“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now. The inner self has a much richer and deeper heritage than the intellect or ego. Its perceptions are of a different nature, varying particularly in scope and depth. (Long pause.)

One note: Ruburt was correct in the interpretation he just gave you. He could use his inner senses fairly frequently in his waking state, as he did momentarily during that incident.

Strong abilities show themselves, and Ruburt’s inner life is a full and rich one, his inner perceptions well-developed. The intellect it seems is continually being scandalized.

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.

You are used to acting on knowledge only when it is so physically passed on, and the more numerous the forms in which it physically appears the greater your trust of it. Mental images, though they may occur within the physical skull, are not in themselves physical. The images, again, are only the symbols, the physical symbols, of inner knowledge. They are not the knowledge but the symbols of them.

Therefore you accept them for they make sense to the physical mechanism. The inner self has the knowledge behind these physical perceptions. The brain is responsible for these physical symbols. The mind has no need of them, but passes the information to the brain, who then interprets it.

Now. Ruburt has always perceived with the inner senses.

He was considered an overimaginative child, and turned much of the inner information into poetic form as he grew from childhood. He felt free using this information in writing.

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.

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.

Now some inner data cannot be perceived or translated by the brain, practically speaking, but as minds develop so the physical brain will develop, and in some individuals to a large extent this has occurred.

Changes in the physical structure of the species will always follow inner need, and the inner need is anticipated from the beginning of the seed. Therefore large portions of the brain, now unused, lie latent for these developments. So-called psychics put some of these portions to work. Otherwise information such as ours would not be received clearly enough to be understood.

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.

When you perceive more and more with your inner senses, you have more extensive raw material, better supplies, more available data. This should automatically bring about refinements within the physical structure to carry the additional data, and provide new outlets for materialization. The physical structure then to some extent is altered.

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.