“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You become more responsible, then, in a particular way for physical effects that, comparatively speaking, are “instinctive” in the animal. [...]

[...] Nor am I speaking of an enforced cooperation — the result of “instinct” that somehow arranges the social habits of the animals; for their habits are indeed social and cooperative.

(Long pause.) One particular experiment in consciousness may be pursued by one species, for example, and that knowledge given to another, or transferred to another, where it appears as “instinct.” [...]

[...] On the other hand, you have been taught that the intellect, the “flower of consciousness,” is a frail, vulnerable adjunct — again, a chance creation, without meaning and without support — without support because you believe that “beneath it” lie “primitive, animalistic, bloody instincts,” against which reason must exert what strength it has.

[...] It can be called on one level instinct, on other levels it is much more. [...]

[...] It is for this reason that he now and then does enjoy visitors to sessions, because he instinctively feels that he is thereby learning to manipulate and use these abilities oftentimes, and thereby learn the various subjective feelings that accompany valid perceptions, and to distinguish these from subjective feelings that turn out to be based upon invalid perceptions.

[...] This is not “blind instinctive behavior” at all, but the result of well-ordered spontaneous artistry. [...]

[...] He has been right, avoiding tomato juice in the morning, instinctively. [...]

[...] Your instinctive self will never betray you. [...]

I use the word “methods” because you understand it, but actually we are speaking about an approach to life, a magical or natural approach to life that is man’s version of the animal’s natural instinctive behavior in the universe.

[...] This is not ‘blind instinctive behavior’ at all, but the result of well-ordered spontaneous artistry.

[...] The young one is conditioned then to forget such instinctive understanding, and to ignore the connections between hatred and love.

[...] It has its biological aspects, of course; but war, for example, is not a biological culmination of an aggressive instinct (period).

(She went on to explain that to her way of thinking the book was “more insidious than a lot of outright lies, because the truth that you instinctively feel it contains could lead you to accept the greater distortions that are also in it….”

[...] The accident gives him a specific event upon which to lay his guilt, but coming so close to death, his own instincts for life were rearoused, so that he is literally given a second chance.

They think very much of you both, and are easily hurt when you are not being honest, for they realize this instinctively. [...]

Instinctively you leave your body for varying amounts of time each night while you sleep, but those journeys are not “programmed.” [...]

[...] Usually this is automatic — a learned response that by now appears to be almost instinctive. [...]

[...] You gambled above all that your instincts would lead you in the proper direction, and that you would “win out” despite the “odds” as you understood them.²

[...] As if it were driven by blind instinct? [...]