“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Then as we sat for the session Jane told me that after supper tonight she’d picked up material from Seth “that I wasn’t sure of because I didn’t understand what he meant….” Involved were her questions about mammals, species, subspecies, and other classifications of living creatures. I thought it obvious that her two latest intuitions from Seth were directly related—and that certain creative portions of her psyche never stopped “working.” Quickly I tried to explain that in biology the science of classification is called taxonomy. I had only a little success delineating terms like “phylum” and “genus,” since I didn’t have a dictionary handy to refresh my own memory; however, I did help her understand that mammals aren’t a subspecies of any other group, but are themselves a major class of warm-blooded creatures.

In various periods that “gridwork” might “carry more traffic” along certain circuits than at other periods, so that there has been some creative leeway allowed, particularly on the parts of the species that make up your larger classifications. There were always birds, for example, but in the great interplay of “interior” and exterior communication among all portions of this vast living system, there was a creative interplay that allowed for endless variations within that classification, and each other one.

Reincarnation exists, then, on the part of all species. Once a consciousness, however, has chosen the larger classification of its physical existences, it stays within that framework in its “reincarnational” existences. Mammals return as mammals, for example, but the species can change within that classification.¹ This provides great genetic strength, and consciousnesses in those classifications have chosen them because of their own propensities and purposes. The animals, for example, seem to have a limited range of physical activity in conscious terms, as you think of them. An animal cannot decide to read a newspaper. Newspapers are outside of its reality. Animals have a much wider range, practically speaking, in certain other areas. They are much more intimately aware of their environment, of themselves as separate from it, but also of themselves as a part of it (intently). In that regard, their experience deals with relationships of another kind.

Every c-e-l-l (spelled), in those terms, is a sender and a receiver. All of the larger divisions of life—the mammals, fish, birds, and so forth—are an integral part of that living gridwork. The picture of the world is not only the result of those messages transmitted and received, however, but is also caused by the relationships between those messages. In your terms, then (underlined), all of life’s large classifications were present “at the beginning of the world.” Otherwise there would have been vast holes in that grid of perception that makes possible the very sensations of physical life.

Thusly, your classifications of various species appear to you as the only logical kinds of divisions that could be made among living things. [...] That particular overall method of separation leads to such questions as: “Which species came first, and which came later, and how did the various species emerge — one from the other?” Those questions are further brought about by your time classifications, without which they would be meaningless.

In those frameworks you have made certain classifications that now appear quite obvious. [...]

Your classifications in such respects set up exterior divisions. [...]

The child, laughing with joy and awe at the sight of the first violet, understands far more in the deepest terms than a botanist who has long since forgotten the experience of perceiving one violet, though he has at his mental fingertips the names and classifications of all the world’s flowers. [...]

[...] There are different classifications, yet all can be called physical. [...] Your psychological life is composed of many different levels of consciousness of varying classifications. [...]

An object to be declared as such must be in tune with itself—that is, composed of atoms and molecules of a certain classification, working together as a unit. [...]

[...] They represent a species of consciousness, a classification.

[...] Your own lives show well the stamp of still other classifications of consciousness. [...]

Constant fears about nuclear destruction, or other such catastrophes can also fall under this classification.

(Resume at 11:15.) Though I am using numbers and classifications, please realize that I am doing this for the convenience of explanation, and that these realities exist one within the other. [...]

[...] It is a temptation at times to use more specific scientific terms, but these would be as confusing as the various definitions and classifications (with humor) that you read in the dictionary, so overall we try to hit a “happy medium.” [...]

(Long pause at 3:42.) In a fashion, Adolf Hitler fell into such a classification. [...]

[...] The meaning of the experience is stated in the final part of the session, so there is no need to go into it here; suffice it to say that the experience had a meaning, was not random but highly selective, and would be listed in our classification as “experiencing a concept.” [...]

Now: Spontaneity knows its own order, and it is from spontaneous order that all secondary classifications of order emerge. [...]

[...] In some they appear as natural phenomena, for example as various classifications of objects, in some as variations of sound or light. [...]

Matter is a classification. [...]

[...] They can be better equated with colors—some dark, some light, but all in all beyond such classifications as morality.

[...] You can say that it took untold centuries for the EE units “initially” to combine, form classifications of matter and various species; or you can say that this process happened at once. [...]

[...] All psychic realities are in this classification also. [...]

[...] This designation, this classification, in no way affects the nature of that indivisible self. [...]

[...] These classifications apply regardless of the basic nature of the consciousness that is to be materially formed. [...]

Problem solving will also come under this classification, where solutions are being sought. [...]

[...] You accept as real only certain classifications of events and ignore others. [...]

[...] 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 …”

You like to deal with classifications, so that you equate one apple with one other apple, one cat with another cat, one person with another person. [...]

[...] Instead, a love of woods and trees transcends such classifications. [...]