“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

How does the human data from such very ancient times fit in with the comparatively modest dates — of “only” 50 million to 30 million years ago — that Seth cites for his mutated forms at the beginning of this session? We don’t know. Jane has been aware of the information in this note for several years, without paying much attention to it. In time terms, however, both of us are interested in questions of origins. We think Seth can help put it together to at least some degree, should we ever ask him to try.

(We held just one session last week, and it did not involve work on either “Unknown” Reality or the book on health. The rest of the time we were busy with ESP class, a television show, correspondence, and other matters. Jane’s rate of delivery this evening was rather slow.)

(Long pause.) From approximately 50 million to 30 million years ago¹ there were innumerable species that would now seem to you to be mutated forms. The distinction between man-animal and animal-man was not as clear as it is in your time. In some ways consciousness was more mobile, less centered, and more experimental. That early rapport, that early mixture, would later be remembered in myths of gods in animal form. Such a variety existed long before your paleontologists realize that it did. There were many toolmaking animal species, some predating man’s toolmaking facility. Consciousness knows all of the probabilities of fulfillment open to it. Each species carries in its individual and mass psyche the blueprints of such probable actualities. These blueprints are biologically valid — that is, they allow the cells precognitive knowledge, upon which present behavior is based. This applies not only individually, so that the cell knows its future pattern, for example; but in the same way, an entire species will unconsciously have the knowledge of its own “ideal” fulfillment in its overall world environment.

The specific concentration, however, results in an exquisite focus. Ego consciousness lost part of that focus in comparison. The totem poles date back to the time when men and animals understood each other, before that point of departure. Physical species that existed and flourished in those epochs then became probable to you, for they did not develop in your system but became extinct. Their living relics exist in the god concepts that embodied them. Give us a moment …

[...] Then on the morning of March 10 — the Sunday before last — we learned that we may have to rethink the idea of Seth-Jane producing more than one major work at a time; for on that day Jane received the outline for another book, along with the knowledge that she’d need Seth’s help in producing it. [...] Jane wrote at the time, then told me, that she almost felt “the book could be Personal Reality Number Two.” [...]

[...] I quoted her as saying she believed that “Seth could do three books at once, a chapter at a time on each, and with no confusion among them.”

[...] I can’t tell you how frustrated — how blocked — this made me feel at the time.