“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] He will not bother to use normal perception to obtain it. Much of the material dealing with perception that I have given makes this point quite clear. [...] I give him access to large fields of focus, I help him change the energy that he uses in perception into other directions, to turn it inward. [...]

[...] In extrasensory perceptions, so to speak, as in so-called normal perception, the natural inclinations of the personality dictate the kind of information that will be sought from any available field of data. [...]

(I put the question poorly: “Would hypnosis reach that level of your perception?”

It is not significant enough, unless you want to go into the deeper material that you mentioned earlier, in connection with perception and the electromagnetic basis for all perception.

[...] They can be used in normal perception, or in what you call extrasensory perception.

(“Earlier this evening I had mentioned to Jane my long-standing interest in Seth’s statement, years ago, that all ESP perceptions had an electromagnetic basis. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Units that are the basic carriers of perception. [...]

[...] For example, because of this relationship, your experience need not be limited by the physical perceptive mechanisms. [...] You can learn to focus your attention away from physical reality, to learn new methods of perception that will enable you to enlarge your concept of reality and greatly expand your own experience.

[...] Such things as telepathy and clairvoyance can give you hints of other kinds of perception, but you are also involved in quite definite experiences both while you are normally waking and while you are asleep.

[...] Simultaneously these other streams of perception and consciousness go by without your notice, yet they are very much a part of you, and they represent quite valid aspects, events, actions, emotions with which you are also involved in other layers of reality.

Any creative work involves you in a cooperative process in which you learn to dip into these other streams of consciousness, and come up with a perception that has far more dimensions than one arising from the one narrow, usual stream of consciousness that you know. [...]

“Any perception instantly alters the electromagnetic and neurological systems of the perceiver. In your terms this is what a perception is: an alteration of neurological structure. [...] I am speaking here of the physical nature of any perception.

As Seth continues to explain the nature of perception, it becomes obvious that physical perception itself shapes reality into certain forms. Even extrasensory perception must be translated into physical terms, if we are to be consciously aware of it. [...]

“Any perception is action and it changes that upon which it acts, and in so doing, it is itself changed. The slightest perception alters every atom within your body. [...]

Seth goes on to give examples of the various kinds of distortion that can occur in normal and extrasensory perception. [...] Persons given to the need for self-punishment will consistently misinterpret any perception in this manner.”

[...] (Pause.) I use a musical analogy here, if a simple one, to point out that we are also dealing with frequencies of perception. You are tuned into earth’s orchestration [you might say], and your perception of time is simply the result of habits—habits of perception that you had to learn in the beginning of the world. [...]

[...] Creatures relied upon inner senses while learning to operate the new, highly specific physical ones that pinpointed perception in time and place. This pinpointing of perception was of vital importance, for with the full arousal of consciousness in flesh, intersections with space and time [had to be] impeccable.

You read your own consciousness now in a kind of vertical fashion, identifying only with certain portions of it, and it seems to you that any other organization of perception, any other recognition of identity, would quite necessarily negate your own or render it inoperable. [...]

(9:47.) You “timed” yourselves—but greater perceptions always appeared in the background of your consciousnesses and in the dream state. [...]

[...] Inner perceptions are never basically physical, you see. Basically, no perceptions are physical for that matter. [...] (Long pause.) In other words, if you will forgive a pun, you can never be consciously aware of the basic inner perception, but you can follow backward to that point. [...]

[...] A word concerning the nature of inner perceptions.

You are not aware, or Ruburt is not aware, of the direct inner perception. [...]

[...] With the inner perceptions there will be a traveling through of intensities. [...]

[...] The very positions of the planets and the stars are effects of the senses — perceptions that would have no meaning were it not for your own kind of consciousness. Those perceptions, then, cannot cause you to behave in any given way because of conditions that have no meaning outside of your own consciousness.

[...] I admit that your perception of them makes them appear to be relatively stable, and you are biologically tuned in to that perception. [...]

[...] It is true that you emerge into space and time at a certain point in your perception. [...]

In the first place you are looking at one version of the universe, as it seems to exist at the moment of your perception. [...]

Now under this heading I include other types of perception beyond those which you are acquainted with. [...] It may seem to you that the subject should be limited to physical perception, or so-called paranormal perception. With my wider viewpoint however I include perception in other realities. [...]

We will continue for now with the nature of perception.

As you know, it is the focus of your perception upon certain reference points, to the exclusion of others, that helps to tie your universe together. If you distinguished other quite legitimate reference points also, then your physical universe would be indistinguishable to your perceptions; that is, physical perceptions, lost in a maze of seemingly chaotic data. Such data, such other reference points, come into your perceptions however as you are ready for them, and they change the horizons and whole conception of your universe as they do so.

[...] He may find that his scope of perception may enlarge.

[...] 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. Usually the perceptions glide to one or the other: that one becomes shadowy or indistinct as the other becomes stronger and appears three-dimensionally.

[...] Now in the meantime there are a few points I would like to make that have not been given in this particular manner; connections that are important, between the nature of matter, your perception of it, and reincarnational existence. [...]

There are points of correlation between the two of which the conscious brain is not aware, and perceptions that do not consciously register. [...]

[...] As you should know by now, physical objects are only the results of your own perception, and this perception is based upon your psychological makeup, your physical structure, certain combinations of nerves and chemical reactions. [...]

When you are dealing with dream locations you are not dealing with mass-perceptions, but with personal perceptions. [...]

In the first place, the chest and bed and chair are only the results of your perception, and of your physical perception. [...]

[...] Now this gives rise to what you may call mass-perception, with a hyphen between the two words.

[...] It should not be forgotten, however, that such evidence gives a composite picture—not only of patterns of perception, but of habits of perception.

[...] At the same time, Jane told me that there’s been an improvement in her color perception, even with the double vision.

[...] In the usual awake state, in the terms now of this discussion, you deal with the available physical evidence of the world as it appears to present perception, that is, or with what you can see or feel or touch, either immediately or through physical instruments. [...]

Time is useful only as a method of organizing perceptions. Perception itself does not require time. Within your system however perception does seem dependent upon it. [...]

[...] In those projections still within your system, you are still bound by a time relationship, in that it seems to you that perception operates as usual.

What we are looking for here, and indeed one of the purposes of our sessions, is efficient use of various portions of the self in the perceptions of their own realities, and of an overall perception of each of the various portions of the self by the whole self, which transcends the others even while it is composed of them.

This involves efficient, complete use of the outer senses in their perception of camouflage reality, and of joyful, effective behavior and manipulation within that field of camouflage in which you spend a certain level of your existence. [...]

[...] The state is an unhappy one, where sharpness of perception is extremely limited. [...]

In the dreaming state and in other states of consciousness, he can indeed to some degree become aware of perceptions which will be neglected by the ego alone. In other words, psychologically there is only one portion of self A that is limited in its perceptions to the physical dimension, and that is the ego.

But self A is not limited to the ego’s perceptions only, therefore it may be said that self A’s perceptions are not limited, in toto, to the field in which it exists. [...]

[...] However, these selves are not limited as is the ego to one main field of perception only, in the manner which Dunne believes. [...]

Two of these statements may appear at first glance to contradict themselves, but you shall shortly see that they do not, and you are left for now with a pretty question: for does the self, or identity, then form the perceptive dimension in which it exists, or is it created by the dimension?

[...] I would be the perceptive mechanism in the other location while he would translate the perceptions and communicate them in physical terms. [In a usual out-of-body state it would be highly difficult for me, alone, to communicate my perceptions until I returned.]

[...] You must alter your perception to perceive any reality that is not geared practically toward material form. [...]

[...] In alternate focus you can dispense with the root assumptions that usually guard, direct, and limit your perception. [...]

[...] To a large extent it has memory only of itself and its own perceptions. [...]

At various times many people do catch themselves, the experience being so vivid that it leaps the gap, so to speak, with perception so intense that even normal waking consciousness is made aware of it. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

As Ruburt looked out the window he was using all of his abilities, but he could not physically keep both events going at one time, or rather his awareness could not contain all of the perceptive information.

(10:05.) You will also become far more aware of the actual processes of perception. [...]

[...] By saying the words and opening your perception the meaning becomes clear in a way that cannot be stated in verbal terms, using your recognizable but rigid language pattern; so we will be dealing then with concepts as well as feelings, but seeking them through the use of a new method, and sometimes translating them back and forth for practice.

[...] Alphabets are nevertheless tools that shape and direct perception. [...]

[...] Meanings are allowed to rise and fall where, when using your established ideas of language, meanings are instead rigidly attached to given experiences so that perception must be held within certain well-defined limits.

[...] The deeper portions of the self do not have to take the ego’s idea of time into consideration, so these portions of the self also deal with data that would ordinarily escape the ego’s perception, perhaps until a certain “point” of ego time was reached.

[...] Involved were discussions between Jane and me today, and some poor perceptions on my part.)

It is the core belief which is strong enough to so focus your perception that you perceive from the physical world only those events that correlate with it. [...]

[...] Experiences — both personal and global — will come into the perception of a person who holds this belief, that will only serve to deepen it further.