“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] As you are part of a physical species, so you are a part of a species of consciousness. That species forms the races of mankind that you recognize.

In your dreams, in your terms, you find your personal past appearing in the present, so in those terms the past of the species also occurs. (Long pause.) Future probabilities are worked out there also so that individually and en masse the species decides upon its probable future. [...]

[...] For when one member of a species dreams such dreams, those dreams are transmitted to all other members. [...] For when one member of the species dreams, all members, to some extent, participate. [...]

[...] You are like a trans-species, as Ruburt would say. [...]

[...] Consider art as a natural phenomena constructed by the psyche, a trans-species of perception and consciousness that changes, enlarges and expands life’s experiences and casts them in a different light, offering new opportunities for creating action and new solutions to problems by inserting new, original data. [...]

[...] They are, however, heroically human, in that the characteristics of that species are carried as far as possible to fulfillment. [...]

[...] Their natural capabilities, however, developed from the human stock, and lie latent within your species. [...]

It has been said by some women working toward “equal rights” that the species has only used half of its potential by suppressing the abilities of women. [...]

[...] Those ideas are changing, and as they do the species must accept its true personhood. [...]

Now the species does have its life-tasters, rising always out of any given time to check on the overall quality of life, to see what new ingredients should be added—what new directions should be followed, what new ideas or inventions must be planted for future harvest.

[...] For example, they became part of the species’ natural aging processes, as per your psychologist’s article. [...]

(Part of the session grew out of our recent reactions to the televised newscasts, as well as what we’ve been reading lately, concerning the mass suicide in Guyana, the shooting of the mayor of San Francisco, problems with inflation, the Middle East —any of what seemed to be an infinite number of ills the species has created for itself. [...]

[...] In fact, I think his material and insights into the species’ behavior is the only sensible body of material on the subject that can stand questioning and understanding—no small achievement, as I often remind Jane. [...]

The plants awakened before the animals—and there are reasons for these varying degrees of “wakefulness” that have nothing to do basically with the differentiations of specieshood as defined by science from the outside, but have to do with the inner affiliations of consciousness, and with species or families of consciousness. [...]

[...] Where do we fit into them, individually and as members of the species? [...]

[...] Seth stresses the importance of probabilities as they exist in relationship to a thought, an ordinary physical event, or the mass event of Homo sapiens as a species, and emphasizes the existence of probable realities as the understructure of free will.

[...] Your Multidimensional Reality in the Now of Your Being” — Eight sessions dealing with the vast unknown origin of our species in a psychological past that by contrast makes evolutionary time look like yesterday.

Section 3: “The Private Probable Man, the Private Probable Woman, the Species in Probabilities, and Blueprints for Realities” — Nine sessions devoted to the importance of dreams in the creation of “concrete” events from probable ones. [...]

[...] Play is, in fact, one of the most practical methods of survival, both individually and for the species. [...]

[...] I will outline the inner psychic species, and it is up to you to discover to which one you belong.

[...] As you are not a rock or a mineral, but a person, so your individuality places you in a particular family or species of consciousness. [...]

(Finally, and perhaps prematurely: Left untapped so far in all of this is any material from Seth on whether the counterpart and family-of-consciousness mechanisms apply to other species. [...]

[...] At the same time, all of the latent spiritual and mental qualities would be fulfilled in a like manner, so that all of the potentials of the species would find actualization in the most developed way in the experience of each individual. [...]

(Pause.) It is difficult to try to explain the creativity of the psyche when, as a species, you have such set ideas about it, but I shall try.

[...] The species divides itself up, so to speak, and the members of the different races at any given time distribute themselves in the various lands and continents. [...]

[...] In his life [each] man is embarked upon a cooperative venture with his own species, and with the other species, and dying he also in that regard acts in a cooperative manner, returning his physical substance to the earth. [...]

(10:11.) The [human] species has built into it all of the knowledge, information, and “data” that it can possibly need under any and all conditions. [...]

[...] It does mean, however, that the species possesses within itself those inclinations which will flower. [...]

[...] Evolution does not of course apply only to the human species, and as I have said consciousness on your plane exists in all things. [...]

This human self-consciousness existed in psychological time and in inner time long before you as a species constructed it in terms of your particular camouflage patterns. [...]

I do become impatient, though I shouldn’t, with this implied insistence that evolution involves merely the human species, or rather that all evolution must be considered some gigantic tree with humanity as the supreme blossom.

[...] If Christendom saw man as blighted by original sin, Darwinian and Freudian views see him as part of a flawed species in which individual life rests precariously, ever at the beck and call of the species’ needs, and with survival as the prime goal — a survival, however, without meaning. [...]

Not only was he set against himself, but he saw himself as a part of an uncaring mechanistic universe, devoid of purpose, intent, and certainly a universe that cared not a whit for the individual, but only for the species. [...]

When you believe in a universe accidentally formed, and when you think you are a member of a species accidentally spawned, then private life seems devoid of meaning, and events can seem chaotic. [...]

I think the main idea we’re trying to bring to consciousness as a species is that we’ve chosen to move beyond the limits of the ordinary, safe world we’ve always created. [...] We’re still fighting our conventional wars, but now we have to face the threat of national or species disaster through the escalation of an “ordinary” war into one in which nuclear weapons are either accidentally or deliberately used.

[...] Isotopes of some of the elements involved with that energy have “half-lives” of millions of years—far longer, quite possibly, than our species will exist in those terms of time. [...]

[...] Now no one on earth is “safe”—in this probable reality our species has given at least unconscious permission (through the dream state, for example) for the great nuclear experiment to continue.

[...] To Jane and me, our species’ venturing into space is another such analog: Our physical [...]

Now, when you change the character of the ego as you think of it, you change it not only for yourselves, but for the species of which you are a part. [...] So you work not only for yourselves, but you work for others, and you change not only yourselves, but you change others, and you alter the species of which you are a part. [...]

(10:05.) If that were not the case, your own species would not have existed as long as it has. [...]

[...] You are biologically and psychologically predisposed to grow within that rich environment, to contribute on all levels to the fulfillment of your species — but more than this, to add your own unique viewpoint and experience to the greater patterns of consciousness of which you are part.

[...] There are, in fact, many important issues connected with the dreaming state that can involve genetic activation of certain kinds: information processing on the part of the species, the insertion or reinsertion of civilizing elements—and all of these are also connected with the reincarnational aspects of dreaming.

I have not touched upon some of these subjects before, since I wanted to present them in that larger context of man’s origins and historic appearance as a species. [...]