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Then I bid you a fond good evening—and again, my congratulations on “Unknown”—the book—and all of them do indeed have a part to play in the new era that is approaching. The “New Aquarian Age” may be an exaggeration, and about it are grouped many distorted ideas—yet it is a popular term that stands for an insight on the part of the people, and is a result of quite valid inner knowledge that an era is ending, and that another has to some extent already begun.

You have had a schism, in which reason and emotion seemed to be opposites. Revelation and reason seemed to be enemies. Yet as the approach of the scientific age appeared, before its blossoming, so new tendencies are now showing that do indeed signal a new era, in which the emotions and intellect are no longer regarded as opposing tendencies in man.

[...] An underground place where they eat or drink with shutters and an atmosphere depicting an era, 1871.

[...] The totem pole, for example, is a remnant from an era where there was much greater communication between man and the animals — when, in fact, men went to the animals to learn, and from them first acquired knowledge of herbs and corrective medicinal behavior.³

1. Seth is letting his material automatically answer my question about early man; See Appendix 6, as well as Note 7 for Session 688. According to our dictionary, the geologic time span he indicates in tonight’s session falls within the Tertiary Period of the Cenozoic Era. [...]

[...] Individual life, religion, culture, politics, were each vastly different in each period, the concept of the self profoundly different in one era and another. [...]

[...] Each era set up various methods meant to protect man against the environment itself, or against the gods. [...]

Many believe that it is a time of spiritual and/or physical deterioration, an era in which all those hard-won attributes of maturity vanish, and the reasoning faculties disappear like grains of sand held too long by the thinking hands of the mind.

[...] This era could be more advantageous to the individual and to the race than any other period, were it recognized for what it is and understood.

You and Ruburt have had the feeling many times — but what we are trying to do is change over completely from one mode of operation to another, and to construct, say, new inner blocks of meaning that will give rise to the next era.

[...] In those pristine eras, however, the species itself arose, in those terms, newly from the womb of timelessness into time.

[...] The particular, brilliant, intensified flowering of painting and sculpture that took place, say, in the time of Michelangelo (1475–1564) could not, in your probability, have occurred after the birth of technology, for example, and certainly not in your own era, where images are flashed constantly before your eyes on television and in the movies, where they are rambunctiously present in your magazines and advertisements. [...]

The main issue, however, in that particular era, was a shared belief system, a system that consisted of, among other things, implied images that were neither here nor there—neither entirely earthly nor entirely divine—a mythology of God, angels, demons, an entire host of Biblical characters that were images in man’s imagination, images to be physically portrayed. [...]

[...] There should be some alterations however, changes simply to mark the end of one era and the beginning of another, even if it is but a brief vacation, or series of small trips.

[...] An underground place where they eat or drink, with shutters and an atmosphere depicting an era, 1871.

(Long pause at 9:33.) Unfortunately, with the development of the scientific era, a development occurred that need not have happened. [...]

[...] At the same “time,” so to speak, that this personality is born into a minority race, in a completely different era it may be born rich, secure and aristocratic. [...]

[...] Such communication demands a complete knowledge of the root assumptions of such eras, and of the general philosophical and scientific climate of thought at the time.

Even though those village people lived in your era, however, they were largely untouched by modern technology, and so kept to their own ways. [...]

[...] The garden and grounds now about the personality’s present home, are replicas of gardens laid out by the same personality in the Spanish era. [...]

[...] In the eras of the great artists, civilization was united by a series of revelations, ideas and also distortions. [...]

[...] As a result, for example, your archeological evidence usually presents a picture quite in keeping with your ideas of history, geological eras, and so forth.

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For that reason, science—after its first great adventurous era—had its own flaws built in, and so it must expand its definitions of reality or become a tin-can caricature of itself, a prostituted handmaiden to an outworn technology, and quite give up its early claims of investigating the nature of truth or reality. [...]

[...] The minds of the past and future are open to us, or at least their contents are, not in a parasitic relationship but in a lively give-and-take, in which knowledge from each time period enriches every other historical era. [...]