“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane’s delivery as Seth was quite animated and brisk.)

There is a natural impulse to die on the part of men and animals, but in such circumstances [as we are discussing here] that desire becomes the only impulse that the individual feels able to express, for it seems that all other avenues of expression have become closed. [...]

[...] That love of nature, and appreciation, quickened and utilized inner biological capacities, also possessed by plants and animals, so that man was more consciously aware of his part in nature. [...]

[...] They serve to prevent strong (underlined) aggression or violence, both in animals and men. [...]

(As she often does when witnesses are present, Jane began her delivery at a fast and animated pace. [...]

[...] This questioning of basic premises is one of the greatest divisions between you and the animal world.

[...] In deepest terms animals and plants also possess symbols and react to them.

Now the time sequence, while followed physically by your animals, is psychologically experienced far differently. [...]

[...] He also had Jane let the cat in so she wouldn’t get upset by the animal’s scratching at the door. [...]

[...] My mother’s next-door neighbor acquired a black kitten a few months ago; the animal has made quite an impression on my parents, who enjoy watching its antics in their own yard as well as the neighbors’.

[...] Men trap animals, but in this case, the animal traps you.

[...] The physical environment is real in different terms to an animal, a fish, a man, or a rock, for example, and different portions of that environment are correspondingly unreal [to each of those forms]. [...]

6. About Seth’s reference to the myths connected with his name: Set, or Seth, was an Egyptian god of evil (with an animal’s head) whose complicated origins could, it’s thought, reach back in antiquity to at least 7500 B.C. In Judaism, of course, Seth was the third son of Adam and Eve, after Cain and Abel (Genesis 4 and 5). [...]

[...] The kitten was a way of bringing attitudes and problems to the surface, while incidentally helping a young animal. [...]

To make this clear: When you dissect an animal, for instance, you are still dealing only with the “inside” of exterior reality, or with another level of outsideness. [...]

[...] It is the highest idiocy, however, to project that artificial aggression outward upon the animal kingdom in general. [...]

[...] We greeted each other like old friends, wrapping our arms around one another as we talked, and kissed very animatedly. [...]

[...] It concerns a study of animals in dreams, conducted by a psychologist at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.

Children recall animal dreams more frequently simply because they are closer to cellular consciousness to begin with. [...]

[...] Therefore the gulf between man and animals, the intellect and nature, seems to deepen.

The magical approach takes it for granted that the human being is a united creature, fulfilling purposes in nature even as the animals do, whether or not those purposes are understood. [...]

[...] Animals already know all of this unconsciously. [...]

The animal hair is not an irritant in your case, though there are some associations of the past concerning your mother that may lead you to think so. [...]

[...] Animals were tortured in sport. [...]