JANUARY 10, 1984
4:30 PM TUESDAY
...(This material came through after Jane and I had watched a program
yesterday and today called In Search Of -- old reruns featuring Leonard
Nimoy. I don't recall the shows. In my original notes I had noted that
today's "Session material was quite unexpected."
(Jane obviously gave this material from her hospital bed in Poom 330.)
Now: I bid you another fond good afternoon.
("Good afternoon, Seth.'')
A few comments.
There are many, many species that man has not discovered, in all
the categories of life -- insects onward.
There are multitudinous species of viruses and so forth that man
has not encountered and recognized, and there are connections
between viruses and other species of living matter that remain
unknown. There are indeed two different kinds of upward-walking
mammals, much like your own species, but much larger, and with infi-
nitely keener senses. They are indeed amazingly swift creatures, and
through scent alone they are aware of the presence of man when any
member of your species is at all in the immediate area -- standing,
say, at least several miles away. Vegetable matter is a main diet, though
often implemented by insects, which are considered a delicacy.
They have, for that matter, devised many ingenious insect traps, so
that hundreds or more can be caught, for many are needed since
insects are so small. These traps are often constructed on trees, in the
bark, in such a fashion that the tree gum itself is used to trap the
insects.
The traps appear to be part of the tree itself, so as to protect them.
These creatures do indeed remember, but their remembering
operates extremely rapidly - a kind of almost instantaneous deduc-
don that comes as sense data is interpreted. That is, received and
interpreted almost at once, or simultaneously.
(Pause at 4:40.) Offspring do not occur until the individuals are
well past the age that you would consider normal for breeding. Oth-
erwise the procedure is the same. With some territorial variation,
such creatures reside in many of the world areas on your planet,
though their overall population is very small - altogether, perhaps,
several thousand. They rarely congregate in large groups, but do
have a family and tribal-like organization, with at the very most
twelve adults in any given area. As offspring are added, the groups
break up again, for they know well that in larger numbers they would
be much more easy to discover
They all use tools of one kind or another, and live indeed in close
concord with the animals. There is no competition between them
and animals, for example, and they are not basically aggressive,
though they could be extremely dangerous if they were cornered, or
if their young were attacked.
They grow quite sluggish in wintertime, in very cold climates,
and their temperature drops, as is characteristic of hibernating am-
mals, except that their temperature is more sensitive to daily varia-
tions, so that on some winter days they can forage for food very well,
while on the other hand they may hibernate for even weeks on end.
(4:46.) They have a keen understanding of nature, and of natural
phenomena. Language is not developed to any great degree, for
their sensual ordinary equipment is so pure and swift that it almost
becomes a language of its own...
--Seth, _The Way Toward Health_