“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Its sense of identity spontaneously goes beyond the change of its own form. [...] The inner self is aware of this integrity of identity, but the ego focused so securely in physical reality cannot afford this luxury.

The inner self is intimately connected with each reality, though you are not aware of it, and the inner self can trace its own connections through the network of any existence, and still keep its identity. [...]

[...] The inner self knows what is behind the stars and planets that the eyes views, but the ego would be swept aside in panic. [...]

(Seth, it seemed, occupied a space about five feet high—a “blob” of space into which I could step, just at the limit of Jane’s reach, without disturbing him or without Jane sensing me as a separate entity within Seth’s province. [...]

[...] They will come if you allow yourselves to open up to your inner selves. They will come as you learn to use your own inner senses, and the material will explain what these inner senses are and how you can use them. [...]

[...] Any speech within your system and expression must be tinged and must be somewhat distorted in order to make sense to you. [...]

[...] It was your inner fear that caused the dream. [...]

The doors to the inner self were to be shut tight. [...] The normal individual felt that he had best leave such areas alone, so in cutting off these portions of the self, barriers were also set up against the joy of the inner spontaneous self. [...]

All of this happens because the inner portions of your being operate spontaneously, joyfully, freely; all of this occurs because your inner self believes in you, often even while you do not believe in it. [...]

Each person experiences a unique reality, different from any other individual’s. This reality springs outward from the inner landscape of thoughts, feelings, expectations and beliefs. If you believe that the inner self works against you rather than for you, then you hamper its functioning — or rather, you force it to behave in a certain way because of your beliefs.

[...] Others find it comparatively easy to recognize such inner assumptions when they appear in a religious context, but are quite blind to them in other areas.

[...] The sense of accomplishment involved in physical work will do wonders for you. It will take away the sense of unworthiness that you now have. [...] This will automatically release your inner abilities. [...]

[...] The high and mighty intellect that deals with the world of sense is not all. [...] Your soul, your inner self, your reality, is experience. [...]

(To Derek.) You will find your own ways, but trust your own inner voice. If you do not trust what Ruburt would call the establishment, then trust the inner voice that is yourself and follow it. [...]

[...] However, a flower has better sense than to ask whether or not it exists. [...]

[...] It was an attempt to objectify inner reality as it was perceived through a certain belief system. [...] That intense focus that united belief systems, that tension between a sensed subjective world and the physical one, and the rarity of images to be found elsewhere, brought art into that great flowering.

To some important degree, cells possess curiosity, an impetus toward action, a sense of their own balance, and a sense of being individual while being, for example, a part of a tissue or an organ. [...]

In highly complicated cellular structures like yourselves (pause), with your unique mental properties, you end up with a vital inborn sense of shape and form. The ability to draw is a natural outgrowth of this sensing of shape, this curiosity of form. [...]

[...] When they draw circles or squares, they are trying to reproduce those inner shapes, transposing those images outward into the environment—a creative act, highly significant, for it gives children experience in translating inner perceived events of a personal nature into a shared physical reality apparent to all.

[...] Not three-dimensionally, but in another way more vividly, I … saw … sensed … massive figures standing around the edge of that physical view; and around the edges of the world. [...] With my inner sight I felt that one of those forms, sturdy and impossibly massive, might bend down and with his gigantic face peek into my kitchen window … though I was also aware that all of this was my interpretation of what I was receiving.

[...] I came across his essay, The Poet, in which he talked about the ‘speakers’ as being those who use their inner abilities to ‘speak the inner secrets of nature.’ The essay impressed me strongly, seeming to echo elements in my own writing and psychic characteristics; and of course I thought of Seth’s ‘Speakers’ as he described them in Chapter Twenty of Seth Speaks. [...]

For all of this, however, inner portions of each individual’s being are not touched by those beliefs. [...] Yet beneath, the inner self is quite aware of the great thrusting creativity that occurs in dreams, and realizes that the source of individual energy has nothing to do with such superficial concepts as the nature of good and evil.

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[...] It recognizes its identity as a part of, underlined, the inner self. Therefore basically it has no need to fight the inner self, since it knows its survival is dependent upon this inner framework.

[...] These portions of the brain, once activated, then allow you to switch sense impressions from one sense mechanism to another, you see.

In other words, portions of the inner self have joined the strictly egotistical functions. [...] It joins with portions of the inner self previously unconscious, and illuminates the whole personality. [...]

[...] The ego has accepted the goals of the inner self. Its identity has already changed, so that its main concern, underline main, is no longer primarily with physical manipulation, but with inner growth and development.

The sentence is really meaningless however, because the physical senses themselves are camouflage, you see. [...] It is only use of the inner senses that will allow you to perceive under these circumstances. [...]

[...] All of the experience an artist has gained is in any given painting, not physically perceived, but strongly perceived by the inner senses.

There is a constant translation of inner reality into objects in the waking state, and a constant translation of ideas into pseudoobjects in the dreaming state. [...]

[...] Without the camouflage, you see, you would perceive nothing using the physical senses.

In the Hades conditions, the individuals come somewhat more quickly to their senses. [...] Their need, in other words, more quickly opens up the inner doorways of knowledge. [...]

[...] In trying to make sense in its terms of physical existence, the intellect has set up these opposing factors. [...] The inner self, however, realizes that in much larger terms, evil is simply ignorance, that “up” and “down” are neat terms applied to space which knows no such directions.

It may outrage your intellect, and the evidence of your physical senses may shout that it is untrue, yet a belief in good without a belief in evil is actually highly realistic, since in physical life it will keep your body healthier, keep you psychologically free of many fears and mental difficulties, and bring you a feeling of ease and spontaneity in which the development of your abilities can be better fulfilled. [...] I understand that the concept does indeed offend your intellect, and that your senses seem to deny it. Yet you should already realize that your senses tell you many things, which are not true; and I tell you that your physical senses perceive a reality that is a result of your beliefs.

(9:38.) The conditions connected with an act of suicide are also important, and the inner reality and realization of the individual. [...]

[...] There is however an inner rhythm that is not apparent. [...] It has been a compressed period of high activity, with the inner attitudes clearly (underlined), concisely and quickly made visible in the physical form. [...]

There is no time when the sessions should be held merely from a sense of responsibility, and the sessions could not be held merely for that reason.

Now my humor and my sense of joy are obvious. [...]

[...] Responsibility, in a certain sense, always got his back up.

[...] She sensed his deep and personal inner awareness. [...]

(Even so, through her school years Jane didn’t particularly talk about her thoughts, or the abilities she sensed within herself — not with her mother, the priests she came to know well [and who didn’t approve in any case if she carried her religious devotion, her mysticism, “too far”], or even with her grandfather. Jane wrote about her inner world instead. [...]

[...] In usual terms the state implies a far greater compassion and goodness than I possess; an inner graciousness that I sense but rarely achieve; and a patience with people that I lack. [...]

[...] Jane sensed her grandfather’s feeling of identification with the rest of nature, however, and since as a young child she had not yet developed a strong ego personality, she felt no sense of rejection as did, for example, the other members of the family. [...]

[...] This will lead up to the basic communication used by human personalities as you understand them, and point out these inner communications as existing independently of the physical senses, which are merely physical extensions of inner perception.

There will be a final chapter in which I will ask the reader to close his eyes and become aware of the reality in which I exist, and of his own inner reality. [...] In this chapter I will invite the reader to use his “inner senses,” to see me in his own way.

Seth intimates as much in Chapter Four, when he says, “Now the information in this book is being directed to some extent through the inner senses of the woman who is in trance as I write it. Such endeavor is the result of highly organized inner precision, and of training. [...]

[...] I do know that each individual has access to intuitional knowledge and can gain glimpses of inner reality. [...]

[...] On the other hand, within these other systems there is a strong innovative group consciousness developing, in which identity is retained but greater inner play allowed between individuals, a large creative interchange of symbol-pools, a drawing upon mental and psychic symbols with greater facility. Because of this, these individuals recognize more clearly the connection between creative images and given sense data. They purposely alter and change their given sense data, and experiment with it.

(Pause at 9:42.) Now: Physically, smell, sight, and sound are combined together to give you your main sense data and compose your physical senses. [...] Odors therefore have a visual reality, and, as you know, visual data can also be perceived in terms of other sense perceptions.

Now: The alpha state is a threshold, a preliminary state between the physically oriented portions of the personality and the inner self. [...]

[...] These symbols can be translated and perceived in many terms; as a series of notes for example, as a combination of senses, as a series of images. [...]

It is important that you tie in this material with previous data on the inner senses. They are always paramount in evolutionary development, being the impetus behind the physical formations. … The inner senses themselves, through the use of mental enzymes, imprint the data contained in the mental genes onto the physical camouflage material.

But that night, Mark insisted that Seth had read his mind and listened spellbound as Seth told him about the inner senses. None of us suspected that Seth would give Mark detailed information about the inner organization for which he worked, or help him understand personal problems, or delight in telling him what had gone on at sales conferences that Mark had already attended — or with a great rush of humor tell him the exact amount of a new raise he had just been given. [...]

That night, Seth emphasized only the importance of inner reality and the validity of the inner senses that made nonphysical knowledge available whenever we were ready to admit it. [...]

[...] This would involve the utilization of most, if not all inner senses, operating as a whole cognizance field. [...]

It is not to minimize the importance of the intellect that I once again repeat: Inner reality will only be known directly through the inner self, and the inner senses. [...]

[...] John now had for us questions on beginnings and endings, inner reality, the inner senses, etc. [...]

Philip should read the sessions dealing particularly with the laws of the universe, that is with the inner laws of the universe, appreciating then the facts that this universe within all universes is spontaneous while having durability. It would be backtracking to repeat that long discussion, but as the inner universe has as its attributes spontaneity and durability, and as the spacious present is simultaneous while containing within it all pasts and all presents and all futures, and as Philip understands the meaning of expansion in terms not of time or of space but of value fulfillment, so will he intuitively then grasp that no contradiction occurs with actual reality when I say that there is no beginning and no end.

[...] Nor can individualized energy ever lose its individuality, nor in a very actual sense can anything which has ever existed go out of existence, but merely change its form.

You are operating at a rather high level of awareness, and you are using inner senses. These enable you to perceive an added depth or dimension, and this is responsible for the increased sense of vividness, and also for the sense of exhilaration that sometimes occurs within this particular sort of dream.

In physical existence a certain portion of the inner self’s electromagnetic properties are used by the physical structure of the body. Subtle changes occur in the body when the inner self projects. [...] The electromagnetic properties simply revert to their original source with the inner self, and are no longer utilized in the construction of a corporeal image.

[...] You will realize that your physical self is sleeping, or in a dream state, and that the inner self is fully awake. [...]

[...] Animals have indeed sensed such apparitions. [...]

There has been the inner sense of a void to be filled, a fear of identity escaping and running outward—my cup runneth over, and there will be none of me left, you see. [...] But in these cases the personality was filled with an inner dread, and to some extent resented those he helped. [...]

[...] The personality has been used to depending upon inner intuitions, and knew it had further abilities to develop now. But there was a laxness within, and a lack of inner concentration that in this life hampered earlier development.

In two other lives there was instead the development of inner abilities to the exclusion of others, a closing down of the windows and a barring of the doors, and he would not look out and no one dared look in. He would make horrible funny faces at the window of his soul to frighten others away, and yet through all of this the inner abilities did indeed grow. [...]

[...] Now however there is the necessity to use those inner developments already worked for, to use them gladly and fully. He has already opened up the door, and he has already begun, but barely begun, to synthesize these inner and outer conditions.

[...] This also applies to your inner senses. The more you use your inner senses, the more data you have at your command.

[...] Now all of this involves use of the inner senses, it involves an examination of the inner world. [...]

[...] He would not disappear as an inner awareness. He would exist within your psyche as a small but definite organization of characteristics that would continue within themselves to retain a sense of identity. [...]

[...] Now: to some degree you see you are intuitively aware of Adam’s true nature (to Eve here), and on an intuitive basis you even relate to the Adam you sense within Aerofranz, but you do not realize when you are doing this. Adam in this respect would be the superior qualities that you sometimes sense in him, the Aerofranz that you know... [...]

[...] He is barely, again, beginning to sense that feeling of freedom, and the body is always ready to respond. [...] They are the result of fresh inner activity. [...]

[...] There are inner developments already beginning, however, that are helping him. [...] I tell you that the inner work is mental, and it need not be work—but if each of you believe he is beginning to attain normal flexibility, he will.

[...] It is through the inner senses that he perceives me, and this data he then attempts to transform into information that can be perceived by the outer senses.

—represents an outward transformation as Mark attempted to construct an accurate replica of material that he sensed with the inner senses, and as such it is the reconstruction of what I am. [...]

Your emotional feelings are, as you know, the inner senses as they appear close to the physical plane. [...] You form in your own personal perspective the data that exists within the inner self, but you do this on an individual basis in line with your own expectations, suggestions and attitudes.

Suggestion is no more and no less than an inner willingness and consent, to allow a particular action to occur; and this consent is the trigger which sets off the subconscious mechanisms that allow you to construct inner data into physical reality.