“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(“Why were animals here on earth for so long before man?”)

[...] You do have an ability with animals, and you will do well working with them. [...]

[...] In the general field, working with animals, however, you have admirable qualities that can be utilized if you use them toward a practical goal. [...]

In those terms, animals have values, and if the quality of their lives disintegrates beyond a certain point, the species dwindles. [...] Life is meaning for animals. [...]

Basic nonphysical reality, he told us then, was “like some chameleon-like animal, constantly camouflaging its true appearance by taking on the outward manifestations of each neighboring forest territory [or world] …” And so this primal vitality expressed itself physically in our environment.

Without it, there would be no family groups, animal or human, or civilizations or governments. [...]

[...] One of the animals runs away. [...]

[...] An animal approves of itself unthinkingly. It certainly does not judge itself against any other animal. [...]

[...] You were not set in domination over the animals. You are to cooperate with all life and all life is a part of All That Is and every animal has consciousness and you will realize this or you will destroy your planet. [...]

[...] Simply on a physical level the animals have sometimes more sense than you do. [...]

[...] Children play naturally, and so do animals. [...]

[...] You are not separated from the animals and the rest of existence by virtue of possessing an eternal inner consciousness. [...]

3. Speaking literally, because of their dissolution upon the death of their host, the man’s cells won’t become part of the animal’s structure — but at least some of the long-lived molecular components of those cells could do so, and with all their memories intact. [...]

[...] Men in one section of a continent dreamed of animals they had never physically seen, that inhabited other geographical areas. [...]

[...] When several different persons of a given tribe, say, dreamed of and drew similar animal images, then the people began to look for the physical materialization. [...]

[...] There is some difference here, which was mentioned earlier (in the 636th session in Chapter Nine), between you and the animals and the particular way in which you create your reality….

[...] You become more responsible, then, in a particular way for physical effects that, comparatively speaking, are “instinctive” in the animal. [...]

[...] I use the word mental, meaning that all species possess their own kinds of interior mental life, as opposed to the physical characteristics of plants or animals with which you are familiar. [...] Nor am I speaking of an enforced cooperation — the result of “instinct” that somehow arranges the social habits of the animals; for their habits are indeed social and cooperative.

[...] These attitudes pervade in the animal kingdom also. [...]

The thing was actually then a rather clumsy lower-dimensional animal, a provoked dumb dog of other dimensions who then attacked him symbolically enough, by biting. [...]

He attempted to destroy the animal of evil, and it bit him back. [...]

[...] You always recognize pleasure in work, but the body also enjoys its own creature-reality, as any animal enjoys stroking—and in the past you have stroked your kitten more than you have each other.

[...] It is a way of assuring your own physical selves that you have a right to physical pleasure, as any animal does, whether or not you succeed in the world, or reach work goals, or meet any of the other issues that may concern you. [...]

The natural self approves of itself as an animal does. [...]

[...] Your sexual encounters are very important, for if you do not feel you are safe,then even animals have difficulty expressing corporal sex. [...]

8. Jane’s assertion tonight that she felt a humanoid aspect of herself reminded me of the material she’d given almost a year ago in Chapter 12 of Personal Reality, on “the idea of natural therapy in animals,” and animal medicine men. [...]

[...] “I had the feeling of my hair being long and parted in the middle, as though I’ve got some kind of humanoid features; you know, with the hair hanging down on each side of my face, which is something like an animal’s — but with very intelligent eyes, very warm and soft.”⁸ Jane finally opened her eyes. [...]

When you bunk your head / against the sky / and it gives— /
you’re tempted to back off; / suspicious, confused /
as a scared animal / treated kindly: You growl, /
pretend to lick or bite / yourself— / too scared to /
even wag your tail.

[...] / Why don’t you run off / like any lucky /
animal?” / And I said, “Don’t tell lies. [...]