“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

It seems unnatural to some people to hear of animals’ mothers who refuse to nurse one offspring, or sometimes even attack it — but in those instances the animal mother is instinctively aware of the situation, and acts to save the offspring from future suffering.

[...] There is an S connected with the stranger, also an A. And the Grangers have come from down a road or path, that is somewhat hilly, from a settlement there, and they have been riding, perhaps bicycles or wagon-like vehicles—or a wagon driven by animals—pulled by animals. [...]

[...] The sexual ideas of domination and submission have no part in the natural life of your species, or that of the animals. Again, you interpret animal behavior according to your own beliefs.

[...] Fleas, for example, actually help increase circulation, and constantly comb animal’s hair. [...]

[...] Rat poison may indeed add its own dangers, killing other small birds or rodents, and contaminating animal food supplies. [...]

[...] There is an S connected with the stranger, also an A, and the Gallaghers have come from down a road or path that is somewhat hilly, from a settlement there, and they have been riding, perhaps bicycles or wagonlike vehicles: or a wagon driven by animals; pulled by animals.

Native cultures, believing that the courage or fleetness of an eaten animal became part of the hunter’s mental and physical acquisition, handled the body in entirely different terms, and did very well. [...] You can say with equal validity that the body holds a man’s ghost, that it is filled also with the organs of all the animals a man has consumed—that one man has the heart of a lion, and in that framework that is true.

[...] It is quite correct to say that your body is composed of everything you have consumed, also—each bird, animal, and plant—that those qualities form your flesh, ever change their form.

[...] After death, an individual may visualize his (immediately previous physical) life as an animal with which he must come to terms, and such a battle or encounter has far-reaching consequences, for the man must come to terms with all portions of himself. In this case, whether the hallucination ends with him riding the animal, making friends with it, domesticating it, killing it or being killed by it, each alternative… (Jane coughed, then paused and took a sip of beer) is carefully weighed, and the results will have much to do with his future development.

(At 11:11 I read the last two paragraphs of the material to her, but she couldn’t make any emotional connections that might explain the voice difficulty, nor could I. Jane is inordinately fond of animals. [...]

[...] The drawing I gave the Kecks was of a pigeon—the “animal in a tree.” The drawing merely showed a pigeon, no tree, and a pigeon is not an animal. [...]

Something to do with an animal in a tree, that I do not understand.

[...] “Something to do with an animal in a tree, that I do not understand.” [...]

[...] An exuberance may be translated into images of playing animals, flying people, or animals or landscapes of great beauty. [...]

[...] One person may symbolize fear as a demon, as an unfriendly animal, or even as some perfectly simple ordinarily harmless object; but if you know what your own symbols mean, then you can use the knowledge not only to interpret your dreams but also as signposts to the state of consciousness in which they usually occur.

[...] There were several young animals in the group. I don’t recall seeing any antlers on the mature animals, but could have missed them. [...]

[...] In fact, we know so little about animals, let alone animal reincarnation, as far as this material goes, that it hasn’t occurred to us to ask this kind of question . [...]

(Pause.) Some (underlined) varieties of your own species were considered by the animals as diseased animal species, so I want to broaden your concepts there. [...]

[...] You can learn more from watching the animals than you can from a guru or a minister — or from reading my book. [...] Your humanness did not emerge by refusing your animal heritage, but upon an extension of it.”

[...] These mechanisms are a part of the nature of animals as well. [...]

You are social creatures, as the animals are. [...]

[...] He tried to douse his normally vital animal spirits, and now the body and the animal spirits do need some such extra attention.

[...] Ruburt should brush his animals; all of this for its symbolic meaning, but symbolism reinforced on the sense data level.

[...] Animals do not read or write books, but they do “read” nature directly through the context of their own experience, and through intuitive knowing. [...]

[...] You can usually see in a superficial fashion how animals under “natural conditions” fit into their environments so perfectly, so that their needs and desires and equipment meet and merge with the characteristics of the environment. [...]

[...] As you know, animals dream. [...]

[...] And because it is connected to you through chemical reactions this leaves open the entryway of interactions, in animals as well as men. [...]

[...] She now felt much better; so much so that her last delivery was quite animated and cheerful.)

[...] In its own fashion such acts of love are beneficially related with the spontaneous behavior of animals. That is, you can behave to some extent at such times with a creature-like sense of trust and spontaneity, and of loving openness of a kind that animals at their best often display. [...]

(For Seth tonight she had questions about inoculations of humans and animals. [...] And why would an animal respond to an inoculation when it could know nothing about our belief systems, etc? [...]

[...] Seth hasn’t gone into the ideas as related to insects, say, or birds or the animals—or viruses or bacteria, for that matter—at all, and I’m sure there is a wealth of fascinating information there. [...]

[...] Such communication takes place constantly, and for men and animals it is particularly apt to in the dream state. [...]