“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In the second form, this perception is increased, the scope of consciousness widened. [...]

[...] You should notice the overall form of perception that you seem to be using. [...]

As you know, it is almost impossible for you to be aware of the full perceptions possible, for the ego would not stand for it. [...]

(Pause.) If the picture were magically centered, then all “time” would be seen to flow out from the instant moment⁴ of perception, the private now; and in many ways the mass now, or mass perception, represents the overall now-point of your planet. [...]

[...] On the other it was part of his method, a way of intensifying focus, increasing perception in a small area while also ensuring safety, so that inner excursions would be balanced by [conditions in his exterior environment] … He sees that the challenge has been won, and now it is time to take up the next one, to apply the power of the will to certain physical areas.

[...] The perception of consciousness is not limited, however. [...]

[...] For that matter, the preciseness of your ordinary sense perception rests firmly upon this greater inner flexibility, which gives you a broad base from which to form your secure focus.

[...] I’d like to mention here that by now we had read several books on extrasensory perception, but still hadn’t come across anything about voice communication. [...]

[...] The senses within the recognizable senses perceive and create an inner world … once you exist on a particular plane you must necessarily be attuned to it while blocking out many other perceptions. [...]

But identity is much more than this, and basic identity, while using the perceptive abilities, is not that dependent upon them. [...]

[...] We think Seth’s perception of these curving lines led to the mention of “perhaps turns.”

[...] 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. [...]

[...] Your perceptive mechanisms are not equipped to perceive it. [...]

Perception of the exterior universe then changed, however, and it seemed to be alien and apart from the individual who perceived it.

The effect of opposites results, then, from a lack of perception. [...]

[...] When training forces the ego to become too rigid, and to limit its perception of other realities, then the intuitions will not be accepted by the ego because intuitional experience will not fit into the framework of reality as the ego sees it.

[...] How could he record my perceptions when my consciousness was across the continent? [...]

[...] Despite the sessions held now and then to help particular persons, and despite their incidents of extrasensory perception, the sessions remain focused primarily on the material. [...]

[...] We think it offers excellent explanations as to how ESP or any perception works, and to us this is far more important. [...]

[...] Seth was describing the intimate connection between expectation and perception—what we see and observe—to Bill Macdonnel, when the incident took place. [...]

[...] The image in the doorway is indeed my own, though there is bound to be a distortion in Mark’s perception of me. [...]

[...] What seems to be a perception, an objective concrete event independent from you, is instead the materialization of your own inner emotions, energy, and mental environment.”

[...] Beneath many seemingly chaotic dreams there are often valid experiences in which your consciousness “lights” in another reality, without being attuned to it with the necessary precision that would allow for clear perception. [...]

[...] There are bleed-throughs, so to speak, in the form of unofficial perceptions that often occur, or “impossible” events that are seemingly beyond explanation. [...]

“3. Our experience of the present is enriched by our memory of past perceptions. [...]

[...] Gradually her perception of the beauty in ordinary things became considerably heightened. [...]

(A note added later: For some related material about the flexibility of Jane’s perceptions, see our extensive notes for the 653rd session in Chapter Thirteen, as well as those for the already mentioned 639th session.)

[...] You cannot see the other selves on the wheel, you only see the one spot that is lit, and the light is that of physical perception. [...]

[...] We will refer to this later, for it will help you understand the ways in which so-called extra- sensory perceptions are utilized, both on a conscious and a subconscious basis.

[...] Your time perception shows you but one slice of the whole cake, for instance.

[...] Our ordinary, chosen sensual perceptions move us forward, within “the time system that the species adopted,” as Seth commented in Chapter 8 of Personal Reality. [...]

Because you are flesh and blood creatures, the interior aspects of perception must have their physical counterparts. [...]

Beneath temporal perception, then, each object and event exists in these terms, in patterns that interact with each other. [...]

[...] Birth and death contain between them the earthly experience that you perceive as happening within a given period of time, through various seasons, and involving unique perceptions within areas of space — encountered with other human beings, all to one extent or another sharing with you events caused by the intersection of the self and time and space.

His creative spontaneous self created the body to begin with, and all of its physical desires were precisely those that his creative abilities needed—a quickness of body and mind working together, a quick perception mentally and physically, a natural exhilaration that is supported by (underlined) the power, of his own nature.

You are used to “trusting your physical perceptions,” taught to accept physical evidence above all as the mark of reality. [...]

[...] You accept them into the organization of your perception on a conscious level, usually. The ego does not recognize elements of the future when they do appear within dreams, and it does not therefore admit them into perceptive patterns. [...]

[...] The ego attempts to stand apart and observe, but in order to do so it narrows the available field of perception. [...]

Here’s Seth from the 750th session, held on June 25, 1975, two months after he finished Volume 2. In it he not only sums up his motives in producing “Unknown” Reality, but comments on another one of his basic ideas that I think it important to stress every so often; this time, perception is involved. [...] When you alter the focus of your perception you automatically change the objectified world. [...] The act of perception itself helps form the perceived event and is a part of it.”

[...] And in that state, the conditions of perception are those native to other lands of consciousness than ours.