“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

These are the ground rules, so to speak. Your physical mechanisms are equipped to function in such a way that reality is perceived through the lens of particular root assumptions. Using the physical senses alone, it is almost literally impossible for you to perceive reality in any other manner.

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.

The inner senses alone are equipped and able to process and perceive other reality systems. Even the distortions can be kept at a minimum with training. Indiscriminate use of the psychedelic drugs can severely shake up learned patterns of response, that are necessary for effective manipulation within physical reality, break subtle connections and disturb electromagnetic functions.

Ego failure may result. Development of the inner senses is a much more effective method of perceiving other realities, and followed correctly, the ego is not only stronger but more flexible, and consciousness even of physical reality is increased. Such development becomes an unfolding and a natural expansion of the whole personality.

Beneath these root assumptions however portions of the self perceive physical reality in an entirely different fashion, free of the tyranny of objects and material form. Here you experience concepts directly, without the need for symbolisms. Here you experience the spacious present directly. Here you have knowledge of your past personalities, and know that they exist simultaneously with your own.

The ego can exist only within the context of these root assumptions. The primary dream experience is finally woven into a structure composed of these root assumptions, and it is these that you remember. These serve you as basic information, but the information is then put into symbolic form. Objects, you see, are symbols. These objects in dreams are symbols of realities that the ego could not otherwise perceive.

Objects are indeed symbols to represent inner realities that could not otherwise be perceived by physical organisms. You manipulate these symbols.