“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] This alone should be proof that the condition is not a prerequisite for the species as such. [...]

The fact remains that psychologists or scientists cannot really speak of so-called ESP as either below normal or above normal as far as the species is concerned, just because Western man finds such difficulty in using it with any effectiveness. [...]

If we must speak of layers, and with your propensity for divisions I suppose we must, beneath this you have the racial memories of the species; and contained within is all the evolutionary data. [...]

[...] Value fulfillment operates within microbes and nations, within individual creatures and entire species, and it unites all of life’s manifestations so that indeed creatures and their environments are united in an overall cooperative venture — a venture in which each segment almost seeks to go beyond itself in creativity, growth, and expression. [...]

(4:22.) It should be noted before we begin that death itself is the delivery — a deliverer — of your species and all others. [...]

[...] The squirrel acts on that kind of knowledge when it buries nuts—as you saw, again, on a recent TV program—and the squirrel’s greater knowledge includes the knowledge of its species as well.

[...] The Cro-Magnon are of the same species, Homo sapiens, as modern man. [...]

[...] You are an imaginative species, and so the physical world is colored, charged, by your own imaginative projections, and powered by the great sweep of the emotions. [...]

[...] I mean that objects are natural by-products of the evolution of your species, even as words are. [...]

[...] On the side of consciousness, it is a tale symbolically representing the birth of the conscious mind in the species as a whole, and the emergence of self-responsibility. [...]

This distorted picture depicts a species of sinners innately driven by evil, sometimes demonic, forces. [...]

Because you are reasoning as creatures, because you have available such varieties of experience, the [human] species developed reasoning abilities that are meant to evolve and grow as they are used. [...]

[...] Developing your own abilities, whatever they may be, exploring and expanding your experience of selfhood, gives life a sense of purpose, meaning, and creative excitement — and also adds to the understanding and development of the society and the species.

[...] To me, without getting into questions about the magnificent overall originality embodied in All That Is, nature is the basic physical environment which all “living” species jointly create and manipulate within. [...]

[...] To some extent these people are perfectionists, and in their activities there are always hints of “super” achievement, as if even physically the species tries to go beyond itself. The members of this family actually serve to point out the unrealized capacity of the flesh — even as, for example, great Sumari artists might give clues as to the artistic abilities inherent, but not used, in the species as a whole. [...]

[...] In terms of value fulfillment the species expanded its potential tremendously when it left the caves; and so will man also experience the fulfillment of still unglimpsed potentialities when he walks forth from the cave of the arbitrarily limited self.

I have promised to give you some material dealing with the method by which all species and all living things cooperate in maintaining and constantly renewing the physical construction of your universe, and you will see that some of tonight’s material should give you insights into this matter.

The various species and the multitudinous varieties of life in your universe could with much validity be compared to cells, organs, or limbs of some gigantic creature. [...]

(Jane and I consider Seth’s concept of counterparts to be an intriguing psychological framework, spacious enough to serve as a workable thematic structure in which the social and nationalistic characteristics of our species can be studied, as well as the components of the individual psyche. [...]

6. Perhaps I should have briefly discussed it in Volume 1, but ever since Seth originally gave his “Joe, Jane, Jim, and Bob” material (as I call it) in the 683rd session, I’ve wondered about possible connections between the probabilities described in that session and our own reality: How much of our species’ distorted, intuitive knowledge of those probable realities may appear as myth and oddity in our camouflage universe? [...]

[...] Whether scientific or not, myths may contain the deepest truths of all for our species, at least in conventional terms: Jane and I are intrigued to think that the sources for those verities could spring partly from other realities.

[...] 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. [...]

[...] They limit themselves by applying the principles of the sacredness of life only to your own species, and often to highly limited groups within it.

[...] The need, the psychological and spiritual need of the species, demanded both interior and exterior alterations of great import. [...]

You consider yourselves, further, members of a species. [...]

[...] Each member of the species is an individual, and each member of a psychic pool of identity is an individual.

[...] The predominating image for an individual is that of his own species, but the ancestral patterns are strongly supportive. [...]

[...] Men always form some kind of group, in which respect is given of one kind or another to their own species, and to nature. [...]

Earlier, I also spoke about the importance of dreams in man’s early background, and their importance to you as a species. [...]

[...] Their purpose was and is to increase the value fulfillment of the species and of the individual.

[...] The birth of a conscious mind, as you think of it, meant that the species took upon itself free will. [...]

Natural guilt then is the species’ manifestation of the animals’ unconscious corporeal sense of justice and integrity. [...]