“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Even then, however, all creatures are sustained by that innate gift, that inner sense of security that not only propels creatures toward life, but safely conducts them past physical life and past death’s doorway.

(Long pause.) If the “earthling” spoke, the alien would of course instantly know that you were communicating creatures, and in the vocal sounds recognize patterns that contained purpose and intent. To one extent or another, all creatures use language (underlined), implying a far vaster sociobiological relationship than is usually supposed. [...]

[...] By this I mean that a given present body presupposes a biological past of like creatures. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

Your body then might say you are safe, and your senses show you that no danger is present — yet you have begun to rely so upon secondary experience that you do not trust your creature reactions.

[...] You cannot place man’s good intent outside of the physical context, for outside of that context you do not have the creature that you know. [...]

Because you are natural creatures, within you there is a natural state of being. [...]

The natural creature-validity of your senses must remain clear, and only then can you take full advantage of those intuitions and visions that must come through your own private intersection with space and time.

Imagine further this poor creature having a brain to go with each face, and each brain interprets reality in terms of the world it looks upon. Yet the two worlds are different, and more, the creatures are Siamese twins. At the same time, imagine that these two creatures are really one, but with definite parts equipped to handle two entirely different worlds.

[...] Pretend that you are some weird creature with two faces. [...]

The subconscious, in this rather ludicrous analogy, would exist between the two brains and would enable the creature to operate as a single entity. [...]

[...] I bid you a fond good evening—and to a sweet creature.

[...] Seth’s closing reference to a “sweet creature” was a reference to our sweet cat, Willy, who midway in the session had hopped up on the couch and snuggled himself tight against my left side as I took notes.)

There were fully developed men — that is, of full intellect, emotion, and will — living at the same time, in your terms, as those creatures supposed to be man’s evolutionary ancestors. [...]

As hinted, there have been all kinds of species of animal-man, and man-animal, of which your sciences are not aware, and bones found thought to form, say, a man and an animal that were from the same creature. [...]

[...] There is, I know, in heroic terms a love, a knowledge, a compassion, a creativity that can be assigned to All That Is, which is within each creature. [...]

(Jane said the cans stood for creature nourishment that we could get when we needed it, and that it was also related to the fund question. [...]

Each creature is also endowed with the will to live. [...]

It was an attempt to fit man within the picture of evolution, and to manufacture a creature whose very existence was somehow pitted against itself. Evolutionary man, with Darwinian roots, could not be a creature with a soul. [...]

(Long pause at 12:06.) Because you are physical creatures even your dreams must be translated through the reality of your flesh. [...]

I have told you that the very cells of the body are aware of the conditions in the environment, of other cells, and of course of the creatures within the environment. [...]

[...] The overall emotional coloration and vitality of all of the creatures, say, within any given arbitrary environment is highly complicated, so that there is of course a psychological climate to which you react, as there is a physical one. [...]

The patterns for the earth and for its creatures were as real before their physical appearances, and far more real than, say, the plan for a painting that you might have in your mind. The universe always was innately (underlined) objective in your terms, with its planets and creatures. [...]

[...] By evidence in this case I mean drawings, based upon the best scientific assumptions as to what all of those intermediate creatures must have looked like. [...]

Each creature is born trusting [...]

You may not consider trust an attribute connected with reasoning, but it is indeed, for it represents the creature’s innate understanding of the support with which it has been gifted. [...]

[...] Creatures without the compartment of the ego can easily follow their own identities beyond any changes of form. [...]

As creatures you are a part of nature. [...]

While in conventional terms you think of long centuries’ duration, in which finned creatures rose from the seas, some “becoming” reptiles and finally mammals, many did not make that journey but “fell” along the way. [...]

[...] It contained strong hints that those creatures are geniuses, possessing the ability of abstract thought to a high degree.⁵ Such is indeed the case.

[...] (This kind of thinking usually reminds me of a certain statement Seth made half a dozen years ago; see Note 7 for Session 727: “Creatures without the compartment of the ego can easily follow their own identity beyond any change of form.”)

You could not die unless you were the kind of creature who was born, nor could you have a present moment as you consider it. [...]

[...] The known rules that govern the behavior of creatures and objects in dreams seem no longer to apply. [...]

[...] If each of you understood and perceived the graceful integrity of your own individuality, just as you try to perceive the beauty of all other natural creatures, then you would allow your own creativity greater reign. [...]

He is a sweet creature.

[...] Many, now — and I am speaking generally — are in the position they are because they so thoroughly believe what all of you believe to a large extent: that you are flawed creatures, spawned by a meaningless universe, or made by a vengeful God and damaged by original sin.

[...] Science and religion each tell you that left alone you will spontaneously be primitive creatures, filled with uncontrolled lust and avarice. [...]

[...] In deeper terms however it was a creature of default, of frustration, and lack-of. [...]

When the frustrations were faced and worked through more and more, the creature then lost its strength. [...]

[...] Involved were her questions about mammals, species, subspecies, and other classifications of living creatures. [...] 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.

[...] Man does not in his physical development pass through the stages supposedly followed by the hypothetical creature who left the water for the land to become a mammal—but each species does indeed have written within it the knowledge of “its past.” [...]