“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Such leeway left room for many probabilities and for many “errors,” but the developing consciousness had to be free to make its own judgments. It would not be programmed any more than necessary by “instinct.” It was, however, biologically locked into earthly existence, and so meant to understand its natural heritage. It could not separate itself too much, then, or become overly arrogant. Its survival was so linked to the rest of nature that it would of necessity always have to return to that base. It responds to an inborn impetus for its own greatest fulfillment, and will automatically change directions in answer to its own experiments and experiences. There are great sweeping changes in religious concepts abroad in your times, and these represent man’s innate knowledge. His consciousness — his psyche — is projecting greater images of his own probable fulfillment, and these are seen in his changing concepts of God.

1. Seth is letting his material automatically answer my question about early man; See Appendix 6, as well as Note 7 for Session 688. According to our dictionary, the geologic time span he indicates in tonight’s session falls within the Tertiary Period of the Cenozoic Era. This period is further broken down into epochs. The important thing here (the dictionary notes) is that many kinds of mammals were about in those far days — including “manlike apes.”