“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Individually, you move in a very limited area of this vast universe, and yet inner reality is more (long pause) massive in size, if you speak in terms of size. It is far more extensive even in physical terms, and its reality exists in dimensions which do not exist within the physical system. You take for granted the existence of this largely unknown physical world. You gloss over what you do not understand.

Remember that reincarnation does not contradict the theory of the spacious present, for such lives within the spacious present are simultaneous. In dreams you journey through inner realities as actually as you walk physically through the matter of the physical world. It is true that the experiences you encounter may not be encountered by another in precisely (underline precisely) the same way, but physical experience is never the same for any two given individuals either.

In your journeys into inner reality you cannot proceed with the same root agreements, you see. Reality, per se, changes completely according to the basic root agreements from which you proceed. One of the root agreements upon which physical existence is based is that physical objects have a reality that is entirely independent of any subjective cause; and that these objects, within definitely specified limitations, are permanent.

Now these root agreements will only confuse you in your inner explorations. Objects may appear and disappear in these other systems. Using the root agreements just mentioned as a basis for reality, an observer would insist that the objects were not real, for they do not behave as he knows objects must behave.

Now. There is a cohesiveness to the inner universe, and to the systems that are not basically physical. 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.

Eight: The only barriers within inner reality are mental barriers, or psychic barriers.

Elements from past, present and future may be indiscriminately available to you. There is the tendency to judge such inner experience in terms of reliable physical assumptions, this being an error. You may conclude that a given experience is the result merely of subconscious fabrications, simply because the time elements are obviously intermixed, or physical coherence or sequence is not maintained.

It also unites experience. The unifying and the limiting aspects of consecutive moments are absent in inner reality. Time cannot be counted upon to unify action. The series you see does not exist basically. The unifying elements will be those of your own understanding, your own abilities. You are not forced to perceive action as a series of moments within inner reality, therefore.

When you are dealing with inner, or basically nonphysical environments, you must again become unspecialized, and then learn a new set of principles. You will soon learn for example to trust your perceptions, whether or not the experience seems to make logical sense.

Your mental processes are formed and developed as a result of this conditioning. The intuitive portions of the personality are not so formed, and these will operate to your advantage in any inner exploration. (Pause.)

You are basically capable of seeing this particular location as it existed a thousand years in your past, or as it will exist a thousand years in your future. (Jane indicated the living room in which we sat.) The senses serve to blot out many more aspects of reality than they allow you to perceive. They are actually rather rigid limiting devices, yet in many inner explorations you will automatically translate experience into terms that the senses can use.