“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Inner vision can confound you, because in your mind you often see images quite clearly that you would dismiss if your eyes were open. In the terms of which we are speaking, however, the young species utilized what I have called the “inner senses” to a far greater degree than you do. [...]

[...] The inner senses perceive directly in the same fashion. [...]

[...] Neurologically he became familiar to some extent with the stuff beneath language, the inner rhythms unexpressed, and felt the odd connections that exist between words and your sense of time. [...]

[...] In the same way, your languages are based upon an inner knowledge of larger available communications. [...]

[...] Some, but not all, cases of insanity represent the personality’s inability to handle a particular problem, while at the same time it refuses to obey the orders from the inner senses to change course. On such occasions data from past lives rushes up or through the inner senses. [...]

[...] I have told you that communication between a present personality and the entity is carried on by means of the inner senses, and I have told you that in these sessions you use the inner senses. [...]

[...] What happens here is that the subconscious communicates with the entity through the inner senses, to the effect that the present personality is not strong enough to handle the problem.

If your mother or father found continued life together completely unbearable, which incidentally they do not, then in all likelihood one of their entities would suggest through the inner senses that the relationship be discontinued. [...]

[...] Besides the outer senses that you take for granted, you have inner senses. [...] You must learn how to use, develop and recognize these inner senses. [...]

Therefore I invite you to forget the bodies that you know, to set your inner selves free. [...] And I ask you to open your inner eyes, and I ask you to look around at the inner world in which you also have your existence. I ask you to sense within yourselves the energy in this voice that you hear, to realize that this energy is also a portion of your own energy—the energy of individuality, the energy of the universe, the energy that grows you from a fetus to the self that you know. [...]

[...] The inner portion of you is open. You have senses which you have not been using, and I invite you now to use them. [...]

Allow yourselves to listen to the inner voice, the inner voice that gives vitality and existence to the physical bodies that you know. [...]

In one of our earliest sessions I told you that trees have consciousness, and that consciousness resided within all things, as the plants within this room to some extent are aware of you, and the happenings here, can sense strangers, and can strongly sense emotional and psychic atmospheres, to which they do indeed react. [...]

[...] However it is impossible for them to create a consistent solid image in your terms, for while they are still focused within your system the inner self knows well that the individual is finished with a given life situation, is out of alignment so to speak, and is therefore denied full use of its own energy.

[...] You can indeed then leave your body while still conscious, and arrive so to speak with your senses about you. [...]

The full personality consciousness indeed places an additional strain upon what you may call the overall body consciousness, and prolongs the sense of pain connected with that body consciousness. [...]

Beneath this, pure and simple, undistorted, there for the searching, absolutely free for the asking, is the knowledge inherent in the inner self pertaining to the inner universe as a whole, its laws and principles, its composition. Here you will find, undistorted, uncamouflaged, the innate knowledge of the creation of the camouflage universe, the mechanics involved, much of the material that I have given you, the method and ways by which the inner self as a basic inhabitant of the inner universe, existing in the climate of psychological reality, helps create the various planes of existence, constructs outer senses to project and perceive the various apparent realities or camouflages, how the inner self reincarnates on the various planes. Here you will find your answers as to how the inner self transforms energy for his own purposes, changes his form, adopts other apparent realities, and all this free for the investigation.

As temperatures in various depths of ocean change, and as even the color of the water and of the flora and fauna change, so too in our value climate there are quality changes, and senses equipped to project and perceive the changes. There are distortions because of the limitations of the outer senses, but the inner senses do not distort. The inner senses inhabit directly the atmosphere of our value climate; and they see through the evervarying camouflage patterns, and the flux and flow of apparent change. [...]

Einstein traveled within, and trusted, his own intuitions, and used his inner senses. He would have discovered much more had he been able to trust his intuitions even more, and able to leave more of the so-called scientific proof of his theories to lesser men, to give himself more inner freedom.

However, when it is enabled to let go its preoccupation with the camouflage universe, it can receive and be aware of data received by the inner senses. [...]

You must perceive what you do of reality through your physical senses, but your physical senses distort reality. [...] The physical senses can only perceive reality a little bit at a time, and so it seems to you that one moment exists, and is gone forever, and the next moment comes, and like the one before it disappears. [...]

China and Egypt, lives in various religious capacities, however, without the necessary sense of responsibility. [...] Only in this existence is there finally some understanding, and a growing sense of responsibility. [...]

[...] Time as you experience it is an illusion caused by your own physical senses. Your physical senses force you to perceive action in certain terms, but this is not the nature of action. [...]

[...] The time you seem to spend within the dream, within each life, is only an illusion, and to the inner self no moment has passed, and to the inner self there is no time. [...]

[...] You have given the inner self a faulty picture of reality. Since it is the function of the conscious mind to assess physical experience, it [the inner self] hasn’t been able to do its job properly. If the inner portions of the self were supposed to have that responsibility, then you would not need a conscious mind.

Its beliefs about the nature of reality are then given to inner portions of the self. [...] The conscious mind sets the goals and the inner self brings them about, using all its facilities and inexhaustible energy.

At the same time, the inner self will transmit to the conscious mind insights and intuitions meant to clear its sight. But if you believe that the inner self is dangerous and not to be trusted, if you are afraid of dreams or any intrusive psychic material, then you deny this help and turn aside from it.

In a manner of speaking, the conscious mind is a window through which you look outward — and looking outward, perceive the fruits of your inner mind. [...] They spring from inner events that are the result of your beliefs.

When the session resumed, as Seth I picked up Bill’s second sketch and said, “This picture 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 a reconstruction of what I am.

[...] It is through the Inner Senses that he perceives me, and this data he then attempts to transform into information that can be physically perceived.”

[...] I’d better mention at this point that Seth says that telepathy operates constantly, providing inner communications to back up all sense data.

“Every nerve and fiber within the body has an inner purpose that is not seen, and that serves to connect the inner self with physical reality, that allows the inner self to create physical reality. In one respect, the body and physical objects go flying out in all directions from the inner core of the whole self.”

[...] The illness is a physical materialization of an inner illness. [...] You can only rid yourself of such a condition by discovering the inner reason for it, by discovering the inner illness. [...]

[...] Indeed, the inner identity knows, and the inner identity knows that it knows. [...]

It is true that basically there is no death, but this cannot be used as an excuse within your sense-system. [...]

[...] The inner portions of your personality know the details of your past lives. [...]

[...] Any such inner communications are basically the same in that they are picked up by the inner senses, whether or not the information is received as a telepathic communication or in terms of clairvoyance. [...]

[...] Material from the inner senses is very seldom experienced by the conscious mind in its pure condition. What you get is a hasty twisting of channel, a rather inept and usually somewhat disastrous attempt to pick up this material with the outer senses.

I have mentioned that the emotions, if you will forgive me, are the tail end of the inner senses. [...]

[...] That is, the similarity is one of organization, a variety of historical continuity, a strong and involved ego mechanism, a complicated camouflage code system; without, however, the dual inner and outer sense of alienation with which your race has become involved.

[...] These will be the beginnings of somewhat more profound methods of working through the inner senses.

[...] The feelings however are the tail end of inner cognizance, and we will use the sounds to carry us further and further into those inner landscapes where both objects and their representatives must finally desert us.

[...] Use of it however will allow you to more clearly perceived your own inner reality, your physical and psychic experience. You will no longer translate inner experience with the same automatic glibness into stereotyped verbal patterns of images, but will be far better able to experience it for itself.

(9:39.) There will be words for example for feelings that you will be asked to imaginatively change into objects and back again, to project into time as you think of it, and sense the differences in the feeling’s relationship to yourself. [...]

It is therefore theoretically possible for you to see the world through a frog’s eye, or a bird’s or an ant’s. We are speaking here of physical senses. The inner self has also latent inner senses beside the ones that it normally uses while the consciousness is tuned into a particular camouflage system.

[...] In Chapter Nineteen of The Seth Material you gave a list of the inner senses. [...]

[...] I took great pleasure in wiggling them about, shaking them up and down, enjoying the marvelous sense of freedom and lightness they possessed. [...]

[...] The time sense outside the body can be quite different than the body’s. You knew that with one successful experience you would be much more free, and so you chose the best of circumstances.

The sense data is important, you see; the new balances that your separate personalities achieve lead you both to new expansions. Each expansion however must also be accompanied by a deepening security of necessary inner isolation. For from this inner isolation, you achieve the strength to expand psychically outward. When the balance is a good one, then the outward expansion leads to inner expansion.

[...] When you do not you build up inner resentments that mitigate against your welfare. [...]

[...] Now these changes affect the ways in which you perceive sense data. [...]

I have told you that through many existences you don egos for the purposes set by the inner self. [...] The difficulty is that you must believe in your role, and yet also realize that it is a role that you, the inner self, have chosen. Otherwise your connections with the inner self are nearly forgotten. [...]

[...] Not that she thought Seth was there to be seen, but she did sense something out of the ordinary. [...]

To some extent it will also relate my own experiences, but in a larger sense I hope that it will be able to give a picture of the nature of reality as seen by someone who is not imprisoned within the three-dimensional structure. [...]

Now: as I believe I have told you often, your creativity is one of your best clues as to how you operate, yourselves, in inner reality. [...]

[...] Its consciousness spreads out to include all that it perceives, while still retaining a sense of its own singularity. [...]

To some extent, particularly at certain levels, that participation brings about a far greater sense of sympathy and power than adults ever realize, particularly in your cultural times. [...]

[...] It is only when the us-ness of the self begins to fade that a sense of relative personal helplessness begins to mar the picture of subjective experience. [...]

[...] I suggest when you can that you reread the material on the inner senses, the fifth dimension and your precious flying saucers. There is a connection here with the transference of energy from any one plane to another, and from the inner senses for example to a painting, that should be very helpful.

[...] You see, the inner senses provide direct experience. The outer senses provide camouflaged distortions of translated secondhanded experience.

[...] You received this inner data at noon but you ignored it. In this case your outer senses served to restimulate the inner data. [...]

(I would like to ask Seth if I was using my inner senses during the following episode, without being aware that I was doing so.

I said that the inner ego reasons, but its reasoning is not restricted to the cause-and-effect limitations that you apply to the reasoning process. The action of the inner ego within the wider sphere of Framework 2 explains many events and seeming coincidences that otherwise seem to make no sense within your world. [...]

[...] (With many pauses:) The main myth through which you interpret your experiences, however, is the one that tells you that all perception and knowledge must come to you through the physical senses.

There seems to be no reason for many of them, simply because the intricate inner communication systems of consciousness go utterly unrecognized, generally speaking.

[...] The inner ego (see the last session) is perfect as a term to suit my purposes. [...]

Through the inner senses then, you may perceive the inner laws, and remember that the inner ego knows what it is about. The intellect of the outer ego is but a pale image of your own inner ego. [...]

I have also mentioned that as your outer senses can perceive the camouflage universe, and as they act within its laws, so also the inner senses are equipped to perceive the inner basic universe, and they directly are familiar with its laws.

[...] Inner sense perception would be a much more accurate description. [...]

[...] I have been waiting to see the diversity you will achieve, since I will use your experiments and experience as a basis to discuss further inner sense data with which you are not yet well acquainted.

Now: in the first episode mentioned the experience was the same, only more vividly experienced since the focus personality was not fully awake and did not have immediate sense data to handle. [...] His main consciousness was merged with mine in the session format; while in the waking experience his consciousness was in the normal image, which sensed the projected one. [...]

[...] Following this in a period of usual activity (the same evening), he sensed his own image speaking for me and sitting across the couch from him in our (Seth’s) accustomed position. [...]

When Ruburt on the couch sensed himself in the chair giving a session, to himself on the couch, this was symbolic of a new kind of relationship between the two of us. [...]

He, that portion, watched television while still sensing us across the table. [...]

The inner senses operate on all planes and under all circumstances. The outer senses vary according to plane and circumstance. The outer senses are dependable only in terms of the definite system of reality for which they were constructed. [...]

[...] Any such inner communications are basically the same in that they are picked up by the inner senses, whether the information seems telepathic or clairvoyant in your terms.

[...] Material from the inner senses is seldom experienced in its true form. What you get is a hasty twisting of channels, a rather inept and sometimes rather disastrous attempt to pick up such information with the outer senses.

[...] I was ready now to really use the inner senses. [...] If I could leave my body and go out into the physical world, then I didn’t see why I couldn’t leave it and explore the inner one.