“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now you can translate inner data into the terms of the outer senses, but always some distortion is absolutely necessary, for the very method of perception you see colors that which is perceived.

[...] The inner senses you see do not distort the data, but when you attempt to make such data available to the ego, then distortion to some extent must enter in.

[...] (Long pause.) Sense data itself has a reality independent of any given object. This sense data has its own intensity. [...]

[...] In our seance we were, again, manipulating energy and forming objects from it—objects that you could perceive with your physical senses. The whole matter, if you will forgive my pun (smile) on matter is highly intriguing, and we shall have several sessions at least, dealing with the reality of sense data, and the unreality, comparatively speaking, of matter itself.

[...] This involves certain inner muscular coordinations and releases. [...]

[...] The music, the chants, are richly endowed with what you might call for now racial memory, striking psychic as well as biological chords, and thereby releasing certain inner mechanisms and memories.

[...] The language is structured, but in such a way that it is loose enough to be highly flexible and elastic, and only tight enough to retain the sense or feeling of the kind of language you are used to.

The translations when they come must make sense to the Western mind. [...]

Within your particular plane of activity, and speaking practically, no one fully or completely can use all the energy available to them, or completely materialize the inner sensed identity that is multidimensional. This inner identity is the blueprint however against which you judge, ultimately, your physical actions. [...]

[...] He checks on his inner progress by seeing the physical materialization of his work. [...]

[...] The resulting snarl in activities automatically brings you back to inner questions.

[...] I immediately thought it might be an inner sense telling me that Seth was around.

[...] It takes no time for you to journey, using the inner senses, from Elmira to New York. [...]

In this instance of traveling by personality-essence, any contact would be telepathic, and a potential observer would see nothing, using the outer senses alone.

[...] You show a good deal of ability along this line, and possess an inner willingness to experiment, that will stand you in very good stead.

Whether or not you realize it, you have pursued your present course with determination, using many resources, for ends or reasons that at one time made sense to you. You may say, “Poor health makes no sense to me,” or, “A fractured relationship with my mate is hardly what I was after,” or, “I certainly have not been pursuing poverty after all my hard work.”

(“Ruburt sensed this quite clearly, and as usual feels twinges, wondering what I am going to write about and what kind of a book it will be. [...]

An examination of your conscious thoughts will tell you much about the state of your inner mind, your intentions and expectations, and will often lead you to a direct confrontation with challenges and problems. [...]

[...] The exterior appearance is a replica of inner desire. [...]

[...] Your thoughts are as physically pertinent to your body as viruses are, as alive and self-propagating, and they themselves form inner affiliations. Their vitality automatically triggers (long pause, eyes open) all of the body’s inner responses. [...] Those thoughts, as clearly as I can explain this, rise from inner components of which you are unaware.

[...] Again, the question makes sense only if you do not realize that your thoughts are as physically a part of your body as viruses are (intently).

The earlier statement makes perfect sense to me, for each self would call that portion of its greater reality within the whole unit its own soul. [...]

[...] Such enlightenment is supposed to lead to better health, self-knowledge, and provide an inner state of peace. [...]

It is believed that the self must shed its ego and die symbolically in order that the inner self can be free.

[...] Actually in our inner universe … growth exists in terms of the value or quality expansion of which I have spoken, and does not — I repeat— does not imply any sort of space expansion. [...]

[...] After 10:19: “To the extent that you are open and receptive, you can benefit greatly by the various experiences of your probable selves … often what seems to you to be an inspiration is a thought experienced but not actualized on the part of another self … Ideas that you have entertained and not used may be picked up in this same manner by other probable you’s. Each of these probable selves considers itself the real you, of course, and to any one of them you would be the probable self; but through the inner senses each of you are aware of your part in this gestalt.”

[...] Many are born the same day of any given year, and generally within the same time period — but individually the inner triggering may be far different, so that while the overall conditions at birth may appear more or less the same, the inner reactions to them will vary widely. [...]

[...] Interpretations based upon the charts then will make more sense to those who have chosen the same probable birth circumstances — but they will be of no value to those who were born at the same time, in your terms, but who follow a different order of probabilities.³

Consciousness does not simply choose to be born at a certain place in space and time, but it also endows its physical organism ahead of time with certain inner triggers so that it will respond to those conditions in highly individualistic ways.

[...] They are ill, unhappy, dissatisfied, and without your feelings of achievement or inner accomplishment. What you have, you have through an inner trust of the self and the psyche.

[...] Other people however sense at once the difference in experience. [...]

[...] And that is that there is also a quite valid inner sense of guilt here, in that he has neglected his poetry.

Ruburt’s indisposition is the result of a rather uncalled-for sense of panic.

[...] They will prevent too much inner involvement, open new doors, bring psychic refreshment, and also provide our hungry friend with his diet of new ideas. [...]

[...] He so feared that he lacked discipline that he becomes too stern a keeper of his own inner fires.

We have so much to learn about our inner and outer worlds that once an attempt is made to discuss those large issues, a host of questions arise. [...] Jane and I, for instance, have never particularly cared for the term “ESP,” or extrasensory perception (my emphasis), since to us it implies misleading conceptions about certain inner abilities. [...]

[...] In a sense, they are incomplete and complicated at times, with new terms, for the unknown reality they attempt to describe will, I fear, always elude us to some extent, and new terms are needed as old ones become stereotyped and worn.

Seth told us ahead of time, of course, that “Unknown” Reality would follow an intuitive and inner organization rather than a linear one, and that this writing method would itself arouse the creative, revelatory characteristics of the psyche. [...]

In any case, I feel that the entire production, Seth’s dictated work and my running commentaries and references, adds up to extra dimensions of creativity that can be sensed, if not described. [...]

[...] So you are greeted with a certain set of sense data. You then try to figure out what is happening from the sense data that is presented to you, but the sense data, you see, means that the event is already to some extent distorted. [...]

[...] You are avoiding your inner life as completely as you can afford to. [...]

[...] Our Lady of Florence, very nicely for each of you in class, personifies the feelings that each of you have, to whatever degree, involving your inner self. [...]

[...] Now, I use the word materializes because it makes sense to you but the word itself is distortive because it predisposes an appearance within matter materialization, and yet all realities, as you know, are not physical. [...]

6. Ever since Seth came through with the material in this (44th) session 10 years ago, I’ve been interested in comparing his second law of the inner universe with the second law of thermodynamics of our “camouflage” physical sciences. [...] At the same time I see them as linked through our distorted perception of that inner reality, thus pointing up Seth’s statement just given, that “the so-called laws of your camouflage universe do not apply to the inner universe.” [...]

Now, the so-called laws of your camouflage physical universe do not apply to the inner universe. [...] However, the laws of the inner universe apply to all camouflage realities. [...]

Animals have a sense of justice that you do not understand, and built into that innocent sense of integrity there is a biological compassion, understood at the deepest cellular levels….

[...] By mysticism I mean simply the intuitional penetration of our camouflage reality to achieve deeper understandings relative to our physical and mental environments — and such comprehensions are what Jane seeks to accomplish through her expression of the Seth material.²⁵ In that sense, it isn’t necessary here to discuss attaining “ultimate” knowledge — it will be enough to note that as one person Jane can use her abilities to help unify a number of viewpoints. [...] Within that sort of framework, the evolution referred to by Seth — in whatever way it may concern the development of ideas, planets, creatures, or anything else — makes sense.)

[...] You use telepathy very well in discovering their feelings—you use your inner senses in perceiving their difficulties and intuitively you are aware of the problems and able to help them rise above them.

[...] The fear under those circumstances of letting go, and yet the fear has to do with the deeper fear involving the nature of your own inner faith—thoughts, of course, of being annihilated, not however by the emotions of another, but by your own.

[...] The same thing in meditation—let your inner self play in your meditation and let your body play in your lovemaking.

When his lips touch your hand—if you do it in the sense of play and allow your native awareness to function.

[...] You manipulate your own inner organs constantly. [...] Until you learn to manipulate the world that you know, and constructively and creatively, you will not be able to manipulate the inner realities in which you already live but instead will be swept merely within them. [...]

[...] This will give you a greater sense of freedom. [...]

[...] The leaders that will appear to you tomorrow are known to you beforehand in your dreams, and when you recognize them in physical reality there should, indeed, be a great sense of familiarity for already you know them well. [...]

Now as you sit before me, and I have said this before, you imagine yourselves to be particular people upon this earth at this particular time and at this particular address and cut off from any deeper reality that you have and yet, in your inner awareness, you realize that you are more than you know. [...]

Painting or sketching outdoors for a while will aid you considerably in your ability to sense this inner unity, to see each natural object in its individualistic momentary majesty, and yet to realize that it is in one way a center through which all energy moves.

It is easier then to sense and feel the alive energy within and beneath the physical forms that you see. It is easier to feel yourself as the artist, also a part of the landscape that you paint; to sense the merging of your own energy into the scene before you, and to realize that you are a part of it also. [...]

[...] If you sense the peculiar and overall gestalt that is beneath the form at any given time, then creation of the form will follow naturally and truly.

[...] In portraits, while the inner skeletal structure must be hinted at, and while the figure should be well done, still there should be the suggestion of the personality going beyond the image, and of the personality’s energy radiating outward.

We have already spoken of psychic constructions, and we have said that physical shapes are built upon inner psychic frameworks. Emotions then, in their own realm unperceived by the outer senses, have their own solidity, shape, and it is from these that your expectations are formed.

I will, then, begin with a short treatise concerning the importance of expectation, not only in the construction of physical objects from inner data, but also in the importance played by expectation in the actual sifting of inner data that is received, and in the importance of expectation in the interpretation of inner data after the sifting process has been carried about.

Again, expectations are not only vital in the formation of physical constructions, but they also determine what inner data of all available, will be received by the individual; and then the individual interprets the data in terms of the same expectations.

[...] Expectation is actually the main trigger that switches inner data into the realm of physical construction. [...]

(9:50.) Your intimate physical environment is, therefore, a symbolic statement of an inner situation. The inner situation is a fluid one, for you are always in a state of becoming. Left alone, you will automatically translate the freely moving, spontaneous inner events into physical reality, therefore altering your environment and changing the symbols.

[...] They are the exterior symbols that stand for inner experience.

Any physical ailment is symbolic of an inner reality or statement. [...]

[...] Then you must look within yourself for the inner actuality represented by the symbol. [...]

[...] The inner psychological state is projected outward, gaining physical reality. This holds true regardless of the nature of that inner psychological state. [...]

You have built defenses so strongly that you have not heard the voice of the inner self. The inner self is hardly to be feared. [...]

[...] Now if you would change an individual, change your thoughts toward him, and changes will appear in the sense data world.

Now: You are not listening to what your own inner voice says. [...]

For he is a kind, well-intentioned, intelligent man, searching to make sense of the nature of reality by using the yardstick of available beliefs. His kindly inner skepticism is the same as that that is within many of the magazine’s readers. [...]

[...] At the time I thought the brief appearance a little odd, but when it developed that Timothy Foote wouldn’t be staying for supper, as we had planned, Seth’s appearance made good sense.

Do not overlook the Saratoga connections of Timothy or Eleanor (Friede): for Ruburt this also provides a sense of continuity that had been lost, and a focus point in his life, a gathering-together point most necessary, that will serve to collect and even regenerate his energies. [...]

(To me:) Your attitudes had something to do with it, but there is also an inner harmony, in that events happen when they are ready. [...]