“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I want you to feel that energy that belongs to you, that knowledge that is a part of your genes, that fills yourselves with acceleration and joy and exaltation. [...]

A third line supporting your selfhood as you think of it is the reincarnational one.⁹ This is somewhat like the ancestral line (long pause), and there are also reflections in the genes and chromosomes undetected by your scientists. [...]

[...] They carry the genes, the factors or units — ‘blueprints’ — that determine hereditary characteristics.”

It would be impossible at this time, I’m certain, for a researcher to find any evidence that reincarnational heritages are coded for among the approximately 100,000 genes lined up on the 46 chromosomes we carry in the nucleus of each of our cells. We say that a certain gene contains the instructions for the manufacture of a certain protein the body uses in the construction or function of an eye, for instance, and that in expressing that code the gene passes on characteristics inherited from physical ancestors—but is that endowment influenced or directed in any fashion by reincarnational attributes as well? [...] The genes in each cell have their individual jobs to do in furnishing the quivering templates for the manufacture (via the nucleic acids DNA and messenger RNA) of all of our bodily proteins. [...]

All of this reminds me that lately the media have carried a number of stories detailing how medical science is not only trying hard to approach cures for scourges like cancer (in cancer’s case, possibly through the exploration and understanding of the role played in the cell nucleus by altered normal cells called oncogenes), but is already claiming to have narrowed down its search to specific genes that affect imponderables like behavior—depression, for example. [...]

[...] Your scientists write about heredity, buried and coded in the genes,⁶ blueprints for an identity not yet formed. [...]

6. In Volume 1, see the definitions of chromosomes and genes in Note 9 for Session 682.

7. Seth first discussed his blueprints for reality in Session 696 for Volume 1: “Each probability system has its own set of ‘blueprints,’ clearly defining its freedoms and boundaries, and setting forth the most favorable structures capable of fulfillment … As an individual you carry within you such a blueprint … The information is knit into the genes and chromosomes, but it exists apart … In the same fashion the species en masse holds within its vast inner mind such working plans or blueprints.”

[...] The knowledge of the mother lingers in the mental genes, and the memory of the flesh still occurs in your physical genes. [...]

[...] You do not know if you have any errant genes unless their effects show themselves. [...]

[...] Both represented high points of your entities, images in the mental genes, blueprints for your spirits to follow. [...]

As mental genes are behind the physical genes, so to speak, so are mental enzymes behind the physical stuff you can examine on your plane. [...]

[...] It triggers the genes and chromosomes into their proper activity, and it promotes feelings of optimism, exuberance, and strength.

[...] Abnormalities of any kind in birth always represent probable versions of the species itself — and they are kept in the gene pool to provide a never-ending bank of alternates.

[...] As fragments of a personality break off in the manner that I explained for schizophrenics, so in some cases part of an entity reincarnates before it should, does not carry its full mental gene blueprint, and therefore causes trouble and confusion. [...]

[...] Again I will have more to say about the idea shape, which is somewhat like the physical genes and the blueprint, only on a different manifestation level. [...]

We have spoken of mental genes. These are more or less psychic blueprints for physical matter, and in these mental genes existed the pattern for your human type of self-consciousness. [...]

[...] They are always paramount in evolutionary development, being the impetus behind the physical formations. … The inner senses themselves, through the use of mental enzymes, imprint the data contained in the mental genes onto the physical camouflage material.

[...] The C can refer to either Gene Cesari, an assistant dean at Elmira College, or to Bill Cieri, of the public school night-course system. Jane also cited the similarity in sound between Gene and Jane.

[...] He also projects upon cellular components like genes and DNA¹⁴ learned concepts of “protection” and “selfishness”: DNA is said to care only about its own survival and “knowledge,” and not whether its host is man, plant, or animal. [...] I’m only half joking (is there a gene for humor?) when I protest that DNA, for example, doesn’t deserve to be regarded in such a fashion, no matter how much we push it around through recombinant techniques.¹⁵

(For the most part Seth’s ideas are far away from thoughts of replicating genes or the second law of thermodynamics. [...]

[...] Instead, precognitively the species is aware of those changes it wants to make, and from the “future” it alters the “present” state of the chromosomes and genes (see Note 14) to bring about in the probable future the specific changes it desires. [...]

[...] The information is knit into the genes and chromosomes, but it exists apart, and the physical structures merely represent the carriers of information.³ In the same fashion the species en masse holds within its vast inner mind such working plans or blueprints. [...]

The genes and chromosomes do not just happen to have within them the precisely definite coded information that will be needed. [...]

What your scientists have learned about the physical genes barely scratches the reality of diversity, even physically. [...]

[...] The covenant is written in your genes.

[...] Still, the knowledge of mathematics and the arts is as much within you as your genes are within you. [...]

[...] Biologically such information is coded, but that physical information, such as in the genes and chromosomes, can be altered through experience and mental activity in other species as well as your own.