“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Once again Jane began speaking while in a deep trance, eyes open often, animated, good pace, average voice.)

[...] In the word an l, and I believe two E’s, perhaps a double E. The name seems to conjure up an image that is distantly connected—underline distantly—with an animal. [...]

[...] Natives divorced from your technology do very well, as wild animals also do, in probing the life of the planet and their positions within it.

[...] Now I am indeed a strange animal to go into any farmer’s barnyard. [...]

[...] When Jane spoke again her eyes were wide open, voice very animated.) This is a compromise method, and a good one. [...]

[...] Her delivery had been animated and fast throughout the session, with many indications of wit and amusement.

(By now, Jane’s delivery was becoming more forceful and animated, although she exhibited no voice changes of note.)

(Pause at 10:55.) When a man or a woman feels no connection between personal reality and experience and the surrounding world, then he [or she] loses even an animal’s sense of pure competence and belonging. [...]

[...] You will not be destroying the birds or the flowers, or the grain or the animals. [...]

(9:47.) That leads to the old inevitable questions: Do animals have souls — or do trees, or rocks? [...]

[...] She smiled, and looked back and forth among the three of us as she spoke with quite a bit of animation.)

(Jane’s voice had quieted again, but still she spoke with much animation and at a faster rate.)

One is to relate to your animals. [...]

[...] Long after it was over it was on our minds, for we did not like to think of an injured animal that had, perhaps, crawled away to die.)

[...] They were as agile as animals, their purpose simply to be. [...]

[...] And not only the human source but other animal sources as well.

[...] I had the eerie feeling of an animal’s forepaw. [...]

[...] Particularly when you drew animals, you could use them as symbols for noble virtues, but in any case it was the means of communication, a communication that to some extent could bridge the particular emotional troubles people might be having at any given time.

[...] You enjoyed doing comics with outdoor scenes: animals in motion, the body performing. [...]

(Seth added a few sentences of personal material for Jane, then ended the session at 10:40 P.M. Jane’s delivery had often been very animated and forceful, and I told her she’d done well. [...]

“I use the word ‘methods’ because you understand it, but actually we are speaking about an approach to life, a magical or natural approach that is man’s version of the animal’s natural instinctive behavior in the universe. [...]