“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

“The fourth Inner Sense involves direct cognition of a concept in much more than intellectual terms. It involves experiencing a concept completely. Concepts have what we will call electrical and chemical composition [as thoughts do]. The molecules and ions of the consciousness change into [those of] the concept, which is then directly experienced. You cannot truly understand or appreciate any living thing unless you can become that thing.

I was using this sense, I believe, in the episode described in Chapter 17, experiencing a concept that could not be expressed adequately in words, when everything in the room seemed to grow to tremendous size.

[...] It is obvious, for example, that some events are experienced by the subconscious also, that may or may not be experienced by the ego.

This event X becomes real then, in your terms, only when it is experienced or perceived by our conscious self. [...] The only difference between them and event X is that event X was perceived and experienced by our conscious individual. [...]

[...] It becomes real, actual and different from those other probable events, only when it is experienced by our conscious self, or by this conscious self.

[...] For when our individual perceives event X, this other portion of the self branches off, so to speak, into all the other probable events that could have been just as easily experienced by the ego.

“Take, for example, Event X. This probable event will be experienced by the various portions of the self in their own way. When it is experienced by your ego, it is a physical event. [...]

[...] The other two actions are experienced also, by the inner ego, but not in physical reality. [...] The probable actions were definitely experienced, however, and such experience makes up the existence of the ‘probable selves’ just as dream actions make up the experience of the dreaming self. [...]

[...] In dreams, often portions of probable events are experienced in a semiconscious manner. [...]

“It is actual all the same and is experienced in variation. [...]

[...] When you are dreaming, you are experiencing direct knowledge about yourself or about the world. [...] When you are reading a book, you are experiencing indirect knowledge that may or may not lead to comprehension. [...]

In our last book session, I gave the title for this chapter, mentioning the emotions and association; and the fact that the psyche must be directly experienced. [...] In the meantime, Ruburt has been experiencing dimensions of the psyche new to him.

[...] It must be experienced. [...]

[...] In The Nature of Personal Reality I tried to extend the practical boundaries of individual existence as it is usually experienced. [...]

[...] The other “dream” experienced simultaneously was, instead, your muddled interpretation of vital experienced reality on the part of another portion of yourself, in another reality entirely; a dimensional bleed-through. [...]

[...] Even now in some “tribal societies,” for example, the self is experienced far differently; so that, while so-called individuality as you understand it is maintained, each self is also experienced as a part of others in the tribe, and the natural environment. [...]

[...] Neither Jane nor I remembered hearing of, or experiencing, what I’ll call double dreaming. [...]

(Before finishing the notes I thought of asking a few other people if they had either heard of double dreaming, or had experienced it. [...]

[...] Any given thought experienced by you is experienced by all possible you-selves, though in various forms.

A thought experienced by you is also experienced by your probable selves, you see, in one way or another. [...]

[...] He realized in those earlier times that illness, for instance, was initially as much the result of the imagination as health was, for he experienced far more directly the brilliant character of his own imagination. [...]

(Long pause at 10:10.) They felt their relationship with nature acutely, experiencing it in a far different fashion than you do yours. [...]

[...] You could not live in your present world of time if your consciousness was as playful, curious, and creative as it was, for [then] time was also experienced far differently.

It may be difficult for you to understand, but the events that you now recognize are as much the result of the realm of the imagination, as those experienced by early man when he perceived as real happenings that now you would consider hallucinatory, or purely imaginative.

Even in reincarnation for example, an ego who experienced a Civil War life is now aware of another ego who may have experienced life in the year three thousand. [...]

[...] They are used to experiencing events not in any time sequence. Instead moment points are experienced fully, developments opening simultaneously, and “events” are recognized as psychic and psychological happenings not necessarily connected with any exterior circumstance.

[...] Organization of inner events is managed according to the inner interests of the various personalities and the intensities with which any given event is experienced.

(Early last week a friend sent me a copy of a “double dream” experienced by his lady. Then as Jane and I were discussing the episode last Friday night, I found myself saying that one explanation for double dreams — that is, the awareness of experiencing two dreams at once, or a dream within a dream — could be that each half of the brain has its own separate dream, the two dreams then try to emerge together into ordinary consciousness.

(Each dream would be characteristic of the functions of the hemisphere of the brain that experienced it, I added, as we think of those functions in the light of current knowledge. [...]

[...] It puts together for you in their “proper” sequences events that could be experienced in many other ways, using other kinds of organization. [...]

[...] Events from past, present, and future can be safely experienced, as can events that would be termed probable from your usual viewpoint, since the body, again, is not required to act upon them.

[...] Take for example probable event X. This so-called probable event or action will be experienced by the various portions of the self in their own way. When it is experienced by the ego you call it an actual physical event. When the event is perceived or experienced by other layers of the self, the ego does not know of it.

[...] In the dream state often portions of these probable events are experienced in a semiconscious manner. [...]

The event is actual all the same, and is experienced in variation. [...]

[...] That is, events are experienced in different sequences. [...]

The child will be completely absorbed in the merry-go-round ride that was directly experienced. [...]

In the reincarnational terms, however, the merry-go-round events might be experienced directly in some existences, or appear in a dream in another existence, or turn up simply as an image in another, or happen in an event involving real horses instead of merry-go-round horses. [...]

[...] This experiencing of past, present and future would seem to be unwilled, almost automatic. [...]

The fact is that the whole self is constantly experiencing data from all of the inner senses. [...]

Had you experienced the pain of the tree as directly and as immediately as you would sense another person’s pain through the ordinary senses you could not have stood it. [...]

[...] It alone is capable of experiencing inner and basic reality directly and immediately. [...]

[...] At 8:15 Jane lay down for a nap, and upon awakening at 8:45 experienced her sensation as described on pages 309/310. [...]

[...] Now, the strange sensation experienced by Ruburt just before this session was a taste of our seventh inner sense, but only a small portion. [...]

Ruburt experienced this on a physical level, trying again to translate inner data into sensation that could be recognized by the outer senses. [...]

(In my notes preceding the 39th session for March 30, 1964, I described the first massive state Jane experienced after beginning the Seth sessions. [...]

[...] Ruburt experienced this on a physical level, trying to translate inner data into sensation that could be recognized by the outer senses. [...]

(So Jane experienced a modest series of unusual psychic events before the sessions themselves began; some details on these have been given in earlier notes. [...]

[...] However, at present Ruburt is experiencing many more dimensions of action. He is experiencing action gestalts.

[...] While experiencing such a thing, Jane said she is not conscious of being apart from the experience. [...]

[...] Like every other consciousness he is always action, but this evening he experienced to some degree action directly, without the usual attempt of the self to separate from action.

[...] It happens within her, she is the one doing the experiencing, yet I am also necessary. [...]

This can indeed be experienced as an irritation, but it is a beneficial irritation—the renewed activity of bodily business. [...] He is experiencing the body’s impetus, its urge toward motion, and to reactivation. [...]

Ruburt is presently experiencing an acceleration of nearly all portions of the body—increased activity, and the stimulation of circulation, and in particular the stimulation of nervous activity. [...]

[...] I have now experienced both sensations many times. As far as I can consciously recall, this instances is the first I have experienced upon coming out of a sleep. [...]

[...] But she had no sense of quickly passing time like that she had experienced in the last session.

The type of dream, or the types of dreams experienced by any individual, is determined by many factors. [...]

[...] Upon lying down I experienced my familiar thrilling sensation three separate times, the last time strongly. [...]

[...] Both of us have experienced it in varying degrees during psychological time, sometimes intensely. I have also experienced it outside of psy-time. [...]

Ruburt experienced this in his psychological time experiment this afternoon, and it reminded me that more material definitely was needed here.

Ruburt, in feeling sound, merely experienced the sound from a different perspective. [...]

The nature of basic reality is known according to the degree to which it is directly experienced, and it can only be directly experienced through the use of the inner senses. [...]

[...] But as the walls of your house are experienced by your outer senses, and serve to protect you against other camouflage materializations, even those of wind and rain and cold, so do the walls of past, present and future, erected by you as a different kind of camouflage pattern, protect you from inner forces and realities with which you are not as yet equipped to deal.

[...] An example being the spider’s web, and the table of a past discussion which is actually a conglomeration of atoms and molecules, loosely held together but experienced by your outer senses as a solid camouflage structure which can be used and manipulated in your camouflage existence.

Many instances can be directly experienced by you without too much difficulty, and I will endeavor to help you where I can. [...]

[...] And yet this is in itself a division, so to speak, or a kind of value fulfillment, for the simultaneous nature of a given action is here experienced in slow motion, as a child must learn to walk before the child can run.

[...] Conceivably therefore one moment of your time would indeed be experienced by the whole self as centuries.

For to the whole self all personalities that compose it exist simultaneously, and personalities that would appear to you as future personalities are experienced by the whole self in the same dimension as it experiences personalities that you would call past personalities. [...]

[...] It can only cease experiencing a certain portion of action. [...]