“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Here I started to feel the microscopic nature of our planet, comparatively speaking; a shrinking a momentary sense of desolation that was my own, I think; there was no attempt to deny integrity or uniqueness of physical life; but only to express... [...] “I” could sense it about to happen. [...]

[...] If this would be called hallucinatory by psychologists, then of course far more than vision was involved; the massive quality was definitely sensed directly and vividly. Objects were actually sensed as shapes and forms of volume and weight (?) not sure of weight. [...]

[...] But I broke in, before the onrush of sensations the last time; sensing that they were about to occur, so obviously I had learned from the first episode.

You must perceive what you do of reality through your physical senses, but your physical senses distort reality. [...] The physical senses can only perceive reality a little bit at a time, and so it seems to you that one moment exists, and is gone forever, and the next moment comes, and like the one before it disappears. [...]

China and Egypt, lives in various religious capacities, however, without the necessary sense of responsibility. [...] Only in this existence is there finally some understanding, and a growing sense of responsibility. [...]

[...] Time as you experience it is an illusion caused by your own physical senses. Your physical senses force you to perceive action in certain terms, but this is not the nature of action.

When I tell you that you lived for example in 1936, I say this because it makes sense to you now; but you live all of your reincarnations at once. [...]

The book was a first attempt in forming a definite pattern of the material that he was receiving from the inner senses. [...] Energy is received by the mind through the inner senses and transformed by use of mental enzymes into camouflage patterns.

[...] It is however a connective, a portion of one of the inner senses, which we will call for convenience the second inner sense.

[...] The outer senses will not help man to achieve the inner purpose which drives him. Empathy is an outer materialization, very superficial, of the first inner sense which we have discussed so briefly.

[...] This requirement for fullest use of capabilities has nothing to do with opportunity in the social sense, although of course the particular social framework will have much to do with the particular development of certain abilities.

[...] The physical senses serve to blot out more aspects of reality than they allow you to perceive … yet, in many inner explorations you will automatically translate experience into terms that the senses can use. [...]

The sentence is really meaningless, however, because the physical senses are themselves camouflage. [...] It is only the inner senses that will allow you to perceive under these circumstances. [...]

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Projections as Strange Sense Experiences

Here, rely on common sense. [...]

[...] What are now your five senses were once sense mechanisms or possibilities, existing through the entire surface of any individual cell.

[...] The individual cells are the first animals possessing innate awareness of their environment with rudimentary sense mechanisms, to your way of thinking.

[...] Indeed the ego is almost entirely formed by the physical senses method of perception. [...]

[...] They are your memory banks in a most profound sense.

(Ruburt.) “I sense somebody beyond that (wheat field) coming from the village that we talked about earlier; and I sense that you do not want to know that they are there.”

[...] The sense of resistance has to do with the neurosis picked up in that time. [...]

[...] Do you sense anybody beyond that?”

I want you, therefore, one by one, to open the inner senses and to direct them along these lines. [...] In fact it will help you, for even hidden within the flesh are mechanisms that [will] help the inner senses [to] operate even in this environment. And so one by one, the inner senses can begin to operate so that what you see can become clear, and what you hear can become vocal and clear and strong. [...]

[...] The inner senses, however, are free. [...]

[...] I want you to realize that you are indeed highly perceptive, that around you and about you in all directions the inner senses reach. [...]

From this viewpoint you can sense the other probabilities that reach outward from yourself like rays of light. [...]

It may outrage your intellect, and the evidence of your physical senses may shout that it is untrue, yet a belief in good without a belief in evil is actually highly realistic, since in physical life it will keep your body healthier, keep you psychologically free of many fears and mental difficulties, and bring you a feeling of ease and spontaneity in which the development of your abilities can be better fulfilled. [...] I understand that the concept does indeed offend your intellect, and that your senses seem to deny it. Yet you should already realize that your senses tell you many things, which are not true; and I tell you that your physical senses perceive a reality that is a result of your beliefs.

In the Hades conditions, the individuals come somewhat more quickly to their senses. [...]

[...] In trying to make sense in its terms of physical existence, the intellect has set up these opposing factors. [...]

There are some individuals who have never experienced during physical life that sense of harmony and oneness in which such opposing factors merge. [...]

The physical constitution of the body follows your beliefs, and so all of its sense data will faithfully mirror the beliefs that direct its activity. In certain terms hypnosis is simply an exercise in the alteration of beliefs, and only too clearly shows that sense experience follows expectations.

The “you” that you presently conceive yourself to be represents the emergence into physical experience of but one probable state of your being, who then directs corporeal life and “frames” and defines all sense data. [...]

In surface terms the sense of “I” that you possess is the result of constantly emerging probable identities, given continuity in time through the physical apparatus of the body with its built-in intervals of nerve reaction. [...]

In such a way the cells retain their memory, though you do not perceive it, and the body is aware of so-called future occurrences, though as a rule you do not consciously sense this. [...]

As temperatures in various depths of ocean change, and as even the color of the water and of the flora and fauna change, so too in our value climate there are quality changes, and senses equipped to project and perceive the changes. There are distortions because of the limitations of the outer senses, but the inner senses¹ do not distort. The inner senses inhabit directly the atmosphere of our value climate; they see through the ever-varying camouflage (physical) patterns, and the flux and flow of apparent change. [...]

[...] Nothing but good sense prevents me.

[...] Your senses can only see your own kind of life.

[...] Your science may discover ways of finding life that your senses alone cannot find.

(“According to Jane, the senses create the physical world. [...]

It goes without saying then that the soul does not require a physical body for purposes of perception; that perception is not dependent upon physical senses; that experience continues whether or not you are in this life or another; and also that the soul’s basic methods of perception are also operating within you now even as you read this book. It also follows that your experience within the physical system is dependent upon a physical form and physical senses — again, because these interpret reality and translate it into physical data. It also follows that some hints of the soul’s direct experience can be gained by momentarily switching the physical senses off — by refusing to use them as perceptors, and falling back upon other methods. [...]

Now it is difficult to explain to you how direct experience actually works, for it exists — a total field of perception, innocent of the physical clues such as color, size, weight, and sense, with which your physical perceptions are clothed.

Now, each event of which you are aware is already a translation of an inner event, a psychic or mental event that is perceived by the soul directly, but translated by the physically oriented portions of the self into physical sense terms.

[...] Portions of it are retained as “past” physical sense data, but the whole experience returns to its initial direct state.

[...] When you consider survival after death, for instance, you imagine all the senses fully operating, though perhaps in a nonphysical body. [...] Yet in some dream situations you enter a state of awareness quite divorced from that kind of sense data. [...]

(9:27.) In your daily life you may suddenly know something without knowing how you know, without being aware of any particular image or sense impression. [...] This kind of activity approaches the sort of knowing of your own consciousness when it is uninvolved with any kind of ordinary sense stimuli. [...]

[...] Facts are only accepted fiction, of course, but the ideas must make sense and fit into the accepted “story.”

The orientation is that of sense data lived most vividly, and yet, again, at an opaque angle. [...]

As your own body senses temperature changes, it also senses the psychic charge, not only of other individuals, but of plant and vegetative matter. Your tree builds up a composite of sensations of this sort, sensing not the physical dimensions of a material object, whatever it is, but the vital psychic formation within and about it.

Size is sensed by a tree, however, perhaps because of its inherent concern with height. The table around which Ruburt walks senses Ruburt, even as he senses it. [...]

“Oh, that’s what the sense of outrage is about,” Rob said. [...]

[...] However, in other ways, the experiences of the tree are extremely deep, dealing with the inner senses which are … also properties of treedom.

Most of your experience happens directly, where senses, imagination, motion and physical actuality meet. In dreams, however, you often feel as if you are in another location entirely, and all of your senses seem pivoted in that location. [...]

Children then apply their imaginations more vividly, and even utilize all of their senses at certain times, to follow or reinforce those pictures that imagination paints. [...]

[...] When the child is playing, its sense of joy or anger or danger is very strongly felt. [...]

Your own attitude was partially set by your father’s innate and quite strong sense of independence. [...] You would have felt freer had you tried to freelance; for freelancing, while it would have produced long range its own problems would have allowed you a greater sense of freedom.

[...] Your having a job made sense to you therefore for these reasons, more so than it did to Ruburt, who had no such countering influences. [...]

The entire environment concerning your brothers’ homes, and the implications, always upset Ruburt, for he sensed that influence.

[...] The problems that beset you were so aggravating precisely because in a sense they were not your natural set of problems. [...]

[...] For the egotistical self it will be a nonfact and the physical senses will of course find no sense data to confirm reincarnation.

[...] This intensity brings forth the corresponding physical materialization which the senses then perceive, and the circle becomes complete.

[...] These are observed by the physical senses of yourself and others. [...]

[...] The rubbing expressed this feeling from you, and then acted directly on a sense-data level which both of you needed at the time to confirm what was an inner experience.

[...] When it becomes swept up in a strong emotion it seems to lose itself; there is unity, then, but no sense of apartness. When it most vigorously maintains its sense of individuality, it is no longer aware of unity-with.

[...] It is the product of an inner consciousness with far more sense of identity and purpose than the daily ego. [...]

[...] This data is presented to it in a highly specialized manner, usually in terms of information picked up by the physical senses.

[...] They appear fairly permanent to the physical senses. [...]

[...] That makes sense. [...] That does not make sense in terms of logical thought or language, for in the last example cause and effect would exist simultaneously — or worse, the effect would exist before the cause.

You are aware of pressure through touch, for instance, but in another version of that sense entirely, the cells react to air pressure. [...]

[...] Events can be considered in the same fashion, as psychological sentences put together from the alphabet of the senses — experienced sentences that are lived instead of written, formed into perceived history instead of just being penned, for example, into a book about history.

[...] There is a language of the senses, however, that gives you biological perception, experience, and communication. [...]

[...] It is a sense of powerlessness that also causes nations to initiate wars. This has little to do with their “actual” world situation or with the power that others might assign to them, but to an overall sense of powerlessness — even, sometimes, regardless of world dominance.

[...] Regardless of what you have been told, hatred does not initiate strong violence. As covered earlier in this book, the outbreak of violence is often the result of a built-in sense of powerlessness. [...]

[...] The “luxury” of expressing emotion even in exaggerated form was suddenly denied them, and the sense of powerlessness grew by contrast.

In a way I am sorry that this is not the place to discuss the Second World War (1939–45), for it was also the result of a sense of powerlessness which then erupted into a mass blood bath on a grand scale. [...]