“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I now want to put the Sinful Self material in a larger spectrum. Ideally, infants “bond” with their parents, particularly with the mother but with the father also—and then they “bond” with the general ideas of their society. This offers the sense of safety and security in which the youngster can then feel free and curious enough to explore its world and the nature of reality.

(Long pause at 8:15.) With some people (long pause), such bindings are so secure that in one way or another they provide an overall, fairly permanent inner and outer framework. The people within that framework will stray only so far from conventional beliefs. (Long pause.) They still enjoy—relatively—a good deal of freedom, however, of a sideways extension, so to speak, or in a horizontal manner, as excellent athletes, perhaps. Ruburt’s relationship with his mother left much to be desired. The bonding did not secure him that important and vital sense of safety, and to some extent or another he felt at least threatened by abandonment. The bonding to cultural beliefs of religion (long pause) was very strong to make up for that initial lack. The strength of such binding elements, again, varies through a lifetime, and the binding to the parents’ beliefs of course helps strengthen social structure. In a curious fashion, however, that circle of safety provides each individual with the freedom and curiosity to go ahead and test independent theories and situations—so it also serves the purposes of creativity and knowledge, and even allows for the acquisition of new knowledge that was not in the original belief structures.

The time would come, however, when the old bondings had to be encountered, for they simply could not hold the newer frameworks of understanding which were larger than they were. The ideas presented by the so-called Sinful Self represent several layers of activity, then, that should be understood as represented. Some of the most troublesome aspects of one’s belief structures are shared by millions in your society, and by certain levels of Ruburt’s own personality, where they exist with varying strengths. The personality is now trying to assimilate a greater framework to become bonded to a higher sequence of knowledge.

[...] Therefore it becomes “bonded” to the parents in a given life, and then bonded to the beliefs shared by the family group. [...]

Such bonding provides a sense of safety and focus. [...] The bonding is not meant to be permanent, however, and after a while the child begins to question its affiliations, the ways and means vary according to cultures. [...]

[...] In any case, the original innocent self is bonded to the parents, and to the parents’ beliefs for a time. [...]

[...] The belief systems can be like blocks, which are used and then later changed or replaced, but there is a kind of (underlined) bonding of the childhood self with those ideas it takes from its parents. [...]

[...] When Ruburt left that system intellectually some of the old bonding power remained, the emotional glue, but he no longer believed in the indulgences, the sacraments and so forth, so the Sinful Self was left fairly isolated, still believing to some extent that to “be good” it must be bad, but without the releases of guilt once provided by churchly help and belief. [...]

A bond of hate will unite you, but the bond was originally based upon love. [...]

Often it is akin to love, for the hater is attracted to the object of his hatred by deep bonds. [...]

There is an emotional bond that is important in the setting up of such contacts, and what is clear in such clairvoyance may take in certain objects or situations that are perceived, not because of their logical cohesion, but events or situations which the emotional bond makes significant.

[...] When no personal emotional bonds are seen to be present, there will be nevertheless an inner psychic sympathy.

Instead, I am saying that deeper bonds of biological and spiritual love lie at the basis of all personal and cultural relationships, a love that transcends your ideas of sexuality. [...] If only stereotyped ideas of female-male relationships operated, however, there would be no bond or stimulus great enough to forge one family to another. [...]

(Jane has been having trouble with the new teeth, so I put Sea Bond adhesive on them before she ate lunch, and this helped somewhat. [...]

Robert F. Butts, my husband, sits on the couch across from me, taking verbatim notes of what I say as Seth, transcribing these “other-worldly” communications with a modern pen on good white bond paper. [...]

As far as my relationship with Seth and his with me, because of our long-standing association I think we must have formed a unique psychological alliance; somehow I am part Seth, and in sessions at least, Seth must be part Jane, in a kind of psychological bonding on both sides. [...]

The bounds amount to bonds in some cases. [...]

Your animals possess a closer bond by means of the inner senses. [...]

[...] My forehead felt extremely cool, as if bonds of coolness went all around my head. [...]

[...] But she said no, that there seemed to be “glue” on the new Sea Bond insert I’d applied to her lower teeth during break, so that she could eat supper in comfort. [...]

[...] Because of the circumstances, however, and the two family deaths, the information was available, and used to remind all the class members of the different kind of familyship, a different kind of endeavor, and to offer a different kind of assurance and bonds that are not destroyed in your terms by any amount of reincarnation or any amount of time you use them.

[...] There are bonds of affection and understanding that unite this group, and a speaker may or may not be one. [...]

Because of the bonds of affection and understanding and instant intuitional comprehension that allows them to recognize one another. [...]

[...] Bonds, the private papers originally kept at the hill house, then moved.

There may be bonds of some type, belonging to him but under the names of different people. [...]

All of you have abilities and potentials but you are held in bond by preconceived ideas of reality. [...]

[...] There is great leeway in the nature of such bondings…. [...] The bonding did not secure him that vital sense of safety, and he felt threatened by abandonment. His bonding to the cultural beliefs of religion was very strong to make up for that initial lack. [...]

[...] “Ideally, infants ‘bond’ with their parents, particularly with the mother but with the father also, and they bond with the general ideas of their society. [...]

[...] The time would come, however, when the old bondings had to be encountered, for they simply could not hold the newer larger frameworks of understanding. [...] He is now trying to assimilate a greater framework, to become bonded to a higher sequence of knowledge.

[...] Others are working with you, and there are bonds that are held and honored. [...]

[...] He would not do as well with stocks and bonds. [...]

[...] There is a close bond between reincarnational cycles and earthly historical periods that we will discuss later. [...]

Incidentally Ruburt always felt a strong bond with every living thing, and even as a man was not cruel. [...]

There is an intuitive bond between you however, very deep. [...]

[...] The limited idea of the self held by the ego clouds and distorts the main issue, for the ego is not conscious of the underlying bonds of sympathy that serve to merge, momentarily, the identities involved.

[...] She should be assured then that love is not a bond, to hold her down. [...]