“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You are only familiar with your dreams when you sleep, for then your perception and your energy is focused in that direction.

[...] But the ego cannot tune into that perceptive range.

[...] After a short break, we will discuss then your misconceptions concerning space, for you will see that your idea of space is the result of your own physical perceptions. [...]

[...] However, again, the ego’s attempt to stand apart from action in no way changes the basic nature of action itself, and the ego merely limits its own perception.

[...] While talking about action and identity, she had an inner perception of a whole concept, of some kind of inside visual sense of action without seeing any object. [...]

[...] It is a state of perception she hadn’t attained before, perhaps until as recently as the last session and this one.

It is true, then, that another dimension has been added to our sessions, and I hope to instruct Ruburt along these lines of more direct perception as our sessions continue. [...]

“Returning to the material on perception, there are changes in the positive and negative atomic charges, alterations of movement inside the atoms in the smaller particles, a change in pulsation rate. The activity of atoms is actually caused by perceptive qualities. [...] The constant motion within them is caused by the unending perceptive nature of any consciousness, however minute in your terms. [...]

[...] Any perception instantly alters the electromagnetic and neurological systems of the perceiver … It is a logistic contradiction to imagine, with your physical systems, that any perception can be received without the perceiver’s inner situation being altered. [...]

Any perception is action; it changes that upon which it acts, and in so doing it is itself changed. The slightest perception alters every atom within your body.²⁴ This, in turn, sends out its ripples, so that as you know, the most minute action is felt everywhere.

Two quick reminders: 1. Clairvoyance (“clear-seeing”) is the paranormal perception of events or objects regardless of distance, and without help from another mind. [...] Nor am I noting here how the use of these phenomena may be connected to the perception of the past or future.

[...] The illusion of rigidity is the result of your own outer senses, a perception which is too slow to catch the constant pulsations, as bits of energy that compose material constantly disappear entirely and are replaced.

[...] The point is that perception is the criteria for what you call matter. [...]

[...] Had you had the opportunity to do more work with psychological time you would have been able to attain greater perception than you did. [...]

This sensing would have been done by the third inner sense, in conjunction of course with other senses, and this perception of past, present and future would not take any clock time, at least not theoretically. [...]

[...] Even a watered-down version of a direct inner experience is a shock to the outer ego on your plane, since the ego imagines itself and its own perceptions to be supreme. [...]

[...] At your stage of development the inner ego is by far the most self-conscious part of the whole self, and has the greatest ability for perception and organization. [...]

[...] Consciousness by its very characteristics carries the burden of perception. [...] You cannot imagine it without perception in your terms; and yet consciousness can be vital and alive without your idea of perception. [...]

[...] There is an incident in your life, and it did indeed have to do with the use of inner perception. [...]

[...] Therefore free your perceptions while you have the opportunity and use your consciousness naturally in the way that it is meant for you to use it, freely and with confidence and joy. [...]

[...] The perception of consciousness is not limited … I have told you, for example, that the consciousness of the tree is not as specifically focused as your own. [...]

[...] The fact remains that it is you, not I, who are worried about my perceptions. [...]

[...] In other words, if you had made kind of a nebulous statement about the nature of your perceptivity, if you had said something...”)

I am making statements about the nature of my perceptivity and your own. [...]

[...] What you do not understand is that from that given point of silence, which is your point of non-perception, sounds also begin that grow deeper and deeper into silence, yet still have meaning and as much variety as the sounds that you know, and these are also symbols. The thought unspoken has a “sound” that you do not hear, but that is very audible at another level of reality and perception.

[...] When you experience an event, you do not usually stop either to examine the rules of perception or to wonder what these are. [...]

[...] The “sparks” generated by each instant of its existence cause additional experiences, perceptions, that will not fit in the known moment of the present — for by then in your terms that present has already vanished into the past.

[...] Your mind is not really dealing with concepts but with the simple perception of objects, so that little imagination is involved. [...]

It is not as if that vaster reality were utterly closed to your perception, for it is not. [...]

[...] Using the Inner Senses, we simply increase our entire range of perceptions.

[...] The first sense involves perception of a direct nature—instant cognition through what I can only describe as inner vibrational touch. [...]

Overall, it is short-sighted to say that one kind of such perception is truer than the other or more or less factual than the other. [...]

The spirit guides are perceptions of other kinds of psychological and psychic activity. [...]

[...] The self that you know is only a small portion of that self, boxed in, so to speak, by its limited perception.

(“Does his poor eyesight, for instance, influence your perception of me?”)

(But, I think, in those terms there can be an appreciable lag before an original perception-event takes on any special significance for the concerned person or persons. During that lapse, that first impression is being modified and enhanced within the psyche by subsequent events and understandings; it starts to build up in importance; then, when all of the intuitive-creative “work” has been done, the original perception emerges — or bursts — into consciousness. [...]

[...] I’m inserting the material here to continue the record of our house hunting in an orderly way, and to show how even an important perception [in this case of a house] can at first make hardly any conscious impression upon the perceiver — although here two perceivers, Jane and I, were involved.

[...] Whenever an action seems to have but one effect, then there is a lack in perceptive abilities.

[...] Action may appear to have a beginning and an ending but this is, again, an error of perception.

[...] I didn’t realize either that little is known about normal perception, much less extrasensory perception, or that no medium is expected to be 100 percent correct. [...]

[...] The tests, and Seth’s comments, also gave us insights into the nature of inner perception that literally could not have been achieved in any other way.

[...] They also have different kinds of immediate perceptions of reality. [...]

[...] The character in the play is seemingly alive (creatively) for the play’s duration, perception being limited to that framework, yet to play that role the actor draws upon the experience of his own life. [...]

[...] They have an esthetic appreciation of their own colors—a different kind, of course, than your perception of color. [...]

[...] Answer questions and encourage the inner perceptions. [...]