“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

As your ordinary waking state perceives an entire universe of physical data, so each of these other states of consciousness perceive realities as complicated, varied, and vivid. [...]

[...] When you are sleeping, therefore, your consciousness turns itself in many of these directions, often perceiving, willy-nilly, bits and pieces of reality that are available to it at its different stages. [...] The alternate presents of which I spoke are not simply alternate methods of perceiving one objective present. [...]

You will be able to perceive physical reality because you want to, knowing it to be one of many realities. You will not be forced to perceive it alone, out of ignorance.

A-4 brings you to a level that is beneath matter formations, a level in which ideas and concepts can be perceived, although their representations do not appear in the present physical reality that you know.

Your whole concept of time is built about your own capacity for perceiving action; as this capacity for perceiving action grows, so indeed do the dimensions of time grow. [...]

[...] Therefore, since only the ego is momentarily imprisoned within the focus of your plane, it is only the ego who probes so slowly into simultaneous action, perceiving it bit by bit and sip by sip. [...] The whole self could and does perceive a limitless number of such moment points simultaneously. [...]

The whole self not only perceives these limitless moment points, but being a part of action, each whole self projects fragments and personalities from itself to all these points, creating therefore other egos, other intense focus points which are independent, which work out their own destinies and experiences, which in turn perceive any given moment point in slow motion.

Time, physical matter, these are but portions of action as perceived in one particular fashion. [...] It is perceived differently, and therefore reality constantly wears a different face. [...]

A consciousness is characterized by the particular ways in which it views or perceives available action. It is characterized by the type of action which it is more likely to perceive. [...]

[...] It, the ego, merely does not perceive because it will not perceive those other perception patterns, and that larger scope with which the whole self is constantly involved.

[...] Consciousness is action that perceives itself. [...]

[...] Identities, some identities and some forms of consciousness, particularly the ego, perceive a past or a present, but this is merely the result of the manner in which such identities and consciousnesses view available data.

[...] Actions are perceived as realities according to the nature, not of a given action, but according to the nature of the perceiver. His viewpoint and his field of reference will at all times color to some extent or another the nature of the reality which he perceives.

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. [...] However, the very distortions that occur in his attempt to perceive this reality results in a new reality. What he perceives then is legitimate, for his very perception of it is the basis for its existence.

[...] We have stated that a reality remains as it is, unchanged even though the perceiver, because of his sense apparatus, may perceive it in a limited or distorted fashion. [...]

Any individual reacts to a reality as he perceives it to be, and he perceives it to be since he has himself created it from basic reality. [...]

In traveling through the states of consciousness, these other personalities would try to attain some focus and perceive your environment, trying to make sense of data with which they are largely unacquainted. Since many of them are unaware of your idea of time, they would find it difficult to understand that you perceive events with intervals between, and would not perceive the inner organization that you thrust upon your normal environment. [...]

[...] From some of these viewpoints, your physical matter has little or no permanency, while to others your own thoughts have a shape and form, perceived by observers but not by yourselves.

(9:20.) As these systems are adjacent to yours, so is yours adjacent; alternate focus allows personalities from other realities to perceive your own, then, as it can theoretically at least allow you a glimpse into their existence.

[...] The shaking of a hand may be perceived by you as a simple action. [...] It does not take you time to perceive them one by one. You perceive them in their completed fashion. Now this portion of the self experiences these probable events consciously, with as much rapidity as you subconsciously perceive the million small actions that make up the handshake.”

“Action is action whether or not you perceive it, and probable events are events whether or not you perceive them. [...]

[...] The whole self perceives and is affected by probabilities, then, and perceives these as actions whether or not the ego has chosen to accept any given event as physical. [...]

[...] This does not mean that it did not exist, but in the waking state you do not perceive it. In the same way you do not perceive the actuality of probable events on a conscious basis. [...]

[...] The rocks and stones and mountains and earth are living camouflage, interlocking psychic webs formed by minute consciousnesses that you cannot perceive as such. [...]

(10:07.) Since you all have a hand in forming this physical setting, and since you are ensconced yourself in a physical form, then using the physical senses you will only perceive this fantastic setting. [...]

[...] In a large manner, the physical senses actually form the physical reality they seem to only perceive. [...]

You can, however, using your inner senses, perceive reality as it exists apart from the play and your role in it. [...]

Now: the inner self is the primary personal creator and perceiver, the seat of identity, a consciousness then with many faces. Each portion of the inner self creates its own reality, and perceives the structure of matter to which it is attuned.

[...] The physical brain only perceives the appearance of matter in one of its many manifestations. [...]

[...] These exist all at once, but the perceiving mechanisms are tuned in to one characteristic channel, so to speak. [...]

[...] When this occurs the perceptions have already altered it, so that it is very difficult to perceive at the same time the present physical location and the past one. [...]

Some of these will fall into the faster-than-light groupings, and have a perceivable vitality within that framework. [...] There are many ranges and great varieties of such units, all existing beyond your perceivable reach. [...]

I told you some time ago that there were many gradations of matter, or form, that you did not perceive. [...]

[...] You simply would not perceive such particles as mass. [...]

[...] Now in certain dreams and out-of-body experiences, your own consciousness moves faster than the speed of light, and under such conditions you are able to perceive some of these other forms of “mass or matter.”

[...] You can in the same manner perceive the state of your own physical image. [...]

[...] You can therefore perceive the present moment from a variety of unique standpoints not usually available.

You can perceive the moment’s reality as it exists for your intestine, or your hand; and experience, with practice, the present inner peace and commotion that exist simultaneously within your physical body. [...]

[...] In this case you may perceive them symbolically through symbols you will recognize, seeing jumbled thoughts for example as weeds, which you can then simply discard.

[...] You perceive only your own constructions. [...] Your rooms are full now of thought-forms that you do not perceive; and again, you are as much a ghostly phenomenon now as you will be after death. [...]

[...] Now, often in your dreams you are able to perceive such other situations, but you often wind them into dream paraphernalia of your own, in which case upon awakening you have little clear memory.

If you think strongly of being in another location, a pseudoimage of yourself will be projected out from you to that place, whether or not it is perceived and whether or not you yourself are conscious of it, or conscious in it. [...]

Some dead friends and relatives do visit you, projecting from their own level of reality into yours, but you cannot as a rule perceive their forms. [...]

You cannot for that matter perceive yourselves directly, but only through the sense apparatus which has been adopted by the self. You perceive directly psychological experiences, but you do not perceive these in their undiluted form. [...]

[...] That is, your scientists with their instruments perceive only the appearance that these structures take when they fall within the physical system. This has nothing to do with the nature of their own reality, for you cannot perceive that in any direct manner.

You do not even perceive sense data with a third of the vividness of which you are capable. [...] The self does not perceive any impressions, you see, which are so vivid that it could be overwhelmed. [...]

[...] Identity would suffer if it were forced to perceive more impressions than it could effectively handle. [...]

[...] In the entire act of perception, however, there is a oneness and a unity between the seemingly objectively perceived event and the perceiver. [...]

Remember that you are a part of what you perceive. [...] It seems to you that the burden of perception in on your part as perceiver.

[...] The movement within the atoms mentioned earlier therefore is a part, basically, of the entire perceived event. [...]

Egotistically you make arbitrary designations of necessity, perceiving only portions of any given action; again, the ego attempting to separate itself from overall action, and to see itself as an entirely independent structure.

[...] The atoms and molecules have a pulsating nature that you do not usually perceive so what seems to you to be a continuous atom or molecule is, indeed, a series of pulsations that you cannot keep track of. [...] You only perceive it as continuous. You cannot perceive the series of pulsations that make it up. Your perceptive mechanisms are not equipped to perceive it. [...]

[...] Now, psychological time is your best method for perceiving these actualities. [...] You form this and then perceive the world, but your viewpoint is very small and the garden you perceive very intimate, but within yourself you have far greater abilities of perception and you are not limited to Wednesday or Thursday. [...]

[...] Instead, you have formed that event, but not realized the event had its origins at the time that you perceived it. [...]

[...] You cannot conceivably perceive them. [...]

[...] I use the word shape for simplicity’s sake, but the electrical universe is composed of dimensions which are perceived by the inner self, for the inner self also has existence within the electrical universe. If all of this sounds farfetched, then remember that the shapes that you perceive meaningful, many other species within your own field cannot perceive at all.

Thoughts have shape in terms of intensity mass, though you cannot see their shape; your outer senses do not perceive it. [...] You do not see the dream itself, for even here, after giving a dream reality, electrical existence, you must break it down into simpler terms so that you can perceive what you have indeed created.

Man has always attempted to examine those realities that he could perceive through the outer senses. [...]

At a later date I will explain the true nature of this electrical reality, since your idea of electrical reality is extremely limited, and within your field it is perceived but dimly, as a mere shadow of itself.

[...] He was perceiving the greater dimensions of the physical class event. [...]

[...] But these simply represented the greater, usually unperceived, dimensions of any class event (or of any perceived event).

[...] This represented the switching off and on of his consciousness as it perceived usually restricted perceptions, then lost them.

[...] Ruburt was out-of-body, as he knows, and in that state he was perceiving the greater dimensions of the class event, and trying to correlate this with ordinary class perception. [...]

When your eyes are open, do not take it for granted that only the immediately perceivable objects exist. [...] There are molecular structures in every inch of empty space, but you have taught yourself not to perceive them. [...]

The inner senses are equipped to perceive data that is not physical. [...] Now, they can perceive physical objects. [...]

It is as if your present situation and all its physical phenomena were projected from within yourself outward, giving you a continuous running motion picture, forcing you to perceive only those images that were being transposed. [...]

While you go about your daily chores and endeavors, beneath normal waking consciousness you are constantly focused in other realities also, reacting to stimuli of which your physical conscious self is not aware, perceiving conditions through the inner senses, and experiencing events that are not even registered within the physical brain. [...]

The form perceived by your outer senses is always composed of matter, of course. There are also however forms or structures that are what you may call psychological forms or structures, even within your own field, which you do not perceive with your outer senses, but which are nevertheless frameworks that underlie form as it appears in matter.

Each consciousness, besides the material structure or material form, also possesses a psychological structure that exists in a depth and solidity in another perspective which the outer senses do no perceive. [...]

[...] They become physically apparent to some degree in the emotions, which do have definite form, certain mass, depth, and solidity in the realm of psychological perspective which you do not physically perceive.

[...] Nevertheless these psychological structures, again, are forms adopted by consciousness in a perspective not physically perceived.

[...] You can perceive the future as you can perceive the past, again speaking in your terms only. [...] You simply do not think that you do and you do not connect your actions today with the information that you will perceive tomorrow and so your own reactions escape you. [...]

[...] Now your physical perceptions operating alone are often responsible for these doubts for you think you are all that you can see of yourselves, or you think your life is all that you presently perceive of it, and so if you trust in your physical senses alone then you must, indeed, be filled with doubts for you know, instinctively, that you are more than the self that you are presently able to materialize or to give expression to. [...]

[...] Faith, however, is not believing in a unreality, it is believing in realities that you cannot, at this point physically, perceive. [...]

[...] To realize that there is more of yourself than you can physically perceive is faith. [...]

Seth as you knew him perceives your own system more clearly. (Pause.) From my viewpoint (pause) I do not perceive your physical universe then as you do. I do perceive your psychic values and emotional intensities, and realize that you perceive but very small segments of these. [...]

I am not telling you that individuality does not exist, that it is an illusion, and that therefore I do not perceive it. I am telling you that you do not perceive your own individuality as a whole identity.

[...] I perceive instead at one glance seemingly whole segments of your time field. [...]

And as you break up then an hour into so many seconds, so you break up identities into so many self-structures, without perceiving their innate unities.