“You agree to accept certain data in the physical universe. You agree to form this into certain patterns, and you agree to ignore other data completely. These, now, root assumptions, form the main basis for the apparent permanence and coherence of your physical system.
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. Objects may appear and disappear in these other systems. 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.
Because dream objects appear and disappear, this does not mean they do not exist. In this particular instance the root agreement or assumption simply leads you astray.
There is a cohesiveness to the inner universe, and to the systems that are not basically physical. But this cohesiveness is based upon an entirely different set of root assumptions or agreements, and these are the keys that alone will enable you to manipulate within, or understand, other systems.
There are several major root assumptions and many minor ones.
“One: Energy and action are basically the same, although neither must necessarily apply to physical motion.
Two: All objects have their origin basically in mental action. Mental action is directed psychic energy.
Three: Permanence is not a matter of time. Existence has value in terms of intensities.
Objects—this is four—are blocks of energy perceived in a highly specialized manner.
Five: Stability in time-sequence is not a prerequisite requirement for an object, except as a root assumption within the physical universe.
Six: Space as a barrier does not exist.
Seven: The spacious present is here more available to the perceptions.
Eight: The only barriers within a reality are mental barriers, or psychic barriers.”
TES7 Session 284 September 7, 1966
“Now. Root assumptions are extremely important, for they outline the extent of your reality. They define it, and confine it to certain focuses.
One of the main root assumptions of your popular world has been that the future does not exist in the present.”
TPS3 Deleted Session July 25, 1977
