“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It was an advantage that you remembered the dream consciously for this inner sense implies a strong advancement on your part. [...]

Anything that you perceive with your senses, for the point of our discussion, you can call material, but you only perceive certain ranges of material as you only perceive certain ranges of an entire spectrum of light. [...]

[...] It is one thing to be poor and hungry and disease-ridden without knowledge and with a sense of hopelessness and despair, and it is another to decide, of your own will, to deprive your body for a purpose of your own. [...]

[...] As our past sessions show in class, you also have a strong sense of responsibility. [...]

[...] But you can also make them without any sense of division, with a sense of complete easiness, and that’s what I want you to learn to do. [...]

[...] In the power that you sense there are answers if you have the wits to sense within yourself that same power. [...]

[...] They are not reformers in the strictest sense, yet their playful work does often end up reforming a society or culture. They are given to art, but in its broadest sense also, trying to make an “art” of living, for example. [...] Others might build social structures from their work, for example, but the Sumari themselves, while pleased, will usually not be able to feel any intuitive sense of belonging with any structured group.²

These figures can hardly be definitive in any sense, however; they’re meant only to point out some interesting directions for study, involving groups and the various families of consciousness to which their members may belong. [...]

[...] In our earlier discussions concerning the nature of matter, we made it plain that each individual created any given material object, through use of the inner senses, and following certain rules which were mentioned.

[...] Motion is the type of action with which you are most familiar, but motion attains its importance within the physical field only because of your particular outer senses. [...]

[...] A dream is as valid an electrical reality as a lightning bolt, the difference being that the lightning bolt projects itself into your awareness through the outer senses.

(Seth began referring to mental enclosures, mental enzymes, etc., many many sessions ago, at the same time he began to give the information on the inner senses. [...]

Now this is what you attempt when you experiment with psychological time, when your communication comes through the inner rather than the outer senses. [...]

[...] You remember, I am sure, that I spoke of extension and contraction, along with other discussions on the inner senses. [...]

To some extent the physical senses themselves are scandalized. In microscopic experiments, however, the senses themselves cannot perceive such altered behavior in the same fashion (underlined). [...]

[...] (Pause.) A very small example: the smell of an orange may instantly provide you with a mental image of one, so that that received from one sense is picked up in a fashion by the others—all serving in one way or another to give you a more completed picture of the object or event involved. [...]

[...] Much that I will tell you concerning my psychological structure will be initially based upon some information you have concerning the inner senses, for these are my conscious senses.

There are endless coordinates, like infinities of prisms, fitting within, into, transposed upon, and permeating your own physical system, but your outer senses do not perceive them.

Animals, like people, sense when they are a burden, and the dog sensed that he was a burden, and also something of a nuisance. [...]

[...] The outer senses are not as quick or as fluent. [...]

[...] And at other times Ruburt senses your state of mind even before it materializes, and this sends Ruburt into an overanxious state which is not beneficial to either of you.

[...] You had a natural affinity with things behind nature, that is you sensed the spirit of nature, and at the same time you had a tendency to distrust what you could not actually see, smell or touch.

[...] She said she was beginning to sense a rhythm to the sessions in the afternoon. [...]

Now I may or may not return—again, according to those rhythms which Ruburt is now beginning to sense. [...]

[...] In a certain sense, the energy of each individual does keep the world going, and to commit suicide is to refuse a basic, cooperative venture.

[...] Even their physical senses seem blurred, until often they seek further and further stimulation. [...]

[...] You may close your eyes or leave them open, as you prefer, but sense within yourselves your own inner identity. [...]

[...] And each of you in a greater sense knows the nature of your own vitality, and none of you are alone or have ever been alone for within you is the knowledge of all the personalities that you are, and within you are those abilities to be used and tapped. [...]

In the body’s spontaneous functioning you see the easy mobility of the soul, the “going with that which I am,” which is an indication of the soul’s inner freedom and yet innate sense of direction. [...]

[...] Such growth is a natural manifestation flourishing within your particular area of actuality, observable to your senses. [...]

[...] The second way, then, is for Ruburt to concentrate upon those improvements he senses daily, either in performance or in feelings of ease, release, or relief. [...]

3. Thirdly, he has begun lately to sense how this is done, and that is to remind himself of the mysterious effortlessness behind his life, so that he does not try too hard. [...]

[...] The worst part of the whole thing was that I developed urinary difficulties during the malaise: urination became very painful indeed, and I had a strong sense of blockage and impairment at times. [...]

(We’ve lost the old sense of freedom we had with Prentice-Hall, where we can just do our work, ship it to them, and expect it to be well handled, with royalties paid every so often and a trust both felt and expressed between the two sides. [...]

And particularly they would declare as futile and nonsensical the concentration upon issues or work that does not immediately bring ordinarily recognizable prestige, or a sense of belonging. [...]

[...] As a rule, however, it is foolhardy to expect them to have a sense of the artist’s values, whatever the art may be, and then to become upset when they do not live up to that picture. [...]

[...] Your spirit was born in flesh to enrich a marvelous area of sense awareness, to feel energy made into corporeal form. [...]

[...] So you must work with the raw material of your ideas, even while your sense data may tell you that a given belief is obviously a truth. [...]

[...] Left alone, various portions of the identity rise and form the ego, degroup and reform, all the while maintaining a marvelous spontaneity and yet a sense of oneness. [...]

[...] It will differ from the picture your physical senses may show you at any given time, precisely in those areas where changes are required.

(Jane continues:) In a sense the present individual in any given life could be called a fragment of his entire entity, having all the properties of the original entity, though they remain latent or unused. The personality fragment in this sense can learn to develop what it has, rather than seek new powers. [...]

In a sense all things could be called fragments, but there are different kinds. [...]

[...] In a physical sense this board is a projection of wood or a tree, but in this case the board has less properties than the parent tree. [...]

[...] You believed that reality had more to it than the senses showed. [...]

[...] Otherwise I am not saying anything else, for certain events will occur as a result of those recommendations—even as you have begun to sense changes with the altered morning hours. [...]

(This sounds very much like the use of what Seth calls the third, fourth and fifth inner senses: Perception of past, present, and future; the conceptual sense; cognitionof knowledgeable tissue. Material on these senses was presented in the 35-38th sessions.)

[...] But there was no sense of primitiveness here; these limpid brown eyes regarded me impassively; there was no intrinsic threat. [...]

[...] And since we are dealing in words some of the information simply would not make sense to you.

What Ruburt sensed however was somewhat legitimate. [...]

[...] Your development of the inner senses will not blot out the outer world. [...]

[...] Your own dreams are fragments, even as in a much larger sense you are fragments of your entity. [...]

(In the above paragraph the phrases “meaning the personality,” and “a much larger sense,” came clearly to my mind just before Jane voiced them. [...]

[...] You will both benefit by an attempt to use your inner senses, and as I have mentioned earlier, connections and contacts with the outside world are also important.