“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You cannot see from New York to the west coast with your eyes. In those terms you have barely begun to pass through the state of New York in the mental journey the race has begun.

The more unsafe the world is felt to be, then the more important protection is, and the more threatening, expression. Repression becomes the order of the day. The species however will always react against repression, no matter what its source, and so will the individual. On the whole the species is beginning to change its psychological sense of selfhood. There are periods in history when this happened before, and a new kind of civilization resulted. The earliest Jewish traditions represent one such change. The beginning period of the Egyptian civilization another, the birth of Christ another, and the beginning of the scientific age.

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.