“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The body has a certain shape. It is maintained more or less as a species develops. Yet each change or alteration in the physical species is the result of many individuals trying out a particular biological course, which then later in your terms becomes the accepted one. In those terms the species has dealt mainly with physical manipulation. Largely unsuspected, however, the mind has been literally assimilating data at an accelerating rate. Each individual experience adds to inner social comprehension. The inner overall consciousness of the species then makes decisions way before any alteration occurs in physical reality. The species can decide to change its course, and set certain actions into history that will change the future, seemingly against all probabilities apparent at the time. This is occurring.

The world, however, was seen as unsafe to one degree or another in each. Each era set up various methods meant to protect man against the environment itself, or against the gods. In terms of physical existence man’s consciousness has not progressed enough along the path it had chosen, so that it could afford to admit the oneness of inner and outer reality.

Man wanted to separate himself from nature, but in so doing lost the animal’s great trust in it. At the same time he forged a new kind of consciousness. That, combined with nature’s knowledge of itself, will lead to the new dimensions of experience necessary. In your private lives you see many of the results of the unsafe universe. In the mass world you see far more.

The knowledge of the last few days, however, is bringing about a further alteration of consciousness that allows him to progress, and in all cases the alterations of consciousness happen first. In the meantime, with the Cézanne material and the painting, he is opening up other areas that will make certain portions of my new book possible, for certain levels of understanding are acquired on his part.

Personally, Ruburt understands however that he exaggerated the negative elements of his condition, thinking that he was being realistic. He did not realize that before. When you look at the world and interpret its condition in the same way, you end up in an impossible situation as a people, for your learned coping mechanisms themselves reinforce the situation.