“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Today the newspaper carried the story of the violence attending the Democratic presidential convention in Chicago in August, 1968, telling of the many clashes between police and various groups of demonstrators; and a guilty verdict re police behavior was rendered by an investigative commission. Jane and I had discussed the report at the supper table.)

In those days neither did a sane, righteous man give thought to sharing his wealth, or even consider the plight of the poorer classes. Not only was charity not given, its practical nature was not considered. The archaic concept of God nicely covered such matters.

The poor were obviously sinful. Poverty was their penance, and it was considered a sacrilege to try to help those whom God had so cursed. Animals were tortured in sport. Compassion for living things in males was regarded as a weakness to be plucked out, to a degree that you can barely realize now.

Women were scarcely thought of as human creatures, but in very select circles. The progression through the centuries would be far more noticeable if you knew all the facts. There is one aspect here that I have not previously mentioned. Man was not allowed to play with the more dangerous toys until certain evidence was given that he had gained some control.

This does not mean that he could not destroy the world that he knew. It simply meant that such destruction was not inevitable. You do not give a child a loaded gun if you are certain he is going to shoot himself or his neighbor.

The violence that you were both speaking of this evening opened up a chasm within each participator’s soul, through which he glimpsed the dizzying origins that were behind his identity. There was the fear, then, and afterward, of falling back into that mindless chasm.

Now a storm at times will fascinate many, and so will such a violence, but a highly destructive storm will find few going abroad in it. Each participator sensed the chaos to which he had direct access (emphatic). He feared it then and afterward, even in his fascination, because he was bound to recognize that it would sweep he and his enemy into insanity or death.(...him and..?)

Many of the participators have never known that they had access to such energy, therefore the notion that such energy could be used creatively never entered their heads. Many of them felt tiny, alone and powerless. Now the energy alone was exhilarating. For the first time many of the participators realized intuitively that such energy was also the source of creativity.

Many will try various methods of re-experiencing the energy, in order to release creative feelings they did not know they possessed. Their energy of course was neutral. It was their use of it at the time that caused the destructive elements.

The energy that was liberated has already changed your national scene, and will continue to do so. Such massive liberations of energy will be used, but not in your lifetime, to begin to unify the whole planet, in peace. This will not happen before disasters also occur, but when it does happen it will represent the first such time within the planet’s history where there was peace with equality for all.

There have been various periods that were peaceful, but there was no equality. There have been countless other civilizations that have destroyed themselves in the planet’s past, and before this when another planet was approximately in earth’s position. There were however civilizations that endured, that outlasted their planet, and went elsewhere.

(10:09. Jane paused for a few moments, then resumed, after I had thought she was out of trance, and had called her name. )

There were 9 planets once, grouped like jewels around the sun. They were evenly spaced one from the other, and they were evenly distributed outward from the sun. And this was the first system that knew the race of man. These were in your corner of the universe, but in your terms they would have seemed to have drifted off so far that none of your instruments could ever find them.

They exploded, and were recreated many times, disappeared and returned. They would seem to pulsate. To you they would seem to disappear for eons. To them their existence was continuous. As atoms and molecules give your chairs a reality within your system even though the atoms and molecules come and go, so this planetary system still retains its reality. (Pause.)

The energy of this system was enormous, far greater than any you know, and the debris thrown off constantly from its pulsations gave birth to other systems. (Long pause.)

We are struggling with Ruburt’s vocabulary. (Pause.) The speed of its motion was also far greater than any you know, though it speeded up and slowed down in a cyclic manner.

(Jane paused again. Her pace was slow in here, and she used many gestures, drawing pictures in the air, frowning at times.)

(Or perhaps roetans; my phonetic interpretation. I was not sure of the word Jane or Seth used and didn’t press the point beyond one question, which wasn’t answered.)

There was a direct and instantaneous reaction between consciousness and matter. (Pause.) An outburst of electromagnetic power, strong enough to seed a universe. Your universe is but one of many, and you perceive but a small portion of the universe in which you do exist, for there are dimensions within it that you do not perceive. (Long pause.)