“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.)

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.

(Pause.) True and basic perception is a highly complicated phenomena, in which the line between perceiver and perceived vanishes. There is a strong correlation in what happens when the medium feels that a surviving personality has taken over the personality itself.

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.

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. 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.

As long as scientists insist upon considering the perceiver and the perceived event as entirely separate, then the true nature of perception will not be understood.

Basically then there is little difference as to the manner in which normal perceptions or extrasensory perceptions are received. Now the sources of the data may be different, but in both cases they are basically nonphysical.

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.

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.

It goes without saying that telepathy is one method by which events are formed as well as perceived, but telepathy hides so far beneath physical perception that it is hardly detected.

Resuming on the nature of perception on Monday.