“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

For this reason I’ve chosen three full, though brief, sessions, and portions of several consecutive recent ones. This presentation shows Seth’s way of weaving one subject through another as he inserts new discussions and information while building on past sessions, and points up his method of using Rob’s and my own daily experiences as a launching pad for his own material.

The appendix includes several subjects not covered in the book proper. In one session, Seth discusses Jung’s concept of the unconscious. In another, he presents some new material on the “original planetary system,” and in answer to a friend’s question, he begins an explanation of the perception of a fetus. These discussions show the current direction the Seth Material is taking as it constantly unfolds.

The race of man is far more than the physical race, however. You see him in but one stage of development. When an individual leaves your system, it is for other systems. He has learned his ABC’s, but that is all. There are exceptions—identities who choose to return and teach. They are not in the same league, so to speak, as those whose reincarnational cycles are not complete. They may return, even enduring violence, as a man might set up a school amid a jungle of savages.

The progression through the centuries would be far more noticeable if you knew all the facts. There is one aspect here that I have not previously mentioned: Man was not allowed to play with the more dangerous toys until certain evidence was given that he had gained some control. This does not mean that he could not have destroyed the world he knew. It simply meant that such destruction was not inevitable. You do not give a child a loaded gun if you are certain he is going to shoot himself or his neighbor.

There is a reason why these lessons must be learned in just this way. Elementally there is only creativity. Destruction is merely the changing of form. A cloudburst or a tornado knows nothing of destruction. This same energy encased within a human form is something else. There are different kinds of creativity, then, that must be learned, and a specialization in energy’s focus and feelings that emerges—elemental energy becoming conscious of itself and aware of issues that did not exist for it “earlier;” millions of molecules momentarily united with living consciousness, filled with primal energy, now learning love and forming highly sensitive psychic patterns; electrical charges that now form emotions instead of clouds; the innocent chaos of undifferentiated personality that exists behind the highly specified and truly sophisticated mechanism of one thought. And all of this before an individual is born within your system! In terms of time, this is behind us all.

This is some of the most important material that I have given you, for you have wondered about the purpose (of consciousness within this system), and have been able often only to see one small speck of time and space.

There were nine planets once, grouped like jewels around the sun. They were evenly spaced, one from the other, and they were evenly distributed outward from the sun. And this was the first system that knew the race of man. These were in your corner of the universe, but in your terms they would have seemed to have drifted off so far that none of your instruments could ever find them.

(Or perhaps roetans—my phonetic interpretation. I wasn’t sure of the word Seth or Jane used and didn’t press the point beyond one question which wasn’t answered …)

There was a direct and instantaneous reaction between consciousness and matter, an outburst of electromagnetic power strong enough to seed a universe. Your universe is but one of many, and you perceive but a small portion of it. Now I will end the session unless you have questions.