“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In the foregoing chapters, I have taken excerpts from many sessions in order to present Seth’s views on various topics. This appendix is included for those readers who would like a more complete look at individual sessions, and a clearer idea of the way in which the material was originally given.

(Today the newspaper carried the story of the violence attending the Democratic presidential convention in Chicago in November 1968, telling of the many clashes between police and various groups of demonstrators; a guilty verdict re police behavior was rendered by an investigative commission. Jane and I had discussed the report at the supper table.)

In those days neither did a sane, reasonable man give thought to sharing his wealth, or even consider the plight of the poorer classes. Not only was charity not given, its practical nature was not even considered. The archaic concept of God (at that time) nicely covered such matters. The poor were obviously sinful. Poverty was their penance, and it was considered a sacrilege to try to help those whom God had cursed. Animals were tortured in sport. Compassion for living things in males was regarded as a weakness to be plucked out. Women were scarcely thought of as human, except in very select circles.

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.

The violence that you were both speaking of this evening opened up a chasm within each participator’s soul, through which he glimpsed the dizzying origins that were behind his identity. There was the fear, then and afterward, of falling back into that “mindless” chasm.

Now a storm at times will fascinate many, and so will such a violence, but a highly destructive storm will find few going abroad in it. Each participator sensed the chaos to which he had direct access. (Emphatic.) He feared it even in his fascination, because he was bound to recognize that it would sweep him and his enemy into insanity or death.

Many of the participators have never known that they had access to such energy; therefore, the notion that it could be used creatively never entered their heads. Many of them felt tiny, alone, and powerless. Now the energy itself was exhilarating. For the first time, many of the participators realized intuitively that such energy was also the source of creativity. A good number of them will try various methods of reexperiencing this energy in order to release creative feelings they did not know they possessed. The energy, of course, was neutral. It was their use of it at the time that caused the destructive elements.

The energy that was liberated, however, has already changed your national scene and will continue to do so. Such massive liberations of energy will be used, but not in your lifetimes, to begin to unify the whole planet in peace. This will not happen before disasters also occur, but when it does happen it will represent the first time within the planet’s history when there was peace with equality for all.

There have been various periods that were peaceful, but there was no equality. There have been countless other civilizations that have destroyed themselves in the planet’s past, and before this, when another planet was approximately in earth’s position. There were, however, civilizations that endured, that outlasted their planet, and went elsewhere.

(10:09. Jane paused for a few moments, then resumed after I had thought she was out of trance and had called her name.)

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.

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.

(Jane paused again. Her pace was slow in here and she used many gestures, drawing pictures in the air, frowning at times.)

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.