“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] So you are greeted with a certain set of sense data. You then try to figure out what is happening from the sense data that is presented to you, but the sense data, you see, means that the event is already to some extent distorted. [...]

[...] Now, I use the word materializes because it makes sense to you but the word itself is distortive because it predisposes an appearance within matter materialization, and yet all realities, as you know, are not physical. [...]

[...] Now it is theoretically possible, for example, theoretically possible for him, or any of you, to disperse your consciousness and become a part of any object in the room or to fly apart, for example, disperse yourself out into space without leaving your sense of identity. [...]

Not only because you have grown beyond that point but because in yourself you sensed still some sympathy toward the beliefs. [...]

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

[...] Without the camouflage, you see, you would perceive nothing using the physical senses.

[...] All of the experience an artist has gained is in any given painting, not physically perceived, but strongly perceived by the inner senses.

[...] When man “awakened” in his physical body, however, and specialized in the use of its senses, he no longer perceived the released dream body of the slain animal running away, still cavorting on the hillside. [...] He became more and more aware of his physical senses, however: Some things were definitely pleasant and some were not. [...]

[...] He becomes fully operational in his physical body, and while awake can only sense the dream body that had earlier been so real to him. [...]

The sense of separation is, in those terms, initially almost shattering. [...]

Its sense of identity spontaneously goes beyond the change of its own form. [...]

(Seth, it seemed, occupied a space about five feet high—a “blob” of space into which I could step, just at the limit of Jane’s reach, without disturbing him or without Jane sensing me as a separate entity within Seth’s province. [...]

(Jane said she never sensed him above her—that would lead to the pyramid effect, she said. [...]

[...] They will come as you learn to use your own inner senses, and the material will explain what these inner senses are and how you can use them. [...]

[...] Any speech within your system and expression must be tinged and must be somewhat distorted in order to make sense to you. [...]

[...] You may retain sense of familiarity, if not actual memory.

(“Could this sense be brought out by hypnotism?”)

[...] But in another sense you are already Joseph and Ruburt, since the blueprint exists. [...]

This attitude is twice as limiting since it robs you of the very enjoyable and natural sense of worth that your body and mind both inherently possess—that is, overall you realize the rightness of your position. You have a natural sense of inner balance and equilibrium that is only marred by such considerations. [...]

[...] She’d had no sense of time passing, whereas at other times she might have quite a definite sense of “the psychological distance,” or time that had passed.

A person’s sense of worth became connected with the acquisition of land, though to a lesser extent, even as it had in Europe. [...]

Full and uninhibited use of even the outer senses would lead you to inner reality. [...] Full operation of inner and outer senses, you see, in your present stage of development as a race, would be blinding, as you can see in your reading of drug experiences.

You cannot for that matter perceive yourselves directly, but only through the sense apparatus which has been adopted by the self. [...]

You do not even perceive sense data with a third of the vividness of which you are capable. [...]

In most instances the full and uninhibited use, even of the outer senses, could sweep an insecure self into fragments. [...]

[...] Try to sense the mobility involved. [...]

[...] Some such remembered events will make sense to you. [...]

[...] If you are honest, many of you will sense a reluctance, for certain qualities of consciousness are brought into play that run counter to your usual conscious experience.

You might feel as if you are crossing your wires, so to speak, or stretching vaguely sensed psychic muscles. [...]

So when I told you to look where there was nothing, then I spoke because this uncamouflaged experience can be most directly perceived where nothing is perceived with the outer senses. In one sense anything that you can see or feel or touch is not real, and yet in another sense it is the nature of all reality.

[...] True knowledge is only experience, direct experience, and a matter of the inner senses.

[...] All of those questions make sense in a framework in which the dictums of one belief system—Christianity—are accepted as true, and everything that does not agree with them is accepted as falsehood. [...]

[...] It can only seem to make sense in a very limited context. [...]

(Long pause.) You are in the position of living in the ordinary world, while sensing those other fields of actuality in which that world has its existence. [...]

[...] The release of such feelings allows the Sinful Self some expression, and gives it a sense of communication so that it can indeed be reached by the understanding gained by other portions of the self—a highly important point. [...]

In either case when conditions are right, you should feel a sense of recognition, a sense of grasping a portion of the center of your own reality. [...]

[...] The same psychic directional sense can be perfected, so that as he roams over fields of experience Ruburt will know when he is on to the proper signals.

[...] Now, some of it may not make sense to mathematicians as yet in any case, but portions will.

[...] He trusts your common sense, and such a measure will insure that the habitual mood reactions are cut short.

The set of habitual patterned thoughts, then, that he recognized today, ultimately work against creativity, for they destroy the sense of being peaceful and free within the moment.

[...] In so doing he reinforces a sense of power over both inner habits and the physical environment.

[...] Both of these areas help work against the sense of powerlessness that was tied up in the troublesome beliefs.

Have a sense of humor about yourself — not a malicious one but a kindly humorous regard for yourself. [...]

New sentence: For example, many of the young believe at one time or another that their parents are omnipotent — a very handy belief that gives children a sense of security. [...]

[...] Yet in material terms they must all realize, sooner or later, not only the challenges but the other peculiar characteristics of creaturehood, in which basically no such generalized beliefs make sense.

(Pause.) Many people who write to me feel that they have unusual psychic or writing abilities, or sense an outstanding need to help others. [...]

[...] This does not confuse you, and you follow your own sense of identity without difficulty, even though you are everywhere surrounded by other individuals.

Using this as an analogy, you are a part of your psyche or your soul, dwelling within it, easily following your own sense of identity even though that psyche also contains other identities beside the one that you think of as your own. [...]

[...] The written characters make sense because of their arrangement, and precisely because they are chosen over other characters that do not appear.

To obtain knowledge consciously other than that usually available, you pay attention to the pauses, to the implied elements in language, to any felt or sensed quality upon which the recognizable experiences of life reside. [...]

[...] We perceive your present room, understanding that you consider it this indivisible reality and yet our presence was sensed. [...]

(Seth:) ...this was in your inner senses and perceiving a different kind of reality in the same way that you formed what you saw on an unconscious basis, in your terms, so you form the physical matter that forms the room on an unconscious basis. [...]

You have all been exercising your inner sense to one degree or another. [...]

[...] We lived in a beautiful, but in the sense that this world has plenty, that there was nothing there. [...] You held yourselves up and thought you were so great and inadvertently or intentionally you began to destroy us at first and then it became more of a pattern because then you sensed that your survival was hinging on it too. [...]

[...] I think maybe you’ll move to get rid of the emotions that I sense you’ve got.”

[...] They can increase or diminish your hearing, or any sense function.

[...] You will begin to use the faculty less and less, unconsciously transfer your attention to the other senses to compensate, and rely less and less upon your ears until the functions themselves do atrophy. [...]

[...] (Pause.) On the other hand you may believe that wisdom grows with age, that self-understanding brings a peace of mind not earlier known, that the keen mind is actually far better able to assess the environment, and that the physical senses are much more appreciative of all stimuli. [...]

All of this becomes very complicated because of your value judgments, which oftentimes seem to lack — if you will forgive me — all natural common sense. [...] In those cultures, such taboos make good sense. [...]

These are simple enough examples, but the man who possesses interests considered feminine by your culture, who naturally wants to enter fields of interest considered womanly, experiences drastic conflicts between his sense of personhood and identity — and his sexuality as it is culturally defined. [...]

Sense data is not basically dependent upon the physical body. The mind can bypass the senses and receive data in a more direct manner, translating what it perceives automatically, as it translates ordinary sense data.

Under ordinary circumstances, data is received through the physical senses and then interpreted by the brain. [...] The physical body becomes aware of it, but the senses have actually been bypassed. [...]

[...] At the same time, I felt an instant sense of strangeness. [...]

In a strict sense, Claire’s dreams may or may not have been precognitive. [...]