“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(“At a church where we stopped, we listened to choir practice, were surprised that so many young adults were in the choir, instead of small boys or children, commented on the turnabout from what you would expect.”)

(9:50.) Give us a moment… You were born with the impetus toward growth built in — automatically provided with the inner blueprints that would lead to a developed adult form. [...]

[...] I use the term purposefully, for it confounds the dictates of your adult reasoning, and perhaps by so confounding what you think of as reason, I may manage to arouse within you a hint of what I refer to as the higher intellect.

[...] There is nothing so strange at this, since in physical life there is the definite difference between the body form of the child, the young adult, and the old man. [...]

[...] A fragment may project, you see, but one atom could not contain the full projecting consciousness of an adult human mind.

[...] The dreams of children could be investigated in this manner without too much difficulty, and these could be compared, generally speaking, with the dreams of adults. [...]

[...] They return more frequently however to periods of near wakefulness, in order to check their physical environment, since they are not as sure of it as adults are. [...]

[...] For this reason also they have more telepathic and clairvoyant dreams than do adults. [...]

[...] You grew from a fetus into an adult, for instance, so obviously some part of you does know how to perform such an amazing activity as the growth and care of the physical body. [...]

[...] the adult pretensions, the adult bignesses. [...]

You must try to forget for a period of time each day the self that you think of as yourself the adult pretensions, the adult bignesses. [...]

In the gestalt of my personality, as in your terms I lived later richer lives, that woman was alive again in me — as, for example, the child is alive in the adult, and filled with gratitude comparing later circumstances to the earlier existences. [...]

[...] Using the analogy of adulthood again, it is as if the child within you is a part of your own memory and experience, and yet in another way has left you, gone apart from you as if you are only one adult that the child “turned into.” [...]

[...] When you are conceived, there is already a complete pattern for your grown physical body — a pattern that is definite enough to give you the recognizable kind of adult form, while variable enough to allow for literally infinite variations (very intently).

It would be idiotic of you to say that you were forced to become an adult, however. [...]

[...] Adults censor many of their own dreams so that the frequent changes in sexual orientation are not remembered.

[...] The child plays at being an adult, and is a child again when his parents call, so the effects of the game are not long-lasting. [...]

The individual, when it is time then, begins to see beyond temporal life, to open up dimensions of awareness that in your terms he or she could not afford while involved in the intense physical focus of normal adult life. [...]

[...] There is a trigger set off then, an impetus in which the personality tries to free itself from time-space orientation released from the usual necessity to participate in “adult” terms.

[...] Children do already possess character at birth, and the entire probable intent of their lives exists then as surely as does the probable plan for the adult body they will later possess.

There are bodies of events, then, that in a certain fashion you will materialize almost in the same way that you will materialize your own adult body from the structure of the fetus. [...]

[...] When they are young, the offspring will accept some such suggestions uncritically, coming as they do from a revered adult, so that the suggestions are almost interpreted as commands.

[...] Adults may break a bone skiing, or indulging in some other sport, and still be very healthy. [...]

To some extent, particularly at certain levels, that participation brings about a far greater sense of sympathy and power than adults ever realize, particularly in your cultural times. [...]

[...] You have not wanted to know these things, considering that that they were beneath you, and strongly condemning any feelings that you could not accept as adult. [...]

[...] From my understanding of it, there was no other significance to the age orientation, except that the two of you were adults, and thus would have had a long shared background behind you. [...]

[...] He found it—his occupation—to be a responsible one, befitting an adult. [...] He believed (underlined) that he should devote all of his time to his work, and could hardly forgive himself for his regrettable lapses into writing—and he was writing, after all, not even for adults, and not for young males either.

[...] If you do not like the looks of the adult world, then you had better change your own expectations now. [...]

[...] They become adults, but what about their world?

[...] Children do not grow into adults.

There is obviously something identical, and some continuity between the child and the adult, but it is not matter. [...]

You call yourself yourself, though the color of your hair may change; and indeed the adult bears little resemblance to the child. [...]