“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.

The nonphysical systems are frightening to the ego-centered personality; but the bulk of the individual’s reality does not lie within the physical universe, but in those unknown areas. As you know the ego is the topmost portion, so to speak. Were it not for the dreaming self the ego would not exist. Were it not for past existences the personality as you know it would not exist.

You agree to accept certain data in the physical universe. You agree to form this into certain patterns, and you agree to ignore other data completely. These, now, root agreements, form the main basis for the apparent permanence and coherence of your physical system.

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.