“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It was the instinct to survive. [...] You held yourselves up and thought you were so great and inadvertently or intentionally you began to destroy us at first and then it became more of a pattern because then you sensed that your survival was hinging on it too. [...]

([Joel:] “But you didn’t care if the Indians lived or died or survived or moved out or what happened?”

[...] After saying that Jane would live into her eighties also, he said that we would be instrumental in offering conclusive evidence for the survival of the personality after physical death. Without naming names, he told me that the one of us dying first would succeed in communicating with the surviving partner in such a way that the results would give conclusive proof “to the masses.”

(Reduced copy of the survival literature, back, used in the 31st envelope experiment, in the 231st session for February 7,1966.)

[...] Their purpose is survival, and the biological mechanisms behind such actions are healthy. [...]

[...] His ideas convinced the body that playing dead was the way to insure overall survival. [...]

Spontaneous biological motion is an animal’s best insurance of survival, except under those conditions where the animal spontaneously plays dead.

[...] If you learn to know yourself as you are, and not simply as you seem to be, then you will become quite familiar with the part of yourself that does survive physical death.

[...] It goes without saying that there is no other place in those terms, into which those who have survived physical death disappear.

An individual who has survived physical death can if he wishes recreate any portion of his own past as it was. [...]

[...] If that were true, the species never would have been concerned beyond the issues of physical survival, and such is not the case. The species could have survived quite well physically without philosophy, the arts, politics, religion, or even structured language. [...]

[...] The species could not have survived such a division.

Only those children perfectly attuned to their environment in time and space survived. [...]

In the earlier dreams you were certain of your capacity to survive the situation which you feared. In this dream you faced the possibility that you would not survive so easily. [...]

In the end however you have survived. You are still concerned for Ruburt because you realize that as a matter of survival added funds for your family would have to come from his efforts, since your own painting time is too important to lose. [...]

(The two dreams not given but very similar to the three here quoted involved myself and cancer and my survival, and my being separated from Jane again, and strongly aware of sadness and concern.

[...] At the time I thought Seth meant my nonphysical survival. Now I see the statement can apply to physical survival also.)

[...] Then you are free to use your abilities, for your survival does not depend upon them. [...]

[...] (Forcefully in here.) You may complain, to save face, both of you, and only a strong relationship like yours would survive under those conditions.

[...] We are not speaking of survival of the fittest, but the survival of life with meaning (intently). [...]

(Pause.) You say little, for example, if you note that spiders make webs instinctively because spiders must eat insects, and that the best web-maker will be the fittest kind of spider to survive. [...]

[...] While you believe in theories like the survival of the fittest, however, and the grand fantasies of evolution, then you put together your perceptions of the world so that they seem to bear out those theories. [...]

[...] The physical system would become too rigid, lose the power of its natural diversity, and eventually bring a dead-end to human survival.

[...] Even in cases where physical survival might seem pointless, it is also possible for the organism to alter its course to an extraordinary degree.

And as Jane survives, so does her work. [...] What wonderful signs of survival all of these things are!

[...] Survival personalities, as you term them, are not separated from you in space either, but in terms of energy focus.

[...] It is quite possible, as you should know, under certain circumstances, to contact survival personalities. [...]

[...] Survival personalities exist both as they were and as they are. [...]

[...] The person, the survival person that is, contains all that he was, and more.

[...] The “drive for survival” is, therefore, a drive that leads to death and beyond it, for all of consciousness understands that it survives through many forms and conditions.

[...] Disease in itself on that level is a part of the life-survival process, and a system of checks and balances. [...]

[...] At the same time, as the mind developed, cunning and memory became highly effective survival tools. [...]

In others, however, the old were honored for the wisdom that they had accumulated with age, and this became very practical in tribes where many did not survive. [...]

An individual who had himself survived many diseases was considered a sage. [...]

[...] It is also true that the dream universe is at least as familiar with your own universe as you are familiar with it; and as you tune in on it, so to speak, and while you are necessary for its survival, creating it, so does the dream universe tune in on you. So is your survival dependent upon its survival, and so does it create you as a by-product, if you are looking at your universe from the other side.

[...] You help the earth survive, no matter how you might at times deny that heritage.”

[...] Under certain conditions, some so-called disease states could insure the species’ survival.

[...] (Pause.) In a way, some disease states help to insure the survival of the species — not by weeding out the sickly but by introducing into large numbers of individuals the conditions needed to stabilize other strains within the species that need to be checked, or to “naturally inoculate” the species against a sensed greater danger.

[...] (Pause.) The dreams of the species are highly important to its survival — not just because dreaming is a biological necessity, but because in dreams the species is immersed in deeper levels of creativity, so that those actions, inventions, ideas that will be needed in the future will appear in their proper times and places. [...]

[...] Those who cooperated survived, but they did not think in terms of the survival of their own species alone — but, in time terms, of a greater living picture, or world inviolate, in which all survived.

[...] People who are afraid that their nation will be invaded by an enemy will often also consider viruses or diseases to be enemies, ever about to threaten their personal survival. [...] While it is true that medical technology has many serious defects, it is also true that many people believe in the medical profession to such a degree that it would be nearly impossible for them to survive in good health without it.

[...] She was a survival personality in your terms. [...]

[...] Others will be survival personalities. [...]

Good and evil then simply represented the birth of choices, initially in terms of survival, where earlier instinct alone had provided all that was needed. [...]

In terms of simple biological function, you now had a species no longer completely dependent upon instinct, yet still with all the natural built-in desires for survival, and the appearance within it of a mind able to make decisions and distinctions.

[...] Because of the connection with survival mentioned earlier (in the last session), there is a great charge here. [...]