“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Baby talk in that you do not speak exactly as you would speak to an adult. [...]

[...] Young adults found themselves faced with a multitudinous number of personal decisions that in other cultures were made more or less automatically. [...]

[...] You began to accumulate some ideas of a different nature, wondering more about your responsibilities to the world as adults, wondering how “useful” art should be in the world. [...]

Other people may be sophisticated, brilliantly aware of their own feelings and those of other people, intuitively knowledgeable in the handling of relationships, even, as adults, exquisite parents—yet they may be labeled as retarded if they do not live up to certain artificial intellectual standards. [...]

[...] He held back the fears, thinking them beneath adult behavior. [...]

(“I have often wondered: why do such childhood experiences have such lasting effects through an adult life, that may be many years longer?”)

He responded to his own attraction for her and was able to expand in her direction because she was not an adult. [...] Jane was 19.) He could not relate to another adult, and when in his eyes she joined the league of adulthood he would not have been able to retain his strong leaning toward her.

[...] The prosaic reasons for the beliefs, however, do lie in his private background and to that extent in experiences humiliating for an adult to recall. [...]

[...] It instantly exaggerates any dire circumstances, because it has been told that to exaggerate a problem and worrying about it is sane adult behavior. [...]

[...] The adult wondered then, had he misjudged the mother? [...]

[...] You think of yourself quite free of financial conditions, and as an adult now in independent terms set yourself free of your parents. [...]

Many adults, sensing their own abilities in one field or another, deliberately play down those abilities because they are afraid of standing out from “the masses” — or they are afraid they will be attacked by their peers. [...]

[...] By the time you are an adult, however, you have been taught to disconnect your identity from your feelings as much as possible, and to think of your personhood in terms of your intellectual orientation. [...]

[...] His direct experience has not included it, the cruel adult world that he must protect himself against. [...]

[...] I am not worried about being dignified and adult. [...]

[...] (Pause.) There is an argument among adults, and a door slams. [...]

[...] Do not make them feel that they must suddenly relinquish all those adult rights into the hands of their children. [...]

[...] It involved making money, definite hours, a routine and also adult status. [...]

[...] That you have only to accept it and acknowledge it, and again that the vitality of life is not quiet; it is not adult; it is not dignified; it is. [...]

[...] But the fetus then is simply not the infant, and the infant is not the adult.