“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

His senses are extremely acute, his inner senses perfectly attuned. Even now he senses my presence. [...]

[...] You cannot of course experience the cat’s sense of time, but you can come closer to understanding his sense of time than he could ever come in understanding yours.

[...] It follows that I could not travel to higher planes than my own, where more acute senses than mine would instantly perceive me. [...] Even with your limited senses you would perceive my presence, though my plane is further developed than yours.

Your cat is indeed a fragment, and he does sense me at times.

[...] The inner senses pick up this data directly, you see, as in last Friday’s episode. Some translation must occur if you are to become aware consciously of such material, or if it is to impress the physical senses at all.

[...] The experience is perceived simultaneously by the inner senses, but it will be translated in terms of physical time.

[...] However, because of your own basic assumptions such experiences, perceived by the inner senses, are played back in such a manner that a traveling through intensities results in a journey through time within your own dimension.

There is always a time scramble, for the inner senses deal with basic data in the spacious present. [...]

[...] In some ways, your dream world gives you a closer experience with basic inner reality than does your waking world, where the Inner Senses are so shielded from your awareness.”

We’ve had very little conscious experience with this Inner Sense. [...]

[...] I am saying, therefore that even insects have an esthetic sense, and again, that each creature, and each plant, or natural entity, has its own sense of value fulfillment, seeking the greatest possible fulfillment and extension of its own innate abilities.

This sense of value fulfillment, once more, benefits not only the individual, but its species and all other species. [...]

Each person can also intrinsically sense the direction in which he or she is most inclined. [...]

The energy personality who desires to be materialized upon your plane, himself becomes part of this plane through the use of the inner senses. Through a process of diffusion—and this incidentally is our ninth inner sense—the energy personality first diffuses himself into many parts. [...]

[...] I am sorry to put you off, but tonight was an excellent night to give you the material we have covered; and I want to explain your experiences rather thoroughly, and also use them to delve further into our study of the inner senses. [...] I told you that direct experience through the inner senses would be extremely vivid, and now you can realize this for yourself.

[...] This is oftentimes the result of value fulfillment, in which case all the given possibilities are bound to emerge, but each emergence is in the truest sense a creation.

Creation occurs, again, most often through value fulfillment, which exists in a dimension having nothing to do with your space and time; and in the deepest sense creation as a whole, originally, if you’ll excuse the term, had nothing to do with either your space or your time, and the so-called birth of your known outer universe came long after in the story of creation and value fulfillment.

(More inner-sense delineations are to come, according to Seth. With a list of the above categories in mind however, it is clear which senses and laws apply to the material in the sessions following, up until now. I have often meant to remind Seth to mention the specific senses along with the material under discussion but have not done so.

The inner senses are connected then to the physical mechanism. Sometimes inner perceptions may be touched off as a result of stimuli received through the outer senses. [...]

(Seth began talking about the inner senses almost as soon as the sessions began, in December of 1963. [...] By the 60th session he had gone into some detail on 9 inner senses, 11 basic laws of the inner universe, and 3 properties of physical matter, along with the many other subjects included in the sessions. [...]

We have not discussed the inner senses in some time.

5. “Disentanglement” immediately reminded me of the inner senses — those qualities and abilities which the personality uses to apprehend its physical (or camouflage) world. Seth began describing the inner senses early in 1964. [...] Jane devoted Chapter 19 of The Seth Material to the inner senses.

A note: Just as he periodically reminds us of his material-to-come on physical aging and out-of-body states (see Note 4, above), Seth mentions that there are more inner senses he’ll tell us about someday — then adds that many of them are so far removed from reality as we understand it that our comprehension will be intellectual at best; in such cases we won’t be able to identify with them emotionally. And then other groups of inner senses, Seth continues, are truly “beyond verbalization.”

[...] That inner world is your only real connection with the exterior events, and the objective details make sense only because of the subjectivity that gave them birth.⁶

[...] Using the same kind of reasoning, you are apt to judge the historic past of your species in very limited terms, and to overlook great dues in your history because they seem to make no sense.

[...] The Something is subjective, but its effects have appeared so beautifully and effectively in physical terms, that the physical changes themselves add to the subjective joy, relief, and sense of direction.

[...] Spiritual and (psychic) sense of joy, thankfulness, release.

[...] The sense of contact most … undeniably there. [...]

These steps seem very obvious, and perhaps too easy — but they will bring an immediate sense of ease and a peace of mind while your inner reserves are being released and activated. I have mentioned these steps many times, because they are so vital in clearing the conscious mind, and bringing some sense of relief to the frightened ego.

[...] Try to become as aware as you can of present sense-data — all of it. [...] This procedure will immediately lessen the pressure of the problem itself, whatever it is, and give you a sense of refreshment.

[...] It would provide variety and a sense of accomplishment aside from any other more personal material Seth may give. [...]

[...] Individuals born into your time do not feel, say, the same sense of familiarity with the religious belief systems of past lives. (Pause.) Your age requires a greater sense of freedom and curiosity. [...] This provides the necessary sense of safety and the sense of definition in which the child can safely use its explorative abilities. [...]

(But tonight she maintained that she’d never mentioned the subject of reincarnation in her paper, and that she hadn’t meant reincarnation in that sense at all. [...]

Briefly—as mentioned—the child has a great sense of curiosity and wonder. [...]

Such bonding provides a sense of safety and focus. [...]

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

[...] In the deepest sense (pause), this inner self is organized about its primary aspect, which is creativity. [...]

As Seth continued to explain the inner sense and the unseen reality beneath the objective world that all of us know, I began to understand a little of my situation. And, of course, Rob and I both began to experiment with the inner senses. [...] The next session cleared up several points I had been wondering about and gave us several clues as to how the inner senses could be used. [...]

The inner senses are actually the channels through which the entire composition of any plane is appreciated and maintained. [...] The inner senses, then, are the means. [...] These diverse materials, again, are only camouflage formed by the inner senses upon the ‘material’ itself.

[...] In this state the attention is focused inward rather than outward, and it is the inner rather than the outer senses that are being exercised. [...] Its inner senses were focused in my direction.

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[...] It has to do with the dance of consciousness that is within you and with the sense of spiritual adventure that is within your hearts. [...] It is a sense of joy and makes all creativity possible. [...]

[...] Initially and basically perception is not dependent upon your senses. [...]

[...] They live in an entirely different sense universe.

Now were I to communicate with someone in that system, I would have to affect their sense mechanisms, and therefore the material would be delivered in a way, again, that would seem to distort it, and yet without the method it could not be given.

[...] The ego is firmly attached to the use of the physical senses, however. [...]

[...] What you had — what you still have, though you are not nearly as aware of it — was an excellent give-and-take between the inner and outer senses. Through chanting, dancing, playacting, painting, story-telling, man spontaneously translated inner sense data into physical actualization. The physical senses only present you with clues as to your own sensitivities.

[...] He puts his sciences and religions, his languages, together in multitudinous ways, but there must always be a translation of inner information outward to the world of sense. [...]

[...] You may “speak” through art or music, through trance activities, but you will specialize in the use of the inner senses, and in translating the inner knowledge of the species, bringing it to whatever level of ordinary consciousness that is considered the official one.

[...] Not that I had any sense of time in the session. [...]

In one of our earliest sessions I told you that trees have consciousness, and that consciousness resided within all things, as the plants within this room to some extent are aware of you, and the happenings here, can sense strangers, and can strongly sense emotional and psychic atmospheres, to which they do indeed react. [...]

[...] You can indeed then leave your body while still conscious, and arrive so to speak with your senses about you. [...]

The full personality consciousness indeed places an additional strain upon what you may call the overall body consciousness, and prolongs the sense of pain connected with that body consciousness. [...]

[...] You and Ruburt both know subconsciously, and you have begun to sense the implications on a conscious level, but barely. [...]

[...] It has to do with the dance of consciousness that is within you, and with the sense of spiritual adventure that is within your hearts.

[...] It is a sense of joy that makes all creativity probable.

[...] You can understand in fact the way in which sense images are organized much more clearly by studying instances where sense images exist without an actual object representing them in the physical universe. This shows that sense impressions are independent, you see, of objects.

[...] In all cases, if the ego consciousness is to be reached, some sense imagery is necessary.

Sense images are built up, you see, in the same manner whether or not you are trying to perceive an apple, a star, or a human being. [...]

[...] This may confound what common sense may tell you. [...]

[...] Some, but not all, cases of insanity represent the personality’s inability to handle a particular problem, while at the same time it refuses to obey the orders from the inner senses to change course. On such occasions data from past lives rushes up or through the inner senses. [...]

[...] I have told you that communication between a present personality and the entity is carried on by means of the inner senses, and I have told you that in these sessions you use the inner senses. [...]

[...] Sensing of course the bitterness that he felt because she was not a boy—incidentally this is a strong subconscious motive—this caused her to bear him three sons to help allay his bitterness. [...]

[...] What happens here is that the subconscious communicates with the entity through the inner senses, to the effect that the present personality is not strong enough to handle the problem.

[...] The senses are indeed often used by the inner self as a constant method of acquainting it with circumstances pertinent to the survival and interests of the physical body, but the inner self is not entirely dependent on them for its entire data by any means. The mind can bypass the senses, and receive its data in a more direct manner, translating what it perceives as automatically as it translates sensual data.

It makes no difference basically, underlined, whether or not the sense data is real in your terms or not. [...] In the case of the odor smelled in a dream, the mind experiences, and then the experience is interpreted precisely as if the senses had been used to perceive it. [...]

[...] 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.

[...] The important fact is, in both cases, that information is received by an individual that does not come through recognized sense systems.