“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Animals care for their young out of natural pleasure and love, not out of a sense of responsibility. [...]

[...] Value fulfillment even with the animals insists upon a qualitative enjoyment of life’s existence—one that automatically fosters a loving cooperation with the rest of nature as the individual follows impulses toward various kinds of pleasures. [...]

[...] Jane, Bill and I were eventually left alone, and since Bill is also an artist, the three of us joined a rather animated discussion of Jane’s latest work. [...]

[...] I was pulling out some of Jane’s drawings and paintings and showing them to Bill, and Jane, Bill and I were animatedly discussed them. [...]

(As Jane delivered the above material in quite an animated fashion, Bill picked up a piece of paper lying on the coffee table, and Jane’s pen. [...]

There seems to be
no unexpressed self
in animals,
as if they are
as fully themselves
in flesh as possible,
with no lag
of consciousness
to fill up,
while we keep
trying to grow
into something
else.

[...] (Such heretics are also called “vitalists,” a term related to animism, and one which also has a long history of scientific contempt behind it.)

[...] Jane and I wouldn’t be surprised if ultimately, as a result of mankind’s restless search for meaning, we didn’t end up returning in a new official way to our ancient concepts of spirit within everything, animate and inanimate. [...]

[...] However, I didn’t think our talk about mammals, animals, transmigration and so forth went very well. [...]

[...] Man recognized the importance of groups after observing the animals’ cooperation. [...]

(10:01.) Any animal knows better than to distrust the nature of its own life, and so does any infant. [...]

[...] The Bible, for example, says that man is put in dominion over the animals, and it seems as if upgrading the consciousnesses of animals must somehow degrade your own. [...]

[...] You believe that you need scientific paraphernalia to achieve such ends — yet many animals are aware of such phenomena, and without such instruments. [...]

[...] You are as natural as an animal, and as “tuned in” to the deep rhythms of the earth — those that you consciously perceive and those that are perceived by your body consciousness, but are screened out by the “official mind.”

[...] An animal in the jungle killing for food is one thing. [...] When a wild animal kills, the killed is replaced in the natural scheme of things. [...]

[...] I believe a remark Bill made before the session began, about animals, led to this.

[...] Scientists like to say that animals operate through simple instinctive behavior, without will or volition: It is no accomplishment for a spider to make its web, a beaver its dam, a bird its nest, because according to such reasoning, such creatures cannot perform otherwise. [...]

Some pessimistic scientists would say: “Of course,” for man and animal alike are driven by their instincts, and man’s claim to free will is no more than an illusion.

In their own way, animals also possess this selective consciousness. [...]

Now the animals’ conscious minds, connected with their physical brains, make this necessary selectivity possible. [...]

[...] These seem to suggest that he possesses an elegant, cool separation from nature, that the animals for example do not. [...]

[...] At the same time these ideals further divorce the scientists from daily practical experience with their fellowman; and since they see animals as objects, they’re bound to see human life in somewhat the same fashion. [...]

You were involved in some cave drawings of animals, and have always been drawn to animals. [...]

[...] Almost all animals, plants, birds, insects, rocks and trees perceive according to intensities. [...]

[...] But our next stage is to have a more expanded time value along with the intense perception or reaction the animals have now. [...]

[...] They play at being trees or animals or stars. [...]

[...] Animals know that the present is the point of power, of course. [...]

[...] Looking back, I’m sure that I sniffed danger as surely as any animal who senses something strange and new in his environment — or as any adult when threatened by a change in the status quo. [...]

The reflection is brief, but for a moment the animal partakes of a new dimension. [...]

[...] But memory produced another dimension in the animal and man carried it further. [...]

It is true that man is physically an animal and that a cat is an animal. [...]

[...] Imagination allows you to enter into these planes, as when you imagine what another animal’s life would be.

[...] Indeed, she displayed much more animation than she has for any of our regular sessions since she began to deliver the material from a sitting position. [...]

[...] She was very active as far as gesturing was concerned, and her delivery was quite animated. [...]

[...] He is telepathically in communication with animals and other people, and on a different level he is in a kind of communication with plants and other such consciousnesses.

[...] The fetus however will also react to the death of an animal in the family, and will already be acquainted with the unconscious psychic relationships within the family, long before it reaches the sixth month. [...]

(The book Jane referred to is a compendium of experiments with animal and human biological rhythms. [...]

1. According to scientists, viruses are ultramicroscopic units that can cause diseases in plants and animals. [...]