“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Yesterday, Jane wrote for me, at my request, a few lines about Seth’s remark in last Saturday’s session, to the effect that she’s been picking up some unusual versions of perception lately. The original is attached to this session: “I’ve experienced odd perceptions in relaxed states,” Jane wrote. “They involve what I’ll call innocent perceptions, to show their lack of sophistication. [...]

Dictation: You can only locate or pinpoint an event that falls one way or another into the range of your perception.

[...] That reality is dependent upon the perceptions of each kind of life that composes it. [...]

[...] You are aware of the universe only insofar as it impinges upon your perception. What lies outside of that perception remains unknown to you. [...]

[...] Such species, of course, can nowhere appear within the dictates of evolution or be perceived as realities except under those conditions when you relax your usual conventions of perception and behavior.

[...] It seems to you now that such personalities (long pause) are not physically perceivable, but at one time you could bring them into the range of your perception.

[...] To maintain any purity of translation, training in different kinds of inner perception would be necessary. [...]

[...] It had to do with Seth’s perceptions while speaking through her, and had been inspired by the ESP class session for February 9, 1971; excerpts from this are included in the 575th session in Chapter Nineteen. [...]

[...] It is not registered by Ruburt’s eyes (pause), which do not have the multidimensional depth perception necessary. [...]

[...] At times I see the room and the people as he, or rather his perceptive mechanisms, do.

[...] In extrasensory perception—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.

[...] He will not bother to use [even] normal perception to obtain it. [...] I help him change the energy that he uses in perception into other directions, to turn it inward. [...]

Now I think that this is an excellent example of the way extrasensory perceptions are sometimes received. [...]

[...] An earlier test was extremely illuminating from a different standpoint, convincing us that the original extrasensory perception is general, like an overall view of a large area. [...]

[...] It is for this reason that he now and then does enjoy visitors to sessions, because he instinctively feels that he is thereby learning to manipulate and use these abilities oftentimes, and thereby learn the various subjective feelings that accompany valid perceptions, and to distinguish these from subjective feelings that turn out to be based upon invalid perceptions.

Ruburt’s own perceptions are somewhat confused here because he thinks of two photographs. [...]

[...] I tried to separate the levels, for a while, of perception; but Ruburt by then would not open up the deeper layers of communication. [...]

[...] (Smile.) As physical beings your perception, your physical perception, is slowed down to a necessary but very extensive degree.

[...] (Smile.) Value fulfillment demands this slowing down of perception. [...]

[...] In projections, and in your dreams, your perceptions to some extent enable you to leap out of the ego’s time limitations. [...]

[...] By following such a course mankind severely limits the amount of data that reaches his own perception. [...]

[...] The study of so-called extrasensory perception is now considered an isolated bizarre domain, unrelated to other fields of knowledge. [...]

So-called extrasensory perception, and many connected endeavors, merely represent the recognition, by some, of those important pieces of data which are usually not recognized.

(Below, Seth discusses a projection experience of Jane’s on Friday, May 9, that involved her perception of my astral presence in the apartment although I was at work at Artistic Card Company that day.)

You perceived in a normal fashion, which should tell you that perception is not dependent upon the physical image. [...]

[...] (Pause.) In such instances you are withdrawing your perceptive abilities from the physical body. [...]

[...] It’s a smooth transition in which perception is slowed down topwise, but deepened so that usually unperceived stimuli seem to rise from an underside of consciousness and bodily sensation. [...] Looking at a leaf while in that state, I easily feel myself as part of the leaf, and I think this is a biological as well as a psychic perception. [...]

In the 24th session for February 10, 1964, Seth explained how a recent vision I’d had, involving a ladderlike series of heads opening and closing their silent mouths, had really been my attempt to cast inner data into a more familiar outer-sense kind of perception. [...] After my initial unease over this new type of experience, I found it most intriguing; I’ve had my own little adventures embodying that feeling perception of sound ever since. [...]

[...] Seth or Seth Two — obviously, when either of those qualities combine with her massive perceptions, then Jane knows a multifaceted trance state. [...]

(Jane’s expressions of long sound and her sensations of massiveness are of course directly related to the multidimensional neurological activity, the “sidepools” of consciousness, that she described in Appendix 4 of Volume 1. Seth also mentioned neurological pulses and/or speeds in various sessions in Volume 1. In the opening delivery for Session 686, for example, see his information on our species’ selection of one “official” series of neurological pulses for physical reality, and, at 12:19 A.M., his remarks on prejudiced perception. [...]

[...] If you become proficient in the use of the third Inner Sense [perception of past, present, and future] when cognition is more or less spontaneous, then you can utilize the conceptual sense with more freedom. [...]

If she hadn’t mentioned her visit to Lib’s, and the paintings, Rob and I never would have realized that anything beyond usual perception was operating in our little discussion. [...]

[...] What cross-currents of perception operate? [...]

[...] Then later that night, relaxed, sitting on the bed, somehow those inner perceptions (of mine) would have surfaced … but without revealing their source. [...]

[...] And how many times do we do this, invisibly winding such data into the fabric of our perceptions, reacting to it without even realizing it?

[...] This resulted in her achieving a certain state of relaxed awareness, where perceptions and feelings were held in ideal balance.

[...] Odors therefore have a visual reality, and, as you know, visual data can also be perceived in terms of other sense perceptions.

[...] If you are perceptive enough, you can sometimes catch yourselves encountering such states of reality in which nothing appears and no signs of any consciousness outside of your own is apparent.

In the dream state, animals, men, and plants merge their realities to some extent so that information belonging to one species is transferred to others in an inner communication and perception otherwise unknown in your world.

[...] But here is a creative mixture: the perceptive organizations from which prosaically tuned conscious life emerges. [...]

[...] But they are also formed equally by your dreaming experience, by the learning and knowledge and encounters that occur when many would tell you that you are beyond legitimate perception. [...]

[...] Communication, perception, and environment can hardly be separated. [...]

The fact that this does occur does show that the systems of perception are not basically biologically a form of overall structure however, but learned secondary responses. It is disturbing to the whole physical system however to break up the strong pattern of perception. [...]

[...] The organizational structure of perception can indeed be broken up, as recent LSD experiments certainly show. [...]

[...] The experience gained does become a part of the physical structure, but there is no massive disorganization of perception, since the ego agrees to step aside momentarily.

It is not bombarded as with drug experiments, and forced to experience chaotic and frightening perceptions that can literally terrify it into complete disorder. [...]

[...] If you want to sense the motion of your psyche, it is perhaps easiest to imagine a situation either in the past or the future, for this automatically moves your mental sense-perceptions in a new way.

[...] It will to some extent break apart the rigid interlocking of your perception into reality as you have learned how to perceive it. [...]

[...] Again, the powers of the brain come from the mind, so while you learn to center your consciousness in your body — and necessarily so — nevertheless your inner perceptions roam a far greater range. [...]

[...] Because there is always action within action, and because of the three dilemmas of which we have spoken earlier, the new personalities projected outward into other fields of perception, or other moment points, these other personalities in turn create new ones, and the cycle is again repeated.

[...] It is speeded up or slowed down according to the scope of perception.

[...] It cannot be stressed too strongly that experience within the self can lead to at least some understanding of the nature of action in its pure form, for within your physical universe action is to some extent frozen, insofar as your perceptions of it are concerned.

[...] The same moment points may simultaneously be experienced in an entirely different fashion, and to a different set of perceptions. [...]

[...] They can almost be considered as extra perceptive mechanisms that exist apart from the physical one. [...]

[...] I want you then to translate the sound of the voice into intensities of different kinds of perception. [...]

[...] Early in our sessions Seth described what he calls the Inner Senses—inner methods of perception that expand normal consciousness and allow us to become aware of our own multidimensional existence. [...]

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

[...] To perceive other realities, we have to use the Inner Senses—methods of perception that belong to the inner self and operate whether or not we have a physical form. [...]

[...] It’s like shifting gears, so that perception happens in a different context. [...]