“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] There is no doubt of the many improvements, made up of a series of inner improvements that do not show as yet, except as the time element presents itself—i.e., he gets over here (apartment 5) quicker and easier.

The legs do not appear straighter as yet, however (which Jane has been concerned about), but the change of tempo there reflects greater inner coordination. [...]

[...] The dreams were meant to encourage him and to show him that the inner order of events does assure his improvements.

The promise in the dream made by you, that the events (of Jane’s great flexibility)were indeed happening, represented your inner knowledge that he would make it now, and his own realization of the fact, as well as the body’s acknowledgment. [...]

[...] If you perceive results using the inner senses, you will perhaps gain better knowledge of progress. [...]

([Gene]: “Among all of us is the same self, in this larger sense?”)

([Gene]: “What, pray tell, is rightness other than pleasure in the sense in which you used the term?”)

[...] To be communicates instantaneously and directly and is instantly translated into truths that the inner self can understand. [...]

As you know, inner data must be perceived through the inner senses. [...]

[...] You create outer senses to perceive the appearances, and so what you perceive through the outer senses seems logical indeed. [...]

[...] You will perhaps recognize a certain similarity between this concept and the Christian concept of a Trinity, except that the Trinity concept, while hinting at diversity within prime unity, was nevertheless distorted by man’s own sense of his own adopted and unfortunate delusion of duality.

[...] He is a son, and then a father, and always within him he feels that part or inner self which cannot be seen by another, which is neither father nor son, but which is within him while he is father, and while he is son.

I used that information of Seth’s many times while working with “Unknown” Reality. Even so, I learned that on such a long-term project it’s easy to lose that acute sense of what one really wants to do and show — but I also learned how to constantly renew my focus. This presented me with what seemed like an endless series of challenges, yet I discovered again and again that I enjoyed them: Each time I sat down to work, whether on the most routine short note or the most complicated appendix, I searched for that particular, personal sense of intense concentration on the matter at hand. And each time I achieved it I experienced once more that complete inner and outer, mental and physical, involvement in which time was often significantly negated. [...]

[...] It’s also arduous: In our Western societies it’s much more comforting to grapple with chemistry, say, or farming or salesmanship, or with any of numerous other “practical” jobs or disciplines, than it is to confront the inner senses.

To be truly reckless in the sense of Seth’s definition — how daring! [...] I do get glimpses of that condition of inner and outer freedom; just enough to understand some of the many practical benefits that can flow from it. [...]

Jane insisted that the notes were important, as a constant reminder to the reader that psychic or inner events happen in the context of daily life. [...] He also stressed that our plan to divide the work was intuitively correct, and based on legitimate inner knowledge. [...]

You wanted to express now the fuller inspirations that come later, and with an exquisite sense of form that Josef never learned. The sense of form incidentally will, mark my words, emerge in a new way for you, but even the information given that so upset you had its purpose in your whole plan.

[...] You sense its great dimensions, the richness of its complexity. [...]

[...] It forces upon you a sense of responsibility to use what you have, while instead it should mean simply being what you are, and being what you are (underlined) will automatically produce excellent paintings.

Van Gogh, for your information, was (underlined) obsessed personally with ideas of self-mutilation, and underwent great inner torture. [...]

[...] Those belonged to the unsafe universe, and made perfect sense there—and there they still do. When you change your affiliation and find yourself now and then encountering such feelings; and they are always one way or another feelings of insecurity—then admit to yourself that while they made sense in the unsafe universe, they do not belong in the safe one. Literally, such feelings make no sense in a safe universe. [...]

[...] Any alterations are reflected in that inner pressure. [...] The exterior motion is obviously the result of inner connections that are now being released in the proper way.

Ruburt’s symptoms made sense in an unsafe universe. [...] Your feelings about Prentice made sense in an unsafe universe, where you had to protect the excellence of your vision from incompetence. [...]

[...] The cushioning of muscles and joints will allow first for easier motion and easier walking—that is, without such inner gratings.

[...] You spoke to Phil about this energy form that’s a kind of idealization or realization of the inner senses. [...]

([Hope W:] “Seth, can you suggest what specific daily steps I can take to develop my inner senses?”)

[...] (Words lost) far as the inner self is concerned, for you must translate what you receive. [...] The messages, therefore, come, as far as class is concerned, to this time from the entire entity, the inner identity, whatever word you want to use or coin. The innermost portions of yourself that is indeed a part of all energy, must be sifted through the self that you now recognize, and your job is to learn how to receive the information and how to open and use the inner self. [...]

You are tapping the energy of your being, the inner self, with which you have not been familiar. [...]

[...] You may close your eyes or leave them open, as you prefer, but sense within yourselves your own inner identity. [...]

[...] And let them form a foundation upon which you can climb to find your own reality and your own existence that is in itself independent, both of my words and even of the room in which now your bodies sit, for that independent inner self wanders through all existences that you have known, in your terms, has a wisdom and knowledge that you can use. And each of you in a greater sense knows the nature of your own vitality, and none of you are alone or have ever been alone for within you is the knowledge of all the personalities that you are, and within you are those abilities to be used and tapped. [...]

[...] A reality in which you are intimately concerned and feel within yourselves the inner identity recognizing that which it now sees and perceives. [...]

[...] Open your eyes, all of you, and test what you see against the inner reality that you know. [...]

As with all inner data, such an experience would be much more vivid than our present procedure. It would involve however the utilization of most, if not all, inner senses, operating as a whole cognizance field. [...]

[...] The inner senses provided him with much, but nevertheless the ideas contained represented an achievement of the conscious mind. [...]

[...] He has an inner sense of order which may not be apparent, and a strong feeling for what he considers sacred or private functions.

Now, people who believe strongly in your organized religions are used to thinking in terms of an inner world. For this reason many of them have been recipients of inner data from others like myself. [...]

[...] Your feelings can best be described as the three-dimensional materializations of far greater psychological events and experiences that are related to the “inner senses.”

I will explain these inner senses to you later, at the end of this chapter. [...]

They are created by our mental patterns, [just] as your own physical reality is created in perfect replica of your inner desires and thoughts. [...]

We are aware of the inner laws that govern all “materializations,” however. [...]

[...] Creative people do have more than most an inner sense of their life’s direction, even if they are taught to ignore it. [...]

[...] The natural man, the natural person, knows that art provides its own sense of creative power. [...] They may have seen circles or triangles countless times, but the first drawn circle is always original to the drawer, and always brings a sense of power. [...]

[...] There is always a kind of artistic dissatisfaction that any artist feels, any true artist, with work that is completed—for the true artist is always aware of the difference between the sensed ideal and its created actualization—but that is the dimension in which the artist has his being (intently). That is the atmosphere in which his mental and physical work is done, for he always feels the tug and pull, and the tension, between the sensed ideal and its manifestation. [...]

Art is not a specifically human endeavor, though man likes to believe that this is so, and no scientist is going to grant a spider or a bee any sense of esthetic appreciation, certainly, so what you have is art in its human manifestations, and art is above all a natural characteristic. [...]

[...] As proficiency grows and as the inner senses are more fully used, the necessity for even thoughtwords vanishes.

[...] The inner self however is not so limited, as you know, and inner communications continue always beneath words. [...]

[...] You know the senses force you to perceive experience in certain pattern. [...]

[...] They are doorways into inner realities, and other realities, as are these sessions. [...]

[...] In the dream state you work intimately with the “inner grammar” of events. [...] The skeletons of the inner workings of events are there more obvious. [...]

[...] They are experienced directly with the senses fully participating, but for the instant involvement you give up larger dimensions of the same actions that exist, but beneath the senses’ active participation.

Even as you speak your sentence with such fine conscious nonchalance, inner choices are still being made, as you unconsciously check your communications against events occurring outside you as you speak.

[...] These are flashed before a consciousness that momentarily focuses upon the inner rather than the outer arena of reality.

The inner senses can perceive other camouflage patterns, with training. As I mentioned, there are universes coexistent with your own, but your camouflage outer senses cannot perceive these. [...]

The inner ego knows what it is about. This inner data is transmitted through the mental genetic system by way of the generalized molecular consciousness to the chromosome system, and the chromosome system then translates data into a physical code for the cells to follow. [...]

[...] It goes without saying that mankind is not alone in maintaining the physical universe, and in giving it continuity as he projects and constructs his own physical image; and as this image is the direct result of his own inner psychic climate, and as it reflects most faithfully his own inner joy and illness, and as this joy and illness shows itself physically in his image, so also do all living things construct their own images, and help to maintain the physical properties of your universe.

[...] It is because every atom and molecule contains within it condensed comprehension, inner, direct, codified comprehension, of the inner universe as a whole, that these atoms and molecules are capable of such varied combinations and variations.

(Seth:) ...this was in your inner senses and perceiving a different kind of reality in the same way that you formed what you saw on an unconscious basis, in your terms, so you form the physical matter that forms the room on an unconscious basis. [...]

You have all been exercising your inner sense to one degree or another. [...]

[...] We perceive your present room, understanding that you consider it this indivisible reality and yet our presence was sensed. [...]

Now you can close your minds to such possibilities, or you can open your imagination and inner perceptions and try to perceive them. [...]

[...] They can increase or diminish your hearing, or any sense function.

[...] You will begin to use the faculty less and less, unconsciously transfer your attention to the other senses to compensate, and rely less and less upon your ears until the functions themselves do atrophy. [...]

[...] (Pause.) On the other hand you may believe that wisdom grows with age, that self-understanding brings a peace of mind not earlier known, that the keen mind is actually far better able to assess the environment, and that the physical senses are much more appreciative of all stimuli. [...]

[...] All energy at the inner self’s disposal is then concentrated to bring about the results asked for by the conscious mind.

The inner self or the whole personality consists of many such egos, as you know, but the inner self is also aware of itself as something more than the sum of its parts. [...]

[...] This is All That Is, in the deepest sense.

[...] It should not be forgotten, however, that the ego is also a portion of All That Is, a highly specialized portion, enabling the inner self to manipulate and interpret particular conditions. [...]

[...] An inner ego, of course, that contains various egos that have been or will be a portion of any given self—these egos and any ego organizes experience along various lines and ties experience together within meaningful pattern.

[...] You recall certainly the material dealing with the inner senses. Experiments and experiences using psychological time, and all projection events, deal rather directly with the use of these inner senses.

[...] Usually you do not use all of the inner senses in any given projection experience. [...]

[...] Now I will also say that in the first form you usually use certain inner senses; in the second form you use more of these, you see, and in the third form you make an attempt to use all of them, though very rarely is this successful.

As you know, this is characteristic of one of our inner senses. [...]

[...] That love of nature, and appreciation, quickened and utilized inner biological capacities, also possessed by plants and animals, so that man was more consciously aware of his part in nature. [...] It is almost impossible in your time to describe man’s reality when he was consciously aware that he would die and yet not die, and when he was everywhere surrounded by those inner data of his psyche.

[...] They appeared and disappeared as man perceived, and then did not perceive, these inner realities. These inner realities were “real.” [...]

The inner landscape is no less real because you do not generally perceive it. In Framework 2 that inner landscape is the reality, and it is from that world that your physical events emerge.

When consciousness becomes overly exteriorized and no longer identifies strongly with nature, then it no longer properly identifies itself with the inner nature of its own actions. [...]

[...] Your development of the inner senses will not blot out the outer world. [...]

[...] You will both benefit by an attempt to use your inner senses, and as I have mentioned earlier, connections and contacts with the outside world are also important.

[...] And remember, no harm can come to either of you through training your inner senses. [...]

The entity itself does not have to keep constant check on its personalities, because in each personality there is an inner self-conscious part that knows its origin. [...] It is the part, and the self-conscious part, that receives all inner data.