“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(In the last deleted session Seth had promised us some data on early man, but I told Jane to forget that for now. She replied that she’d see how she felt as the session progressed.)

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.

(10:06.) Give us a moment.... There was some rivalry between these groups, some cooperation. Several species, say, of modern man died out. There was some mating between these groups—that is, of all of the groups—at various times.

The brain capacities of your particular species were always the same. Give us a moment.... (Long pause.) Many of the man-animal groups had their own communities. They might seem limited to you, yet they combined animal and human characteristics beautifully, and they used tools quite well. In a manner of speaking they had the earth to themselves for many centuries, in that modern man did not compete with them.

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.)