Seth: epidemics then serve many purposes

"The epidemics then serve many purposes — warning that certain conditions will not be tolerated. There is a biological outrage that will be continually expressed until the conditions* are changed."

—Seth, The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, Chapter 1: Session 802, April 25, 1977

*Here is an historical example of intolerable conditions:

"In some historical periods the plight of the poor was so horrible, so unendurable, that outbreaks of the plague occurred, literally resulting in a complete destruction of large areas of the environment in which such social, political, and economic conditions existed. [Those] plagues took rich and poor alike, however, so the complacent well-to-do could see quite clearly, for example, that to some extent sanitary conditions, privacy, peace of mind, had to be granted to the poor alike, for the results of their dissatisfaction would have quite practical results. Those were deaths of protest."

—Seth, NoME Chapter 1: Session 802, April 25, 1977

"When a species overproduces, the incidences of, say, epidemics grow. This applies to human populations as well as to the animals."

—Seth, The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, Chapter 1: Session 802, April 25, 1977

 

"When your species sees that it is destroying other species and disrupting the natural balance, then it is consciously aware of its violation [against nature]."

—Seth, The Nature of Personal Reality, Chapter 8: Session 635, January 24, 1973

 

Seth says there have been civilizations entirely lost to us rather like the Atlantis legend.

 

"As a matter of fact there has been such a population problem in the past, in your terms, on several occasions and involving your planet. An earthwide epidemic took place on one occasion. On another occasion the number of conceptions was drastically reduced. The women’s fear of bearing children alone made them barren when starvation loomed. The third time artificial means were utilized to prevent birth."

—Seth, The Early Sessions, Vol 9, Session 484 May 26, 1969