“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] We are dealing with the natural perceptions of the psyche, at least when we are speaking in human terms. [...]

(Long pause.) In dreams the reasoning mind loosens its hold upon perception. [...]

The reasoning mind is highly necessary, effective, and suitable for physical existence, and for the utilization of free will, which is very dependent upon perception of clearly distinguishable actions. [...]

I will be here to see that this is put to practical use also, translated into terms that can be understood, and provide a firm basis from which you can further explore the nature of such ancient perceptions. [...]

Atoms and molecules can be heard, though not by your perceptive apparatus. [...]

—by your perceptive apparatus.

Your inner perceptions will often come in this manner then. [...] Ruburt’s inner perceptions often take the auditory, you see. [...]

[...] That does not mean that all inner perceptions will be restricted to these particular channels. [...]

New sentence: Because your mind in life is connected with the brain and the physical organism, it is automatically attuned to corporeal reality, and to some extent of course it ignores some nonphysical data that lies within any given field of perception. Quite simply, it does not allow it into its organizing perceptions. [...]

[...] They also focus their attention in very specific directions, perceiving from a vast general field of perception stimuli that is “recognized” and accepted in an organized manner.

[...] I painted a male in modern garb, but in reality, according to an amused Seth, the subject was a female clairvoyant who lived in Constantinople in the fourteenth century; unconscious distortions in my own perceptions led me to the male figure. [...]

[...] I believe now that they are among those usually present at unconscious levels; but in order to expand the potentials for the creative act as much as possible, I would like to see others learn to cultivate such visions and perceptions on a deliberate, conscious basis. [...]

What separates events is not time, but your perception. [...]

[...] Relax more with what you are doing and let the perceptions from the whole self become your own. [...]

Your perceptions were quite legitimate. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

[...] By objective I refer to the use of language, the English language, that automatically sets up its own screens of perception — as of course any language must do to some extent.

[...] The universe deals with different kinds of order, perceptions, and organizations, each dependent upon the others, yet each separate in its own domain.

[...] His perception of basic reality in one way does not change the nature of that reality or of that action, as it exists independently of his field of reference. [...] What he perceives then is legitimate, for his very perception of it is the basis for its existence.

[...] The outer relationships are serving you well, for you are already storing up many ideas for your work, for your painting, that have at least partially come as a result of your perception of others.

[...] Those whose ideas and perceptions of reality are completely out of line with the general agreement are called insane. The terms only show that reality as you know it is the result of private perceptions. Reality is built up as a result of these private perceptions.

[...] The perception of reality is therefore largely alien to society.

[...] All mental life is characterized by divergent perceptions of any given set of sense data that is recognized as Reality, with a capital R.

[...] Our perception allows us to tune into the particular fantasies that you perceive as one indivisible reality. [...]

Now you can close your minds to such possibilities, or you can open your imagination and inner perceptions and try to perceive them. [...]

[...] These choices, however, are based upon your changing perceptions of past and present. Because I have a greater scope of perception than you, I can predict what may happen with better facility. [...]

When an individual clairvoyantly ‘sees’ an event, this is what happens: First he forgets the concept of continual moments that usually hampers perception. His perception changes focus so that he is aware of an event that otherwise would seem to be in the future. [...]

[...] Seth says that we use our inner perceptions as we use our outer ones — to discover more about things in which we are interested. [...]

[...] A psychologist might explain the reaction by presuming that some unpleasant event from the past was connected with his perception of the perfume. [...]

[...] Now each of these selves experience time in their own manner, and as you should see by now this only means that they build their own realities according to the nature of their own perceptions. But the nature of their own perceptions is not chaotic. [...] Their various realities merge in the overall perceptions of the whole self.

[...] The spacious present is the basic time in which the whole self has its existence, but the various portions of that self have their experience in their own time systems, which are the results of their characteristic methods of perception.

Dictation: When I speak of natural law, I am not referring to the scientists’ laws of nature, such as the law of gravity, for example — which is not a law at all, but a manifestation appearing from the viewpoint of a certain level of consciousness as a result of perceptive apparatus. Your “prejudiced perception” is also built into your instruments in that regard.

[...] While you believe in theories like the survival of the fittest, however, and the grand fantasies of evolution, then you put together your perceptions of the world so that they seem to bear out those theories. [...]

[...] Basically time is simply psychological experience, regardless of the lapses between perception or the manner of perception. [...]

Now: The symbolism of ascent or descent, or of light and dark, would be meaningless to other realities with different perceptive mechanisms. [...]

(10:13.) Many probable systems have perceptive mechanisms far different from your own. [...]

[...] There are kinds of perception with which you are not familiar, worlds in which your idea of light does not exist, where almost infinite gradations of thermal qualities are absorbed in terms of sensation, not of light.

[...] The overall intentions and characteristics of the personality will determine the quality of perception and understanding. [...]

[...] My perceptions were dealt with in the earlier chapters of the book, but not in just that way….

(In the ESP class session of February 9, 1971, Seth gave an excellent account of the particular aspect of his perceptions that I was referring to now. [...]

Consciousness itself perceives directly, and these various methods of perception have been adopted to meet varying physical circumstances. [...]

[...] It is the result of your perception. [...]

[...] A good general question, we think, and one we’d like to see discussed with our own ideas of the inviolate nature of the individual in mind, has to do with the prevalence of ordinary, daily, conscious-mind thinking and perception throughout much of the world. [...]

Yet Buddhist belief, for instance, maintains that our perception of the world is not fundamental, but an illusion; our “ignorance” of this basic undifferentiated “suchness” then results in the division of reality into objects and ideas. [...]

[...] The outer senses are usually considered mainly as perceptive organs, enabling you to experience reality as it is. [...]

The fact remains that the outer senses induce a conscious focusing along certain limited lines, grouping perceptions and comprehensions in a narrow fashion, and limiting the practical and imaginative range that consciousness might otherwise take. [...]

Using the outer senses, you are more or less forced to conceive idea groups only within the scope of perceptions received by the outer senses. [...]

[...] The outer senses are excellent tools of perception for limited circumstances. [...]