“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane had given a very long session in ESP class last night, along with Sumari. I thought she might not want to go back into trance tonight, but at 9:30 she said she was ready. We held the session in her study for a change. “I felt exhilarated earlier,” she said, “but now that’s gone and I’m just relaxed.”

Man grants rich psychological activity to his own species but denies it in others. There are as many luxuriant and diverse kinds of psychological movement as there are species, however. The cycles of health and disease are felt as rhythms of the body by the large variety of animals, and even with them illness or disease has life-saving qualities on another level.

Man is so highly verbal that he finds it difficult to understand that other species work with idea-complexes (with a hyphen) of a different kind, in which of course thought as you consider it is not involved. But an equivalent exists; using an analogy, it is as if ideas are built up not through sentence structure reinforced by inner visual images, but by like “mental” patterns structured through touch and scent — in other words, thinking, but within a framework entirely different and alien to you.

(“They’re certainly fascinating. But,” I added jokingly, “so are you.”

(10:36. At break, Jane said she felt “very relaxed and sleepy, but not tired.” She had heard the geese while in trance.

(This was one of those times when she was consciously aware that several channels of information were available from Seth. We had but to decide which subject we wanted material on after break:

(11:30. “I feel a strange combination of tiredness and exhilaration now, as though I’d had a whole lot to drink,” Jane said. “I know a little alcohol helps in these sessions, but it wouldn’t if I carried it very far.” She had been sipping wine tonight.

(Jane said there was much more to the idea of natural therapy in animals. She began tuning in to this information on her own, rather than getting it through one of Seth’s channels. Ages ago, humans not only watched the animals, but went to them for help. It had to do with shock treatment, she said wonderingly. If a human was in a catatonic state after a battle, for instance, the “animal medicine man” would purposely shock the patient into an emotional reaction to bring him out of the state.

(“I think these animal doctors were a variety of apelike ancestor,” Jane said. “Not apes as we think of them, but a bridge between animals and human beings. They were our size, more or less. They weren’t four-footed. I saw creatures who walked upright — hairy, with brilliant compassionate eyes….”

(Jane told me that she could delve into the available data in much more detail, but since it would go off from the chapter at a tangent we reluctantly decided not to pursue it. I thought of racial memory and our ancient heritage of gods that were half man and half beast, bird or reptile. Resume at 11:50.)

While this may seem like the sheerest Pollyanna, nevertheless there is no evil in basic terms. This does not mean that you do not meet with effects that appear evil, but as you each move individually through the dimensions of your own consciousness, you will understand that all seeming opposites are other faces of the one supreme drive toward creativity.