“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(On Thursday night, April 8, Jane and I were visited by three women from Rochester, New York. They were very interested in talking about Jane’s book, The Seth Material. They also gave me several questions for Seth to answer in his own book, if he chose to do so. Jane and I went over them briefly before the session.)

On several occasions I have communicated my willingness in particular circumstances. I knew more about those circumstances than Ruburt. Some of these occasions occurred fairly early in our sessions, when Ruburt was worried about spontaneous trances, so after making my presence known to him, I acquiesced to his decision at the time. On a few occasions certain conditions have been poor. Usually Ruburt reacted to these adversely at his end — that is, the interference was such that it would bother his situation rather than mine.

Animals have varying degrees of self-consciousness, as indeed people do. The consciousness that is within them is as valid and eternal as your own, however. There is nothing to prevent a personality from investing a portion of his own energy into an animal form. This is not transmigration of souls. It does not mean that a man can be reincarnated in an animal. It does mean that personalities can send a portion of their energy into various kinds of form.

(10:35.) Perhaps reincarnations are over for a given individual, for example, yet within him is still some sense of yearning for the natural earth with which he has so often been involved. So he may project a fragment of his consciousness in such a way into an animal form. When this is done, the earth is then experienced in the way natural for the form. A man is not an animal, then, nor does he invade, say, the body of one.

He simply adds some of his energy to that present in the animal, mixing this vitality with the animal’s own. This does not mean that all animals are fragments in this manner, however. Animals, as any pet owner knows, have their own personalities and characteristics, and individual ways of perceiving the reality available to them. Some gobble experience. Their consciousness can be immeasurably quickened by contact with friendly humans, and emotional involvement with life is strongly developed.