# Quote — Jane Roberts, The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events

> The species is in a state of transition, one of many. This one began, generally speaking, when the species tried to step apart from nature in order to develop the unique kind of consciousness that is presently your own. That consciousness is not a finished product, however, but one meant to change, [to] evolve and develop. Certain artificial divisions were made along the way that must now be dispensed with. You must return, wiser creatures, to the nature that spawned you - not only as loving caretakers but as partners with the other species of the earth. You must discover once again the spirituality of your biological heritage.

- Author: [Jane Roberts](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts.md)
- Book: [The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/the-individual-and-the-nature-of-mass-events.md)
- Page: 45
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/the-individual-and-the-nature-of-mass-events/the-species-is

## More from this book

> For an exercise, then, imagine for a while that the subjective world of your thoughts, feelings, inner images and fantasies represent the 'rockbed reality' from which individual physical events emerge. Look at the world for a change from the inside out, so to speak. Imagine that physical experience is somehow the materialization of your own subjective reality. Forget what you have learned about reactions and stimuli. Ignore for a time everything you have believed and see your thoughts as the real events. Try to view normal physical occurrences as the concrete physical reactions in space and time to your own feelings and beliefs. For indeed your subjective world causes your physical experience.

p. 148 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/the-individual-and-the-nature-of-mass-events/for-an-exercise.md)

> People die when they are ready to die, for reasons that are their own. No person dies without a reason. You are not taught that, however, so people do not recognize their own reasons for dying, and they are not taught to recognize their own reasons for living — because you are told that life itself is an accident in a cosmic game of chance.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/the-individual-and-the-nature-of-mass-events/people-die-when.md)

> Without exception, all of the horrors connected with Christianity’s name came from following the letter rather than the spirit of the law, or by insistence upon literal interpretations -- while the spiritual, imaginative concepts beneath were ignored.

p. 140 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/the-individual-and-the-nature-of-mass-events/without-exception-all.md)