“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] To Bill, while he thought he sensed a change in the shape of Jane’s head in the mirror, there was little else to be seen. He did not sense an aura, for example, or receive any impression of an alien countenance.

[...] The strongest impression I had was of the change in proportion of the head, and the sensed or felt alien presence of a snoutlike creature confronting us.

(Shortly before the session I showed Jane copies I had made of material Seth gave very early in 1964—just after the sessions began; the nine Inner Senses, taking up nine typed pages, and the eleven Basic Laws of the Inner Universe, taking up seven typed pages.

[...] Ruburt sensed this quite well in the past, and feared to open those channels until he felt himself suitably ready and prepared. [...]

[...] In retrospect it was a bit frightening—there was a terrific sense of power and energy. [...]

[...] All of us here are teachers, and we therefore adapt our methods, also, so that they will make sense to personalities with varying ideas of reality.

[...] Your physical senses confine you as best they can to the perception of a highly formalized reality. [...]

[...] It represents a certain state of consciousness — an in-between threshold dimension of awareness, in which the imagination and the senses are almost caught in the act of putting an object together, or of bringing the world into a sensed reality, brand-new, from the realm of the inner mind: a very evocative state of consciousness, and one that as I believe Ruburt mentioned, you could also use in connection with faces.

That perception was not the sort of official sense data recognized by your sciences. [...]

[...] In the truest sense, the birth magically happens, as miraculous in those terms as the so-called initial emergence of life upon the planet itself. [...]

The affair to which you have just referred was quite legitimate and it was an exercise in the use of the inner senses. [...]

Now, when you are weary you do not have sessions in any case, and this sense of dedication can be better maintained with alternate periods of work and rest.

(Jane pointed to John.) At times our friend has sensed this portion of the self. [...]

[...] Your old idea of concentrating upon immediate sense data is good, to counteract these other tendencies.

[...] This is done by the physical brain and the physical senses.

[...] He senses this subconscious need of hers however to hold him, and resents it vigorously. [...]

[...] If you can make her see this you will be able to maintain that sense of independence that is important to you. [...]

[...] The effort will be more than worth your while, but the effort must be an honest one, or she will sense the hypocrisy.

[...] The existence of Sumari physicians will make sense when we finish our discussion of inward orders of reality and the dream state.

[...] He was aware of himself in a different way, so that, for example, his identification with the self did not stop where his skin stopped: He could follow it outward into the space about his form, and feel it merge with the atmosphere with a primal sense-experience that you have forgotten.

Then in your terms man began, with the other species, to waken more fully into the physical world, to develop the exterior senses, to intersect delicately and precisely with space and time. [...]

[...] This was invisible because the pattern still made sense. [...]

[...] On the whole the species is beginning to change its psychological sense of selfhood. [...]

When his lips touch your hand—if you do it in the sense of play and allow your native awareness to function.

[...] You use telepathy very well in discovering their feelings—you use your inner senses in perceiving their difficulties and intuitively you are aware of the problems and able to help them rise above them.

[...] But all information given tonight should be helpful too and if you follow the advice given, you should become aware of a sense of sexual freedom and joy that is novel.

[...] They are sometimes delighted with each other, and yet sometimes feel, in meeting, a conscious sense of disappointment while experiencing an inner sense of recognition and joyful enthusiasm.

[...] Do not forget, in whatever way you choose to use it, the importance of reinforcing his sense of worth, despite what he does. [...]

[...] This will give you a greater sense of freedom. [...]

[...] The leaders that will appear to you tomorrow are known to you beforehand in your dreams, and when you recognize them in physical reality there should, indeed, be a great sense of familiarity for already you know them well. [...]

[...] Now I would like you all to sense the feeling of your consciousness, realizing as you do so, that there is within your tissues, and within the atoms and molecules that compose you, a great acquiescence. [...]

Matter is in some ways the basis of your universe, and yet matter itself is merely energy changed into aspects with certain properties that can, under certain conditions, be perceived by your senses, and that can therefore be manipulated.

[...] Yet even the appearance of this physical material, though it seems more or less permanent by its nature, is not permanent, and is only cohesive enough to give the appearance of relative permanence to the senses that perceive it.

[...] There is so much to be said here, as it is also necessary to consider the ways in which physical material is constantly created, and to consider the role of the senses.

(2. “The one thing about an ancient existence [like mine], if you will forgive the term, is that old hatreds do not last because you learn to have a sense of humor … Love, on the other hand, even with a sense of humor, becomes highly precious and large enough so that it can contain old hates very nicely.”

At each moment they sense their position. [...]

[...] It’s mature now, it makes sense: “Why didn’t I see that before?” Something new is known. [...]

[...] Many of them also have a mystical sense of connection with nature. [...]

1. Naturally, Seth’s material here began to sound very reminiscent of Jane’s and my own Sumari characteristics — especially those concerning the “mystical sense of connection with nature” that each of us feels, and our individual desires “to work in solitude.”

There is a compassion, a jovial yet understanding one, that I can feel for such activities that is more difficult for you to experience, but in many cases the drama—the gods or devils who seem (underlined) to speak through the board, the sense of importance felt by the participators, the heightened emotional activity—all of these provide often, rich elements of experience otherwise lacking from a mundane daily existence.

[...] She told me that “something” wanted to manifest through her so slowly that it was almost inexpressible; she’d felt deep rolling sounds going through her, yearning to be translated, yearning to make sense in our terms. [...]

[...] Because of our ordinary time sense the sounds were actually so slow to us that they appeared to be motionless, or “dead,” she told me, leading us to speculate that this may be one of the reasons why in usual terms we call inanimate matter — rocks, for instance — “dead.” [...]

“The relaxation involves a curious sense of dropping down inwardly, of going slowly beneath the realities we usually recognize. [...]

[...] I sensed this neurologically, though how that was possible, I don’t know….”