The Way Toward Health - January 21 and 23 1984

January 21, 1984

The picture of man, animals, and nature depicted in the movie of which you were speaking (Quest for Fire) is the only possible portrayal of reality that could be logically shown, considering the beliefs upon which the premise rests.

The environment, man, and the animals were all characterized as ferocious, hostile to each other, each one determined to attain survival at the expense of other.  Man could not have existed under the conditions fostered in the moving picture – nor, for that matter, could any of the animals.  Despite any other theories to the contrary, the world, all of its physical aspects, and all of its creatures, depends upon an inborn cooperation.  The species do not compete with each other over a given territory, no matter how frequently that appears to be the case.

Science has promoted the idea that hostility is a constant attribute of nature and all of its parts, while it sees the cooperating characteristics of nature as rather infrequent or extraordinary – but certainly outside of the norm.

Even biologically on the most microscopic of levels, there is a vast inbred network of cooperating activity, and these unite the animal and mineral kingdoms with all the other aspects of earthly existence.  Each organism has a purpose, and it is to fulfill its own capabilities in such a way that it benefits all other organisms.

Each organism is therefore helped in its development by each and every other organism, and the smooth operation of one contributes to the integrity of all.  Men did not begin hunting animals until certain groups of animals needed a way to control their own population.  As I have said before, men and animals learned from each other.  They were immediate allies, not enemies.

Men also domesticated animals almost from the very first, so that men and animals both did each other a service – they worked together.  The stability of planetary life depended above all upon this basic cooperation, in which all species pulled together.

Man’s brain was always the size that it is now and the animals existed in the forms by which you know them today.  No animal – or virus – is truly extinct.  All exist in an inner webwork, and are held in the memory of an overall earthly knowledge – one that is biological, so that each smallest microbe has within it the imprinted biological messages that form each and every other microbe.  The existence of one presupposes the existence of all, and the existence of all is inherent in the existence of one.

January 23, 1984

(Referring to Chapter 5 of Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment where Seth noted that early humans lived for several centuries.)

In those early days, men and women did live to ages that would amaze you today – many living to be several hundred years old.

This was indeed due to the fact that their knowledge was desperately needed, and their experience.  They were held in veneration, and they cast their knowledge into songs and stories that were memorized throughout the years.

Beside this, however, their energy was utilized in a different fashion than yours is.  They alternated between the waking and dream states, and while asleep they did not age as quickly.  Their bodily processes slowed.  Although this was true, their dreaming mental processes did not slow down.  There was a much greater communication in the dream state, so that some lessons were taught during dreams, while others were taught in the waking condition.

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.