Seth's Perceptions, Root Dreams, Objects As Symbols

Seth Early Sessions, Vol 7, Session 286

Seth’s Perceptions

There are several points I would like to make concerning our own envelope experiments.

There are some things that I do not believe you clearly understand.  To me, a thought is an action.  It is as valid a reality.  There is no basic difference between telepathy and clairvoyance, as you term them.  The emotional feelings connected with an item are as real to me as the item itself.  It is these emotional charges that are interpreted, and finally translated into physical terms.

In other words, the emotional charges allow me to hunt for the item that you want me to identify.  I do not begin with the item and reach outward.  I identify first of all with the emotional realities, for these are the only basic realities to me.  Then I form these into my interpretations of the item itself.

Sometimes subconsciously Ruburt makes these last connections.

Now.  If a particular question is asked, we attempt to answer it.  The answer of course will be picked up on 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.

I did not then distinguish as to whether or not, in this particular case, what you thought was true.  It was true enough on certain levels.  Your emotional answer however did prevent me from searching further for the answer.

In all these experiments I receive the emotional and psychic impressions first, and then attempt to name the object.

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.

Size, you see, means relatively little to me.  A note that was quickly written I may interpret as a small piece of paper, you see, though the paper itself may be large.  I think in intensities, and curb my tendency in order to focus more specifically.

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

The initial impressions are simple, quite elementary, and always correct.  It is in the interpretation and refinement that the only difficulties ever arise.  The stronger the emotional charge connected with the item, however, the stronger the impressions received, and the more correct the data as a rule.

Your impression of the building the other evening contained the strongest emotional charge instantly available, that seemed to offer the needed information.

My root assumptions are entirely different, so some interpretation is always involved.

Objects As Symbols Representing The Reality Of Direct Experience

I mentioned that objects are symbols to express a basic reality, the reality of direct experience.  On one level dreams deal with objects and dream images.  Here they are still being used as symbols.  At deeper levels however in the dream state there is direct experience, and objects are not used.

Root Dreams

There are root dreams that represent basic inner experiences.  Initially no images are involved.  If you remember the dreams, you remember them with images however.  Flying dreams are an example here.  They are not symbolic of anything, basically speaking.  They represent direct experience.

If you recall the dream it may seem to you that you were in your physical body.  Your physical root assumptions in this case would be so strong that you could not imagine yourself, even in a dream, without a physical body.  We have discussed the various forms actually used, however.

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 the 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.

Seth's Perceptions (continued)

Geometric figures represent the most simple and basic root assumptions.  When I have perceived the emotional charges connected with any given experimental object, then my first step in interpretation involves such abstract forms.

Within your system however, color, to man, is more important than shape, though this is not true with all species in your system.  Color is closer to emotional experience than shape.  It is also, believe it or not, closer to sound.  The connections between color and emotion are too obvious to discuss here.

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

(“Yes”)

This is the sort of thing with which I deal.  There is a constant transformation of data from one set of terms to another.  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?

(“Yes”)

The impression stony: shall I follow this in dimensions of physical matter, shall I interpret stony as a rocky ground, or as a stony expression on someone’s face?

Physical Objects And Dream Images As Symbols

There is a strong connection between what I have been saying and the way in which you translate inner reality into symbolic form, either in the waking life, as objects, or in the dreaming state as dream images.  I am working from the other end, you see.

Your outward physical experiences are also symbolic interpretations of inner reality.

The physical body as an object is, among other things, a symbolic representation of your own emotional reality.  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 physical state of your world therefore effectively mirrors the inner condition of its inhabitants.  You can tell an artist’s abilities from his paintings, as you observe them, con you not?

(“Yes”)

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. … We shall hold it then for our next session.