The Nature of Inner Perceptions

Seth Early Sessions, Vol 7, Session 289

The Nature of Inner Perceptions

Now.  A word concerning the nature of inner perceptions.

I have told you that exterior reality is a materialization of inner electromagnetic reality.  I have told you that all experience is electromagnetically coded.  The inner senses pick up this data directly, you see, as in last Friday’s episode.  Some translation must occur if you are to become aware consciously of such material, or if it is to impress the physical senses at all.

You are not aware, or Ruburt is not aware, of the direct inner perception.  The physical organism cannot perceive it, hence some necessary transformations.  The data may make itself known in visual or auditory forms.  Some interpretation is always necessary.

You recall I have told you that the intensity of an experience, rather than its duration in time, determines its effect.  The intensity is emotional.  With the inner perceptions there will be a traveling through of intensities.  The experience is perceived simultaneously by the inner senses, but it will be translated in terms of physical time.

An experience in general is composed of electromagnetic pulsations.  They contain a kind of depth, having nothing to do with space, an existence dependent upon, again, intensity rather than duration.  However, because of your own basic assumptions such experiences, perceived by the inner senses, are played back in such a manner that a traveling through intensities results in a journey through time within your own dimension.

I believe it will be found that differences occur in the plus and minus charges in the body during such episodes.  The girl’s emotional condition the other evening (see Session 288) acted indeed like a psychological bridge, over which Ruburt could pass.  Inner perceptions are never basically physical, you see.  Emotional patterns are quite wordless.  In other words, if you will forgive the pun, you can never be consciously aware of the basic inner perception, but you can follow backward to that point.  You can discover how you use the data, and how you finally recognize it.

The overall climate the other evening was highly charged, and yet well balanced.  Had another emotionally-oriented person been present the balance would have been upset, and nothing would have happened.  Had another passive person been present, the same would apply.

There is always a time scramble, for the inner senses deal with basic data in the spacious present.  Then the data must be interpreted in the time scheme of physical existence.  With training and experience a neutralizing element will be developed that protects Ruburt against the full emotional charge that he experienced the other evening.  The organism itself forms this as a self-protective mechanism.

To some extent this operates with Ruburt now, and has to some extent in the past.

The episode did involve projection, mainly through intensities.  These intensities you interpret as time and space.  Now in a different kind of projection you could face for example the girl’s thought forms as a pseudophysical reality

If Ruburt had done the same thing from the dream state, this could have resulted.  A very slight amount of physical weight was lost on Ruburt’s part.  This will always occur when any kind of projections is experienced.  Much of your intimate existence implies projections of various kinds.  Thoughts are indeed small projections of yourself, sent outward.

You have yet to experience a complete projection, but this will come.  Your fear, Joseph, in the window dream projection, shows that you are proceeding with great caution here.

Now there is a tug and pull, a give and take, between you and Ruburt, as to the amount of emotional freedom you will allow yourselves.  The conflict here, in the overall, results in a good balance, though of course there will be times when this is upset.

The conflict itself, you see, results in energy.  Your dream projection at the window signaled that you did not want to go further at that particular point.  You are afraid of emotional demonstrations, as you know.  At the same time the withheld emotional energy acts as a propellant, you see.

Ruburt is far more cautious than either of you suppose.  When you become overcautious, this can at times, momentarily at least, hold you both back; because you do not count upon this less apparent but quite definite cautious part of Ruburt.  All in all balance is maintained.

I do not want to take any more time with this episode.  I should emphasize however that full control is possible, and with practice will be achieved rather easily.  Ruburt’s personality is so constructed that he would not allow himself to take any real chances.

The initial experience however almost had to be spontaneous at this time, or it would not have occurred.  Your dream activities should accelerate with the change of seasons.  I speak of you both here.  A feeling of expansiveness and discipline should be maintained, but in that order.

…  I should also note that if coffee does not prevent or inhibit sleep, it will stimulate dream projections, and also aid you in bringing critical faculties into the dream state.  If the body can achieve a deep state of relaxation, unbothered by the caffeine, then the caffeine does activate the reasoning processes; and sufficiently enough to help them operate for a while, while the body is in slumber.  Alcohol will not help in this particular case.

If you are awakened for any reason during the night, the chances for a conscious projection on your return to sleep are somewhat higher than they would have been had your sleep not been interrupted.

…  No projection should occur until you are ready, or when you are ready.

…  Even in the dream state, do not try to force yourself to project.  You distrust the spontaneous nature, you see, that is at the base of all existence, but you only mistrust it at one level, which is fortunate.  It is a learned reaction.