“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You become aware of their existence, but in the meantime often your generations change, while theirs has not, and so they appear eternal in conventional terms. They are human. They are, however, heroically human, in that the characteristics of that species are carried as far as possible to fulfillment. On the other hand they followed a different kind of development, primarily a mental and psychic one that carried them into another kind of experience so different as to be alien in quality and degree.

(Pause at 10:45.) In another way your existence is a part of their heritage, so that they keep in certain contact. You might say that their mental and psychic development exists, comparatively speaking, at least several levels above your own. Their natural capabilities, however, developed from the human stock, and lie latent within your species. So some of you at times attain a momentary psychic acceleration that “lifts you to that level.” (Pause.) All of the great historical figures, to some extent or another, attained that development.