“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The fetus, for example, is remarkably optimistic, carrying within itself the miniature pattern for an entire human adult, taking it for granted that conditions will be favorable enough so that the entire pattern of normal life will be fulfilled despite any impediments or adverse conditions.

[...] When you are a child however adults seem godlike. [...]

[...] Again, the feelings of panic will naturally subside, but they are important for they are in their way the signs of the child crying—and earlier, Ruburt as the adult would not listen. [...]

[...] The children did not know the session was taking place; from their viewpoints we must have appeared like three adults who sat talking, and closed the doors because they didn’t want to be bothered.

[...] The dreams of children could be investigated in this way and compared with those 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, they also have more telepathic and clairvoyant dreams than adults. [...]

[...] Try to be honest with yourselves as to those early experiences in which you forced yourselves to behave differently than you were, because adults told you that you must … You had better understand the beautiful, unique quality of your own individuality lest you project upon the other sex — whichever sex you are — those abilities and qualities that you are afraid are your own, or project upon them those abilities and qualities that you wish you possessed and fear you do not.

Those particular beliefs actually take hold in young adults, so that it seems that all of life is meant to come to its fullest flower in young adulthood, and then from that prestigious position fall quicker and quicker into disuse and disarray.

It can help you become wealthy in adult life through the choices that you make. [...]

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

[...] They rarely congregate in large groups, but do have a family and tribal-like organization, with at the very most twelve adults in any given area. [...]

(Long pause.) For adults, ideas of health and illness are intimately connected with philosophical, religious, and social beliefs. [...]

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

[...] You have completely changed and broadened their conception of what adults are like, at a time when they found no mutual correspondence with the adults that they had known.

[...] The grown adult, not used to examining his or her own beliefs, however, may be quite unaware of harboring such an idea. [...]

[...] As an adult you perform many activities that you believed you could not as a child. [...]

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

[...] This does not curtail free will any more than man’s free will is curtailed because he must (underlined) grow from a fetus into an adult instead of the other way around.

If Ruburt’s mother had it to do over, she would not have had the child; and the child hidden within the adult still feels that the mother actually has the power, even now, to force the child back into the womb, and refuse to deliver it.

[...] See my dream notebook for a newspaper account of the murder in question—last Saturday night—at the Adult Book Store in Elmira.)

[...] Of four adults. [...]

[...] Of four adults.” [...]

“I am myself” simply does not mean the same thing to a child, an adolescent, a young adult and an old adult. [...]