore it is at least possible that you can have some experience with other methods when you close off habitual methods of perception. The ego is firmly attached to the use of the physical senses, however. In the dream state there can also be other methods at least slightly experienced.

Now. There are indeed a body of symbols that are more or less basic within all kinds of perception—bridgeworks from one form of perception to another, since beneath all perceiving systems there is consciousness. Certain symbols therefore will have meaning. I do not see any particular purpose in giving these to you now, but at some time I will do so. (Long pause.)

Some systems use methods of perception that cannot be explained, since they contain nothing that is familiar to you. Within most systems death as you know it, with the meaning you attach to it, has no importance. The advanced consciousness can focus within one in quotes “life” while already sending portions of itself into the next quote “life,” as for example you might in school take advanced calculus while still remaining in an elementary philosophy class. Do you understand?

The brain however often does not see the inner logic of the emotion’s reoccurrence, or the inner connections that make it again pertinent. Any given emotion itself contains within it multitudinous perceptions that the brain has not perceived, and as a result indeed of in quotes “calculations” the brain could not follow.