“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

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.

In your journeys into inner reality you cannot proceed with the same root agreements, you see. Reality, per se, changes completely according to the basic root agreements from which you proceed. One of the root agreements upon which physical existence is based is that physical objects have a reality that is entirely independent of any subjective cause; and that these objects, within definitely specified limitations, are permanent.

Now these root agreements will only confuse you in your inner explorations. [...] 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.

[...] These, now, root agreements, form the main basis for the apparent permanence and coherence of your physical system.

In your journeys into inner reality, you cannot proceed with these same root assumptions. Reality, per se, changes completely according to the basic root agreements that you accept. One of the root agreements upon which physical reality is based is the assumption that objects have a reality independent of any subjective cause and that these objects, within definite specified limitations, are permanent.

[...] But this is based upon an entirely different set of root assumptions and these are the keys that alone will let you manipulate within other systems or understand them. There are several major root assumptions connected here and many minor ones:

Root assumptions represent the basic premises upon which a given existence-system is formed. [...] Your physical mechanisms are equipped to function in such a way that reality is perceived through the lens of particular root assumptions, then. [...]

[...] 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 are not bound by those root assumptions however. [...] Inner experience often seems chaotic or meaningless because you attempt to interpret it according to the root assumptions of physical reality. [...]

The root assumptions that govern physical reality are indeed valid, but within physical reality alone. [...] There is a natural tendency to continue judging inner experience against these root assumptions however. [...]

Now the dreams that you would have, and had, in shared experience, are root dreams. Such root dreams serve as a method of maintaining inner identity, and of communication. [...] Projections may occur also from root dreams. [...]

There are also some root dreams shared by the race as a whole.

[...] Many root dreams are literal interpretations of abilities used by the inner self.

Selves (spelled) have far greater freedom than leaves, but they can also root themselves if they choose — and they do. [...] These selves, however, dropping from one branch of time, root themselves in another time and become new plants from which others will sprout.

[...] They have a common root, as next year’s leaves have a common root with the leaves now of this plant (pointing again to the begonia).

[...] But you often pretend that you are some odd dangling leaf, with no roots, growing without a plant to support you.

[...] But when you leave your physical system, and when physical perception is no longer the rule—then you must learn new root assumptions. Root assumptions are those meaning laws upon which you agree in any system of reality. [...]

There are other root assumptions that you take as a basis of reality. And in other levels of reality there are other root assumptions. [...]

There are other root assumptions that you take as a basis of reality. And in other levels of reality, there are other root assumptions. [...]

[...] But when you leave your physical system and when physical perception is no longer the rule, then you must learn new root assumptions.

Root assumptions are those laws upon which you agree in any system of reality. [...]

2. Seth notes in part, in Chapter Three of Seth Speaks: “Root assumptions are those built-in ideas of reality … those agreements upon which you base your ideas of existence. Space and time, for example, are root assumptions. [...] When I communicate within your system, I must use and understand the root assumptions upon which it is based.”

Root assumptions are those built-in ideas of reality of which I spoke — those agreements upon which you base your ideas of existence. Space and time, for example, are root assumptions. [...] When I communicate within your system, I must use and understand the root assumptions upon which it is based. [...]

When I enter your system, I intrude into three-dimensional reality, and you must interpret what happens in the light of your own root assumptions. [...]

The tooth and nerves and roots are now at rest. [...]

This is important book but only root. [...]

—and evidently some minds do work in such ways that anything not rooted in the “objective, external” world literally does not exist; this orientation includes the belief, the “fact,” that even all thinking or feeling is so related to that outsideness, or is so a part of it, that there is no separation possible.

[...] And more ridiculous, you pull up your roots. A tree would never pull up its roots. I am not speaking now of pulling up your roots in terms of moving from one location to another. I am speaking of something akin to cutting off your roots from any nourishment whatsoever.

[...] The tree listens to its growth up from the earth and listens also to the murmur of the growth of its roots beneath. It adjusts each root ending according to what impediments might lie in its way. [...]

[...] It is quite unfair to say that it cannot transport itself since it does so to an amazing degree, the roots and limbs moving in all directions. [...]

Timidity has roots of rage.

(“Why these roots of rage in my wife?”)

The realization that he need not be a public person, for example, is taking root, so keep this information at your fingertips. [...]

[...] Root assumptions are extremely important, for they outline the extent of your reality. [...]

One of the main root assumptions of your popular world has been that the future does not exist in the present. [...]

[...] And you are well-equipped with the proper passports, and inoculated with certain root assumptions.

[...] Evolutionary man, with Darwinian roots, could not be a creature with a soul. It had to have hidden in its psychological roots the bloody remnants of the struggle for survival that now cast it in its uneasy role. [...]

(Pause at 9:26.) The inner reality of the message was told in terms that man at the time could understand, in line with his root assumptions. [...]

[...] This particular drama would not have made sense to other systems with different root assumptions than your own.

[...] While your religions are built around an enduring kernel of truth, the symbolism used was craftily selected by the inner self in line with its knowledge of those root assumptions you hold as valid in the physical universe. [...]

[...] You simply choose various kinds of organizational structures and different root assumptions—all however within the general root assumptions used for physical existence.

[...] Because of your root assumptions however it is not possible for you to perceive these, nor those that will come “after” (in quotes). [...]

[...] Fruit trees have roots, but you assign no ground of being to this consciousness.

Jung’s collective unconscious was an attempt to give your world its psychological roots, but Jung¹ could not perceive the clarity, organization, and deeper context in which that collective unconscious has its own existence. [...]