“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It could also discuss the same question from the view of the growth of the human body and the development, say, of cancer cells that break out of a conforming pattern and superimpose a ‘new’ one, their own, on the unit structure….

(The book Jane referred to is a compendium of experiments with animal and human biological rhythms. [...]

Consciousness — human consciousness — is not dependent upon the tissues, and yet there is no physical matter that is not brought into being by some portion of consciousness. [...]

(3. During a conversation Jane and I had wondered why the members of the human species were so woefully ignorant of the internal structure of their own bodies. [...]

[...] In your terms, I do not share your humanity, in a fashion. [...]

[...] You will have more direct evidence for the survival of the human personality.

He is particularly susceptible along the lines of his work because he felt from childhood that his ability was the only thing that made him lovable at all in his mother’s eyes, and that his entire worth as a human being was dependent upon how he made out as a writer.

If you did not feel any need to destroy reality (in your terms) in order to understand it, then you would not need to dissect animals, hoping to discover the reasons for human diseases. [...]

I told you many sessions ago that the most healthy conditions could be achieved for the human organism if the body when sleeping lay in a north-south position, and I repeat this remark now.

[...] Only by finding these can you discover the nature of human personality and the nature of reality within which it operates.

[...] No study of human personality can pretend to be thorough that does not take the importance of dream reality into consideration.

[...] The doctors follow their own ideas, of course, and in that system they see themselves as completely justified — as humane.

[...] You, any human being, represent a capability, an attraction, an electrical field of great intensity that is capable of efficiently acting as a unit within the physical field.

The potentialities of human personality cannot be examined as one would crack open a nut to see what is inside. [...]

The human personality is free. [...]

[...] They were not human eyes, yet did not appear to be animal either.

Now basically even the physical universe itself is so constructed, but for all practical purposes, as far as general perception and experience is concerned, time and the physical growth development apply, so that we find the ego portion, particularly of the human personality, is to a large extent dependent for its maturity and development upon the amount of time that the physical image has spent within the system.

[...] Think of the human animal, only let the word “animal” carry all of those beneficial colorations that you hold when you think of other species. [...]

[...] I also said that it was easy to see how such problems, left unfaced, could lead to things like ulcers, heart attacks, cancer, etc.—and small wonder that our hospitals were crowded with a flow of miserable humanity. [...]

(I’d forgotten Jane’s questions in the last session, about the inoculation of humans and animals.)

Mankind is to some intimate degree acquainted with this attempt of action to recreate itself, for human reproduction is here a case in point, each individual attempting to create a replica, the attempt doomed to failure, but the attempt itself resulting in a distortion of the original action; that is, a distortion of the original individuals, and in the creation of a new reality, this process then being repeated indefinitely.