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[...] You see, the inner senses provide direct experience. The outer senses provide camouflaged distortions of translated secondhanded experience.

[...] I suggest when you can that you reread the material on the inner senses, the fifth dimension and your precious flying saucers. There is a connection here with the transference of energy from any one plane to another, and from the inner senses for example to a painting, that should be very helpful.

(I would like to ask Seth if I was using my inner senses during the following episode, without being aware that I was doing so.

(I wonder: Watching the tree, did my inner senses tell me the limb would fall—information that I casually disregarded? [...]

The sense data is important, you see; the new balances that your separate personalities achieve lead you both to new expansions. [...]

[...] Now these changes affect the ways in which you perceive sense data. [...]

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

[...] I use the word “materializes” because it makes sense to you, but it is distortive since it predisposes an appearance within matter. [...]

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

Not only that, but because you sense in yourself still some sympathy toward the beliefs. [...]

[...] For a moment you are aware of a sense of duality as you view this older self. [...]

[...] There was a funny sense of inner shifting. [...]

The sensation of intense speed was very real at the beginning of the experience, and during the entire episode I struggled to retain a critical sense which I alternately achieved and lost. [...]

“More on The Dream Body, Inner Senses and Projection”

[...] It is through the inner senses that he perceives me, and this data he then attempts to transform into information that can be perceived by the outer senses.

—represents an outward transformation as Mark attempted to construct an accurate replica of material that he sensed with the inner senses, and as such it is the reconstruction of what I am. [...]

He creates an entirely different object, which his own outer senses then perceive. [...]

[...] This new set of features might have been suspended on a clear screen of some kind; and as I watched them, at the same time I saw or sensed behind them or through them Jane’s real features as I knew them. [...]

Give us a moment… Your sense perception, physically speaking, is a result of behavior on the part of organs that seem to you to have no reality outside of their relationship with you. [...]

[...] The physical matter of those sense organs changes constantly, however, with you none the wiser. [...]

[...] Again, the very senses that make such a deduction are the result of the behavior of atoms and molecules literally coming together to form the organs, filling a pattern of flesh. [...]

[...] Your senses perceive these patterns in their own ways. [...]

[...] This offers the sense of safety and security in which the youngster can then feel free and curious enough to explore its world and the nature of reality. [...]

[...] The bonding did not secure him that important and vital sense of safety, and to some extent or another he felt at least threatened by abandonment. [...]

[...] Such a situation increased Ruburt’s sense of not being safe, of course, and yet also reinforced feelings of independence, for he did not have to feel as dependent upon Marie as he might otherwise. [...]

[...] What is wanted is another matrix or support from which the personality can assimilate still newer knowledge, and continue to develop—generally speaking—with a sense of relative freedom. [...]

[...] It seemed almost sacrilegious to think that the production of excellent art could involve fun—or worse, an active sense of irresponsibility, a joyful sense of ease, so that if a painting came too quickly you could not trust it. [...]

This artistic sense of responsibility was given a thicker coat by what seemed to be psychic responsibility: it seemed to Ruburt that he should use his abilities primarily to help others, or to help solve the world’s problems, or to cast some light into man’s condition. [...]

Animals care for their young out of natural pleasure and love, not out of a sense of responsibility. [...]

[...] Your senses are rather more equipped to notice difference and divergence than sameness; but nevertheless the cooperation of all conscious entities provides physical objects with whatever appearance of permanence they have.

What your senses show to be empty, you term space, and you think of matter rather paradoxically as filling up space, and yet as being where space is not, so-called space and so-called material are energy, and the true properties of energy are very difficult to explain to you, because all your concepts are so limited.

[...] You are equipped however to perceive far more than you do, through use of the inner senses.

Incidentally, in the same manner that psychological experience exists, and does not take up space, in this same manner do psychic gestalts of intelligence exist, more or less within your plane and yet not visible to your senses. [...]

[...] Which raised some intriguing questions about the sense of responsibility she would still feel—indulging that very quality we’re supposed to be so on the lookout for. [...]

[...] An overhanded sense of responsibility leads in the same direction. [...]

[...] The sense of responsibility of that kind stifles love, which must be free to form its own creativity in its own fashion. [...]

This was a session Ruburt enjoyed—also one he had out of a sense of responsibility—but at least with some understanding of the issues involved. [...]

[...] Ruburt is faced with the sensation of tightness, however—there is something there in his experience to deal with, so that his senses can conform to his belief about his body. While he tries to free it he is faced with the lingering, quite valid-seeming evidence of his senses. So you are encountering the evidence of your senses, so that the chores seem to hound you. [...]

[...] When I say to Ruburt “Do not concentrate upon the symptoms because you reinforce them,” then you agree, Joseph, and it makes perfect sense. [...]

And with implied words, for the words that are sensed but not spoken, will rush out with color rather than with sound, and behind the implied words those emotions upon which the painting must be based. [...]

[...] You can build form or a structure with lines, or a face, and leave it and wait for the emotion to fill it up, and then quickly with a touch here and there bring out that which has appeared, the movement that was within the form, that you barely sensed. [...]

[...] (Smile.) You should sense or know the answers, now, or as the painting progresses. [...]

(Jane had no visions while speaking, but sensed some things. [...]

[...] “I feel an odd sense of frustration — or maybe just impatience is a better way to put it…. I think all of this psychic stuff that I’m half aware of has to be organized and expressed in our world — Seth, Cézanne, this book — so that we can make sense of the whole thing.”

Dreams deal with associations and with emotional validities that often do not seem to make sense in the usual world. [...]

[...] Hopefully in that book, through my dictation and through Ruburt’s and Joseph’s experiences, the reader could see the greater dimensions that touch ordinary living, and sense the psyche’s magic. [...]

If you think that it is your personal responsibility alone to change the world, then you are always bound to feel a burdening sense of failure. [...]

[...] With some sense of freedom and play, both of you can combine high qualities of intuitional and intellectual abilities so that they sometimes merge into a higher mind.

Some of this is difficult to explain, but as the world of appearances presents its own evidence, on the level of sense, so your inner reality presents as strong evidence of its reality. [...]

In this category, I am not referring to individuals like Ruburt, who speak for another personality with a sense of ease and tranquillity, and whose resulting information is excellent knowledge — the obvious products of uncommon common sense that proves to be helpful to the individual and others.

[...] The session does automatically add its own sense of infinite devotedness by gathering together the healing abilities, which have their own soothing effect.

[...] I’d sensed anger again as the session progressed. [...]

The sense of loyalty was anchored in you, and you both decided upon it before this existence. Therefore you may sense in Ruburt at times confusing inclinations toward high independence in one area, and a self-denying dependence in another. [...]

[...] (Half humorously.) At the same time that these sexual feelings operated, the two of you have an extremely powerful psychic bond, and a hidden but definite sense of inner identity.

Now when Ruburt senses a strong disruption in these main areas he will act up, and strongly. [...]

Now I suggested that we move our sessions back here for the reasons given, but also because I knew that to Ruburt this meant an implied greater sense of togetherness on your parts, and of secrecy. [...]

The fear is the result of the mother’s mockery of the father, and I believe this will make sense to Ruburt even consciously. [...] And Joseph, we will go into the inner senses shortly. [...]

[...] In past lives he was never temperate, neither in a physical sense, emotionally or intellectually. [...]

These personalities, often talented in many directions and often with past experiences of wealth and power, choose to be born as Jews of their own volition, and this is a karmic compensation, not in any sense punishment but a needed adjustment on the part of the personalities involved.

[...] In one sense there is no excuse for what occurred. [...]

[...] It reinforces the animals’ sense of grace, in terms mentioned earlier in this book. [...]

[...] History was dependent upon the old with their memory of past events, and the group’s sense of continuity was also in the hands of its oldest members, who passed memories on to others.

[...] Its sense of grace is built-in. [...]

What you consider conscience is often an applied-from-without sense of right and wrong instilled in you in your youth. [...]

[...] They all undermine the individual’s sense of bodily security and increase stress, while offering the body a specific, detailed disease plan. But most of all, they operate to increase the individual sense of alienation from the body, and to promote a sense of powerlessness and duality.

[...] Your religions tell you that man is sinful: The body is not to be trusted; the senses can lead you astray. In this maze of beliefs you have largely lost a sense of your own worth and purpose. [...]

In the overall, then, violent shows provide a service, in that they usually promote the sense of a man’s or a woman’s individual power over a given set of circumstances. [...]