“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(9:40.) This is, of course, chosen by those involved in that civilization. [...]

[...] Some hieroglyphics and the symbols were used by the Mu civilization.

It is somewhat humorous that such a vital consciousness could even suppose itself to be the end product of inert elements that were themselves lifeless, but somehow managed to combine in such a way that your species attained fantasy, logic, vast organizational power, technologies, and civilizations. [...]

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

(“Has earth ever known before a civilization as complicated as ours?”)

Give us a moment … While connected with your own civilization, the man Einstein¹ came closest perhaps in this regard, for he was able to quite naturally identify himself with various “functions” of the universe. [...]

(With amusement:) The wrong kinds of questions are the right ones for you, however, in your civilization and with your beliefs, because you want to stay within that structure to that extent. [...]

As a civilization you fail to reap dreams’ greater benefit, and the conscious mind is able to handle much more dream recall than you allow. [...]

[...] That is, there were “apes” who attained their own “civilizations,” for example. [...]

But your beliefs do not stop there; because of both scientific and religious ones you believe in western civilization that there are threats from within also. [...]

[...] It does not represent the entire lifetime of your species or the catalogue of physical activities, or begin to tell the story of physical creatures, their civilizations, wars, joys, technologies, or triumphs. [...]

In the distant past some ancient civilizations did indeed use animals in such a fashion, but in a far different framework. [...]

(Pause.) It is not as easy for the ordinary individual to enter, and it deals with group presents, with mass probabilities, racial matters, the movement of civilization. [...] Here it would be of benefit in learning of old ruins for example, and vanished civilizations, but only if the specific probable past were probed in which these existed.

[...] Your entire civilization is built around that kind of inner framework. [...]

[...] (Pause.) One of whom joins a profession that had to do with keeping records of water levels or consumption, (Jane shakes head) this being a civil employment.

(According to Seth I have lived a life in Boston, and it ended probably just before the Civil War.)

[...] You have the propensity to form dazzling mental and psychological creations, such as your arts and sciences and religions and civilizations. [...]

When a civilization does not support creativity it begins to falter. [...]

Studies will show that this duality is not a natural state of man, since even today many so-called primitive societies do not experience this duality to anything like the degree with which it affects more civilized communities. [...]

[...] In your civilization as a whole, they are not. [...]

[...] However it is usually said by others, very eloquently, and nothing is said about the abilities of less civilized soto-speak societies.

[...] Personal Experience as It Is Related to “Past” and “Future” Civilizations of Man.

(11:55.) The concept itself existed long before Christianity’s initiation, and was told in various forms throughout the centuries and in all civilizations. [...]

The unconscious is understood to be a garbage heap of undesirable impulses, long ago discarded by civilization, while again much religious theory projects the image of the hidden self that must be kept in bounds by good work, prayer, and penance.

[...]

[...] For instance, if you believe that you can live to a healthy and happy old age, well into your nineties, then even in Western civilization you will do so. [...]

(Long pause at 8:58.) The Sinful Self obviously is not a burden that Ruburt carries alone, but one inherent in your civilization. [...]

[...] With all the opportunities of creativity, and with your own greater knowledge instantly available, you would be swamped by so many stimuli that you literally could not physically respond, and so your particular kinds of civilization and science and art could not have been accomplished—and regardless of their flaws they are magnificent accomplishments, unique products of the reasoning mind.

3. See the Preface for Dreams. In the notes immediately preceding the private session for September 13, 1979, I quoted some of the very evocative material on animal cultures and civilizations that Seth had given in Chapter 5 of Mass Events.