“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I brought in to show Jane the two paintings that had been involved in my enlarged-perception experience yesterday—The Girl with The Violet Eyes and the head of the man. [...]

[...] The act of perception itself involves mobility through intensities, and the many facets of consciousness can only be experienced as a direct result of this inner mobility.

[...] On the other hand it was part of his method, a way of intensifying focus, increasing perception in a small area while also insuring safety, so that inner excursions would be balanced by a constant worrisome body that would urge him to return.

[...] What is involved here is a transformation of energy, and on your plane an extension of personality essence that permits an extension of perception. [...]

[...] You will already have learned to recognize the spacious present for what it is, and the conscious ego will not be so bewildered and confused by the sudden perception that is involved.

1. For Seth on the fetus — its astral and reincarnational attributes, its energy, its growth, its perceptions from inside the womb — see the quotations from sessions 503–4 in the Appendix for The Seth Material. Those sessions were held in September 1969.

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

[...] Your conscious mind, however, directs your temporal perception and interprets that perception, organizing it into mental patterns. [...]

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

[...] He was a disagreeable fellow in your perceptions.

First of all, he forgets the concept of continual moments, which usually hampers his perception. His perception changes focus so that he is aware of an event that would otherwise be future for him. [...]

[...] Sooner or later we are going to have to discuss the ways in which what would appear to be sensual perception is made available to an individual when the physical body, with its senses, perceives an event at which it cannot be said to be present.

[...] Disease states, so-called, are as necessary to physical life as normal health is, so we are not speaking of a nirvana on earth — but we are saying that it is possible for each reader of this book to quicken his or her private perceptions, and to extend and expand the quality of ordinary consciousness enough so that by contrast to current experience, life could almost be thought of as “heaven on earth.”

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

1. Seth had more to say about perceptions between realities in the 42nd session for April 8, 1964:

[...] But that particular moment, any particular moment, that you think of as the past, existed before your egotistical perception of it, and is constantly being changed by you, even when you no longer consciously perceive it.

[...] The nature of perceptions determines the experience of time.

[...] The intellect does try to order experience, to make sense out of perception. [...]

It understands, for example, that clairvoyant material is a part of the personality’s overall characteristics, so it is not afraid of perceiving it — and it is able to separate such information confusion from present physical sense perception. [...]

In the case of individuals such feeling-tones pervade all experiences and perception, and can even therefore alter the perception of reality, therefore effectively changing it. [...]

[...] Many of the characteristics of consciousness, however, are not so apparent, since presently you largely use your own consciousness in such a way that its perceptions appear in quite other than “natural” guises. [...]

[...] You rely upon the body to express the perceptions of your consciousness. [...]

Now: Throughout your reincarnational existences you expand your consciousness, your ideas, your perceptions, your values. [...]

[...] It narrows down your perception. [...]

[...] In the first place, the term is a judgment cast by others, and a particular personality may feel quite comfortable in his or her own perception of reality, and only become aware of the difference when confronted by others. [...]

[...] The tempo of the session slowed perceptibly as it progressed.)

The morning session involving the songs led him into a new kind of perceptive experience or trance state, in which he has not been before involved, and that will serve most beneficially in this and other areas and developments in the future.

[...] Objects are the result of a specialized perception. [...]