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Give us a moment … In a way you are all your own mutants, creatively altering cellular formations. Period. When your fate seems dependent upon heredity, for example, then the transmission of ideas and beliefs operates; these give signals to the chromosomes. They cause miniature self-images, so to speak, that are mirrored in the cells. In many cases these images can be altered, but not with the technology that you have.
[...] Surely very limited ones in linear terms, fated to never get beyond those incessant questions about what came before the beginning. [...]
(I’m happy to note that Seth’s ideas oppose much of the “modern” thinking that we’re fated to bring about our own end as a species, whether by nuclear warfare or in some other equally devastating way. [...]
[...] (In Volume 1, see Session 688, plus Note 2 for the same session.) The second law of thermodynamics, on the other hand, tell us that our universe is a closed system — and that it’s fated to eventually run down because the amount of energy available for useful work is always decreasing, even though the supply of that energy is constant. [...]