“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It would sense the body’s interstate condition. [...]

[...] There are natural bodily reactions, however, and psychological reactions that may seem natural, but that often are contrary to the body’s knowledge, and that can block that knowledge with the sense of reassurance that it can bring. [...]

(11:10–11:43.) Now: even before you met each other many of your private abilities, and the thrust of your intellects and intuitions, made no sense in Darwinian or Freudian terms. [...]

In Darwinian and Freudian terms, certainly later your joint and private pursuits literally made no sense, nor did they conform to any organized religious framework. [...]

[...] You know the senses force you to perceive experience in certain pattern. [...]

[...] As proficiency grows and as the inner senses are more fully used, the necessity for even thoughtwords vanishes.

[...] Ruburt did experience a sense of freedom in your hiking activities as a result, that was highly beneficial; and such activities are good for they increase his confidence. [...]

[...] Van Over did sense it. [...]

[...] In a very real way of speaking, your concept of reality as seen through your physical senses, scientific instruments, or arrived at through deduction, bears little resemblance to the facts — and the facts are difficult to explain.

[...] Your senses and your very existence as physical creatures program you to perceive the universe in such a way. [...]

[...] Remember also that if physical reality is in a larger sense an illusion, it is an illusion caused by a greater reality. [...]

[...] Each of us has a strong sense of responsibility toward those who read our books. [...]

[...] This is somewhat like remote sensing, or like an interior (pause) radar equipment that operates in a psychological field of attention, so that you are somewhat aware of the existence of certain events that concern you as they come into the closer range of probabilities with which you are connected.

2. Here’s an example of how far I went myself to obtain a sense of ease about an imaginary situation upon which I’d often projected negative thoughts.

[...] (Pause.) It deepens the Sinful Self’s sense of isolation. [...]

[...] They are also held together by a sense of earnestness and duty (with a mock-severe frown)—quite misapplied, but still characteristics hardly foreign to the personality as a whole—so these are misunderstandings to be addressed and understood, and the main issue should be an understanding of those issues specifically mentioned, so that the issues are met in the open and aired on the part of the entire personality (all often with emphasis). [...]

[...] You can also see where it is lacking: it has displayed little sense of playfulness, for example, or of expansion. [...]

The inner senses are an attribute of consciousness. The outer senses make this information meaningful to the physical organism, and the body consciousness, the ego. [...]

[...] (Smile.) Basically however you see perception has nothing to do with the outer senses at all. [...]

[...] Common sense applies. [...]

Now he is free to appreciate and use the energy shown to him by his mother in condensed dramatic fashion, tempered and freed by the free-flowing air of the father, and the physical mobility and sense of exploration that he represented.

[...] I want you to see that all of this makes more sense in many areas than you may have realized. [...]

Your main sense of identity is involved with your physical body, so that it is, for example, extremely difficult for you to imagine yourself without it, or outside it, or in any way disconnected from it. [...]

[...] As it is, such an image may be perceived by those who have developed use of the inner senses. [...]

[...] Though it was not equipped with your own physical senses, it was of itself to some extent able to perceive. [...]

Art is as much a science, in the truest sense of the word, as biology is. [...]

[...] Almost anyone can become a satisfied and productive amateur in this art-science; but its true fulfillment takes years of training, a strong sense of purpose, and a dedication — as does any true vocation.

[...] A sense of daring, exploration, independence, and spontaneity is required. [...]

In the dream state the actors become aware to some extent of the parts they play, and sense the true personal identity that is behind the artist’s craft. I have spoken of this before, but it is important to remember that you impose a certain kind of “artificial” sense of exaggerated continuity even to the self you know. [...]

[...] So unknowingly, now, portions of your consciousness mix and merge with those of other species without jarring your own sense of individuality one whit — yet forming other psychological realities upon which you do not concentrate.

[...] This is All That Is, in the deepest sense.

You are yourself obviously an energy gestalt; as you become more fully conscious of reality your sense of identity will contain larger and larger aspects of reality.

Love itself seems to quicken the physical senses, so that even the most minute gestures attain additional significance and meaning. [...]

[...] He lived at an intense peak of psychic and biological experience, and enjoyed a sense of creative excitement that in those terms only existed when the species was new.

[...] He has a strong sense of responsibility and loyalty. [...] I am digressing here to bring you another issue: the strong responsibility he always felt toward his writing ability, he naturally felt toward the psychic ability—but without the necessary sense of discrimination, since he didn’t realize what such activities involved.

[...] At the same time he hoped Tam would take Rich Bed, knowing he wouldn’t. Unconsciously Tam sensed that dilemma, as he senses this one. [...]

[...] Many elements in Tam’s dream tallied with events depicted in this session, bearing out Seth’s contention that Tam already sensed the conflicts over Adventures, etc. [...]

[...] Before the Roman gods were fully formalized, there was a spectacular range of good and bad deities, with all gradations [among them], that more or less “democratically” represented the unknown but sensed, splendid and tumultuous characteristics of the human soul, and have stood for those sensed but unknown glimpses of his own reality that man was in one way or another determined to explore.

(Long pause at 9:25.) In the first place, reality is primarily a mental phenomenon, in which the perceptions of the senses are organized and put together in ways that perfectly “mimic” in physical terms a primary (long pause) nonphysical experience. [...]

[...] Both realities are your own, and the sense of division need not exist. [...]

[...] You spoke to Phil about this energy form that’s a kind of idealization or realization of the inner senses. [...]

([Hope W:] “Seth, can you suggest what specific daily steps I can take to develop my inner senses?”)

[...] The witch doctor, while initiating natural forces on behalf of his patient, who seemed momentarily unable to do so, was then returning the patient to the source of himself and reviving his own buried sense of power. That is the source of physical life, the sense of power and action. [...]

[...] You will no longer need to transfer your sense of power to others. [...]

In almost all cases [of this kind], your feelings will represent a sense of powerlessness on your part, where you delegated strength to a situation or an individual and felt your effort futile in contrast. [...]

(Pause at 9:30 in an intent delivery.) The grids of perception that compose your world give you the world picture as you (underlined) experience it because your physical senses put you in a certain position within the entire grid. [...]

[...] Even to try and verbally present such material necessitates alterations involving perception, for while that gridwork appears quite stable to your senses, giving you a reliable picture of reality, this is also because you have trained yourselves to pick up certain signals only. [...]

[...] I had no sense of one dream being inside the other one, as in what I call the conventional double dream.”)

[...] The idea of taking up the same space is erroneous to begin with, but I don’t see how we can avoid such terms and still make any sense to you.”

The children were also obviously involved, and the accident would give them a new lease on life, for they had sensed an overall pervading sense of despair that lay at the family’s center stone, so to speak.

[...] I thought it a classic example that could be explained in Seth’s terms, though—the type of new information that at least could try to make sense out of such seemingly random happenings that we see as so tragic. [...]

[...] In perhaps a manner that appears strange, they will experience a new sense of their own validity, for if they were saved from death, then something—if only the fates—must have found them worthy. [...]

You sensed energy flowing outward and resented its flow, fearing to lose yourself. [...]

The personality sensed this lack and at the same time was aware of an impetus. [...]

There has been the inner sense of a void to be filled, a fear of identity escaping and running outward—my cup runneth over, and there will be none of me left, you see. [...]

[...] A sense of perplexed wonder. [...]

[...] You have the most efficient and beautiful physical organs, the most elegant joints and appendages, the most vibrant lungs and the most exquisite of senses. [...]

[...] It is taken for granted that memory fails, the body weakens, the senses stagnate, and emotional vividness dims. [...]