“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now. You form your dreams on many levels, as you know. In some of them you spread your own root assumptions outward, creating dream images based upon these assumptions. I must use these assumptions in interpreting our data during experiments. If you give me for example a card that was sent with love, then the love is far more real to me than the card. I follow these emotional charges most minutely, using great discrimination in order to let myself be led to the specific object.

I have only given you a few of the basic root assumptions. Countless minor ones follow from these however, and serve to direct the line of inquiry, exploration and perception. You will remember your own root dreams much more clearly simply because you are familiar, now, with root assumptions, and therefore freer to divest yourself of them within the dream situation.

I must translate the basic data so that it will fit your root assumptions. Sometimes Ruburt’s associative abilities help, and I try to guide them for our purposes. The emotional charge connected with an item may lead me into both your past and present, but I must then distinguish for you between what has happened and what will happen, although for me no such difference exists.

Physically speaking, you will find nothing to contradict these assumptions, since they are all that you can experience or perceive physically. These root assumptions are the framework of the camouflage system. As you explore other realities, you almost automatically interpret such data in terms of the root assumptions of your own system.

In your journeys into inner reality, you cannot proceed with these same root assumptions. [...] One of the root agreements upon which physical reality is based is the assumption that objects have a reality independent of any subjective cause and that these objects, within definite specified limitations, are permanent.

[...] But this is based upon an entirely different set of root assumptions and these are the keys that alone will let you manipulate within other systems or understand them. There are several major root assumptions connected here and many minor ones:

[...] In this particular instance the root agreement or assumption simply leads you astray.

[...] But this cohesiveness is based upon an entirely different set of root assumptions or agreements, and these are the keys that alone will enable you to manipulate within, or understand, other systems.

There are several major root assumptions and many minor ones.

Again physically speaking, you will find nothing to contradict these assumptions, since physically to you they are all that you can experience or perceive. These root assumptions are the framework of your camouflage system. As you attempt to explore other realities you almost automatically interpret such data in terms of the root assumptions of your own system.

[...] All ideas of reality must be glimpsed through the physical net which is the materialized form of these assumptions. [...] You must, physically speaking, interpret existence in terms of these very definite assumptions.

[...] The inner senses are not bound by those root assumptions however. [...] Inner experience often seems chaotic or meaningless because you attempt to interpret it according to the root assumptions of physical reality. [...]

In modern times, then, the intellect was finally left with only one acceptable world view, with one set of assumptions, with only one main approach to reality and experience. The acceptable assumptions to a large extent ran directly contradictory to built-in biological, spiritual, and psychological assumptions that are a part of man’s heritage. [...]

(9:29.) The intellect could handle both approaches, operating with separate assumptions. There were separate assumptions that applied to different realities. [...]

[...] When it is given only one world view, and only one group of assumptions, its orderly nature causes it to throw out all information that does not fit. [...]

[...] But when you leave your physical system, and when physical perception is no longer the rule—then you must learn new root assumptions. Root assumptions are those meaning laws upon which you agree in any system of reality. [...]

There are other root assumptions that you take as a basis of reality. And in other levels of reality there are other root assumptions. [...]

There are other root assumptions that you take as a basis of reality. And in other levels of reality, there are other root assumptions. [...]

[...] But when you leave your physical system and when physical perception is no longer the rule, then you must learn new root assumptions.

Root assumptions are those laws upon which you agree in any system of reality. [...]

Each of you are now involved in a much larger production, in which you all agree on certain basic assumptions that serve as a framework within which the play can occur. The assumptions are that time is a series of moments one after another; that an objective world exists quite independently of your own creation and perception of it; that you are bound within the physical bodies that you have donned; and that you are limited by time and space.

(9:35.) Other assumptions accepted for the same reason include the idea that all perception comes through your physical senses; in other words, that all information comes from without, and that no information can come from within. [...]

[...] And granting these assumptions that have been stated, there are no rehearsals. [...]

2. Seth notes in part, in Chapter Three of Seth Speaks: “Root assumptions are those built-in ideas of reality … those agreements upon which you base your ideas of existence. Space and time, for example, are root assumptions. [...] When I communicate within your system, I must use and understand the root assumptions upon which it is based.”

Root assumptions are those built-in ideas of reality of which I spoke — those agreements upon which you base your ideas of existence. Space and time, for example, are root assumptions. [...] When I communicate within your system, I must use and understand the root assumptions upon which it is based. [...]

When I enter your system, I intrude into three-dimensional reality, and you must interpret what happens in the light of your own root assumptions. [...]

[...] The stated discernible hypotheses of the various systems are one thing—but their invisible root assumptions are something else. [...] Those deeply seated, invisible, cultural assumptions still operated, however. [...]

[...] Once you are born into a particular time and country, you do grow up in an almost invisible but definite environment of concepts, assumptions, and predetermined ideas that serve as a basis from which your own individual beliefs spring. [...]

Now while this journey went on, and while he traveled through systems, disregarding, finally, one series of beliefs after another, he still carried to some degree certain basic root assumptions, held in different ways by all of those systems. [...]

In projections, you see, you must dispense with normal psychological root assumptions. [...] The assumption is only a convenient one within your physical system. Doors are solid: This is not a basic truth, you see, but a convenient root assumption.

[...] Root assumptions are extremely important, for they outline the extent of your reality. [...]

One of the main root assumptions of your popular world has been that the future does not exist in the present. [...]

[...] And you are well-equipped with the proper passports, and inoculated with certain root assumptions.

(Pause at 9:26.) The inner reality of the message was told in terms that man at the time could understand, in line with his root assumptions. [...]

[...] This particular drama would not have made sense to other systems with different root assumptions than your own.

[...] While your religions are built around an enduring kernel of truth, the symbolism used was craftily selected by the inner self in line with its knowledge of those root assumptions you hold as valid in the physical universe. [...]

[...] You simply choose various kinds of organizational structures and different root assumptions—all however within the general root assumptions used for physical existence.

[...] Because of your root assumptions however it is not possible for you to perceive these, nor those that will come “after” (in quotes). [...]

Your assumptions about reality become reality. [...] You do indeed have to change all of your assumptions—and while living in a world that seems to work by different rules than yours—nor can you as yet make all of your own rules work, so to speak. [...]

You live in a world of root assumptions, to which all agree. [...]

[...] If they seem to be blocked by others, that assumption is incorrect, based on ignorance.

[...] You were correct in the assumption that upon death the personality sends out signals; but the personality constantly sends out signals, in any condition of existence.

Ruburt was correct in his assumptions about your cat. [...]

[...] All of these assumptions are taken for granted in your physical journeys. You may find different customs and languages, yet even these will be accepted in the vast, overall, basic assumptions within whose boundaries physical life occurs. [...] The idea of such outsideness is one of the assumptions upon which you build that existence. [...]

I’ve rejected all that kind of hash projected onto Seth’s books by others or myself—the assumptions that Seth must prove himself as a problem solver— or the importance of functionalism over art. [...]