“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In that literally power-packed few hours, he also knew that the physical senses did not so much perceive concrete phenomena, but actually had a hand in the creation of events that were then perceived as actual.

His belief, illogical as it sounded when spoken, contradictory as it seemed when applied to daily life, stated that the individual somehow could perceive the nature of reality on his or her own by virtue of innate capacities that belonged to the individual by right — capacities that were a part of man’s heritage. [...]

[...] Your thoughts, all of your thoughts at this moment, to you seem to come and go without a trace and yet they leave traces that you do not see, nor perceive, nor even sense, and yet if you quietly examine your experience, if you listen to the universe, you can begin to perceive some of these realities and that is what I want you to do. [...]

[...] Your consciousness must be focused at one particular range of frequencies before it can even perceive matter, much less solidity. [...]

1. Seth has some material analogous to this in the 582nd session in Chapter Twenty of Seth Speaks: “What you perceive of time is a portion of other events intruding into your own system, often interpreted as movement in space….” [...]

[...] Events are indeed clairvoyantly perceived in the dream state. [...]

In many cases he perceives in a dream a future physical event, and then within the dream situation acts out various possible solutions, until he hits upon the most agreeable one. [...]

This requires on the ego’s part an excellent ability to perceive correctly the elements of the physical situation, to express it in terms that the subconscious can understand, and to deliver the message properly. [...]

[...] An ego that is overly rigid will inhibit the intellect from perceiving various portions of physical reality, and therefore distort the appearance of reality, limiting the intellect’s abilities.

[...] It may involve denial, where you refuse to accept the visions or dogmas of others in order to more clearly perceive and form your own.

[...] He accepted the belief that any consciousness could be in some kind of direct intimate contact with experiences and realities usually not perceived, but ignored.

The mind can interpret the experiences that the legs and the feet have, however, and by imaginatively using that sensual data can perceive the ant’s reality to some extent. [...]

[...] They will not be triggered on a personal basis until your own beliefs allow you to perceive the multidimensional layers of your own experience or at least to accept the possibilities.

[...] When you are dealing with “Unknown” Reality and your work on it, you perceive the overall completed book in flashes of perception—a circular kind of communication and comprehension. [...]

[...] Your outer senses then perceive the matter as particular, differentiated, separate objects.

[...] You perceive portions of the endless sea of molecular constructions. [...]

[...] You can manipulate only the portion of this reality which you can perceive.

Through the inner senses, therefore, some enlightenment can be received as to both the actual existence of dimensions that the physical self cannot perceive; and also through the inner senses, a sense of confidence and continuity can be achieved through the inner self’s knowledge of its freedom.

The subconscious has great and rather astounding effect in dimensions other than your own, and it sends vivid projections into these other perspectives, that appear there and are in their turn perceived in distorting manner by the outward camouflage senses of those inhabitants. [...]

You exist and have effects in more realities than you know, and you perceive bits and pieces of other perspectives that appear in your own dimension. [...]

[...] You could not perceive them in your own state — nor can they maintain their native state as they plunge through the far reaches of the psyche. [...]

[...] The physical earth is bombarded by cosmic rays, and by other phenomena that you do not perceive, yet they are highly important to your survival. [...]

[...] You are watching symbols translated into images that are then visually perceived. [...]

(Very slowly at 11:18:) The conscious mind is an excellent perceiving attribute, a function that belongs to inner awareness but in this case is turned outward toward the world of events. [...] Left alone, it perceives clearly.

[...] Then you perceive this experience. [...]

In certain terms, the ego is the eye through which the conscious mind perceives, or the focus through which it views physical reality. [...]

[...] You may journey through such a reality, perceiving it opaquely, layering it over with your own perceived symbols, and taking those for the “real” environment. In these terms the real environment will be that which was generally perceived by the natural inhabitants of the system.

2. Is there really an objective world — “something out there” — for each of us to perceive? [...]

Each particular “station” of consciousness perceives in a different kind of reality, and as mentioned earlier (in Session 711, for instance), you usually tune in to your home station most of the time. [...] Each aspect of the psyche perceives the reality upon which it is focused, and that reality is also the materialization of a particular state of the psyche projected outward. [...]

[...] What odors do you perceive?

[...] It will represent reality as perceived from a different state of consciousness.

“These realities exist, of course, whether or not you perceive them. [...] Past, present, and future appear highly convincing and logical when there must be a lapse between each perceived experience.

“If you remember what I said about the way in which the universe expands, that it has nothing to do with space, then you may perhaps dimly perceive the existence of a psychic pyramid of interrelated, ever-expanding consciousness that creates, simultaneously and instantaneously, universes and individuals that are given—through the gifts of personal perspective—duration, psychic comprehension, intelligence, and eternal validity.

[...] Events are simultaneously perceived. [...]

[...] It is all of the thread that you perceive, so when you envision other dimensions you are forced to think in terms of observers far above the thread, looking down upon it from any given viewpoint.

[...] That animal — the past one — existed as surely as the one presently perceived, yet in man’s context, physical action had to be directed to a highly specific area, for physical survival depended upon it.

Other pulses, carrying messages, are quite as valid as those that you perceive and physically react to. [...]

[...] Ruburt was bodiless on the one hand, and on the other he perceived some of the experience through the eyes of an infant in a carriage.

Quite sharply he perceived a particular curb at the corner of a definite intersection (York Avenue and Warren Street), and his attention was caught by the focus a curb, a slope of dirt, and then the sidewalk; and the motion of the carriage as it was wheeled up.

[...] It is almost as if you were able to look at our material from your own viewpoint, and yet at other levels to perceive it from your visitors’ viewpoints. [...]

[...] I can perceive your objects as objects, or not—but the true nature of reality must come from a study of consciousness.

[...] Your astronomers may perceive a ghost image of it at the edges of your universe, but only a reflection from a reality that you cannot perceive. [...]

[...] Your universe is but one of many, and you perceive but a small portion of it. [...]

Because you do not accept them all as physical events, you do not perceive their strength or durability. [...]

[...] Imagination will have opened the door and given him the freedom to perceive, but hallucination will not be involved. [...]

“Within your system colors may be perceived as sound (chromesthesia, or ‘colored hearing’). [...] Concerning Joseph’s point about sound: Sound, alone, entering the body, instantaneously changes it … Any perception instantly changes the perceiver. It also changes the thing perceived….”

[...] You simply would not perceive such particles as mass.” And: “There are many ranges and great varieties of such units, all existing beyond your perceivable reach.”

[...] In that kind of relaxation the body itself perceives differently; that’s what I’m trying to emphasize. [...]

Seth, from the 154th session for May 12, 1965: “Basically, the physical body has the potential for perceiving stimuli on a generalized basis. [...]

[...] You must not just listen to my words but realize not only that you are more than your ego, but that you can perceive more than your ego perceives. [...]

[...] These will enable you to perceive reality as it exists independently of the physical matter that you know. [...]

Now it is possible for someone within the body to perceive someone who is not, but it is not usual. The perceiver must be a person of strong psychic abilities or the projecting personality must be driven by high emotional intensity to make himself known.

[...] These enable you to perceive an added depth of dimension which is responsible for the vividness and sense of exhilaration that often occurs within the kind of dream. [...]

[...] They definitely have a reality, though you cannot usually perceive it with the physical senses.

As I mentioned in The Seth Material, my waking projections and the spontaneous ones in the Seth trance yielded enough evidence to convince us that I was legitimately out of my body and perceiving another location — and not just out of my mind. [...]