“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It perceives such a small amount of data, however, and in such a limited area, that the great inner unpredictability of any molecule, atom, or wave is not apparent. Scientists perceive only what appears within your system, and that often appears predictable.

Now: Atoms can move in more directions than one at once.⁷ You only perceive scientifically the probable motion you are interested in. [...]

[...] In one of our very early sessions, I told you that you perceive from a vast field only certain data that you find meaningful. [...]

Your cells are quite able to handle different orders of events; therefore in the dream state they are able, in their individual ways, to perceive your experience, and from it to choose those actualities you want made real in your terms.

[...] To you, then, time is the result of your perceiving mechanisms. You know the senses force you to perceive experience in certain pattern. [...]

You are beginning to perceive the holes in the camouflage, for I have pointed them out to you. [...]

[...] The change that he perceives in your apartment is, of course, the result of inner change for the better.

[...] He should be able to perceive me to some degree before too long.

There are realities and systems within this room that you do not (consciously) perceive, but your inner senses perceive them. [...]

[...] More alive than some of your professors and friends, for aliveness is dependent upon the state of your consciousness, dependent upon your awareness, your ability to perceive and to feel. [...]

[...] Yet by their nature such categories structure your experience of reality itself to such an extent that any alternate ways of perceiving life seem not only untrustworthy, but completely impossible.

If your purpose is to comprehend what other living creatures perceive, then the methods you are using are at the best shortsighted, and at the worst they completely defeat your purpose. [...]

The child, laughing with joy and awe at the sight of the first violet, understands far more in the deepest terms than a botanist who has long since forgotten the experience of perceiving one violet, though he has at his mental fingertips the names and classifications of all the world’s flowers. [...]

These fields involve psychological reactions, not physically perceivable, and yet as explosive in their way as a nuclear detonation. [...]

This path exists on psychological levels, and triggers your perceptive mechanisms, which then of course react and dutifully perceive. [...]

[...] It is simply the one that you perceive.

[...] Because you perceive events in the way that you do, of course, you see the familiar physical universe. [...]

He creates an entirely different object, which his own outer senses then perceive. Since we have here this evening such an elegant and welcome guest, let us then perceive him in terms of a slight discussion of matter, in which he shall be our guinea pig.

[...] It is through the inner senses that he perceives me, and this data he then attempts to transform into information that can be perceived by the outer senses.

[...] Again, theoretically, if you could perceive that point, you could actually each see the other two physical glasses.

You perceive Mark, Joseph, sitting in your chair. [...]

[...] In a large sense he begins to train himself to focus only upon what you would call physical reality, though he still partially perceives other fields that you do not accept.

For sometime he literally perceives many levels of reality at once, and part of what seems to be disorientation is simply the result of early confusion with so much data. [...]

[...] Cells are not just responsive to light because this is the order of things, but because an emotional desire to perceive light is present.

It is not that you cannot devise instruments to perceive these. [...]

You may begin to perceive all physical data through the eyes of that core belief alone. [...]

[...] This in itself forces you to concentrate your attention in one direction only, and discourages you from perceiving the events in your life in other fashions.

[...] When you do this you often perceive new insights. [...]

[...] Connected with it is the consciousness of all those who understand it, perceive it or originate it. [...]

[...] And it is a signal to you that other information is coming through and can be perceived. Now in your particular case the information can be perceived at such instances through focusing upon the physical object closest to you and then nonfocusing. [...]

[...] The only separation is brought about by the varying abilities of personalities to perceive and manipulate. You exist in the midst of many other systems of reality, for example, but you do not perceive them. [...]

[...] Only through the use of the intuitions and in sleep and dream states, as a rule, can you perceive the joyfully changing nature of your own, and any, consciousness.

The soul perceives all experience directly. [...]

Now, each event of which you are aware is already a translation of an inner event, a psychic or mental event that is perceived by the soul directly, but translated by the physically oriented portions of the self into physical sense terms.

There are far more wonders to perceive through this inward exploration than you can possibly believe until you begin such a journey for yourself. [...]

[...] So Ruburt is a part of the truth he perceives, and each of you are part of the truths that you perceive.

“Truth,” reflected through Ruburt, becomes in a way new truth, for it is perceived uniquely, (as it would be for each individual who perceived it). [...]

Your conception of time is dependent upon your perception of action, and that portion of action which you can perceive and appreciate. There is no doubt here that the intuitions can at times perceive action far more completely than can the intellect. [...]

[...] The intuitions try to perceive action as a whole. [...] The self may of course be considered as a gestalt of action, perceived in a different manner by various levels of itself.

[...] Action is motion, but not necessarily motion that is perceived in physical terms.

[...] This is only the self that the ego perceives. [...]

[...] Physically, of course, your existence is perceived through the senses. [...] It is in itself an avenue through which you perceive what reality is. [...]

The festival incident of the dream state was highly fascinating, and it did represent a particular state of consciousness above all—one in which reality is perceived in a different fashion. [...]

The dream also served as a framework allowing him to intuitively and psychically and biologically perceive the emotional reality of Framework 2. That is, he participated in its emotional content. [...]

[...] The natural self, however, like the rest of nature, possesses a rich dimension of inside psychological depth, that science, because of its own definitions, cannot perceive. [...]

[...] They do not appear very well under the auspices of the scientific method, because the scientific method is itself programmed to perceive only information that fits into its preconceived patterns. [...]

[...] It can handle several (pause) main world views at once, realizing that they are each methods of perceiving and approaching reality. [...]

[...] Science perceived the spectacular complexity of exterior reality, but turned its sights completely away from any recognition — any at all — until it regarded subjectivity itself as a mere throw-away product, accidentally formed by a mindless matter.

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[...] Knowledge is changed automatically through the auspices of each consciousness who perceives it. [...] You do not understand or perceive the ways in which your reality contributes to the foundation of the mass-world reality that you experience. [...]

[...] These arouse your curiosity even when consciously you are not aware of perceiving them. [...]

[...] He wondered at first why Elizabeth did not perceive him, and he remained unconscious of his own funeral. He did perceive such a light (as I sensed)—the light of understanding.

[...] Ego consciousness, on the other hand, involves a state in which consciousness of self attempts to divorce itself from action, an attempt on the part of consciousness to perceive action as an object. Here we see that ego consciousness, in this attempt, strives to perceive action not only as separate, but to perceive it in such a fashion that it appears to ego that action is not only separate from itself, that is separate from the ego, but that action is initiated by the ego, and a result rather than a cause of ego’s own existence.

[...] Action never happens along a straight line, although at times you may perceive it in such a fashion.