“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Remember that you are a part of what you perceive. Now in many instances of so-called paranormal perception there is what would seem to you a reversal of focus. It seems to you that the burden of perception in on your part as perceiver.

Your in quotes “unity” with the event that seems to exist outside of you is not understood. In paranormal instances you change your focus largely, throwing it into the seemingly independent event. Do you follow me here?

Yet I was not a “born psychic” with a background of paranormal experience. [...]

Rob and I are both convinced that the Seth Material springs from sources beyond my self, and that it is much less distorted by pat, conventionalized symbolism than are other paranormal scripts we have encountered. [...]

Someone who was familiar with psychic literature and paranormal experiences would have been better prepared for these events than I was, but I would not have missed them for the world.

(Then we had a discussion about some articles I’ve just read in the latest issue of Free Inquiry, a magazine whose writers express a deep skepticism about anything having to do with the paranormal.

[...] He will be forced to recognize, use and develop his paranormal abilities simply to survive, and in so doing will release them finally for his own benefit and the benefit of his fellows.

[...] Nor at this time, given the minimum premise that Jane’s speaking for Seth constitutes any indication of “paranormal” activity, do we think that her performance could be identified as such per se on the graphs of her brain waves. [...]

[...] It may seem to you that the subject should be limited to physical perception, or so-called paranormal perception. [...]

(Last night we watched on television Alan Neuman’s show on the paranormal. [...]

[...] It will be made clear that so-called paranormal communications come from various levels of reality, and that those communications describe the reality in which they exist. [...]

[...] It seemed to Ruburt, with his understanding, that if his information was coming from a paranormal source, and that source was good, then it must also prove itself to be infallible, or he was a false prophet. [...]

After greeting Dr. Instream, Seth said: “My field is education, and my particular interest is that these [seemingly paranormal] abilities of human personality be understood and investigated, for they are not unnatural, but inherent. [...]

[...] And I maintain that the theory of quantum mechanics does contain strong paranormal aspects, whether or not science admits this.

[...] It will be made clear that so-called paranormal communications come from various levels of reality, and that those communications describe the reality in which they exist. [...]

[...] At the same time, Seth began to send me on out-of-body journeys during some sessions and to offer, on his own, other instances of “paranormal” activity.

[...] While discussing the impossibility of any medium being an absolutely clear channel for paranormal knowledge, even when “in a trance as deep as the Atlantic Ocean,” Seth had some extremely interesting things to say about the nature of perception in general. [...]

Two quick reminders: 1. Clairvoyance (“clear-seeing”) is the paranormal perception of events or objects regardless of distance, and without help from another mind. [...]