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(10:03.) You must return, wiser creatures, to the nature that spawned you — not only as loving caretakers but as partners with the other species of the earth. [...]

It portrays the new consciousness seeing itself unique and separate, evolving from the tree of life and therefore able to examine its fruits, to see itself for the first time as different from others, like the serpent who crawled upon the surface of the earth. [...]

[...] And since you have been given it there is a reason for it, and what earthly good is a language that is not a language? [...]

[...] A tree grows as deeply within and under the earth as it does above it. [...]

The large amount of their work is done from a nonphysical state, earthly existences being somewhat like very important field trips.

[...] The personality is not swept willy-nilly back to another earthly existence, as might be the case otherwise.

[...] Physically speaking, earth itself has its own kind of gestalt consciousness. If you must, then think of that earth consciousness as grading (spelled) upward in great slopes of awareness from relatively “inert” particles of dust and stone through the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. [...]

[...] But consciously a group of people upon this earth managed to remember old truths. [...]

Now as you sit before me, and I have said this before, you imagine yourselves to be particular people upon this earth at this particular time and at this particular address and cut off from any deeper reality that you have and yet, in your inner awareness, you realize that you are more than you know. [...]

Do you think you spring out of the earth without even the heritage of a tree or a seed? [...]

(In parentheses: You may have been focused quite well in other realities, but I am speaking of your earthly existence as you understand it.)

[...] Here in this analogy, the entire earthly personality could be compared to the world. [...]

[...] Imagine what you would miss: the odor of the fresh earth, the sounds, the touch of earth beneath your feet, of sun upon your back; using only the sense of smell, you would also be severely limited.

[...] Many cavemen doubtlessly feared for their personal survival when they ventured forth upon the earth in daylight.

[...] While you think, “I am man, a member of a certain species, inhabiting a planet named Earth in this space and in this time,” then you place artificial barriers between you and your perceptions. [...]

[...] But you always know what you are doing, and there are cycles in the earth, and in your being and your soul. [...]

[...] In the light of that kind of physical time, which is involved within earthly biology, there is no (pause) basic cultural time. [...]

The time that any artistic creator is involved with follows earth’s own time, however. [...]

[...] (In parentheses: I am speaking in your terms of time.) Watching television, you are aware of events that occur on the other side of the earth, so your consciousness necessarily becomes less parochial.⁸ As this has happened the whole matter (smiling) of probabilities has begun to assume a more practical cast. [...]

You are all counterparts of each other who are alive at any given earth time. [...]

[...] The flowers thrust themselves up through soil, but they hardly consider the soil or thrusting a tragedy, nor resent the time spent in the frozen earth, for they realize the frozen earth is a condition of their blossoming—a challenge that is an aid, not a hindrance. [...]

Our ego must have its feet upon the solid earth, it is out of its element, naked and in an unfamiliar environment, outside of the normal characteristics of physical existence. [...]

[...] Psychically and psychologically, those other stations upon which you do not concentrate form the structure of the psyche as you understand it, from which your earthly experience springs into focus. [...]

[...] Through Ruburt, then, I am permitted to view the earth “again” in your terms. [...]

[...] Now Ruburt called me originally (last Saturday night) at unconscious levels because he was upset with “earth programming.” [...]

(Smile.) As long as he does not attempt to orbit the earth. [...]

[...] Identity and consciousness existed long before your earth was formed.

[...] And for me, Jane’s condition came to stand for everything we don’t know in our particular joint, chosen, probable earthly reality.

[...] Why on earth, he thought, should someone form such a reality?

(9:10.) In those annals there is legend after legend, tale after tale, history after history describing civilizations that have come and gone, kings risen and fallen, and those stories have always represented cultures (spelled) of the psyche, and described various approaches used by man’s psyche as it explored its intersection with earthly experience. [...]