“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now. Root assumptions represent the basic premises upon which a given existence-system is formed.

A strong part of your personalities is therefore a product of the physical system in which you have physical existence. All ideas of reality must be glimpsed through the physical net which is the materialized form of these assumptions. You are, in other words, physically able to observe reality in a highly specialized fashion. You must, physically speaking, interpret existence in terms of these very definite assumptions.

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.

This of course highly falsifies such data. The inner senses are not bound by those root assumptions however. This is why many psychic or subjective experiences seem to contradict physical laws. Inner experience often seems chaotic or meaningless because you attempt to interpret it according to the root assumptions of physical reality. You must learn the laws that apply to other systems.

The root assumptions that govern physical reality are indeed valid, but within physical reality alone. They do not apply elsewhere. There is a natural tendency to continue judging inner experience against these root assumptions however. The tendency, with further experience, will fade. This interpretation of inner reality into physical terms is at first automatic, and far beneath conscious levels. Inner experience, you see, must to some extent be colored by the physical system while you exist within it.

The nervous system itself must, you see, be so constituted, and the nervous system reacts definitely to visual block images. Such images are received through the skin as well as through the eyes. The whole system is highly complicated and organized, and organized to react to specific patterns that are formed from these basic root assumptions.

The fact that this does occur does show that the systems of perception are not basically biologically a form of overall structure however, but learned secondary responses. It is disturbing to the whole physical system however to break up the strong pattern of perception. Inner stability of response is suddenly swept away. Changes that are not yet known occur within the nervous system under such circumstances, both electromagnetic and chemical.

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.

It is not bombarded as with drug experiments, and forced to experience chaotic and frightening perceptions that can literally terrify it into complete disorder. Survival in your system is strongly dependent upon the highly specialized, focused, limited but specific organizational qualities of the ego. It should not be rigid but it should not be purposely torn apart, nor weakened.