The Nature of Perception

Seth Early Sessions, Vol 9, Session 467

The Nature of Perception

We were discussing the nature of perception some while back, and its relation to clairvoyant activities.  We were discussing the fact that no knowledge exists apart from consciousness.  I told you that any perception alters the perceiver.  Not only mentally and emotionally but also alters the electromagnetic reality of the internal physical structure.

In a very literal manner then you are the knowledge that you have.  The interchange is constant. Now.  Initially and basically perception is not dependent upon your senses.  Any perception is first of all a psychic one that is then translated in ways meaningful to the physical organism.  To other organisms in different realities perception would therefore be translated in an entirely different manner.

Relying upon such external perceptions therefore, communication between members of various systems would be relatively impossible.  You might not perceive each other to begin with, or realize that there is anything to be perceived.  Such contact therefore would always take place beneath the so-called normal perception, and even then you would have to translate this inner perception, as you do any into terms you could understand as physical creatures.

That translation would be bound to be distortive, and yet it would be the only kind of perception or understanding that would be possible under the circumstances.

Now to some degree, this also applies to the information that I give you in our sessions.  It must come through the available channels of the physical human mechanism in order that it would be at all meaningful.  As I mentioned some sessions ago, on the one hand you can say that the method involves distortion, but without the distortions there would be no meaningful knowledge for you to understand.

Verbalization is not a basic method of communication for “higher” forms of consciousness, nor is it for “lower” forms of consciousness.  It is only at your particular intermediate state that verbalization as such is so important.  It is a main basis for your species.  Because of its importance at your particular stage it is an excellent method for your purposes.  In many other systems of reality it is never adopted, for it is in many ways restrictive.

In some systems colors are used as a prime method of communication.  They are sent out telepathically, each gradation of such variety that you cannot now imagine it.  These intricate color communications follow the almost endless emotional shadings possible.  It is difficult you see to verbalize this concept.  They have to begin with more spectrums than those with which you are familiar.  They live in an entirely different sense universe.

As you for example attempt to blend colors to give an effect, they telepathically send out a continual stream of ever-changing colors.  Such a concept as a sentence would be meaningless to them, and yet pattern is involved in the colors so that the shape and form of a color also has meaning.

The analogy may be a poor one in that it says so little, and yet it will be helpful in giving you the idea.  Instead of nouns for example you would have the shape of the ever-moving pattern, instead of a verb the pulsation of the color, or rather of its transmission.  Instead of time a sequence of tenses, which they would not need, you have the intensities and depths of color.

These are not to be thought of as colored pictures however, for neither do they use that kind of imager, and yet a high degree of preciseness is communicated.  In your terms there would be “words” for all kinds of subtle emotional states for which you have no words.

Now were I to communicate with someone in that system, I would have to affect their sense mechanisms, and therefore the material would be delivered in a way, again, that would seem to distort it, and yet without the method it could not be given.

I should mention first however that the inner self is always free of whatever camouflage structure it may presently inhabit.

Now.  Any conceivable method of perceptions is possible to the inner self, latent within it.  It can adopt any method of perception it chooses, according to the environment in which it finds itself.

In psychological time therefore it is at least possible that you can have some experience with other methods when you close off habitual methods of perception.  The ego is firmly attached to the use of the physical senses, however.  In the dream state there can also be other methods at least slightly experienced.

In deeper dreams and fairly unusual projections, you can and do leave your own system entirely.  Even though you are out of your physical body however, you will attempt to translate experience with its learned patterns rather than switching into the inner senses.  This is why many such experiences, even if recalled, seem chaotic and without meaning.

Now.  There are indeed a body of symbols that are more or less basic within all kinds of perception – bridgeworks from one form of perception to another, since beneath all perceiving systems there is consciousness.  Certain symbols therefore will have meaning.  I do not see any particular purpose in giving these to you now, but at some time I will do so.

They are the root assumptions from which all communications spring.  The trouble is, again, that in trying to give them to you certain alterations are necessary.  Knowing them at this point will not help your development.  I wanted to mention them in your record however for later reference.

Some systems use methods of perception that cannot be explained, since they contain nothing that is familiar to you.  Within most systems death as you know it, with the meaning you attach to it, has no importance.  The advanced consciousness can focus within one “life” while already sending portions of itself into the next “life” as for example you might in school take advanced calculus while still remaining in elementary philosophy class.

The whole psychological structure is therefore entirely different.  It is also more demanding.  The emotions and intuitions are the basis of experience, and the means of getting knowledge in most other systems.  They have their own “reasoning processes” of which you are little aware, since at your point of development you use the intellect as a rule in its place, and make a clear distinction between the two areas.

The intellect forces you to interpret data in a highly specialized way for the use of the physical organism; and while adopted particularly because of the time structure, your kind of intellect only has value within your particular kind of time structure, and its type of logical thought is much slower and limiting.  It moves at a snail’s pace along the line of consecutive time.

Emotional reasoning however rises far above this.  The inner precise nature of the “emotional intellect” is hidden from you, for the physical intellect cannot follow it.  The emotional intellect therefore would seem chaotic.  Most of its richness and depth would not be perceived by the physically oriented brain.

The emotional intellect for example is not time-oriented, and this alone makes no sense to the physical brain.  It finds it highly difficult to assimilate any information not time-oriented, therefore it labels it as meaningless.  Now this information is helpful to your development, and we shall continue to discuss it, for you can to some degree, with my aid, understand how this emotional intellect works if you try to understand the material intuitively, use your imagination with it, and try to feel it out.

Now.  Emotion, a particular emotion as you know it, is the result of information and deductions already made of which you are aware.  Because all of this information is not available to the brain, it sees the emotion as a sudden thing, appearing within the brainscape’s reach, often unexplainable and therefore to some extent threatening.

Emotions, to the brain, are also somewhat frightening, because of their vividness, which seems out of order to the brain.  To the brain something in the past seems dim, yet an emotional feeling that occurred in the past may suddenly appear again within the brainscape’s awareness, as vividly as its first occurrence, and the brain feels disoriented.

The brain however often does not see the inner logic of the emotion’s reoccurrence, or the inner connections that make it again pertinent.  Any given emotion itself contains within it multitudinous perceptions that the brain has not perceived, and as a result indeed of “calculations” the brain could not follow.

Any current emotion contains within itself memory patterns, interconnections and interpretations, that are far more dazzling in their meaning and content than any, for example, highly precise mathematical data.  Particularly are memories enclosed within, gathered together from “previous” experience, all cunningly collected with utmost attention and high selectivity.

I will give you examples of this, for the general statement tells you little, and we will continue with this material unless you interrupt it with other questions, for some sessions.

I want you to understand the complexity that lies within emotional feeling, for you can then use it to better advantage, and it will add dimension to your own present experience.