The Nature Of Perception (4) and (5)

Seth Early Sessions, Vol 9, Session 468

The Nature Of Perception (4)

(…  “I’d like to know what we’re going to do now in the sessions.”)

We will continue for now with the nature of perception.

Now under this heading I include other types of perception beyond those which you are acquainted with.  The organization of such a topic therefore is mine.  It may seem to you that the subject should be limited to physical perception, or so-called paranormal perception.  With my wider viewpoint however I include perception in other realities.  Often there is organization where you do not see it in our sessions.  Nor have I forgotten the book of which I have spoken.

Session 469

The Nature Of Perception (5)

True and basic perception is a highly complicated phenomena, in which the line between perceiver and perceived vanishes.  There is a strong correlation in what happens when the medium feels that a surviving personality has taken over the personality itself.

The medium perceives so clearly the reality of the surviving personality that the medium to some extent directly perceives that reality.  You see the correlation here with what I told you in the past about experiencing concepts.  That is one thing. To experience the reality of another does not necessarily mean that the medium negates her own personality – only that momentarily she allows it to perceive as directly as possible the experience of what it is to be the other.  This involves a high degree of cooperation from the other person who does not exist in your physical terms, an opening of his reality to the medium rather than an invasion of the medium.

Now this is pertinent since the medium-communicator language can be legitimate in many other areas beside the one in which it is involved.  In the simplest perception in those terms you are involved in the same way that a medium is.  You are receiving data that is not basically physical, and translating it into terms meaningful to your own physical organism.

Regardless of the field of reality from which the data is received, to a large extent the mechanisms are the same.  It is only because so-called mediumship is more unusual than simple perception that it appears so striking.  Ruburt, reading from a book, would still have to receive and translate that information without knowing the endless manipulations necessary.  The same sort of inner calculations would have been involved by the author of the book.

The information contained therein in such bulky printed form, is not physical.  It is a matter of knowledge, electromagnetically coded, psychically valid, but you cannot hold knowledge in your hand and perceive it directly.  You take its usual transmission in daily life for granted, overlooking the fact that all the physical aspects of its transmission and appearance serve to hide its basic non-materiality, and that words and printed data and moving pictures, all visual or physical symbols, are not the knowledge itself.  These only serve as physical carriers.

You are used to acting on knowledge only when it is so physically passed on, and the more numerous the forms in which it physically appears the greater your trust of it.  Mental images, though they may occur within the physical skull, are not in themselves physical.  The images, again, are only the symbols, the physical symbols, of inner knowledge.  They are not the knowledge but the symbols of them.

Therefore you accept them for they make sense to the physical mechanism.  The inner self has the knowledge behind these physical perceptions.  The brain is responsible for these physical symbols.  The mind has no need of them, but passes the information to the brain, who then interprets it.

The words that I speak to you transmit information, but the words themselves are not the information but verbal carriers.

Now.  In your system of reality you are learning what mental energy is, and how to use it.  You do this by constantly transforming your thoughts and emotions into physical form.  You are supposed to get a clear picture of your inner development by perceiving the exterior environment.  What seems to be a perception, an objective concrete event, independent and apart from you the perceiver, is instead the physical materialization of the perceiver’s own inner emotions, energy and mental environment.

As long as scientists insist upon considering the perceiver and the perceived event as entirely separate, then the true nature of perception will not be understood.

Physically speaking now, there are mechanisms that interpret physical events.  The scientist’s field of inquiry involves these.  The methods by which emotions, concepts, and energy are projected out from the individual to form the physical environment and events, mainly occur in nonphysical terms, but there are nervous system connections that aid in this projection.

These connections are not even suspected, simply because your scientists do not seriously consider that physical reality is the result of any such interrelation.  The fact is however that the full function of the nervous system is not known, for the proper questions have not been asked.

Basically then there is little difference as to the manner in which normal perceptions or extrasensory perceptions are received.  Now the sources of the data may be different, but in both cases they are basically nonphysical.

The brain is capable of interpreting and transmitting far more inner information that it does.  It is the ego’s idea of what is possible, the ego’s concept of reality, that determines in a large manner whether or not the brain will interpret any particular data.

Now some inner data cannot be perceived or translated by the brain, practically speaking, but as minds develop so the physical brain will develop, and in some individuals to a large extent this has occurred.

Changes in the physical structure of the species will always follow inner need, and the inner need is anticipated from the beginning of the seed.  Therefore large portions of the brain, now unused, lie latent for these developments.  So-called psychics put some of these portions to work.  Otherwise information such as ours would not be received clearly enough to be understood.

To a large extent you create what you see or perceive.  This does not mean you are the creator in that respect.  There are many realities of whose existence you are ignorant, but they nevertheless exist.

You attempt to translate all information in physical terms within your system.

Your inner environment is the total of your inner perceptions of inner reality.  This is what you have to work with, and the raw material practically available.  You then project this into physical events which you then physically perceive.

When you perceive more and more with your inner senses, you have more extensive raw material, better supplies, more available data.  This should automatically bring about refinements within the physical structure to carry the additional data, and provide now outlets for materialization.  The physical structure then to some extent is altered.

Latent potentialities, always present within the system, are activated as they are needed.  The physical self can, it is true, become somewhat bewildered, but the ego also learns and expands so that it is able to accept and use the new information, and benefit from it.  It quickly learns methods for example to utilize such activities for the purposes of the psychological structures that it recognizes and feels responsible for.

In Ruburt’s case it has been some overprotective.  Also since earlier conditions taught it that such knowledge could bring punishment.  The ego of course also has more data to handle and works quickly to assimilate such data within the reality structure it recognizes.

Inner perceptions enlarge the ego’s idea of reality however so adjustments are made.  It is the ego that insists upon separating itself from events, preferring to imagine itself a spectator above events, rather than a participator in events.

You remember this from our material on action and the personality.  The ego therefore is pleased when information is proven correct.  If the nature of perception were clearly understood then the nature of reality as you know it would also be understood much more clearly.  Only half the process of perception, so-called, is even considered, however.  Only half of the circle is known.  The entire circle consists of those projections outward from events, as well as the mechanisms by which the events are then physically perceived.

It goes without saying that telepathy is one method by which events are formed as well as perceived, but telepathy hides so far beneath physical perception that it is hardly detected.