“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

And so you kept solitary vigil with this god, this image. And you watched it alone until finally you learned its message. And in the day, you continued in those pursuits necessitated by your life in the tribe.

You fell in love, however, with a rather inferior warrior—a stray from the Iroquois tribe—and bore him four sons—one, incidentally, is your present son today.

Now. The Torimba tribe in Africa ended up after many centuries in Asia Minor carrying with them remnants of their past civilization. And you were known as a minor god, something that you have never forgotten.

You were under constant pressure, for you felt that you should have learned more. And between lives you were aware of the prayers that were directed toward you. And you were aware, therefore, of your tribe looking to you for help. And you were only partially able to help them. While you were pleased to be considered in such a light, you were overwhelmed by your inadequacy and therefore began a search for new and more extensive knowledge.

[...] Now, some tribes ate the elders. [...] Both as a method of ending their lives, in a quiet manner, for they killed them easily when they were too old to run from jungle animals or from hunters or from warriors from other tribes. They killed them mercifully, and then they ate them so that the wisdom could become a part of the brave and so that, in one way, immortality could be achieved, in that the elders would then feel that they were a part of the tribe and part of the flesh and blood of the tribe. [...] The elders preferred it rather than to be banished and left the prey of animals or to die of starvation and slow death outside of the tribe. [...]

([Florence:] “They only ate enemies though, they never ate their own tribe.”)

Group dreaming was at one time taken for granted as a natural human characteristic—in a tribe, for example, when new locations were being sought, perhaps in time of drought. [...] The dreamers would travel out-of-body in various directions to see the extent of drought conditions, and to ascertain the best direction for the tribe to take in any needed migration.

(Pause at 8:43.) Their dreams would then be shared by the tribe in the morning, or at special meetings, when each dreamer would give a rendition of the dream or dreams that seemed to be involved. In the same way, other dreamers would simply check with the dreamers of other villages or tribes—perhaps a hundred or even more miles distant. [...]

[...] They also involve you in the most productive of enterprises as you begin to play with versions of events that are being considered for physical actualization, as on a personal level you “view” the probable events which your family, tribe, organization, community and country will actualize.

[...] One of your children was a leader of a tribe. One became an important member of a Mongoloid tribe. [...]

[...] An entire tribe could be endangered by one sick member. [...] In some societies or tribes, the old or infirm were killed lest their care take too much attention from the able-bodied and endanger the group.

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. [...]

[...] Heterosexuality, however, rests upon the bisexual basis, and (intently) without man’s bisexual nature, the larger frameworks of the family — the clan, tribe, government, civilization — would be impossible.

[...] Wars would wipe out struggling tribes before any traditions were formed.

(Slowly:) In a world in which individuals were confined in space in a tribe or clan (a one-minute pause), action was immediate. [...] The formation of different tribes allowed man to behave cooperatively, in small numbers. [...]

[...] In historic terms, early man, using here your theories about the race — early man — was in intimate contact with his family, clan, or tribe. [...]

Now: Think of your ancestors, yourself, and your children as members of one tribe, each journeying into different countries instead of times. [...]

There was a greater and greater body of knowledge to be transmitted as physical existence continued, for they did not transmit private knowledge only, but the entire body of knowledge that belonged to the group or tribe as a whole.

[...] A-c-r-i-l-a (spelled out), a descendant of the Roman tribes, brought to Germany by the Romans to secure the Empire.

(Pause at 10:01.) During that period, many elements come into play and are meant to make the process attractive to the individuals involved, and to their tribes, societies, or civilizations. [...]

[...] The whole band entirely wiped out by local tribes. [...]

[...] You were an itinerant traveling tribe. [...]

[...] Individually, and as tribes or nations, you follow certain “progressions” — and yet in so doing you act also on the part of the whole of nature. [...]

[...] These groups originated back in their own nearly forgotten past as wandering tribes came together, and joined for their own support and protection.

[...] Some people within the tribe specialized in such dreams, and again, dream content was and is directed by the individual intents, purposes and interests of the dreamer. [...]

(9:27.) For centuries that is the main way in which man dealt with the events of his life or tribe or village.³ Your modern methods of communication are in fact modeled after your inner ones. [...]

Cities, therefore, existed in dreams before the time of tribes. [...]

[...] (Pause.) There were myriad relationships, for example, impossible now to describe, between a person and his or her dream selves, and between the dream selves of all the members of the tribe. [...]

[...] Abilities and inventions were not dependent upon human migrations, but those migrations themselves were the result of information given in dreams, telling tribes of men the directions in which better homelands could be found.