Seth as channeled by Jane Roberts 1964 to 84

 From Volume 2 of  "The Unknown Reality." Session 736 & 7

Seth says "These psychic groups can be thought of as ... natural formations into which consciousness seems to flow.
Your own interests, desires, and abilities are not pre-determined by your membership in a given psychic family. Your individuality comes first.

You have certain characteristics of your own. These place you in a certain position. As you are not a rock or a mineral, but a person, so your individuality places you in a particular family or species of consciousness. This represents your overall viewpoint of reality; your particular focus & overall mood during your lifetime. These groups of consciousness are not to be equated to astrological houses. There is no correlation between the families of consciousness and bodily characteristics. Counterparts however will generally belong to the same family. One family is not superior to another they are just different, representing various ways of looking at physical life. To one extent or another, each family of consciousness inherently carries within it, varying degrees or traces of all the other families. There is therefore, great diversity. Each personality can learn to identify and make use of these trace family associations/aspects. This is useful as one can add to, temper, or enhance the primary characteristics of the family one belongs to.

Sumari -  Are Primarily Creative Types.

The Sumari have the capacity to reach out emotionally to others and empathize. To some extent this feeling for humanity often serves as an impetus for creative work. They may also have a mystical sense of connection with nature. At the same time they can be relative isolationists, wanting to work in solitude. They want others to take care of what they have created. They don't stick around to cut the grass. Are extremely independent and as a rule you will not find them born into countries with dictatorships. When they do so appear, their work may set a spark that brings about changes, but they seldom take joint political action. Their creativity is very threatening to such a society.

 They are practical in that they bring creative visions into physical reality, and try to live their lives accordingly. They are initiators, yet they make little attempt to preserve organizations, even ones they feel to be fairly beneficial. They are not lawbreakers by design or intent. They are not reformers in the strictest sense, yet their playful work does often end up reforming a society or culture. They are given to art, but in its broadest sense as, trying to make an "art" of living for example. They have been a part of most civilizations, though they appeared in the middle ages least of all. They often come to full strength before great social changes. Others might build social structures from their work, for example but the Sumari themselves, while pleased, will usually not be able to feel any intuitive sense of belonging with any structured group. Sumari is a state of mind, a slant of being. They are not fighters nor will they generally advocate a violent overthrow of government or more. They believe in the creativity of change, naturally occurring.

 Nevertheless, they are often part of the cultural underground simply because they are seldom conformers. They like to play with details, or use them for creative purposes, often going from one job or profession to another for that reason. They are not "into" large commercial ventures or work that involves habitual or boring routine. Many are entertainers. Seldom found in politics or in any "position" within a religion. They are not usually historians. Big on self reliance they may be farmers, working intuitively with the land. Their recognized  artistic abilities may predominate or be fairly minimal.

 They prefer stable political situation in their country yet they are not interested in government.

 They are playful, and they often provide a cultural, spiritual, or artistic heritage for the species. They have a kind of compassionate observation or knowledge of the human condition, an opening up of human awareness to embrace more of the possibilities of consciousness.

Sumafi - Primarily Deals With Teaching

 Their relationship with others is good, generally speaking. They may be gifted in any field, but their primary interest will be in passing on their knowledge or that of others. They are usually traditionalists, therefore, although they may be brilliant. In a way they are equally related to the family just mentioned, (the Gramada) and to the Sumari, for they stand between the organized system and the creative arts. They transmit "originality" without altering it, however, through the social structures.

 I say that they do not alter the originality. Of course any interpretation of an event alters it, but generally they teach the disciplines while not creatively changing the content. As historians for example, they pass down the dates of battles, and those dates are considered almost as immaculate facts, so that in the contest of their training they see no point in questioning the validity of such information.

 In the Middle Ages they faithfully copied manuscripts. They are custodians in a  way. Again, there are infinite variations. Many music or art teachers are in this category, where the arts are taught with a love of excellence, a stress upon technique  —  into which the artist, who is often a Sumari can put his or her creativity.

Gramada - Specializes In Organization.

 Sometimes its members follow immediately after a revolutionary social change. Their organizational tendencies are expressed in any area of life, however. They are behind art schools, for instance, though they may not be artists themselves. They may set up colleges, although they may or may not be scholars.

 The founders of giant businesses often belong to this family, as do some politicians and statesmen. They are active, vital and creatively aggressive. They know how to put other people's ideas together. They often unite conflicting schools of thought into a more or less unifying structure. They are, then, often the founders of social systems. In most cases, for instance, your hospitals, schools, and religions, as organizations, are initiated by and frequently maintained by this group.

 These people have excellent abilities in putting together solitary concepts that might otherwise go by the wayside. They are organizers of energy, directed toward effective social structures. They usually set up fairly stable, fairly reasonable governments, schools, fraternities, although they do not initiate the ideas behind those structures.

Vold - Are Primarily Reformers

 They have excellent precognitive abilities, which of course means that at least unconsciously they understand the motion of probabilities. They can work in any field. In your terms it is as if they perceive the future motion or direction of an idea, a concept, or a structure, They then work with all of their minds to bring that probability into physical reality.

 In conventional terms they may appear to be great activists and revolutionaries, or they may seem to be impractical dreamers. They will be possessed by an idea of change and alteration, and will be, at least, driven or compelled to make that idea a reality. They perform a very creative service as a rule, for social and political organizations can often become stagnant, and no longer serve the purposes of the large masses of people involved. Members of this family may also initiate religious revolutions of course. As a rule, however, they have one purpose in mind: to change the status quo in whatever the area of primary interest.

Tumold - Are Primarily Devoted To Healing.

This does not mean that those people may not be creative or organizers, or teachers, but the primary slant of their consciousness will be directed to healing. you might find them as doctors and nurses, while not usually as hospital administrators. However, they may be psychics, social workers, psychologists, artists, or in the religions. They may work in flower shops. They may work on assembly lines, for that matter, but if so they will be healers by intent or temperament. A garageman could have a healing effect on the customers, and he would be fixing more than cars. 

 ....the healers might also appear as politicians, however, psychically healing the wounds of the nation. An artist of any kind, whose work is primarily meant to help, also belongs in this category. You will find some heads of state, and — particularly in the past — some members of royal families who also belong to this group

Zuli - The Fulfillment of Bodily Activity.

These are the athletes. in whatever field, they devote themselves to perfecting the capacities of the body, which in others usually lie latent.

 To some extent they serve as physical models. The vitality of creaturehood is demonstrated through the beauty, speed, elegance, and performance of the body itself. To some extent these people are perfectionists, and in their activities there are always hints of "super' achievement, as if even physically the species tries to go beyond itself. The members of this family actually serve to point out the unrealized capacity of the flesh—even as, for example, great Sumari artists might give clues as to the artistic abilities inherent, but not used, in the species as a whole. The members of this group deal then in performance. They are physical doers. They are also lovers of beauty as it is corporally expressed.

 Members of this family can often serve as models for the artist or the writer, but generally speaking they themselves transmit their energy through physical "arts" and performance. In your terms only, and historically speaking, they often appeared at the beginnings of civilizations, where direct physical bodily manipulation within the environment was of supreme importance. Then,  normal physical reactions were simply faster than they are now, even while normal body relaxation was deeper and more complete.

Milumet - Is Composed Of Mystics.

 Almost all of their energy is directed in an inward fashion, with no regard as to whether or not inner experience is translated in usual terms. These persons, for instance, may be utterly unknown, and usually are, for as a rule they care not a bit about explaining their interior activities to others — nor, for that matter, even to themselves. They are true innocents, and spiritual. They may be underdeveloped intellectually, by recognized standards

 but this is simply because they do not direct their intellect to physical focus.

 Those belonging to this family will not be in positions of any authority, generally speaking, for they will not concentrate that long on specific physical data. However, they may be found in some assembly lines that require simple repetitive action — in factories that do not require speed, however. They usually choose less industrialized countries, then, with a slower pace of life. They have simple, direct, childish mannerisms and may appear to be stupid. They do not bother with the conventions.

 Strangely enough, though, they may be excellent parents, particularly in less complicated societies than your own. In your terms, they are primitives wherever they appear. Yet they are deeply involved in nature, and in that respect they are more highly attuned psychically than most other people are.

 Their private experiences are often of a most venturesome kind, and at that level they help nourish the psyche of mankind.

Ilda - Is Composed Of The "Exchangers"

They deal primarily in the great play of exchange and interchange of ideas, products, social and political concepts. They are travelers. carrying with them the ideas of one country to another, mixing cultures, religions, attitudes, political structures. They are explorers, merchants, soldiers, missionaries, sailors. They are often members of crusades. Throughout the ages they have served as the spreaders of ideas, the assimilators. They (the Ilda) turn up everywhere. They were pirates and slaves as well, historically speaking. They are often primarily involved in social changes. In your time they may be diplomats, as they were also in the past. Their characteristics are usually those of the adventuresome. Very seldom do they live in one place for long, although they may if their occupation deals with products from another land. Individually they may seem highly diverse in nature, one from the other, but you will not find them as a rule in universities as teachers. You might find them as archaeologist in the field, however.

 A good many salesmen belong in this category. In your terms they may be cosmopolitan, and often wealthy, so that frequent travel is possible. On the other hand, however, in certain frameworks, a humble merchant in a small country who travels through nearby provinces might also belong to this family. These are a lively, talkative, imaginative, usually likable group of people. They are interested in the outsides of things, social mores, the marketplace, current popular religious or political ideas. They spread these from place to place. These are the seed-carriers, both literally and figuratively.

 They can be "con men," selling products supposed to have miraculous values, blinding the local populace with their city airs. Yet even then they will be bringing with them the aura of other ideas, often inserting into closed areas concepts with which others are already familiar.

 The members of that family of consciousness provide frequent new options. They may be scientists, or the strictest kind of conventional missionaries abroad in alien lands. In your present time they are sometimes Indians (from India, that is), or Africans or Arabs, journeying to your civilizations. They add to the great flow of communication. They may be emotional rather than intellectual, as you understand those terms, but they are restless, usually on the move.  They can be actors,. also.

 In the past some  have been great courtesans, and even though they were not able to travel physically, they were at the heart of communication — that is, as part of court life, or involved with diplomats who did travel.

 Many of the courtesans who ruled the salons of Europe belonged in the category then. The Crusades involved great movement of this family in which trade and commerce, and the exchange of political ideas, were far more important that the religious aspects. Some members of this family served as initiators of new orders in the (Catholic) church in the past — the worldly Jesuits for example, and some of the more sophisticated popes, who had a fine eye out for commerce and wealth. These people may be appreciators of fine art, but usually for its commercial value.

  Now you can often find them in the departments of government, in those areas where travel is involved, or in finance. They frequently enjoy  intrigue. All in all, they mix mores.

Borledim - Deals Primarily with Parenthood.

These people are natural "earth parents." That is, they have the capacity to produce children who from a certain standpoint possess certain excellent characteristics. the children have brilliant minds, healthy bodies, and strong clear emotions.

 While many people are working in specific areas, developing the intellect, for example, or the emotions or the body, these parents and their children produce offspring in which a fine balance is maintained. No one aspect of mind or body is developed at the expense of another aspect.

 The personalities possess a keen resiliency of both body and mind, and serve as a strong earth stock. it goes without saying that members of one family often marry into other families. Of course the same thing happens here. when this occurs new stability. is inserted for this particular family acts a s a source-stock, providing physical and mental strength. Physically speaking, these people often have many children, and usually the offspring do well in whatever area of life is chosen. Biologically speaking, they possess certain qualities that nullify "negative" codes in the genes. They are usually very healthy people, and marriage into this group can automatically end generations of so-called inherited weaknesses.

 These people believe, the, in the natural goodness of sex, the body, and the family unit — however those attributes are understood in the physical society to which they belong. As a rule they possess an enchanting spontaneity, however , and all of their creative abilities go into the family group and the production of children. These are not rigid parents, though, blindly following conventions, but people who see family life as a fine living creative art, and children as masterpieces in flesh and blood. Far from devouring their offspring by an excess of overprotective care, they joyfully send their children out into the world, knowing that in their terms the masterpieces must complete themselves, and that they have helped with the underpainting.

 The Borledim are the stock that so far has always seen to it that your species continues despite catastrophes, and they are more or less equally distributed about the planet and in all nationalities. They are most like the Sumari. They have the same love of the arts, the same general attitudes. They will usually seek fairly stable political situations in which to bear their children, as the Sumari will to produce their art. They demand a certain amount of freedom for their children, however, and while they are not political activists, like the Sumari their ideas often spring to prominence before= large social changes, and help initiate them. The one big difference is that The Sumari deal primarily with creativity and the arts, and often subordinate family life, while this family thinks of offspring in the terms of living art; everything else is subordinated to that "ideal."

 The Sumari often provide a cultural, spiritual, or artistic heritage for the species. This family (Borledim) provides a well-balanced earth stock — a heritage in terms of individuals. These people are kind, humorous , playful, filled with a lively compassion, but too wise for the "perverted" kind of compassion that breeds on other individuals' weaknesses.

 An artist expects his paintings to be good — or, if you will forgive a jingle: at least he should. These people expect their children to be well balanced, healthy, spiritually keen, and so they are. You will find members of the Borledim family in almost any occupation, but the main consideration will be on the physical family unit.

 These parents do not sacrifice themselves for the sake of their children. They understand too well the burden that is placed upon such offspring. Instead, the parents retain their own clear sense of identity and their individual characteristics, serving as clear examples to the children of loving, independent adults.