020 Dismantling Reality's Camouflage Mental Enzymes, Inner Senses, and the Eternal Now

Session 20 of The Early Sessions, Book 1 from the Seth Material, recorded on January 29, 1964. This session focuses on the fundamental distinction between the inner and outer senses, the nature of physical reality as a "camouflage pattern," and the mechanics of perception beyond conventional understanding. It also contains a significant commentary by Seth on the nature of the sessions themselves, distancing them from traditional spiritualism and mediumship.

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The Outer Senses and Camouflage Reality

Seth begins by establishing the function and limitations of the physical senses. They are presented as tools designed exclusively for navigating the physical world, which he terms "camouflage pattern."

• Outward Focus: The primary senses—sight, hearing, and smell—are characterized by their "reach." They are directed outward, bringing data about the external environment to the body but rarely collecting data from within the body itself. For example, the eyes, while part of the body, cannot see within it, and the ears are better attuned to external sounds than to the body's own internal processes.

• Immediacy of Touch: The sense of touch is noted as being different, requiring a direct, immediate contact with an object, unlike the distant perceptions of sight or sound. This quality of immediacy is later used as an analogy for how the inner senses operate.

• Exclusive Domain: Seth states unequivocally that the outer senses are designed to interact solely with the physical, camouflage world. He states, "The outer senses deal mainly and as far as I know exclusively with camouflage pattern." This establishes the physical world as a specific type of reality construct, perceived through a specific set of tools.

The Inner Senses and the Nature of Inner Reality

In direct contrast to the outer senses, the inner senses are presented as faculties that perceive the fundamental reality beneath the physical camouflage.

• Inward Focus: Just as the outer senses reach outward into the physical environment, the inner senses extend "far inward," bringing crucial data about inner reality to the body and mind. They have an immediate and constant knowledge of the body's internal state in a way the outer senses do not.

• Perceiving Beyond Camouflage: The core function of the inner senses is to bypass physical constructs like time and space. Seth explains, "The inner senses, my dear Joseph, are senses which deal with realities beneath camouflage patterns, and which carry data of these realities, these inner realities, to the body."

• Qualities of Perception: Perception through the inner senses is described as having a "delicious intensity" and a powerful immediacy that the outer senses lack. Because the inner world operates without the construct of time, there is no lapse between perception and cognition.

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