“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(9:52 P.M. Jane said she’d been pretty far out during the session—then added later while we talked that she was picking up from Seth information on the beginning of our own world, species and civilizations that he intended to give in the next session. [...]

[...] That portion of the self is the portion you recognize as your usual conscious self, alive within the scheme of seasons, aware within the designs of time, caught transfixed in moments of brilliant awareness, with civilizations that seem to come and go. [...]

[...] And there’s more to come on the three classifications of man that Seth gave in that earlier session … And stuff on the lands of the mind, I think, which leads to our ancient civilizations and how they’re embedded in our minds now …”

[...] The archeologists merrily continue to date the remains of “past” civilizations, never asking themselves what the past means — or saying: “This is the past relative (underlined) to my point of perception.”

[...] He is born wanting to form civilizations as, for example, beavers want to form dams.

[...] Nor would the constructs of civilization — art, commerce, or even technology — have been possible. [...]

[...] (Pause.) These provide the motive power that moves your civilizations. [...]

[...] Other kinds of dreams involve the “bizarre environments” Seth mentioned and show societies or civilizations quite alien to us, but built up around elements at least recognizable.

[...] The main events of a civilization are chosen by its people, but because a course is begun, this does not mean that it cannot be changed at any point.

The difference noted in this respect between the dreams of men and women are only differences apparent within your own structure of civilization. [...]

Men repress many mammalian images in your particular civilization, because they do not want to be reminded of the female’s reproductive advantages. [...]

[...] The main, brilliant thrust of those inner events, therefore, splashed out upon the human landscape, propelling peoples and civilizations.

[...] In some previous civilizations this was done within a natural framework (pause), in which the old were cared for physically while their words were listened to most carefully.

[...] There are, in fact, many important issues connected with the dreaming state that can involve genetic activation of certain kinds: information processing on the part of the species, the insertion or reinsertion of civilizing elements—and all of these are also connected with the reincarnational aspects of dreaming.

In civil and governmental terms, such a policy could not be tolerated—nor has man yet learned how to deal with that basic principal. [...]

You imagine, however, that the male is aggressive, active, logical-minded, inventive, outwardly oriented, a builder of civilizations. [...]

[...] Even now, local civil defense officials monitor the air several times daily with radiological survey meters — equipment similar to Geiger counters. [...]

[...] On March 31, children and pregnant women were advised to evacuate an area within five miles of the plant, and today city and county civil defense directors in eastern Pennsylvania were given plans for a precautionary evacuation of everyone within a 25-mile radius of Three Mile Island. [...]

(To a student:) Now last week, when Ruburt [Jane] was speaking about the natives who are such expert dreamers, you asked: “But why are they not more progressive?” Yet I know you realize that your own progress as a civilization will, in your terms, come to a halt unless you advance in other directions. This is what your civilization is learning that you cannot rape your planet, that life did not begin as some isolated [substance] that in the great probabilities of existence met another [similar substance], and another, and then another, until a chain of molecules could be made and selves formed. [...]

There were then also animal-man and man-animal civilizations of their kinds, and there were complete civilizations of modern man, existing [long] before the ages now given for, say, the birth of writing (in 3100 B.C.)

[...] But at least, I told Jane, he’s said certain things that we can ask questions about, whether from the viewpoint of evolution, time, language, civilization, or whatever. [...]

[...] There are, then, other species like (underlined) your own, and in the vast spectrums of existence that your reality cannot contain, there have been galactic civilizations that came together when the conditions were right.

[...] You have been in this room for centuries and while you sit here civilizations have grown together and blown apart. [...]

(Pause.) You were a member of a band of such men, dealing honorably enough with wares, but cut off from the main stream of civilized endeavors. [...]