“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The child’s ego is not the adult’s ego. [...]

That James however is, of course, as he says the William James that he was —and yet is no more the same William James, as the child and the adult are one person and yet are not. [...]

[...] It has mental images of its own probable future, and parts of it do become frightened at times, to relinquish old adult powers for an infant’s helplessness.

Give us a moment … The birth of Joseph took place at York Beach with the dancing episode,⁶ so you have in your own experience examples in adult life. [...]

[...] When you are a child, you are not held accountable for your actions in the same way that adults are, and schizophrenia often begins around puberty, or young adulthood, when people feel that their youthful promise is expected to bear fruit. If they have been considerably gifted, for example, they are now supposed to show the results of schooling through adult accomplishments. [...]

[...] It is only adults that insist upon beginnings and endings. [...]

[...] Looking back, I’m sure that I sniffed danger as surely as any animal who senses something strange and new in his environment — or as any adult when threatened by a change in the status quo. [...]

A tree knows a human being also … by the weight of a boy upon its branches … by the vibrations in the air as adults pass, which hit the tree’s trunk at varying distances, and even by voices. [...]

[...] “Two adults waiting for an invisible personality to tell them about an invisible world, waiting for instructions on how to use inner senses,” I said. [...]

[...] She produced in other words an idiot, who was in his own way supremely invulnerable to the realization of misfortune, a child who would not grow mentally into an adult, and a child who would remain secure in a relatively eternal childhood.

He toured his (public) grade school where he attended kindergarten to third grade,³ saw the children come out for recess, and felt himself one of them — while during the entire experience he knew himself as an adult, embarked upon that adventure.

[...] I thought it was a riot, two adults watching the pointer go scurrying across the board, and we didn’t take it too seriously. [...]

[...] The adult is hardly aware of them, except in some dreams, and then their meaning is misinterpreted.

[...] Not only for example by the weight of a boy upon its branches, but by the vibrations in the air as adults pass, which hit the tree’s trunk at varying distances, and even by such things as voices. [...]

[...] Now you think of me as an old but wise, extremely powerful male adult, as you thought of your father when you were a child. [...]

[...] At about this time (tapping the photo) Ruburt sat on the lap of an adult man on the front porch, and neighbors duly reported this — the idea being that sexual depravity could be involved.

[...] 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.

“It is the adult’s version of childhood knowledge, the human version of the animals’ knowledge, the conscious version of ‘unconscious’ comprehension. [...]

[...] It falls somewhere between being a book for children and one for adults. [...]