“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

“She sees herself supported in a religious sense by conventional figures from the Bible. These personalities will explain the nature of reality to her in vocabulary that will make sense to her. [...]

[...] Lives in various religious capacities, but without the necessary sense of responsibility; unfortunately taking advantage of the fortunes made available to the ruling classes through the ages. [...] Only in this present existence is there finally some understanding, and sense of responsibility. [...]

[...] Time as you experience it is an illusion caused by your own physical senses. [...] 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 also disappears.

[...] “I just could never make sense of it before. [...]

[...] Then he stops, sensing the environment like an animal sensing the air. [...]

[...] Your ideas of quality are reinforced and sensed in the books even while they are not physically apparent. [...]

[...] No, she hadn’t heard Seth, or sensed his presence while this was going on; she’d just realized that his help would be necessary if she decided to do the book. [...] While I was in the altered state, I sensed not only the physical bulk of the book, but the actual contents within it. [...]

[...] She added that her experience in “getting it” was related not only to her ability to sense that sometimes more than one stream of material was available from Seth, but to the way that she herself had tuned into the information on neurological speeds late last month. [...]

[...] Ruburt is working at all angles of the problem at other levels of consciousness now, and the Sinful Self is beginning to feel a new sense of give-and-take. [...]

[...] Many of Ruburt’s current attitudes, for example, will at least make more sense to him as he sees that they originated in response to situations against which a child had no recourse. [...]

[...] It is quite earnest in its own desire to “be good,” or to feel a sense of grace in its being, so it does understand that kind of purpose. [...]

All in all, those results are considered by the Sinful Self, now, as regrettable but necessary, as perhaps the use of overly severe discipline, or the use of punishment “for the personality’s own good”—all of which makes perfect sense within the belief structure of the Sinful Self and the larger philosophical structure of Christianity itself. [...]

[...] Allow yourself to feel a sense of belonging with nature. [...] But each such experience will allow you to build up a sense of trust in your own body’s processes.

[...] Then: “I think that right now there’s some material I sense, but it hasn’t fallen into the right slot yet. [...]

[...] It is very important that you express your idealism actively, to whatever extent you can, for this increases your sense of worth and power.

(9:39.) There will be words for example for feelings that you will be asked to imaginatively change into objects and back again, to project into time as you think of it, and sense the differences in the feeling’s relationship to yourself. [...]

[...] These will be the beginnings of somewhat more profound methods of working through the inner senses.

It is as if, then, you had alphabets that worked for the other senses, for touch, and smell. [...]

[...] I said it was clear enough, but that I was so busy writing that eventually I lost all sense of the meaning of the words. [...]

[...] Each person senses now and then a private purpose, and yet many are filled with frustration because that inner goal is not consciously known or clearly apprehended.

Though caught up in a life of seeming frustration, obsessed with family problems, uneasy in sickness, defeated it seems for all practical purposes, some portion of each individual rouses against all disasters, all discouragements, and now and then at least glimpses a sense of enduring validity that cannot be denied. [...]

[...] Despite this, however, your senses present you with only a picture of your immediate environment, unless they are cultivated in certain particular manners that are relatively unusual.

[...] You can turn on television and see a drama, but the inward mobility and experience of your psyche is mysteriously enfolded within all of those exterior gestures that allow you to turn on the television switch to begin with, and to make sense of the images presented. [...]

You are operating at a rather high level of awareness, and you are using inner senses. These enable you to perceive an added depth or dimension, and this is responsible for the increased sense of vividness, and also for the sense of exhilaration that sometimes occurs within this particular sort of dream.

[...] Animals have indeed sensed such apparitions. [...]

[...] They definitely have a reality, you see, though you cannot usually perceive it with the physical senses.

[...] The inner senses are the portion of you that can be used with confidence to perceive these other realities. Now you should reread the material on the inner senses and all of you should learn what they are and how to use them!

[...] You can indeed feel a sense of recognition and familiarity. [...]

([Class Member:] “You might, instead, sense or feel something?”)

I appear to you—and I show myself to you—in certain ways—in familiar ways—so that you can sense the bonds between us that do exist. [...]

[...] The sense of ease is, again, all important, the sense of creative play, so that Ruburt does not try too hard. [...]

[...] You recall certainly the material dealing with the inner senses. Experiments and experiences using psychological time, and all projection events, deal rather directly with the use of these inner senses.

[...] Usually you do not use all of the inner senses in any given projection experience. [...]

[...] Now I will also say that in the first form you usually use certain inner senses; in the second form you use more of these, you see, and in the third form you make an attempt to use all of them, though very rarely is this successful.

As you know, this is characteristic of one of our inner senses. [...]

[...] All hidden patterns, yet each one making sense. [...]

2. I think that as a child I often sensed my parents’ feelings of strangeness about this reality, although I was quite unable to express myself in those terms. [...]

From the 12th session for January 2, 1964: “I have more senses, so to speak, in operating use … than you have, because not only am I aware of my own plane [or reality], but of yours and other parallel planes, even though I myself have not existed in some of those others …” And: “There are certain environments that I cannot glimpse from my viewpoint, although I have greater understanding of these things than you. [...]

From the 15th session for January 13: “Imagination allows you to enter into these planes … Pretend that you not only understand your cat’s concept of time to some degree, but could also experience his sense of time through the cat [Willy] himself. [...]

[...] This encounter takes place through the use of the physical senses, of course, as they are used to perceive and interpret physical data. The very utilization of those senses, however, is dependent upon the nature of your consciousness itself, and that consciousness is aware of its power and action through the exercise of its own properties.

[...] They have been reported by peoples of all kinds and in all ages, and they represent a common-sense kind of knowledge that is frowned upon by the men of learned universities. [...]

(“I can sense the information outside of me, say, but I can’t get it in my regular state of consciousness. [...]

[...] Since you perceive physically through the body, which is atomically structured, then of course your sense perceptions lead you to block out recognition of other probable stimuli or reactions. [...]

When she sensed any strong feelings that Joseph also wanted such a home, then — in your terms now — she began, from her different framework after death, to bring that opportunity into his experience. [...]

1. In the Glossary for Adventures, Jane defines prejudiced perception as “The propensity for organizing undifferentiated data into specific differentiated sense terms.” [...]

[...] There is at least a possibility that you and Ruburt, using your own individual inner senses, may at times perceive different aspects of a given situation, and that the individual perceptions will enable you to achieve a greater knowledge of a specific, or any specific, happening than either of you separately could achieve. [...]

[...] It is of great benefit that perceptions from the inner senses do not remain in the subconscious but become available to the intellect, and I will go into this at a future date.

[...] I came for one purpose this evening: so that you could sense my vitality, and sensing it, know that I speak to you from dimensions beyond those with which you are acquainted. [...]

[...] Is this presence that you sense within this room, death?

[...] Each of us felt a strong sense of contact with nature. [...]

The Seth Material has completely changed my ideas of the nature of reality, and reinforced my sense of identity. [...]

The great latent-but-always-sensed dimensions of spiritualized creaturehood will then begin to flower. A few great men have glimpsed those abilities, comma, and their love of the race and their integrity had caused them to trigger the unused portions of the brain.² In their way they sensed the great probable future and its ramifications.

[...] In the beginning the glimpses may be very brief, and the sense experience misty. [...]

[...] Whether or not you have any great success, the exercise will begin a neurological reorientation that will be most important if you hope to glimpse realities that are outside of your present neurologically accepted sense-reality.

[...] To develop its sense of specialization, the ego forgot the great cooperative venture of the earth. [...]

[...] I usually use the term “entity” in preference to the term “soul,” simply because those particular misconceptions are not so connected with the word “entity,” and its connotations are less religious in an organizational sense.

[...] I hope in this book not only to assure you of the eternal validity of your soul or entity, but to help you sense its vital reality within yourself. [...]

Now: Remember in your portrait the sense of play, and a light hand. [...]

[...] Using the physical senses, of course, you can never perceive these other systems. Advanced training in the use of the Inner Senses can lead to such explorations, however. [...]

Rob had been working on portraits and human figures, so this data made sense to him. [...]

[...] The portions of the self that deal in probabilities do not have experience with a ‘past’ to give them a sense of identity or continuity. [...]

[...] The basic sense of identity here is carried by what you could compare to the subconscious that you know. [...]

[...] Your outer senses then perceive the matter as particular, differentiated, separate objects.

Objects exist, and yet objects in another sense do not exist. [...]

The object then does, in this sense, exist. [...]

[...] The matter of this reality, of which you know so little, will be the basis for future discussions, and indeed your inner senses will aid you in the perception of some of its facets.