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[...] Reading it and following the exercises will initiate your own inner and outer motion.

[...] At the same time he is trying to make outer decisions.

[...] Ruburt experienced this on a physical level, trying to translate inner data into sensation that could be recognized by the outer senses. [...]

[...] The outer senses, observing the reflection, might try to judge the depth of the water by the height of the tree, supposing it to be as deep as the tree is high …”

[...] You have learned much, both in relating yourself to inner reality and to outer relationships, and the error is understandable. The outer relationships are serving you well, for you are already storing up many ideas for your work, for your painting, that have at least partially come as a result of your perception of others.

Now, putting these two statements together, you see that an individual will perceive basic reality, in the main, only from his own reference point, and through his outer sense apparatus. [...]

[...] The part of himself that did ‘teach’ him to see still guides his movements, still moves the muscles of his eyes, still becomes conscious despite him when he sleeps, still breathes for him without thanks or recognition and still carries on his task of transforming energy from an inner reality into an outer one. [...]

[...] I have said that the mind is a part of the inner world, but you have access to your own minds, which you ignore; and this access would lead you inevitably to truths about the outer world. [...]

[...] It is, however, a connective, a portion of the inner senses which we will call, for convenience, the second inner sense … It is a natural pathway, meant to give easy access from the inner to the outer world and back again.

The outer senses will not help man achieve the inner purpose that drives him. [...]

[...] Other types of life, including your own, rely on the recognized outer senses. The ideal of course is a consciousness that is adept at using both the inner and outer senses fully.

[...] Beside the recognized outer senses, and the inner senses of which you are just now beginning to gain knowledge, there are other inner and even outer senses, which you are not quite ready to understand.

[...] It is a tree’s contact with the outer world, the tree’s interpreter, and to some degree the tree’s companion.

[...] Man lets his ego face the outer world as does the tree bark, and this is its purpose. [...]

Each person has a unique, natural, native way of dealing with the universe, and of relating to inner and outer reality. [...]

[...] Each person is born, however, with his or her—let me correct that—each person is born there with a private natural religion—one that rises from the springs of the individual psyche, and one that provides an easy, custom-made method of dealing with inner and outer reality. [...]

Full and uninhibited use of even the outer senses would lead you to inner reality. [...] Full operation of inner and outer senses, you see, in your present stage of development as a race, would be blinding, as you can see in your reading of drug experiences.

In most instances the full and uninhibited use, even of the outer senses, could sweep an insecure self into fragments. [...]

[...] The illusion of rigidity is the result of your own outer senses, a perception which is too slow to catch the constant pulsations, as bits of energy that compose material constantly disappear entirely and are replaced.

[...] The other two planes form what you may think of as the outer rims. [...]

You use such belief organizations to concentrate upon certain data and ignore other, so that consciously and unconsciously you organize inner and outer stimuli so that it makes sense according to your beliefs, and forms therefore a more or less dependable framework in which action and response are possible.

Collecting such distorted data about inner or outer worlds can only make an individual build up defenses, or want to. [...]

Hopefully, I am teaching you to reorganize your inner lives, so that you attract the best to yourselves from inner and outer reality. [...]

[...] There are distortions because of the limitations of the outer senses, but the inner senses¹ do not distort. [...]

I told you from the beginning that the inner ego is aware of data that is received through the inner senses as well as data from the outer senses.

[...] The outer ego no longer shows its outside face, so to speak, (again Jane struck the tabletop) but takes its place with the other aspects of the personality. [...]

[...] The outer senses vary according to plane and circumstance. The outer senses are dependable only in terms of the definite plane for which they were constructed. [...]

[...] If this is not too much for you I will add this: that the inner senses would correspond to the outer senses of the inner hidden self-conscious self, that is, separated by the subconscious from your ordinary conscious self.

This hidden self-consciousness can also at times look out through your outer senses upon your camouflage world. [...]

So, when you consider the dream world, you have the same sort of a universe, only one constructed on or within a field which your outer senses cannot perceive. But it has more continuity than the world known by the outer senses so intimately, and there are similarities within it that are amazing to behold.

[...] The only difference is that your conscious energies are focused upon only one rather minute aspect of creation, and all other larger fields of activity are closed off by the outer senses, simply so that the bulk of your attention be momentarily fixed upon one small area.

Outer physical time is a complete camouflage, unnecessary basically on your plane; but you have made it seem necessary because of your refusal to admit the inner self as part of your whole personality, and therefore you have not been able to utilize psychological time to its fullest advantage on your plane. Psychological time as I have said is a natural pathway, part of an inner sense, that was meant as an easy access from the inner to the outer world and back again. [...]

[...] The outer senses will not help man to achieve the inner purpose which drives him. Empathy is an outer materialization, very superficial, of the first inner sense which we have discussed so briefly.

[...] And the part of himself that did teach him to see still guides his movements, still moves the muscles of his eyes, still becomes conscious despite him when he sleeps, still breathes for him without thanks, without recognition, and still carries on his task of transforming energy from an inner reality to an outer camouflage.

The knot, or the main concentration of focus, in ego concern, prevents true refreshment, either through the inner self or from the outer world. [...]

I am not suggesting here that this individual turn all focus away from the outer world, far from it. [...]

In general in the present, the personality should relate firmly with outer reality, and also come to grips with the whole self. [...]

[...] In such a version of inner-outer reality the back-and-forth mobility, the give-and-take between inner and outer, is ignored. [...]

[...] Your outer senses are equipped to perceive your own camouflage patterns. [...]

[...] As I mentioned, there are universes coexistent with your own, but your camouflage outer senses cannot perceive these. [...]

[...] This change is not much looked into, because it occurs beyond the reach of your outer senses. [...]

[...] Perhaps, as well as appreciating the siren with my outer senses, that is my ears, I also felt it.)

[...] Motion is the type of action with which you are most familiar, but motion attains its importance within the physical field only because of your particular outer senses. [...]

[...] A dream is as valid an electrical reality as a lightning bolt, the difference being that the lightning bolt projects itself into your awareness through the outer senses.

Now using the analogy again, in our mental enclosure we attempt to close off this channel of communication with the outer universe. [...]

Now this is what you attempt when you experiment with psychological time, when your communication comes through the inner rather than the outer senses. [...]

[...] As the self has an inner and an outer ego, so also does the inside finally become the outside. [...] The outer ego for example would meet the inner ego, and vice versa.

[...] It is like an outer rim. [...]

[...] According to Seth, John in his immediate past life ran such a shop in Boston; he moved at that time in the outer circle of our acquaintance. [...]