“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It is simply the only reality that you perceive with the physical senses. In order to perceive other realities, you must therefore switch from your outer senses to the inner senses, for the inner senses are clearer, and are equipped to perceive action and reality as it exists independently of the distortions given to it by the physical senses.

With your outer senses, you perceive but the camouflage physical reality which the physical senses are equipped to perceive. [...]

And that which you have constructed, you then respond to through the outer senses, and you react to what you have subconsciously created. [...]

[...] For each of you, including Ruburt, create and project your own image of him, and each of you perceive with your physical senses only that image of him which you have individually created.

[...] Material from the inner senses is very seldom experienced by the conscious mind in its pure condition. What you get is a hasty twisting of channel, a rather inept and usually somewhat disastrous attempt to pick up this material with the outer senses.

[...] Any such inner communications are basically the same in that they are picked up by the inner senses, whether or not the information is received as a telepathic communication or in terms of clairvoyance. [...]

[...] After death there is no instant struggle, where birth on your plane involves a pressing, agonizing attempt to get one’s bearings, and learn new patterns of behavior, when there is no time in your sense really to make any mistakes at all. [...]

I have mentioned that the emotions, if you will forgive me, are the tail end of the inner senses. [...]

Through the inner senses, therefore, some enlightenment can be received as to both the actual existence of dimensions that the physical self cannot perceive; and also through the inner senses, a sense of confidence and continuity can be achieved through the inner self’s knowledge of its freedom.

The subconscious has great and rather astounding effect in dimensions other than your own, and it sends vivid projections into these other perspectives, that appear there and are in their turn perceived in distorting manner by the outward camouflage senses of those inhabitants. And yet their inner senses give them hints of your reality.

[...] No definite thoughts came to her about the sense of unease, and she had difficulty putting it into words.

It is therefore theoretically possible for you to see the world through a frog’s eye, or a bird’s or an ant’s. We are speaking here of physical senses. The inner self has also latent inner senses beside the ones that it normally uses while the consciousness is tuned into a particular camouflage system.

[...] I took great pleasure in wiggling them about, shaking them up and down, enjoying the marvelous sense of freedom and lightness they possessed. [...]

[...] The time sense outside the body can be quite different than the body’s. You knew that with one successful experience you would be much more free, and so you chose the best of circumstances.

[...] In Chapter Nineteen of The Seth Material you gave a list of the inner senses. [...]

(Very long pause.) As his abilities grew, however, of course he sensed the outlines of other realities, the glimmerings of other worlds. He sensed these cousins of consciousness in one way or another—these environments that seemed real but not real, these further extensions of possible experience, and he decided that he must be very cautious: he must be prudent (long pause), he must take his time, he must range but carefully—and certainly to some extent such feelings cut down upon his spontaneity. [...]

Try to experience all of your present sense data as fully as you can. [...] You experience an immediate sense of power because your abilities are directed to the fullest of their capacities. [...]

[...] Instead, the trick is to view the contents of the world in different fashions, to free your physical senses from the restraints that your mental conventions have placed upon them.

[...] Here, simple daydreaming represents a slight shift of awareness out of directly given sense data.

You will not learn it by trying to escape your own reality, or by attempting to dull your senses. [...]

[...] These methods may seem to lead to great distortions, particularly in contrast with the sensed possibilities of development. [...] When the new sensed reality is strong enough to provide not only greater comprehensions but also to construct a new framework, then the old framework is seen as limiting, and discarded.

What I am saying will make greater sense when you read his paper. [...]

[...] Its consciousness spreads out to include all that it perceives, while still retaining a sense of its own singularity. [...]

To some extent, particularly at certain levels, that participation brings about a far greater sense of sympathy and power than adults ever realize, particularly in your cultural times. [...]

[...] It is only when the us-ness of the self begins to fade that a sense of relative personal helplessness begins to mar the picture of subjective experience. [...]

My senses were still very acute — vision … and hearing. [...] I felt completely relaxed and still my senses were sharp and clear as never before. [...]

[...] Obviously, they weren’t intruders in the usual sense, and they were not at all threatening. Their presence was a complete impossibility, yet I couldn’t deny the evidence of my senses.

In a sense, any color or quality of that nature could be considered a mental enzyme. [...]

[...] Rob always enjoyed Seth’s sense of humor, and he was still smiling at the last remark when I came out of trance. [...]

Through his inner senses however, he sensed your energetic support. [...]

[...] The shoddy construction, never perceived at all by the outer senses, is registered by the inner senses.

New senses are developed to perceive new creations. [...]

These constructions exist definitely in terms of atomic structure, but of such different densities and speeds that you are unaware of them though they are perceived by the inner senses, and utilized by the subconscious and inner self as a very important reality.

Now I give you all again those blessings that are mine to give, and I am here with you very clearly this evening so that you should be able rather vividly to sense my reality, and in sensing my reality to sense that greater reality of your own. [...]

Now you hear the words, but I am behind the words and highly creative activities must go on on both our parts, so that my thoughts can be translated into words that will make meaning and sense to you. [...]

The nature of All That Is can only be sensed directly through the inner senses, or, in a weaker communication, through inspiration or intuition. [...]

(10:01.) From any given point of your existence, however, you can glimpse other probable realities, and sense the reverberations of probable actions beneath those physical decisions that you make. [...]

Ideas that you have entertained and not used may be picked up in this same manner by other probable you’s. Each of these probable selves consider themselves the real you, of course, and to any one of them you would be the probable self; but through the inner senses all of you are aware of your part in this gestalt.

[...] Those belonged to the unsafe universe, and made perfect sense there—and there they still do. When you change your affiliation and find yourself now and then encountering such feelings; and they are always one way or another feelings of insecurity—then admit to yourself that while they made sense in the unsafe universe, they do not belong in the safe one. Literally, such feelings make no sense in a safe universe. [...]

Ruburt’s symptoms made sense in an unsafe universe. [...] Your feelings about Prentice made sense in an unsafe universe, where you had to protect the excellence of your vision from incompetence. [...]

[...] Your pendulum will give you the specific reasons for any difficulties, but behind these ever-changing reasons is always the sense of insecurity you feel when you believe the universe is against you to whatever degree. [...]

I use words because presently they make sense to you but hopefully behind the words that I speak, you sense the inner vitality which has no need for them and hopefully listening to me, you sense, if only dimly, the wisdom of the self within each of you that is triumphant in its own wisdom, its own spontaneous freewheeling wisdom upon which your intellect rests. [...]

[...] Now your physical perceptions operating alone are often responsible for these doubts for you think you are all that you can see of yourselves, or you think your life is all that you presently perceive of it, and so if you trust in your physical senses alone then you must, indeed, be filled with doubts for you know, instinctively, that you are more than the self that you are presently able to materialize or to give expression to. [...]

Now when you begin to sense the interior invisible self then in physical terms you begin to act upon what you call faith. [...]

It is indeed, on a different level quite legitimate and using those means available to him and adapting those characteristics which will make sense to you in this place and in this time. [...]

Seth says that the physical body and its senses are specialized equipment to allow us to live in physical reality. 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. [...] But the Inner Senses allow us to see beneath the camouflage.

[...] What Seth is saying is that each of us can reach the inner self, that the Inner Senses help us to perceive other than three-dimensional reality, and that we can get to this knowledge with determination and training. [...] The physical senses help us to perceive the exterior reality that we know. The Inner Senses let us perceive the inner ones.

[...] 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. [...]

[...] According to Seth, this involves the use of the Inner Senses, and my experiences are meant to point up the existence of these abilities not only in me, but as the latent capabilities of each personality.

Your reality is the result of a hallucination, if by this you mean that it is only the picture shown by your senses. Physically, of course, your existence is perceived through the senses. In that context corporeal life is an entranced one, with the focus of attention largely concentrated through the senses’ belief in the reality of their sensations. [...]

[...] In a sense, and a very real one, the mental image is incipient matter; and any structure so composed, combining the electromagnetic sound and light values, will automatically try to reproduce itself in physical existence, or materialization. [...]

[...] The body reacts to exterior sounds and to the stimuli brought to it by the physical senses. [...]

Consciously you react to the physical data — the noise, the squeal of brakes perhaps, the visual shock of seeing the car so close, but the entire inner reality of that scene or event is instantly “recognized” by what I refer to as your inner senses. [...]

[...] There’s a great kind of fulfilling sense of triumph, doing it, like you’re pulling stuff out of the secret nature of things. [...]

As a rule the animals have better sense. [...] The sense of power felt during such episodes is the result of repressed energy suddenly released, but the individual is always at the mercy of that energy then — submerged within it, and passively carried with it.

[...] If you believe that all such thoughts are wrong you will inhibit them and feel all the more guilty — which will generate aggressiveness against yourself and further deepen your sense of unworthiness.

[...] Any of the conditions mentioned puts you out of touch with your inner sense of balance. [...]

If it seems to you that the soul is degraded by its alliance with the flesh then you will not be able to enjoy your own sense of grace, for you will not consider it possible. [...]

[...] In the terms of which we are speaking, however, the young species utilized what I have called the “inner senses” to a far greater degree than you do. [...]

[...] The inner senses perceive directly in the same fashion. [...]

Now: Ruburt’s sense of strangeness is indeed connected with this evening’s material. [...]

[...] Neurologically he became familiar to some extent with the stuff beneath language, the inner rhythms unexpressed, and felt the odd connections that exist between words and your sense of time. [...]

[...] So his overt action also represents latent action of your own that you are not expressing because you have too much sense. Each of you should now and then try to sense your individual power, for it goes out creatively in the books. [...]

[...] You should both be able to sense that power, however, more than others, and to direct it where you want it, both together and individually.