“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Numerous forms of vocal communication — whether “true” speech or not, in current opinion — undoubtedly existed among the ancestors of our species for many millennia before the appearance of late Neanderthal man, however; according to conservative estimates such methods could have been in use for well over two million years, perhaps beginning even with our prehuman or animal stages. [...]

[...] I have not gone into these questions; however, to some degree in the subconscious mind you have what could be called a ghost image of your ancestors, and when your parents are in their last reincarnation cycle they leave your plane and it is more difficult for the ghost image to be imprinted.

You usually live with your physical family, though this does not always apply; sometimes your ancestors come from various countries, so there is a physical lineage that you understand. [...]

[...] I described the material briefly, then added, “It would be a joke if that information applied to our own ancestors, our cavemen, as we think of them.” [...]

[...] Maybe I’m some distant ancestor of Seth’s in those terms, alive in my life but only a memory in his. [...]

[...] 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? [...]

[...] But only in terms of that relationship — as I may be an uncle to someone here, and an aunt to someone there, an ancestor to someone else, and a descendent of still another person. [...]