“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Both cats were in for the night. Now they began playing noisily about the room.)

Now. If a particular question is asked, we attempt to answer it. The answer of course will be picked up in the same manner, through emotional force. The other evening, you answered your own question in your mind, and we picked up that location. To call this telepathy tells you nothing however, for all such information is the result of emotional force.

Now. You form your dreams on many levels, as you know. In some of them you spread your own root assumptions outward, creating dream images based upon these assumptions. I must use these assumptions in interpreting our data during experiments. If you give me for example a card that was sent with love, then the love is far more real to me than the card. I follow these emotional charges most minutely, using great discrimination in order to let myself be led to the specific object.

You may now take a brief break and we shall continue.

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.

I have only given you a few of the basic root assumptions. Countless minor ones follow from these however, and serve to direct the line of inquiry, exploration and perception. You will remember your own root dreams much more clearly simply because you are familiar, now, with root assumptions, and therefore freer to divest yourself of them within the dream situation.

This is the sort of thing with which I deal. There is a constant transformation of data from one set of terms to another. (Pause.) The word short, or rather the impression of briefness. Now I must decide in which way this briefness shall be interpreted. Something brief in time, or brief in space, which could lead me for example to the impression of a small building. Do you see?