# Quote — Jane Roberts, Dreams, Evolution, and Value Fulfillment, Volume Two

> The genetic systems is not closed, therefore. The genes do not simply hold information without any reference to the body’s living system. It does not exist, then -- the genetic structure -- like some highly complicated mechanism already programmed, started and functioning blindly so that once it is set into operation there is no chance for modification.

- Author: [Jane Roberts](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts.md)
- Book: [Dreams, Evolution, and Value Fulfillment, Volume Two](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/dreams-evolution-and-value-fulfillment-volume-two.md)
- Page: 314
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/dreams-evolution-and-value-fulfillment-volume-two/the-genetic-systems

## More from this book

> Now the origin of the universe that you know, as I have described it, was of course a master event. The initial action did not occur in space or time, but formed space and time.

p. 373 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/dreams-evolution-and-value-fulfillment-volume-two/now-the-origin.md)

> Devils and demons have no objective existence. They have always represented, again, portions of mankind’s own psychological reality that to some extent he had not assimilated -- but in a schizophrenic kind of expression, projected instead outward from himself.

p. 398 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/dreams-evolution-and-value-fulfillment-volume-two/devils-and-demons.md)

> One of the main purposes of dreaming, therefore, is to increase man’s pleasure, which means to increase the quality of living itself.

p. 463 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/dreams-evolution-and-value-fulfillment-volume-two/one-of-the.md)