“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

SESSION 647, MARCH 12, 1973
9:37 P.M. MONDAY

(I had only part of the last session typed, so I read the rest of it to Jane from my notes. Just before tonight’s session began she said with unwitting humor, “I’m starting to get stuff from Seth, but it’s about us. I don’t want that, I want material on the book —” But Seth did come through with a couple of pages relative to a discussion we’d had today. After a pause at 9:50, he resumed dictation on Chapter Twelve.)

(10:41.) In another way, animals also possess an “unconscious” anticipation, but they do not have to come to terms with it on an aware basis as the new consciousness did. Again, good and evil and the freedom of choice came to the species’ aid. The evil animal was the natural predator, for example. It would help here if the reader remembers what has been said about natural guilt earlier in this book. It would aid in understanding the later myths and the variations that came from them. (See the 634th session in Chapter Eight, among others.)

The acceleration continues, however. Ideas of right and wrong are always guidelines that are then individually interpreted. Because of the connection with survival mentioned earlier (in the last session), there is a great charge here. Initially the child had to be impressed with the fact, for example, that a predator animal was “bad” because it could kill. Today a mother might unwittingly say the same thing about a car.

The concept of nirvana (see the 637th session in Chapter Nine) and the idea of heaven are two versions of the same picture, the former being one in which individuality is lost in the bliss of undifferentiated consciousness, and the latter one in which still-conscious individuals perform mindless adoration. Neither theory contains an understanding of the functions of the conscious mind, or the evolution of consciousness — or, for that matter, certain aspects of greater physics. No energy is ever lost. The expanding universe theory¹ applies to the mind as well as to the universe.

You may take a break or end the session as you prefer.

(11:57. I told Jane that it was all right with me if she wanted to end the session. She chose to wait and see. Resume at 12:12.)

Now: That is the end of dictation and the end of our session. A hearty good evening to you both.