“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] (Pause.) The cell’s stability, and its reliability in the bodily environment, is dependent upon its innate properties of instant communication and instant decision, for each cell is in communication with all others and is united with all others through fields of consciousness,³ in which each entity of whatever degree plays a part.

At one level your cells obey the rules of time, but on other levels they defy it. [...]

The cell as you understand it is but the cell’s three-dimensional face. [...] Before a cell as such makes its physical appearance there are “disturbances” in the spot in which the cell will later show itself. [...]

[...] At the death of a cell a reverse process occurs — the death is the escape of that energy from the cell form, its release, the release itself triggering certain stages of acceleration. There is what might be called a residue, or debris energy, “coating” the cell, that stays within this system. [...]

8. So far in the two volumes of “Unknown” Reality, Seth has discussed the freedom of cells from time, along with a number of their other attributes, in well over a dozen sessions. [...] The cells precognate.”

[...] The most minute cell within your brain has been made from the patterns of consciousness, which we have given you. [...] and the comprehension that exists within each cell, the knowledge that each cell has, the desire for organization was given by us. [...]

[...] New memories are inserted in place of the old ones, as far as cells are concerned under such conditions. [...]

Learning is not simply passed on from living tissue to living tissue — this your biologists have discovered — but it is also passed on through the body’s present corporeal reality, sometimes entirely changing the messages to past cells, that in your terms no longer exist.

[...] A sudden contemporary belief in illness will actually reach back into the past, affecting the organism at that level, and inserting into the past experience of the cells the initiation of those biological events that will then seem to give birth to a present disease.

Now: In purely physical terms, what you think of as consciousness of the self arises from a certain peak of intensity reached by the gestalt consciousness of the atoms and molecules, and cells and organs, that compose the body.

[...] (Gestures.) The “nucleus,” in quotes—now using a cell analogy—if these units were cells, which they are not, then it would be as if the nucleus were constantly changing position, flying off in all directions, dragging the rest of the cell along with it. [...]

The units obviously are within the reality of all cells. [...] (Pause.) The initiation point is the basic part of the unit, as the nucleus is the important part of the cell. [...]

You as a physical being are also dependent upon many forces that you do not understand, so there is no contradiction in saying that the cells are individual and independent, and yet dependent upon stronger organization. There is no coercion put upon the cells, because each cell is what it is because of its innate ability and strength. [...]

Now, so do the cells in your own body have self-consciousness and individuality to some extent, and so on a different scale entirely do they make decisions. [...] The cells are developed to the fullest at this time.

[...] Many personalities upon receiving knowledge of their entity prefer to remain part of it, though they are always independent individualities within the whole entity, as even the cells of your physical bodies are part of the whole self. [...]

The cells of your physical body incidentally also have their awareness, which may seem minute and insignificant to you, but they make independent decisions upon which you depend in very important degrees. [...]

[...] Cells are highly influenced by your behavior and beliefs. If you affirm the rightness of your physical being, then you help the cells and organs in your body, and without knowing it treat them kindly. [...] The cells and organs know that you do not trust them, even as animals do. [...]

[...] The units are not stationary in the way that, say, a cell is stationary within the body. Even a cell only appears stationary. [...]

[...] Cells are not just responsive to light because this is the order of things, but because an emotional desire to perceive light is present.

To some important degree, cells possess curiosity, an impetus toward action, a sense of their own balance, and a sense of being individual while being, for example, a part of a tissue or an organ. The cell’s identification biologically is highly connected with this [very] precise knowledge of its own shape, or sometimes shapes. Cells, then, know their own forms.

Cells, however, possess an inner knowledge of their own shapes, and of any other shapes in their immediate environment—this apart from the communication system mentioned earlier that operates on biological levels between all cells.

[...] The simple cell, again, has a curiosity about its environment, and on your much more advanced cellular level your own curiosity is unbounded. [...]

(9:19.) Remember that cells have consciousness, so while I say these leanings are biologically entwined, they are also mental properties. [...]

The cells and molecules, forming their psychic gestalt into a particular human physical structure, are separated from what you might call the outer environment, and yet they are also connected to the outer environment more than they are separated from it. It is the inner ego, and the inner vitality and the inner ego’s determination, along with the cooperation of all the cells that compose the physical body, that enables such a particular structure as the human body to exist as a separate construction, and to maintain the necessary sense of identity.

In actuality, since all atoms and molecules possess the potentiality to form in so many varieties, and since the atoms and molecules possess their own generalized consciousness, there is basically a strong inner cohesion and relationship between all cells and molecules, regardless of their patterned structural formation, and the human structure is connected to all other such psychio-physical constructions.

[...] This of course includes the consciousness also, that is inherent in the separate molecules and atoms that compose the cells.

[...] Because the cells and molecules in general have consciousness, because they contain within themselves a capsule comprehension of the universe as a whole, and because they contain the ability to form into an almost infinite variety of form, there is a kinship between every atom and molecule, a basic enduring connection, regardless of the separate appearance which is seen using the outer senses.

3. Speaking literally, because of their dissolution upon the death of their host, the man’s cells won’t become part of the animal’s structure — but at least some of the long-lived molecular components of those cells could do so, and with all their memories intact. [...]

My cells blew loose

Your thoughts are also as natural as your cells. Your thoughts propel you toward survival and growth also, and in the same way that your cells do. [...] Your thoughts multiply even as your cells do. [...]

[...] Your thoughts are as active as your cells, and as important in maintaining your physical being.

[...] Your thoughts and your body cells are reflected one in the other.

[...] The inner cellular body consciousness feels itself massive, while to you cells are minute. [...] The cellular consciousness experiences itself as eternal, though to you the cells have a brief life. But those cells are aware of the body’s history, in your terms, and in a much more familiar fashion than you are aware of the earth’s history.

[...] The cells within your body do the same thing.

[...] On deeper biological levels the cells straddle probabilities, and trigger responses. [...]

(A one-minute pause at 9:50, head bowed, eyes closed.) The organizations of consciousness “grow” even as cells grow into organs. [...]

[...] It may grow, develop or expand, change alliances or organizations, and it does combine with others even as cells do. [...]

[...] The cells, again, are not simply minute, handy, unseen particles that happen to compose your organs. [...]

[...] Cells are organizations, ever-changing, forming and unforming.

(10:00.) Give us a moment … Cells compose natural forms. [...]

[...] Before the smallest cell appeared, in your terms, there was the consciousness that formed the cell.

[...] Yet as your physical reality personally is largely dependent upon your dreaming state, and impossible without it, so in the same way the first cell was physically materialized and actual only because of its own inner reality of consciousness.

[...] It had nothing to do with the propensity of certain kinds of cells to reproduce, but with an overall illumination that set the conditions in which life as you think of it was possible — and at that imaginary hypothetical point, all species became latent.

There was no point at which consciousness was introduced, because consciousness was the illumination from which the first cells emerged. [...]

[...] They are formations of energy assembled into invisible structures, through processes quite as valid and complicated as the organization of any group of cells. Comparing them with cells, they are of briefer duration, generally speaking, though under certain conditions this does not apply. But your thoughts form structures as real as the cells. [...]

[...] Beneath your awareness, however, they will also trigger the cells’ ever-present memory imprints of stimuli received when those events occurred. [...]

As living cells have a structure, react to stimuli and organize according to their own classification, so do thoughts. [...]

Using this analogy, your mental and emotional life forms a framework composed of such structures, and these act directly upon the cells of your physical body.

Even the electric reality of a dream is decoded, so that its effects are experienced not only by the brain, but in the furthest reaches of the most minute cells in the human body. Dream experiences long forgotten are forever contained as electrically coded within the cells of the physical body. [...]

They exist within the cells, or I should more properly say that the cells form about them. [...]

[...] The thoughts are as necessary to the whole system as the body’s cells are. Ruburt correctly interpreted an analogy I gave him in which I compared thoughts to individual cells, and belief systems to the physical organs, which are composed of cells. The organs obviously are stationary in the body, though the cells within them die and are reborn.

[...] You give no conscious thought to the coming and going of cells within your organs. [...]

(Long pause at 10:05.) Cells possess “social” characteristics. [...] In making such statements I am not personifying the cell, for the desire for communication and motion does not belong to man, or even animals, alone. [...]

[...] The most secluded recluse must still depend upon the biological sociability of not only his own body cells, but of the natural world with all of its creatures. [...]

[...] Through biological communication the child’s cells are made aware of its physical environment, the temperature, air pressure, weather conditions, food supplies — and the body reacts to these conditions, making some adjustments with great rapidity.

At cellular levels the world exists with a kind of social interchange, in which the birth and death of cells are known to all others, and in which the death of a frog and a star gain equal weight. [...]

[...] The activity of cells within the body also causes what you might call minute explosions of interior sound. [...]

The atoms and molecules that compose your cells and your flesh, for instance, do not react to the physical sounds that you hear or to the light patterns that your physical eyes perceive. [...]

[...] The cells that compose your intestines, your heart, your muscles obviously do not see the car as “you” do. [...]

It then becomes usable information, even in terms of the atoms and molecules that compose the cells. [...]