“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] To us, even the potential for audible communication has always been as much a part of our creature states as arms and legs. [...]

[...] There were intelligent human beings far earlier than is supposed; and because you assume a one-line kind of progression from an apelike creature to man, you ignore any evidence that shows to the contrary. [...]

[...] And I have the delusion that I speak through this woman and look out through her eyes at the most fantastic creatures imaginable. [...]

[...] Initially this was necessary while this new sort of creature learned to maintain itself as a separate unit.

[...] It must release the creatures and probabilities from Its dream.

[...] If he considers a native in Africa, for example, as a superstitious rather imbecilic, almost prehistoric creature from the past, then he will learn nothing of that man’s ability. [...]

(Actually, Jane continued, she found the material on probabilities intellectually stimulating, while wondering about its emotional connotations — the inferences that she was but one of countless billions of creatures, “blinking on and off like lights in all of those probable worlds …” What value was there to the tiny individual? [...]

[...] There was quite a difference in “physical size” between the images she had seen then and her visions of herself this evening; yet there were similarities also, for of that earlier experience she said “I saw creatures who walked upright — hairy, with brilliant compassionate eyes …” See the 648th session at 11:30.

[...] I have for many years had specific positive symbolic-seeming events with flying creatures and this seemed to be another one. [...] The creature flew across the road, soaring up into the branches of a tall tree, where it stopped and perched, and looked at us. [...]

[...] Like each one of us, Jane as a physical creature still had to travel her literal paths to experience and knowledge.

[...] Jane named that loving young creature Mischa, and he was to offer her great comfort for years, just as he did to me when later we met. [...]

When your own personalities are more or less in balance you have no trouble at all in looking out for these creatures, and actually reinforcing their own existence with residues of your creative and sympathetic powers. [...]

[...] I am sure of one thing: I’m in contact with my deceased parents in ways that I certainly didn’t employ while they were physical creatures. [...]

The various species and the multitudinous varieties of life in your universe could with much validity be compared to cells, organs, or limbs of some gigantic creature. [...]

Each of you takes part in your world — and in your time as you understand it, and in your terms, all the creatures of the earth participate in the century. [...]

[...] They remember the mammal dreams more easily however because mammals are warmblooded creatures whose reproductive systems bear similarities to your own.

[...] That Seth then seeded himself, so to speak, in the space-time environment you recognize — appearing through the centuries, sending out offshoots of “himself,” exploring earthly experience and developing as well as he could those potentials of his own greater identity that could best be brought to fruition within a creature context.²

[...] I don’t mean that as a physical creature she has magically switched temporal realities, but that she’s closely allied with that version of herself in that other reality. [...]

“Behind such ideas is the central point of Christianity, or one of them at least: that earthly man is a sinful creature. [...]

“You are social creatures. [...]

[...] Projection experiments, then, should only be tried when you are in a peaceful state of mind, as Ruburt should know after his black creature experience [described in The Seth Material].

[...] To make sense to us as physical creatures, any “truth” must undergo transformations, be couched in certain terms or we couldn’t understand it. [...]

It was in this session that Seth made the analogy of the “weird creature with two faces,” one turned to physical reality and one to inner reality, both conscious and aware, each representing one facet of our consciousness.

[...] Because I once inhabited physical matter, as you all do now, does not mean that I am now some esoteric, occult creature of dim spiritualistic rather doubtful origins, who manages to invade gullible and neurotic consciousness.