“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

To some important degree, cells possess curiosity, an impetus toward action, a sense of their own balance, and a sense of being individual while being, for example, a part of a tissue or an organ. [...]

In highly complicated cellular structures like yourselves (pause), with your unique mental properties, you end up with a vital inborn sense of shape and form. The ability to draw is a natural outgrowth of this sensing of shape, this curiosity of form. [...]

[...] That intense focus that united belief systems, that tension between a sensed subjective world and the physical one, and the rarity of images to be found elsewhere, brought art into that great flowering.

[...] Man’s sense of inquiry led him, then, to begin to paint more natural portraits and images. [...]

Ruburt’s sense of worth came from his writing self. [...] It made him then superior, and effectively hid the other sense of worthlessness.

[...] His defiance was finally aroused, a sense of personal worth rushed to the surface, a sense of independence, the feeling “Well if you wanted to leave him go ahead,” all of which released some pressure. [...]

Now you were drawn to him because you sensed precisely that deep love of his, and needed it to add to your own vitality and substance. [...]

[...] It is good sense. [...]

For one thing, again, almost all situations, including the most drastic, can be changed for the better to some extent, and the very attempt to do so can increase a person’s sense of control over his or her own circumstances. This does not mean that those adverse situations can be changed overnight in usual terms (though ideally that is also possible), but that the sense of control over one’s life encourages all of the mental and physical healing properties.

(It also arouses my sense of irony and dismay — for the nurses who told Jane such things are presumably in better health than she is. [...]

In one way or another, your creative abilities have always sustained you, at least with subconscious knowledge, and with a sense of the greater creative capacities always present within you. (Long pause.) You have always sensed more than you knew, both of you, so in that area Framework 2 has represented a natural affiliation with your conscious selves. [...]

[...] Now whenever I sense a conflict arising, I do as I’d figured out—and as Seth himself suggested recently: I ask the advice of the first man; what would he do in these situations? [...]

^* Inner vibrational touch is one of our Inner Senses. [...] To paraphrase: Using this sense, an observer standing on a typical street would feel the experience of being anything he chose within his field of notice: people, trees, insects, blades of grass. [...] This sense is like empathy, but much more vital.

I would like here to discuss a fact about which we have spoken briefly in the past; that is, that the inner world cannot be examined with the outer senses, that indeed the main purpose of the outer senses is the interpretation of the outer or camouflage existence.

The outer senses as you know are themselves camouflage constructions, specific tools formed for a specific reason to manipulate camouflage reality. [...]

[...] Therefore since dreams are manifestations of inner reality, they cannot be interpreted or investigated with any success through the use of the outer senses.

They must be interpreted instead through the use of those inner senses of which I have spoken, for these are the basic tools of the inner self. [...]

[...] Realizing this helps us keep a sense of humor.

(10:11.) When one has been born and has died many times, expecting extinction with each death, and when this experience is followed by the realization that existence still continues, then a sense of the divine comedy enters in.

We enjoy a sense of play that is highly spontaneous, and yet I suppose you would call it responsible play. [...]

[...] My material must be presented in such a way that it makes sense in the context in which the pupil understands reality, particularly in the early stages. [...]

The outer senses cannot perceive the unity. The outer senses can only perceive the apparent diversity within the physical system alone, for the outer senses do not perceive directly any other system but the physical one.

The inner senses can be thought of as transformers, where various kinds of data is sent to proper channels within the personality, channels which bypass ordinary physical channels. [...]

[...] You create outer senses to perceive the appearances, and so what you perceive through the outer senses seems logical indeed. [...]

[...] You will perhaps recognize a certain similarity between this concept and the Christian concept of a Trinity, except that the Trinity concept, while hinting at diversity within prime unity, was nevertheless distorted by man’s own sense of his own adopted and unfortunate delusion of duality.

As you know, inner data must be perceived through the inner senses. [...]

[...] This certainly involved strains and stresses as well as rewards: but none that couldn’t be resolved with a sense of humor and some common sense. [...]

[...] If we could keep our attention on these past events and still concentrate on the present ones simultaneously, then our sense of present time would be immeasurably enlarged.

[...] It also supposes that all knowledge comes to us through the physical senses. [...]

[...] We do have access to information that does not come through the physical senses. [...]

It is true that basically there is no death, but this cannot be used as an excuse within your sense-system. [...]

You will have to work out these problems in sense data. [...]

[...] Then with your physical senses, you are perceiving that which you have already so created.

[...] It is also highly distorted, for your physical senses are lovely liars that betray you constantly. [...]

[...] Through being made aware of these facts, the exterior ego can begin to feel a quicker sense of support and nourishment. [...]

[...] The inner ego (long pause) draws instant and continuous support from the universal consciousness, and the more the exterior ego keeps that fact in mind, the greater its own sense of stability, safety, and self-esteem.

[...] There are indeed two different kinds of upward-walking mammals, much like your own species, but much larger, and with infinitely keener senses. [...]

These creatures do indeed remember, but their remembering operates extremely rapidly — a kind of almost instantaneous deduction that comes as sense data is interpreted. [...]

[...] Those senses possess their own variances, so that without any word such as “now” or “then,” the creatures are able to know quite accurately how many living creatures are in the vicinity, how long they have been there (pause) — and their experience with time is one that follows the seasons in such a way that they have formed a wordless, fairly accurate picture of the world, including navigational direction.

[...] The same feelings and beliefs should also ideally (underlined) help you die with a sense of safety, support and assurance. While these inbred psychological supports never leave you entirely, they are often diminished by beliefs encountered later in life, that serve to undermine the individual’s sense of safety and well-being.

[...] Even in births that are thought of (underlined) as not “normal,” there is on the infant’s part a sense of discovery and joy.

To some extent tonight’s relatively brief session should remove senses of urgency on your parts, or of self-criticism, that make you question when or how can you “learn to make” the magical approach work in any specific way—that is, why can you not learn to make the approach work in, say, helping Ruburt’s condition in a faster, more effective fashion? [...]

To even sense the existence of that kind of reality, however, you must already have “opened the doorway” to Framework 2, and begun to use the magical approach as your natural instinctive way of dealing with experience. [...]

[...] “Gee, that was pretty weird in some fashion,” Jane said as soon as she was out of trance, “to sense all kinds of things that were really different.” [...]

[...] He senses this subconscious need of hers however to hold him, and resents it vigorously. [...]

[...] If you can make her see this you will be able to maintain that sense of independence that is important to you. [...]

[...] The effort will be more than worth your while, but the effort must be an honest one, or she will sense the hypocrisy.

[...] They think that if they had their own supersoul they would have far better sense than Ruburt, and they would use me as if I were a magic genie. They are afraid Ruburt might go too far, and question me out of existence, for they do not understand that Ruburt’s questions, and your own, your sense of integrity, are partially responsible for a “superman” rather than a supermouse.

Often you are reacting to implied threats—either those you imagine in the future or remember from the past, so that you do not take the necessary comfort in the sense data of any given moment. [...] The imagined threats then cut down your feelings of security, adding anxieties for which the sense perceptions can directly find no reason.

Through his art, Ruburt never had that sense of fitting with the times, or of receiving its ordinary recognition. [...]

[...] This does not mean you need wear blinders—but when you are not suitably reacting to the validity of the present and immediate sense data, then to some extent you are putting on blinders of a different kind.

(Pause.) As Ruburt’s episode tonight shows, even normal sense data then achieves a kind of multidimensionality, a richness rather impossible to describe. This automatically provides a biological learning process in which the senses can be used in a freer, deeper fashion. [...]

[...] To whatever extent possible, the physical organism interprets that unity through a new mixture of sense data, so that materially the information makes sense.

[...] [See the extensive notes for the 653rd session in Chapter Thirteen, describing her various states of altered perception last April 2. In one of those intervals she’d sensed giants standing about the rim of our world.] Now, Jane said, from their massive viewpoint these observers could see “everything happening at once in our world, from California to Russia — like astronauts looking back at us….”

[...] You may sense that you are in danger of swerving from your purpose, yet for other reasons feel strongly inclined to do so. [...]

[...] Jane sensed her grandfather’s feeling of identification with the rest of nature, however, and since as a young child she had not yet developed a strong ego personality, she felt no sense of rejection as did, for example, the other members of the family. [...]

[...] She was simply herself, and her sense of self, with her individual abilities and appreciation of the world she created and reacted to, grew in a very natural manner as she matured. [...]

[...] She sensed his deep and personal inner awareness. [...]

(Even so, through her school years Jane didn’t particularly talk about her thoughts, or the abilities she sensed within herself — not with her mother, the priests she came to know well [and who didn’t approve in any case if she carried her religious devotion, her mysticism, “too far”], or even with her grandfather. [...]

The inner senses can and do perceive this reality in an undistorted fashion. [...] It can only translate and perceive what seems to be the evidence of the physical senses. [...]

[...] As I said earlier, sense data does have a reality, but this reality does not reside in an object. [...]

[...] There is something within that exists independently, and whose reality you perceive in a highly distorted fashion, through the use of the outer senses.

[...] It perceives the uncamouflaged reality of sense data, or its sees the energy that exists. [...]