“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

There are periods, cycles if you prefer, through which such identities live and learn again within your system. To some extent they are taught by others—practice teachers if you prefer. (Amused.)

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.

Yet with all of this, there are advances made within your system itself. A nuclear weapon in the hands of the inhabitants of Middle-Age Europe would have been used almost immediately, and with nary a qualm, to wipe out all but Christendom. Christendom may well have perished along with the rest of the world, but this possibility would not have been considered, so narrow and evilly self-righteous were the governing powers at the time.

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.

Little wonder that psychic battles wage. And yet beyond your system there are refinements impossible to describe and further developments more miraculous than those that have gone before. And through all of this, the entity formed from that massive chaos retains its identity and its knowledge of its “pasts” and continues to grow in creativity.

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.

They exploded and were re-created many times—disappeared and returned. They would seem to pulsate. To you, they would seem to disappear for eons. To them, their existence was continuous. As atoms and molecules give your chairs a reality within your system even though the atoms and molecules themselves come and go, so this planetary system still retains its identity. Your astronomers may perceive a ghost image of it at the edges of your universe, but only a reflection from a reality that you cannot perceive. Now take your break.

(I made a quick mental count of the planets we now know to be in our solar system, for a total of nine, the same total given by Seth. Naturally, Seth’s data gave rise to many questions, but tonight wouldn’t see them answered.)

Now: existence uses form. When a planetary system is disrupted, in many cases entities who are attracted to it or consider it their home, simply change their form, regroup their forces, and—if they consider it worthwhile—put the house back in order. They enter, then, such forms as are available or make such forms as could survive. This has been done within your own system on several occasions. It is not often done, however, since with the materials at hand, often a complicated-enough structure cannot be formed in which consciousness can fully enough express itself.

There can be, in your terms, some loss of memory—complications that confuse the knowledge of origin. When the situation does occur, there is always a division of forces, some entities turning to form, and others not entering the process. These watch, keeping their memories and knowledge intact, and acting as directors against whose memories the new models are formed. Again: this has happened within your own system.

Many entities have no need for form, in your terms. But we will not be concerned with them this evening. This original system of which I have spoken will at least be theorized shortly, but the idea will not be taken seriously enough to cause any deep controversy.

The energy of this system was enormous, far greater than any you know, and the debris thrown off constantly from its pulsations gave birth to other systems. (Long pause.) We are struggling with Ruhurt’s vocabulary. (Pause.) The speed of its motion was also far greater than any you know, though it speeded up and slowed down in a cyclic manner.

They originated from themselves, massive units of energy that reacted automatically and in an explosive manner upon the form of the system. Their energy caused the behavior of the system.