“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] So does consciousness form its own kind of inner structures from which, again, the physical ones emerge. [...] Yet as there is great variety to physical form, so counterparts follow a still more expansive inner freedom that finds an even greater diversity of characteristics.

[...] There are also inner earthquakes of consciousness from which the physical ones emerge — storms of mind or being, eruptions in which one segment of the world consciousness, repressed in one area, explodes in another.

[...] There’s a sense of strain. [...]

[...] She added that she didn’t think she’d held anything back; but at the same time, she had sensed information we weren’t ready for yet — or that, to put it another way, lay in our future.)

It senses realities usually closed to it. [...] Here with this realization the inner ego may suddenly open. [...]

[...] It no longer fights the inner senses, nor does it fear for its own survival in the midst of intuitional onrushes.

[...] (Long pause.) You become overconcerned with the egotistical situations, and hamper the inner self.

[...] It is possible for the inner and outer egos to merge to some extent, and this merging when it occurs does indeed represent the formation of a new kind of consciousness.

[...] Since your universe springs from an inner one, and since that inner one pervades each nook and cranny of your own existence, you must look where you have not before — into the reality of your own minds and emotions. [...]

Dictation: Your next question is easy to anticipate, of course, for you will want to know the origin of that “interior” universe from which I have said the exterior one ever emerges — and here we must part company with treasured objectivity, and enter instead a mental domain, in which it is seen that contradictions are not errors; an inner domain large enough to contain contradictions at one level, for at another level they are seen to be no contradictions at all.

[...] Common sense upholds them, and it seems impossible to consider reality otherwise. [...]

You walk quite well without having at your fingertips any conscious knowledge of the inner mechanism’s activity. [...]

[...] Yet that larger inner system of communications is far more powerful in scope, and each mental act is imprinted in the multidimensional screen of Framework 2. That screen is available to all, and in other levels of consciousness, particularly in the sleep and dreaming stages, the events of that inner reality are as ever-present and easily accessible as physical events are when you are awake.

The inner mechanisms that happen prior to your experience will take place in the vast mental studio of Framework 2. There, all the details will be arranged, the seemingly chance encounters, for example, the unexplained coincidences that might have to occur before a given physical event takes place.

[...] You take the details for granted — the breathing, the inner mechanisms of nourishment and elimination, the circulation, and the maintenance of your psychological continuity. [...]

[...] In the spontaneity of your body’s operation there is obviously a fine sense of order. [...]

His senses are extremely acute, his inner senses perfectly attuned. Even now he senses my presence. [...]

[...] You cannot of course experience the cat’s sense of time, but you can come closer to understanding his sense of time than he could ever come in understanding yours.

[...] It follows that I could not travel to higher planes than my own, where more acute senses than mine would instantly perceive me. [...] Even with your limited senses you would perceive my presence, though my plane is further developed than yours.

Your cat is indeed a fragment, and he does sense me at times.

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

Very nicely in class, she personifies the feelings that each of you have to some degree, involving your inner self…. [...]

[...] I use the word “materializes” because it makes sense to you, but it is distortive since it predisposes an appearance within matter. [...]

It is theoretically possible, for example, for any of you to disperse your consciousness and become a part of any object in the room — or to fly apart, to disperse yourself out into space — without leaving your sense of identity. [...]

(This sounds very much like the use of what Seth calls the third, fourth and fifth inner senses: Perception of past, present, and future; the conceptual sense; cognitionof knowledgeable tissue. Material on these senses was presented in the 35-38th sessions.)

[...] But there was no sense of primitiveness here; these limpid brown eyes regarded me impassively; there was no intrinsic threat. [...]

[...] You on your part translated what was inner data into a form that you could, or hoped to, understand. [...]

[...] And since we are dealing in words some of the information simply would not make sense to you.

The outer ego is very seldom aware of the inner ego, and the subconscious is indeed a vast area dividing them. We are discussing now the outer ego in relation to the inner ego, and describing a situation in terms of relationships. Other relationships would show both the outer and inner egos in a different light. [...]

I have been wanting to speak further concerning the inner ego, for we have not discussed this issue in any depth. The inner ego is formed about characteristics and abilities that have been dominant in previous personalities, characteristics which the entity has developed through its experience in various lives.

The inner ego is focused inward, with as much intensity as the outer ego is focused outward. This inner ego is in many respects a composite, as indeed to a lesser degree the outer ego is a composite.

The inner ego, however, while conscious of itself, has returned to a subjective position within action, and views itself as a part of action. [...] The inner ego contains the various purposes toward which the entity, as seen in its various personalities, has been working to achieve.

Yet the inner self offers so many answers, for the inner self is a portion of each individual; and yet it operates outside of physical systems of reference. [...]

[...] Again, the inner self has limitless intensities of pulsation available to it. When the inner self in its constant motion travels through an impulse range which it has once experienced, to the ego this will appear as a journey into the past.

[...] I also had a feeling of enlargement and projection, an inner projection. [...]

[...] We have seen that the ego begins, sparked into being, by the inner self, greatly influenced by heredity and physical environment; and that this ego as it continues to exist gradually builds up an electrical reality of its own, as its experiences form into coded data within the cells.

3. Seth could be referring to his remark in the 34th session for March 11, 1964: “Telepathic communications go on continually beneath consciousness, and without the aid of telepathy and of the inner senses, language itself would be meaningless. [...]

[...] They did so in response to inner impetus. [...] In the dream state many kinds of communication occur, and there are inner translations. [...]

2. In Chapter 5 of Personal Reality, sessions 623–25 all contain Seth material on inner sound, light, and electromagnetic structures of the body that ordinarily we do not perceive. From the 624th session, for example: “I told you that thoughts are translated into this inner sound, but thoughts always attempt to materialize themselves also. [...]

Underneath this, however, there are basic inner sounds upon which all language is based, in which certain images give forth their own sound, and the two together portray clear, precise meaning.² A long time ago I said that language would be impossible were it not for its basis in telepathic communication³ — and that communication is built up of microscopic images and sounds. [...]

(9:29.) It made good sense enough to take the artificial thyroid that my body obviously was demanding. [...]

[...] They made less sense to Rob, who I felt found them utterly without reason. [...]

One line I’d forgotten put the situation rather clearly, though: I was afraid that Seth’s work and my own might have some fatal flaw to which I was blind, so that I suppose by trusting the inner self and individual inspiration, I might actually also be opening up that horrendous Pandora’s box. [...]

[...] As I read the notes I began to see some sense in the hospital situation. [...]

[...] Now you need not close your eyes but if you listen to your own inner voice, and if you allow yourself the freedom, and if you understand the nature of probabilities, then as I speak and as you listen you can indeed, to some extent, perceive the other reality, the specific reality of which I am speaking in which you also exist as a group. [...] I would like you to try to sense the similarities and the differences and particularly the differences in your own reaction to other students for there are some important ones. [...]

[...] Then when you are doing well in class, you will be able to relate not only to some reincarnational selves but to the inner self and to its activities and use these activities to enrich your normal daily encounters and to increase the nature and extent of your perceptions. [...]

[...] Joy, faithfully followed, can lead you to the inner vitality that dwells within yourself and, hence, to All That Is. [...]

[...] Now first of all you are not afraid of psychic reality in any sense of the word. [...]

[...] This state of dreaming provides an inner network of communication, that in its way far surpasses your technological communications. The inner network deals with another kind of perceptual organization entirely. [...]

[...] Yet you begin to sense, sometimes, the larger shape of events and the timeless nature of your own existence.

[...] Events are physical interpretations, conventionalized versions of inner perceptive experiences that are then “coalesced” in space and time. [...]

[...] If you find yourself in physical difficulties healthwise, you cannot say: “Why doesn’t my body stop me and assert its own wisdom?” because in the truest sense there is no division between your thoughts and your body. [...]

[...] Thus giving the creative inner self the time and opportunity to let the entire physical system accelerate its own healing processes, and to begin again with the initiation of impulses, dreams, and so forth that will help bring a physical improvement about. [...]

[...] (Pause.) It deepens the Sinful Self’s sense of isolation. [...]

[...] They are also held together by a sense of earnestness and duty (with a mock-severe frown)—quite misapplied, but still characteristics hardly foreign to the personality as a whole—so these are misunderstandings to be addressed and understood, and the main issue should be an understanding of those issues specifically mentioned, so that the issues are met in the open and aired on the part of the entire personality (all often with emphasis). [...]

[...] You can also see where it is lacking: it has displayed little sense of playfulness, for example, or of expansion. [...]

There is no reason to fear your inner selves. It is to your inner selves that I speak. [...] Only truth will give you a sense of humor. [...]

[...] There should be occasions when Ruburt’s features will change to some considerable extent when I speak to you, but you will have to be content for now with that part of me you can sense. [...]

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.

Once begun it contains its own motive power then, repelling those elements that do not fit in with its sense of unity, and attracting those that do. [...] You see the color and the brush strokes but you do not see the inner workings that led you to produce those particular brush strokes. You know they are there, the inner meanings, but you do not see them in physical terms. [...]

Through these maneuvers the inner self does teach the ego the proper use of these inner potentials. The inner self literally carries the ego, and provides life sustenance. [...]

[...] The inner self therefore does not overstep the boundaries of the ego, go against the ego’s wishes, or try to force (underline) the ego. It is up to the ego to learn how to use these vast potentials that lie within the inner self, how to use them to help itself and others.

If the inner self took over completely therefore the present personality would not learn on its own. The inner self does offer advice, intuitional help, inspiration, all of these things, but it does not force the ego to accept them.

In one way or another, your creative abilities have always sustained you, at least with subconscious knowledge, and with a sense of the greater creative capacities always present within you. (Long pause.) You have always sensed more than you knew, both of you, so in that area Framework 2 has represented a natural affiliation with your conscious selves. [...]

[...] Now whenever I sense a conflict arising, I do as I’d figured out—and as Seth himself suggested recently: I ask the advice of the first man; what would he do in these situations? [...]

[...] There may be days when his impulses lead him to do housework, or—zounds!—to want to walk more, but that freer inner motion will also release him for the kind of inspiration he wants. [...]

Your sense data, again, will most definitely reinforce your ideas. You will also react clairvoyantly and telepathically to inner information at an unconscious level that is, once more, “collected” under the organization of your quite conscious concepts concerning existence in general, and your own in particular. So you are locked into physical situations that are corroborated by the great evidence of sense data — and of course it is convincing because it reflects so beautifully, so creatively, and so actively, your own ideas and beliefs, whether they are positive or negative.

[...] Instead you should examine your conscious beliefs, for they are so strong that they are causing you not only to focus upon calamity in the physical world, but to use your inner abilities to the same end.

[...] It is also the strength of the core belief that draws up from the vast bank of inner knowledge only those events that seem to fit within its organization.

[...] It is true that the old interactions between an associative pattern of thought and its habitual action may be broken down, but it is also true that the inner-ordered structure has been shocked psychically and biologically.

Nightmares in series are often inner-regulated shock therapy. [...]

[...] In periods of great physical stress it draws upon the powers of the body and inner self to perform remarkable feats of heroism — that leave it wondering afterward at the power and energy of the self in crisis.

[...] Consciousness finds itself in a crisis situation; not [because of one coming] from the exterior world, but because it is forced to fight on a battleground for which it was never designed and cannot understand, where basically counted-upon allies of association, memory and organization, and all the powers of the inner self, are suddenly turned into enemies.