“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Action itself cannot be directly perceived. [...]

[...] You can feel effects of the action, but you cannot directly perceive the action itself. [...]

[...] A very similar thought may return, but the two thoughts will not be identical, although you may perceive them as identical. [...]

[...] For it, the ego, has but recently pried itself from action, and so perceives action now as if action were a province of the ego, and not the other way around.

You would not be able to perceive a sufficient amount of data to make any deductions. This is not to say that such planes or fields of actuality cannot in some manner be perceived, but they will escape physical perception or exploration. [...]

[...] It even exists as radio waves, and to creatures who cannot perceive matter but can perceive radio waves, your physical body appears quite differently than it does to you. [...]

[...] To you physical objects would seem so far separated in space that you would lose your way, and not perceive realities as they there existed at all.

The physical organism protrudes into many fields of actuality, and is to some extent perceived within these fields, and influences those fields as they influence the physical organism. [...]

[...] You create outer senses to perceive the appearances, and so what you perceive through the outer senses seems logical indeed. [...]

As you know, inner data must be perceived through the inner senses. [...]

[...] You simply do not have the camouflage equipment to perceive them.

They, or the inhabitants of such realities, do not perceive your plane of existence for the same reason. [...]

Consciousness at different levels or stages perceives different kinds of events. In order to perceive some of these you have only to learn to change the focus of your attention from one level to another. [...]

[...] If you probe into these realms you will be forced to perceive them with the root assumptions of your own system, translating feelings of warmth and comfort, for example, into images of warm shelters or buildings, or feelings of fear into images of demons.

[...] Only by learning to feel, or sense, or intuitively perceive the depths of your own experience can you glimpse the nature of All That Is. [...]

[...] There will be a metamorphosis, therefore, of one symbol turning into many, and the conscious mind may only perceive a chaos of various dream images, because the inner organization and unity is partially hidden in the other areas of consciousness through which the reasoning mind cannot follow.

Beside the obvious constructions that you perceive as matter, you also form or project constructions of a different sort, which you do not perceive on a conscious level.

[...] What is perceived changes, as what is created changes.

New senses are developed to perceive new creations. [...]

[...] The shoddy construction, never perceived at all by the outer senses, is registered by the inner senses.

You perceive your body as solid. [...] All other objects that you perceive are formed in their own way in the same fashion.

You perceive the atoms’ activity in that fashion. [...] No one perceives the same chair [all of the time], though perhaps a given chair will seem to be “the same one” seen from different angles.

[...] They work for you, allowing you to perceive physical reality.

[...] Your senses perceive these patterns in their own ways. [...]

[...] I do not perceive it clearly, but when I focus upon it, then I can perceive your psychic reality and your individual intensities. [...]

[...] I cannot see your own camouflaged structures clearly, I cannot perceive time, as it appears to you. [...]

[...] The inner senses will help you perceive other dimensions. [...]

He should now be able to perceive the Sumari physicians, and to become more aware of inward dynamics that ordinarily escape notice. It is also possible now that he can perceive me at a certain level of the dream state, and apart from himself.

[...] This will allow you to give form, literally—in your terms at least—to the formless, or rather to realities whose inner forms are not usually fully perceived.

The atoms and molecules that compose your cells and your flesh, for instance, do not react to the physical sounds that you hear or to the light patterns that your physical eyes perceive. [...]

[...] Yet the whole system must be instantly activated, and the data that “you” perceive must be translated in terms that will energize every portion of your body.

[...] The greater interactions have not been perceived, and the true story of the decoding of such messages (much louder abruptly) has not been understood — and take your break.

[...] The perceived lapse noted by scientists is of course the physical one (leaning forward, hand to closed eyes), caused by the “time” it takes the message to leap the nerve endings.³  The interior translation however is simultaneous.

[...] That house was a conglomeration of atoms and molecules, perceived generally as a house, but perceived specifically by everyone who saw it as a slightly different house. For each observer quite literally created from his own subconscious energy an approximation of a house, a general shape then perceived as a house, and further embellished by personal judgments.

I mentioned that the inhabitant of the other system with whom you made contact perceived your existence in both the future and the past. [...]

It was, say, in 1943 even then merely a portion of space perceived by all who saw it in their own light. [...]

[...] The psychological frameworks simply are various organizational structures that are equipped to perceive reality discriminately.

I can perceive much that you do not for example, but I hardly perceive all, and what I do perceive is but a fraction of All That Is. [...] What they were still exists, and under certain conditions can be perceived.

[...] You are literally surrounded by other realities that you do not perceive consciously. Some of these are perceived by the inner self, but all are not.

You do not perceive them physically. [...]

[...] The inner self has the ability to delve beneath all your camouflage data to perceive these other reality systems. [...]

The slight but perceivable feeling of lightness in his hands could have given him notice of this fact. [...]

[...] (Pause.) This transitionary stage is rather difficult to perceive. [...]

[...] The phenomena perceived is merely of a different nature, and in this state of which I have spoken no real intensification is possible.

[...] (Long pause.) What we would like is the ability to fully perceive both the inner world and the outer world, to alternate between them. [...]

[...] In a strange manner, symbols can be regarded as samples of the way you perceive at various levels of consciousness. [...] Fire, for example, is a symbol made physical, so a real fire tells you obviously that you are perceiving reality with your physically attuned consciousness.

[...] In normal consciousness, the immediate environment will be perceived in a far different manner than it would be, say, if an individual were in a state of depression. The feeling of joy changes the objects themselves, in that the perceiver sees them in a far brighter light. [...]

[...] In this stage of consciousness the soul finds itself alone with its own feelings, stripped of symbolism and representations, and begins to perceive the gigantic reality of its own knowing.

Symbols are highly charged psychic particles and that includes physical objects that have strong characteristics of attraction and expansion, that stand for inner realizations and realities that have not been perceived through direct knowing. [...]

As an analogy, you live in a self-constructed box with certain self-constructed senses to enable you to perceive the boxworld that you yourself have created. [...]

[...] Nevertheless, with your camouflage senses you perceive only that part of the concept that happens to fall within your box, and even then you receive and interpret such a concept with your outer senses, and therefore distort it out of all recognition.

[...] They are useless in themselves as far as enabling you to perceive inner reality. [...]

[...] Only by using the inner senses can you perceive while on your plane the inner reality of which it is part.

[...] You perceived an inhabitant of another system. There was indeed a quite unusual point of contact reached; most unusual indeed in that you not only perceived this individual, but he also perceived you.

[...] However, once his attention was centered here, he turned his conscious attention to full focus upon what he perceived. Nor did he perceive your physical form as you know it. But he picked up fully your emotional recognition and fear, and these were translated or perceived by him in his own fashion, so that to him you appeared as a mass of varying colors, and as movement of severe intensity.

[...] We know that you made no attempt to aim your attention in the particular direction that would allow you to perceive that definite system.

The individual was also bewildered however because he was able to perceive you in what you would call both your future and your past, as well as your present.

The idea, then, is not to annihilate normal consciousness, but quite literally to expand it by bringing into its focus other levels of reality that it can indeed intrinsically perceive and utilize.

The other exercises, in fact, will result in a clearer picture of the world, for they will facilitate the very motion of your perceptions, allowing you to perceive nuances in the physical situation that before would have escaped your notice. [...]

[...] You will also discover that the emotions are highly involved in such procedures: You will perceive information that is significant to you for some reason. [...]

(11:17.) While your future can on occasion be correctly perceived ahead of time by a gifted psychic, the future is too plastic for any kind of systematized framework. [...]

[...] The universe that you seem to perceive, either visually or through instruments, appears to be composed of galaxies, stars, and planets, at various distances from you. [...] Your senses and your very existence as physical creatures program you to perceive the universe in such a way. [...]

I will go into this in a later chapter, but in a very real manner, space as you perceive it simply does not exist. [...]

[...] When you are born, then, you are already “conditioned” to perceive reality in a particular manner, and to interpret experience in a very limited but intense range.

[...] I can now turn the focus of my consciousness toward it, and if I choose, experience it as you do; but I can also perceive it in many ways that you cannot in your time.

The electricity that is perceivable within the physical plane or field is merely a projection of a vast electrical system that you cannot perceive because of the nature and construction of the physical system itself.

The electrical system possesses many dimensions of reality that cannot be perceived within the physical system. So far scientists have only been able to study electricity by observing the projections of it that are perceivable within their frames of reference. [...]

[...] Electricity as you perceive it within your field, is merely an echo emanation, or a sort of shadow image of these infinite varieties of pulsations, which give reality and actuality to many phenomena with which you are familiar, but which do not appear as tangible objects within the physical system.

At first, then, men perceived the Gods physically. [...] They appeared and disappeared as man perceived, and then did not perceive, these inner realities. [...]

[...] The overly exteriorized consciousness has cut itself off so that it no longer perceives the inner order of events. [...]

The inner landscape is no less real because you do not generally perceive it. [...]

[...] You do not perceive the negative interval. You do not perceive continuous creation of matter.

[...] The change in it that you seem to perceive is illusion.

[...] The sharpness or rigidity or quality of the perceived material depends on the energy which forms it, and the characteristics of matter therefore depend upon the position of the energy that fills the pattern; but by position, I think in terms of the arrival and departure of this energy as it passes through your field.