“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The environment, man, and the animals were all characterized as ferocious, hostile to each other, each one determined to attain survival at the expense of the other. Man could not have existed under the conditions fostered in the moving picture — nor for that matter could any of the animals. Despite any other theories to the contrary, the world, all of its physical aspects, and all of its creatures, depends upon an inborn cooperation. The species do not compete with each other over a given territory, no matter how frequently that appears to be the case. (Long pause.) Period.

Science has promoted the idea that hostility is a constant attribute of nature and all of its parts, while it sees the cooperating characteristics of nature as rather infrequent or extraordinary — but certainly outside of the norm (wryly amused).

Even biologically on the most microscopic of levels, there is a vast inbred network of cooperating activity, and these unite the animal and mineral kingdoms with all the other aspects of earthly existence. Each organism has a purpose, and it is to fulfill its own capabilities in such a way that it benefits all other organisms.

Men also domesticated animals almost from the very first, so that men and animals both did each other a service — they worked together. The stability of planetary life depended above all upon this basic cooperation, in which all species pulled together.

(4:28. A nurse came in to give Jane eyedrops. Afterward I read Jane what she’d given on the session. I mentioned that men and animals must have been cooperating even while still largely in the dream state. Resume at 4:37.)