The Physical Nature of Perception

Seth Early Sessions, Vol 9, Session 462

The Physical Nature Of Perception

As I told you the medium is the message, and more than the message in many ways, and therefore for best results the medium should not be too hot or too cold.  Information can rarely flow like crystal-clear water, with the medium a faucet, to be turned off and on at will.

Information quite literally must be sifted through the layers of the medium’s personality.  The nervous system reacts to the information even as it translates it.  Nothing is neutral.  Nothing can be neutral in those terms.  The information is received and translated, as it must be, into mechanisms which the nervous system can handle and interpret and translate in physical terms.  The information then, like any perception, becomes a part of the nervous system’s structure.  It cannot be otherwise.

Any perception of any kind instantly alters the electromagnetic and neurological systems of the perceiver.  In your terms, physically, that is what perception is – an alteration of neurological structure.  The perceiving mechanisms themselves change and are changed by that which they perceive, and I am speaking now of your physical system, and the physical nature of any perception.

It is literally impossible for you, and it is a logistic contradiction, that any perception can be received unless the perceiver’s own inner situation is altered.  I am trying to make it as clear as possible that information automatically blends with, is intermingled with, and enmeshed with, the entire physically-valid structure of the personality.

Now.  Any perception immediately blends, then, with the entire system of the individual.  Any perception is action, and it changes that upon which it acts, and in so doing it is itself changed.  This applies to any perception.

The slightest perception to some extent alters every atom within your physical structure, and this in turn sends out its ripples, so that as you know the most minute action is felt everywhere.

…  Some individuals always see the worst side of things, and interpret any given perception in the most pessimistic light.  In a low mood any individual is much more likely to react to pessimistic suggestions, and to interpret data in the same manner.  Now this applies to any data, whether it be physical in the usual sense of the word, telepathic, clairvoyant or otherwise.

Fear will often sensitize individuals however, so that fear for a loved one will bring about clairvoyant knowledge of a disaster.  They are not concerned over joyful events, you see, and do not therefore as easily perceive these clairvoyantly.

Now in any ordinary clairvoyant event, in a low mood, Ruburt or any individual may, according to time and circumstance, overemphasize or misinterpret information, overstating say, pessimistic elements.  Personalities strongly given to the need for self-punishment will consistently misinterpret such information, or any information.

Now all of this is not meant to apply to specific incidents mentioned by you earlier, but only to clear several matters that we have not discussed thoroughly enough, involving the normal psychological aspects involved in clairvoyant information.  Most of the remarks I will make can be applied to any perception, however.

To a large extent you are what you perceive, and not symbolically.

Now.  Information does not exist as I have told you independently of consciousness.  There is not therefore any particular event, say an automobile accident, that exists independently of the consciousnesses of those involved in it, for a given perceiver to perceive.

It is more than a simple matter.  It is more a simple matter of having a clear channel through which neutral information can flow.  Now you will I am sure have further questions concerning that last remark for it has all kinds of implications that we cannot cover in an evening, but it will be more than worthwhile for us to pursue them.  Now whether or not a medium is in a trance that is as deep as the Atlantic Ocean, the medium will not be a pure channel.  The ego will simply be bypassed, but the other layers of the self, the neurological structures particularly, will continue to operate as always.  They will be altered by the perceptions that flow through them.

Now.  It is true that much of our work is done outside of session time.  Session time often represents the end result of our work.  In projections other portions of Ruburt’s personality leave your system.  They are not portions needed for physical manipulation.  The ego is not even aware of them.  There is nothing particularly unusual in this.  The unusual aspect, comparatively speaking, is that the information gained can be translated and used within your system.

There are simple stories that can be told, symbolically true enough, but they do not begin to explain the reality, and so I do not use them.  The question of my availability, again, is a pertinent one only when you think of personality in terms of one individual, who cannot be in two places at once in your time.

In your terms therefore I can be in many places at once, and conscious of so being.  It does not mean that I am less in one place than another.  Now in some way that you are not ready, or should I say able, to understand as yet, I help Ruburt to perceive clairvoyant information more clearly, in that I help to direct the kinds of alterations that occur within his neurological structure.

I do this for him in many instances.  What I perceive is still dependent upon my own identity.  It cannot be otherwise for any consciousness.  In your terms I help keep to a minimum distortions which might otherwise occur as Ruburt’s own mood or circumstances might otherwise misinterpret.

My own identity, in simple terms, has fewer hang-ups than the personality that is operating in physical terms.  My range of perception is far greater, as is my range of activity and the kinds of energy I am able at times to direct.  Even the quality of that action is of a different nature.

…  Now I tell you that while the perceiver is changed by what he perceives, he also changes that which is perceived.  Perceiver and perception, in a basic manner, are one and the same.  Here we come close to the meaning of value fulfillment and moment points.

We should go deeply however into the nature of perception before we leave it, or you will have that left hanging.  An amazing amount of energy was released in the article, that will affect others, and Ruburt is only slightly beginning to realize the force behind it and within it.

(See the notes re the article, on page 231.)  It insures its own success, and contains its own vitality.  Now, I have endowed it with this.  The other books you see already exist, and wait only to be given physical form.  Your own masterpieces exist, and only wait for you to find them and give them physical form.

Painting is as natural to you as breath.  You breathe with a beautiful technique, and yet effortlessly.  Paint with the same confidence and belief with which you breathe.