Nursery of the Gods Volume Two

Consciousness survives the death of the body - that much can
be asserted with near certainty, based on the evidence presented
in Volume One of this book. But if consciousness is independent
of matter, then what is the purpose of physical existence? Why
should consciousness ally itself with physical form in the first
place if it is basically independent of it? To what end are we
born as physical creatures? According to Seth - that nonphysical
"energy personality essence" who dictated The Seth Material
through the auspices of writer and mystic Jane Roberts - earth
is a training system for emerging consciousness. Consciousness
is not static, but grows, evolves, and develops, and the physical
system is one arena of existence in which consciousness can gain
experience in the formation of reality. The human species,
according to Seth, set out millennia ago to develop a specialized
form of consciousness - an ego-identity - that could perceive
physical reality in a radically new fashion, different from the
animals, from a psychological perspective seemingly separate
from the rest of the living world. Human consciousness would
become the thinking portion of the earth, and could begin to
construct, for itself and the other creatures of the earth, a phys-
ical reality of the sort that a sane god would create. If Seth is
correct, it should be possible to trace the emergence of this ego-
identity down through the millennia, following its historical
development as reflected in our changing mythologies, and in
the societies that created them. This volume sets out on a quest
to follow the developing ego through history's pages, and ends
with a revolutionary new understanding of our present culture,
and the reasons behind our erroneous belief that consciousness
arises from matter, instead of the other way around.