“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It is obvious in the cooperative ventures that unite, say, the mineral, plant, and animal kingdoms, the relationship of bee to flower. [...]

[...] The give-and-take of weather conditions and animal behavior is little understood. [...]

[...] There were highly developed human beings with elaborate civilizations, existing simultaneously with what you might call animal kingdoms — that is, more or less organized primeval animal tribes, possessing their own kinds of ‘primitive’ cultures.

11. I found it quite difficult to extract from the 747th session the material I wanted for this note on Atlantis, so interwound is it with closely related information on early man and animal kingdoms, the expanding-universe theory, archaeology, Jane’s other work, All That Is, and so forth. [...]

“Those animal kingdoms, some of them, utilized tools. [...]

Within your biological experience, however, plant, mineral, animal, and human consciousness intersect. [...]

If you thought or felt in such a fashion, then you would appreciate the fact that biologically your body is yours by virtue of the mineral, plant and animal life from which it gains its sustenance. [...]

Theoretically an animal has free choice, and this will do very well as an example of what I mean by limitations. An animal is free enough to travel to, say, California from New York. [...] The dog’s legs could easily make the trip with planned or unplanned rests, but the animal is simply not aware that such a place or destination exists to begin with.

[...] Animals, many times using their own inner senses, have made such journeys, but their conscious apparatus alone would not permit it. [...]

[...] In time terms, the “present” animal had to be killed for food — not the “past” animal. That animal — the past one — existed as surely as the one presently perceived, yet in man’s context, physical action had to be directed to a highly specific area, for physical survival depended upon it.

[...] (Intently:) Again, to that extent instant physical action in time is not the same kind of life-and-death factor that it was when a man was faced with an enraged animal, or enemy, in close combat.

[...] People are natural mimics, as are some animals and birds, so when tribal members related their dreams, they did not just tell them but acted them out with great mobility, carefully mimicking whatever animals or people or elements of land they may have encountered.

There is a period of almost animal bewilderment. [...]

[...] I do want to emphasize that in many, many civilizations men were expected to improve almost all of their abilities with age, as per for example Bill Gallagher’s story of the old Indian who taught the young boys how to track animals in the forest. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

[...] There are also references to animals in chapter five; Jane discusses these under the chapter heading “Dream Symbols and Culture” on the object, and mentions that fire helped primitive man keep the beasts away. We thought the primitive reference might have conjured up mas-todon, and that this in turn would support Seth’s “Connection with an animal” data in the 257th session. [...]

(This echoes the “Connection with an animal.” [...]

[...] We picked up the word mass, and also a connection with an animal, which was your cat. [...]

No animal considers itself a failure, obviously. [...]

Since we have mentioned animals, let me say here that they do possess a kind of consciousness that does not allow them as many freedoms as your own. [...]

[...] Nothing exists — neither rock, mineral, plant, animal, or air — that is not filled with consciousness of its own kind. [...]

Early man, for example, spontaneously played at acting out the part of other animals. [...]

[...] Animals enjoy drama, and in their fashions they playact.

[...] At least, I thought, while talking she showed more animation than she had in some time. [...]

(With a bit more speed and animation than usual:

[...] It is fashionable to say: “You are what you eat” semicolon; that, for example, “You must not eat meat because you are killing the animals, and this is wrong.” But in deeper terms, physically and biologically, the animals are born from the body of the earth, which is composed of the corpses of men and women as much as it is of other matter. The animals consume you, then, as often as you consume them, and they are as much a part of your humanity as you are a part of their so called animal nature.

[...] He would not willfully turn such energy loose even upon an animal.

At the same time the animal was denied the usual constructive psychic atmosphere in which it usually is allowed to operate. [...]

[...] He has since grown to like all animals but at the moment of the attack, you see, the cat instantly became this personification of evil to him, and again his primary concern was to flee. [...]

Now: The animals do have imagination, regardless of your current thought. [...]

Again, man directs his existence through the use of his imagination — a feat that does distinguish him from the animals. [...]

[...] Animals, for example, could not imagine such an idiocy, so that the theory shows the incredible accomplishment of an obviously ordered mind and intellect that can imagine itself to be the result of nonorder, or chaos — [you have] a creature who is capable of “mapping” its own brain, imagining that the brain’s fantastic regulated order could emerge from a reality that itself has no meaning. [...]

[...] Behind me in the fireplace we heard once again the mysterious scratching or chucking or chirruping sounds we’ve become aware of lately, as though a family of animals or birds has young hatching our or growing in a nest on the other side of the closed damper. [...]

(The animal/bird noises continued in the fireplace chimney behind me. [...]

You used your psychic energies to aid Ruburt, and the animal was left to his own resiliency, and it was not enough. You need have no worries now concerning the animal’s survival. [...]

[...] If he is to survive as a fully effective and fully healthy animal. [...]

[...] You called them because the illness of the animal served to tell you that some extra reinforcement would be helpful. [...]

[...] And what about animals and other forms of life? Perhaps in their own collective wisdom the animals will look upon us as though we’ve altogether given up our powers of intuitive understanding.

[...] Animals know of weather conditions ahead of time, as old tales say. [...]

[...] (See the 625th session in Chapter Five.) In other terms and on other levels, this was represented in that “moment of reflection” that took place as man’s consciousness emerged from that of the animals. (Note: I did not say that man emerged from the animals.)