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“In a recent class session, Seth said: “If you would momentarily put aside the selves you take
\nfor granted, you could experience your own multidimensional reality. These are not just fine
\nwords that mean nothing. I do not harp to you about theory simply because I want to spout theory,
\nbut because I want you to put these ideas into practice.”<\/p>\n

“Precisely what steps do you want us to follow?” one of the students asked.
\n“First, you must try to understand the nature of reality. To some small extent I have begun to
\nexplain this in the Seth Material. The five hundred and some-odd sessions we have barely represent
\nan outline, but they are enough to start with. The ideas, in themselves, will make you think.
\nI have told you that there are Inner Senses as well as physical ones. These will enable you
\nto perceive reality as it exists independently of the physical world. You must learn to recognize,
\ndevelop, and use these Inner Senses. The methods are given in the material. But you cannot utilize
\nthe material until you understand it.<\/p>\n

“The material itself is-if you’ll forgive the term cleverly executed; so that as you grapple to
\nunderstand it, you are already beginning to use abilities beyond those that you take for granted.
\n“You must, first of all, cease identifying yourself completely with your ego, and realize that you
\ncan perceive more than your ego perceives. You must demand more of yourself than you ever have
\nbefore. The material is not for those who would deceive themselves with pretty, packaged, ribboned truths
\nthat are parceled out and cut apart so that you can digest them. That sort of material serves a
\nneed, but our material demands that you intellectually and intuitively expand.”<\/p>\n

One student had a guest with her, Mary, who wrinkled up her forehead when Seth finished speaking.
\n“But if we ‘momentarily put aside’ the ego,” she said to me, “won’t we be unconscious?”
\nI didn’t have a chance to answer. Seth answered for me-his way. “You are an identity,” he said.
\n“Pretend that you hold a flashlight, and the flashlight is consciousness. You can turn this
\nlight in many directions, but instead you are in the habit of directing it along one certain path, and
\nyou have forgotten that there are other paths.<\/p>\n

“All you have to do is swing the flashlight in other directions. When you shift it, the path
\nupon which you have been focusing will momentarily appear dark, but other realities and images
\nwill become available to you, and there is nothing to prevent you from swinging the flashlight back
\nto the earlier position.”
\nSeth has used several analogies to explain this point. He said in another class session: “You have
\nmore than one conscious mind. We want you to change the channels of your awareness. . .
\n. If you consider the conscious mind that you usually use as one door, then you stand at the
\nthreshold of this mind and look out into physical reality. But there are other doors you have
\nother conscious selves. . . .<\/p>\n

“You are not expected to become unconscious, then. There is no need to feel that when you block
\nout the ordinary conscious mind,
\nthere is only blankness. It is true that when you dose one conscious mind-door-there may be
\na moment of disorientation before you open another.<\/p>\n

“It is also true that you may need to learn the methods by which you can perceive other realities, simply
\nbecause you are not used to manipulating these other conscious portions of yourself. But
\nthese portions are as critical-and even as intellectual-as valid and as real as the consciousness with
\nwhich you are ordinarily familiar.”<\/p>\n

Seth insists that there is only one way to learn what consciousness is: by studying and exploring
\nour own awareness, by changing the focus of our attention and using our own consciousness in as
\nmany ways as possible. He says: “When you look into yourself, the very effort involved extends the
\nlimitations of your consciousness, expands it, and allows the egotistical self to use abilities that
\nit often does not realize it possesses.”<\/p>\n

The Inner Senses are not important because they release clairvoyant or telepathic abilities, but because
\nthey reveal to us our own independence from physical matter, and let us recognize our unique, individual
\nmultidimensional identity. Properly utilized, they also show us the miracle of physical existence and
\nour place in it. We can live a wiser, more productive, happier physical life because we begin
\nto understand why we are here, individually and as a people.<\/p>\n

The Inner Senses help us use telepathic abilities, for example. This doesn’t mean that we
\nwill always be able to “read minds.” It means that in family, business, or social contacts, we will
\nbe intuitively aware of what the other person is saying to us: we will know what is beneath words.
\nWe will also use words better ourselves to communicate our inner feelings since we will know
\nwhat those feelings are. We will not be afraid of them or feel the need to cover them up.<\/p>\n

At times, we can “read minds”-though that is a popular term, leaving much to be desired. But
\nto use the Inner Senses properly, they must be used smoothly, often blending one into the other.
\nIt is often difficult to know whether we are receiving clairvoyant or telepathic information, for example.
\nNot that it matters. Using the Inner Senses, we simply increase our entire range of perceptions.<\/p>\n

As I write this, I am picking up all sorts of information about my environment, but I am
\nhardly aware of doing so. Certainly I don’t consciously separate visual and auditory data unless
\nI stop to think of it, though I know I receive the information through different senses.<\/p>\n

All of the physical senses operate at once to give us our picture of reality. We use the Inner Senses
\nthe same way, constantly, far beneath our conscious notice. In order to explain them, we must
\ndescribe them separately, though their effects are felt together.
\nSeth began to list and explain them early in our sessions, starting in February 1964, and we
\nare still learning to use them. I will list them as he did, and give a few excerpts from his
\ndescriptions.<\/p>\n

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