“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Now, however, your global situation as a race requires the new acquisition of some “ancient arts.” [...]

[...] The members of some ancient civilizations, including the Egyptians, knew how to be the conscious directors of dream activity, how to delve into various levels of dream reality to the founts of creativity, and they were able to use that source material in their physical world.²

[...] This ability is quite ancient, though little known.

[...] In very ancient times, medicine men had to perform such acts as part of their initiation ceremonies. [...]

Some ancient religions put the existence of gods there, and saw the spirits of each living thing as existing primarily in that invisible medium of reality. [...]

The idea of the ether, or something like it, had been around since the time of the ancient Greeks. [...]

[...] The knowledge can let it relax, let go, so that it feels its life couched and safe, and knows itself to be indeed a beloved child of the universe, both ancient and young at once, with an identity far beyond the annals of time.

[...] Ancient religions, for example, speak of nature’s spirits, and such terms represent memories dating from prehistory. [...]

[...] The laws are old and ancient. [...]

[...] The heritage of the earth, in your terms, is ancient and yet ever new, and when you write your letters (to correspondents) you write … with your intelligence and your wit. [...]

[...] Your intellect as you think of it operates so clearly and precisely, so logically (with amusement), sometimes so arrogantly, because the intellect rides that great thrust of codified, “ancient,” “unconscious” power—the power of instant knowing that is a characteristic of the body consciousness (all very intently).

The entities, or units of consciousness—those ancient fragments that burst into objectivity from the vast and infinite psychological realms of All That Is—dared all, for they joyfully abandoned themselves in space and time. [...]

In one manner of speaking, of course, the change has already occurred, and we are speaking of ancient knowledge. And that ancient knowledge is dependent upon what was done here, and in some few other groups, and in what is being done in the dream state throughout the world. [...]

The parent-child relationship has its own unique emotional structure, which survives even those distortions you have placed upon it, and its ancient integrity would not be weakened, but strengthened, if greater stress were laid upon your bisexual nature.

Children would fare far better if the ancient parental qualities were not so forcibly focused upon the mother. [...]

[...] In time the Sumari language will be replaced, you see, by symbols, hopefully fairly faithful representations of symbols used in some ancient manuscripts. [...]

I will be here to see that this is put to practical use also, translated into terms that can be understood, and provide a firm basis from which you can further explore the nature of such ancient perceptions. [...]

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(Since Greece and Italy are close to each other geographically in the eastern Mediterranean, it was an easy matter for the citizens of both countries to meet, even in those ancient days.)

[...] There is (word lost), there is knowledge and in all ancient things there are beginnings before births, there are images before thoughts, there are gods within gods, there are paths that you (words lost). Your bodies are ancient. [...]

[...] Sometimes there is some separation, though, as when I’m aware of Seth giving me material … Seth is an ancient entity, however. [...]

In the distant past some ancient civilizations did indeed use animals in such a fashion, but in a far different framework. [...]

[...] That was my first thought when Seth told us that in ancient times certain people had “lived for several centuries.” [...]

My questions about those ancient great ages led Seth to volunteer some more information in a couple of private sessions.

[...] The so-called ancient portions of the brain (among them the brainstem — limbic system) contain “the mind’s memories.” [...]

(10:10.) The knowledge of the body’s own biological probabilities takes place at those ancient levels, and at those levels there is activity that results in a cellular communication existing between all species. [...]

[...] In the 686th session he referred to “official data” when he considered ancient man’s selection of certain mental and biological pulses as physical reality; later in the same session, he used the self-explanatory “official history.” [...]

In Section 4, then, Seth has more to say about CU and EE units, cellular consciousness, ancient man, evolution, space travel, and other seemingly disparate subjects as he continues to develop his thesis that “biologically the species is equipped to deal with different sequences of time while still manipulating within one particular time scheme.” [...]