“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I must translate the basic data so that it will fit your root assumptions. Sometimes Ruburt’s associative abilities help, and I try to guide them for our purposes. The emotional charge connected with an item may lead me into both your past and present, but I must then distinguish for you between what has happened and what will happen, although for me no such difference exists.

There are various difficulties. I may quite legitimately receive the impression of unendurable heaviness, for example, but then this must be properly interpreted, does the heaviness apply to a heavy psychic sorrow, or a heavy physical weight?

The impression, colon: something presses down. Again, quite legitimate perhaps, but is this a threatening event, or is it perhaps a threatening physical object?

Falling dreams also belong to the root dream category. They also represent direct experience, as the inner self once more reenters the physical body. No up or down really exists, you see, but the root assumptions take these directions for granted, and the fear of falling is a learned response. It is learned early, but it is learned.

Dreams in which psychic instruction is given: here we have another example of a root dream. Again, not symbolic but actual experience. Past life dreams are root dreams. This is not to say that upon awakening the direct experience is not automatically intermixed with other dream elements.

With some individuals some of these dreams may also represent personal symbolisms, but the original dream in the raw, unembellished, is a root dream. The embellishments are added after the dream is completed, just before the point when you remember it on a conscious level. The embellishments may be portions of other dreams, recalled now out of context, and attached to your memory of the original root dream.

To me, an emotion will automatically be translated into color in many instances. Here you see—but try this: do you see a connection between the color red and the word quick?

The physical body as an object is, among other things, a symbolic representation of your own emotional reality. (Long pause.) Your dreams and your waking experiences both closely mirror your psychic condition. Symbols may be individualistic to some small extent, but physical bodies are your main symbols. While they are all amazingly different, the basic symbol within your system is universally accepted as a reality.

The world as you know it is mankind’s creation, and his abilities and limitations are all in evidence there. Within the dream state all mankind knows the outcome of any given dilemma. No predestination is involved. The problems have already been worked out on a mental or psychic level, but not yet physically materialized.

Precognitive dreams therefore are precognitive only in line with your own accepted root assumptions. Decisions have already been made, but have not yet caught up to you within the physical system.

We are going to begin on an interesting tangent that is however quite connected with this discussion, but it is too late to begin this evening. We shall hold it then for our next session.