“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Give us a moment.... Very briefly now, for this will be a short session. In your terms of history, man appeared in several different stages, or ages is a better word. Not from an animal ancestor in the way generally supposed. There were men-animals, but they were not your stock. They did not lead to anything. They were species in their own right.

There is considerable confusion, for that matter, as to the geological ages as they are understood. Such species existed in many of these ages. Man, as you think of him, shared the earth with the other creatures just mentioned. In those terms so-called modern man, with your skull structure and so forth, existed alongside of the creatures now supposed to be his ancestors.

Both the men-animals and the animal-men were born with stronger instincts. They did not need long periods of protection as infants, but in an animal fashion were physically more agile at younger ages than, say, the human infant.

The earth has gone through entire cycles unsuspected by your scientists. Modern man, then, existed with other manlike species, and appeared in many different places on the earth, and at different ages.

Give us a moment.... There were then also animal-man and man-animal civilizations of their kinds, and there were complete civilizations of modern man, existing before the ages now given for, say, the birth of writing. (3100 BC.)