“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The medium perceives so clearly the reality of the surviving personality that the medium to some extent directly perceives that reality. You see the correlation here with what I told you in the past about experiencing concepts. That is one thing. To experience the reality of another does not necessarily mean that the medium negates her own personality—only that momentarily she allows it to perceive as directly as possible the experience of what it is to be the other. This involves a high degree of cooperation from the other person who does not exist in your physical terms, an opening of his reality to the medium rather than an invasion of the medium.

Now this is pertinent since the medium-communicator language can be legitimate in many other areas beside the one in which it is involved. In the simplest perception in those terms you are involved in the same way that a medium is. You are receiving data that is not basically physical, and translating it into terms meaningful to your own physical organism.

Regardless of the field of reality from which the data is received, to a large extent the mechanisms are the same. It is only because so-called mediumship is more unusual than simple perception that it appears so striking. Ruburt, reading from a book, would still have to receive and translate that information without knowing the endless manipulations necessary. The same sort of inner calculations would have been involved by the author of the book.

Now. In your system of reality you are learning what mental energy is, and how to use it. You do this by constantly transforming your thoughts and emotions into physical form. You are supposed to get a clear picture of your inner development by perceiving the exterior environment. What seems to be a perception, an objective concrete event, independent and apart from you the perceiver, is instead the physical materialization of the perceiver’s own inner emotions, energy and mental environment.

These connections are not even suspected, simply because your scientists do not seriously consider that physical reality is the result of any such interrelation. The fact is however that the full function of the nervous system is not known, for the proper questions have not been asked.

Give us a moment. (Pause.) The brain is capable (underlined)of interpreting and transmitting far more inner information than it does. It is the ego’s idea of what is possible, the ego’s concept of reality, that determines in a large manner whether or not the brain will interpret any particular data.

To a large extent you create what you see or perceive. This does not mean you are the creator in that respect. There are many realities of whose existence you are ignorant, but they nevertheless exist. Now you may end the session or take a break as you prefer.

Your inner environment is the total of your inner (underlined) perceptions of inner reality. This is what you have to work with, and the raw material practically available. You then project this into physical events which you then physically perceive.

In Ruburt’s case it has been some overprotective. Also since earlier conditions taught it that such knowledge could bring punishment. The ego of course also has more data to handle and works quickly to assimilate such data within the reality structure it recognizes.

Inner perceptions enlarge the ego’s idea of reality however so adjustments are made. It is the ego that insists upon separating itself from events, preferring to imagine itself a spectator above events, rather than a participator in events.

You remember this from our material on action and the personality. The ego therefore is pleased when information is proven correct. (Long pause.) If the nature of perception were clearly understood then the nature of reality as you know it would also be understood much more clearly. Only half the process of perception, so-called, is even considered, however. Only half of the circle is known. The entire circle consists of those projections outward that form events, as well as the mechanisms by which the events are then physically perceived.