“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

Because dream objects appear and disappear, this does not mean they do not exist. In this particular instance the root agreement or assumption simply leads you astray.

Two: All objects have their origin basically in mental action. Mental action is directed psychic energy.

Objects—this is four—are blocks of energy perceived in a highly specialized manner.

Five: Stability in time-sequence is not a prerequisite requirement for an object, except as a root assumption within the physical universe.

Now. If another individual under the same circumstances comes across the same potential object, he can also perceive it as you did. He may however, because of his own makeup, perceive and translate another portion of allied pattern. He may see the form of the man who originated the thought of the building. (Pause.) To a large extent your habit of perceiving time as a sequence forms the type of experience, and also limits the experience that you will have in physical reality.

In a projection the problems will be of a different sort. The form of a man for example, may be a thought form, or fragment sent quite unconsciously by another individual whom it resembles. It may be another projectionist like yourself. It may be a potential form like any potential object—a played-over-and-over-again record of a form.

(Copy of my letter, used as the object in the 70th envelope experiment, in the 285th session for September 12,1966.)