“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You perceive portions of such actions consciously, some subconsciously, some with the inner senses, but you do not perceive the whole action. [...] Since you do not perceive whole action that occurs within your own system, you do not understand it. [...]

[...] You will perceive the existence of these realities with various instruments in the future, but only their existence. You will not perceive their nature.

I want to stress some points mentioned in our last session, to the effect in particular that you perceive only a small portion of any given action even when that action has some of its origins within your own physical field.

[...] To begin with then, you attempt to understand an action that is poorly perceived. [...]

[...] And when it is perceived by you, then it has bulk. [...] The bulk, or mass, is perceived whether or not the ideas have ever been materialized as physical matter. Whenever you come in contact with a particular idea form, and this will only happen in projections, then you will automatically perceive that form with bulk or mass.

In other systems the same energy idea will be transformed in a different way entirely, even as the physical objects within your universe are perceived in entirely different ways to others not within your system. Any given physical object exists in the manner in which you are accustomed to perceiving it. [...] It has a counterpart that can, under given conditions, be perceived exclusively in terms of any of your senses.

[...] You are seeing—or perceiving, rather—separately, the various components that are usually organized to form the solid object.

With the full use of the inner senses, however, it is theoretically possible to perceive all the shapes and forms that have ever been, or will ever be, adopted by the atoms and molecules that compose the particular chair. [...]

The psyche’s basic experience, then, deals with a kind of activity that you cannot directly perceive, yet that existence is responsible for the events that you do perceive, and therefore acts as the medium in which your dreaming and waking events occur.

[...] For that matter, their natural television operated better in some ways than your technological version, for their mental images allowed them to perceive events in neighboring areas or in other portions of the world. [...]

[...] To some extent in the dream state you can perceive such entities more clearly, as at night the stars become more apparent, physically speaking. [...]

(9:15.) The earth-tuned consciousness must deal within the space-time context, for only inside this framework can it clearly perceive events. [...] You perceive yourself running, talking, eating, in quite physical activities — except that they are not performed by the body that lies on the bed.

In waking life you perceive only certain portions of events that fall within your space-time continuum. [...]

[...] Historically there will be treaties signed, yet in far greater terms you are perceiving but one small dimension, or one corner, of a much larger happening that quite transcends your ideas of the times or places involved.

[...] She is perceiving probabilities quite clearly, but confusing them with the physical world of facts. [...]

[...] Birth and death contain between them the earthly experience that you perceive as happening within a given period of time, through various seasons, and involving unique perceptions within areas of space — encountered with other human beings, all to one extent or another sharing with you events caused by the intersection of the self and time and space.

[...] Its intensity and brilliance, its contrasts and similarities, its joys and its sorrows, are here for you to perceive, whose eyes are opened by the fact of the doctor’s pronouncement.

[...] Unconsciously, therefore, you chose a situation in which a crisis was precipitated, rousing all the greatest elements of heart and soul, so that they must strain to understand, to perceive, to triumph. [...]

[...] (Pause.) In greater terms the cell is a huge physical universe, orbiting an invisible CU; and in your terms the CU will always be invisible — beyond the smallest phenomenon that you can perceive with any kind of instrument. To some extent, however, its act can be indirectly apprehended through its effect upon the phenomenon that you can perceive.

I told you (after 10:26 in this session) that you presently perceive only the surface of the moment; so you also perceive but one line of the species’ development. [...]

[...] The inward and outward thrust that is not perceived is largely responsible for what you think of as ordinary consecutive time. [...]

[...] The infant sees, out of context, both present and future without discrimination, and (intently) I am speaking of images physically perceived.

[...] It is only the outer senses which cannot perceive what does not fall into their own domain. When you perceive an action with your outer senses, you call it material if it is, or if it appears to be, static.

Although a discussion of constructions that are not material to your way of seeing things does not belong in a study of matter, nevertheless the two are connected, and I want you to understand that matter represents only those constructions which are perceivable through the outer senses.

Again, the only main difference between material and immaterial constructions is that immaterial constructions are not perceived by the outer senses. [...]

[...] Some of these cannot be touched, as a table can be touched, and yet are perceivable indirectly within the material world.

Are we biologically unable to perceive any of these events, or do we have psychological blind spots as defense mechanisms to prevent our being overwhelmed by reality as it actually is? Our nervous systems allow us to perceive only so much; true, but beyond this limitation, my guess is that some psychological element causes us to block out much information that we could otherwise perceive.

“Any perception instantly alters the electromagnetic and neurological systems of the perceiver. [...] The receiving mechanisms themselves change, and are changed by that which they perceive. [...]

[...] Obviously, according to this idea, we couldn’t perceive anything if we were out of our bodies. [...]

[...] We can perceive portions of the future. [...]

[...] You form your image and the physical matter of your environment, and these, being action, are perceived as reality in other systems. They may not be perceived as physical objects, but as reality that conforms to the particular camouflage structure within.

[...] Sight itself is it, the thing seen and the perceiver. [...]

Now the atoms and molecules also, my dear scientific friend over there (Arnold), these atoms and molecules, minute as they may appear to you, also carry their burden of consciousness and a responsibility, yet there is a portion of consciousness that can joyfully perceive in a different manner that is not forced to perceive by its nature, but that can playfully perceive as a creative aspect of its being and without responsibility. [...]

[...] In some respects these pulsations represent what happens in some of your flying saucer incidents, for you do not often have a vehicle such as the vehicle that you perceive, or think that you perceive. [...]

[...] The physical vehicles that are often perceived are your interpretation of the event that is actually occurring. [...]

[...] While you are conscious, you must perceive. [...]

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. [...]

[...] Your physical senses force you to perceive action in certain terms, but this is not the nature of action. [...]

[...] Since I am no longer within it, I can perceive what you do not see. [...]

[...] I need not perceive it as a pot but I can perceive it as a pot. You must perceive it as a pot. [...]

[...] You perceive us that way in a distorted view. [...]

There are endless coordinates, like infinities of prisms, fitting within, into, transposed upon, and permeating your own physical system, but your outer senses do not perceive them.

At physical death, in your terms, the personality structure is able to approach certain coordinates, to perceive them, and to change focus from one system to another. [...]

These points, these coordinates, are all about you and impinge upon your physical form and your universe constantly, but you cannot understand nor perceive them. [...]

So while you operate in a one-reality field psychological structure, you do not on a conscious level even perceive its entire reality, nor your place in it. [...]

[...] “The Absent Self” — the absent or unknown self — is the portion of your own existence that you do not ordinarily perceive or accept, though there is within you a longing for it.

Much of “Unknown” Reality is involved with the breaking up of theories that have been long accepted, but that prevent you from perceiving the powerful nature of those absent portions of the self. [...]

[...] A completely different kind of focus was presented, in which the ancestors were understood to contribute to the “new” experience of the living; one in which the physically focused consciousness clearly saw itself as perceiving the world for itself, but also for all of those who had gone before — (gradually louder for emphasis:) while realizing that in those terms he or she would contribute as well as the generations past.

[...] Again, your limited concepts of selfhood make what I am saying difficult for you to perceive.

[...] These are states happening simultaneously, but perceived in slow motion within your system. Not only are they perceived in slow motion, but they are perceived along one line of focus only. [...]

You no longer perceive the past, therefore you think that it has vanished, and the self that you were has gone. But that particular moment, any particular moment, that you think of as the past, existed before your egotistical perception of it, and is constantly being changed by you, even when you no longer consciously perceive it.

For the inner self can perceive it, and does change it. [...]

With that understood, my material comes from beyond Framework 2. Creative material in general, however, has its origin in Framework 2, and when it is perceived in Framework 1, to some extent or another it connects the perceiver to that other source. [...]

[...] You do not experience it, or perceive it. In the same manner you do not perceive or experience physically the actuality of probable events.

[...] You make certain automatic adjustments in order to perceive what little of my presence that you do perceive. [...]

The system of probabilities is not as easily perceived even as those events that exist within the dream state, for with these you are familiar, while you are in the dream state. [...]

[...] The results of the other two actions are perceived by the inner ego.

Weak vibrations are present and can be perceived. Here we will imagine the weak pattern—form of the hose, and an individual perceiving the generalized pattern. There is a lack of further data, no telepathic message being perceived perhaps.

[...] You do not—and I repeat: you do not —perceive all constructions into matter. You only perceive your own physical constructions. [...]

[...] Your construction of the set, Joseph, will involve the use of energy formed into various combinations of atoms and molecules; and these themselves give off vibrations that are received subconsciously, and also serve therefore to give indications of approximate location, bulk, and even particular material and color, to the subconscious mind of any observer, so-called; although he does not see your construction but forms his own, more or less in faithful replica, to what he has subconsciously perceived telepathically from you and any other constructor, from generalized notions of the idea behind the construction, and from vibrations and even impacts received from the atoms and molecules that compose other constructions of the so-called single object.

Now, due to variations existing in the capacity of various individuals to receive, perceive, and act upon such information, no constructions are exactly the same, though generally they appear the same; and for utility’s sake they are effective enough.

So when I told you to look where there was nothing, then I spoke because this uncamouflaged experience can be most directly perceived where nothing is perceived with the outer senses. [...]

[...] It is merely a symbol for that small particle of yourselves which you permit your consciousness to perceive. [...]

The ego then, is only part of a much larger self, but because consciously you do not perceive the whole self you arbitrarily make a unit from a truly indivisible identity, and call this the “I.” [...]

In our next class, Virginia wondered why she’d perceived this particular event. [...]

[...] Therefore, it perceives events almost in slow motion.

In such cases, it is necessary that the correct channel of probable events be perceived; ‘correct’ meaning the channel which will ultimately be chosen in your terms. [...]

[...] The mind, as opposed to the brain, perceives in terms of a spacious present. [...]