“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

It is this basic feeling about the book and Saratoga that suddenly activated past associations and brought on some identification with his mother. He should remember here that he is not the person who lived in Saratoga now, unless he chooses in a self-limiting way to be so. The book itself, oddly enough, provides a certain protection for it informs others of his basic strength. It shocked him to know that people of the past were reading the book in his present, and seemed to draw him closer to those original associations that caused him to leave Saratoga.

He identified with the bird the cat caught. His mother was superstitiously afraid of cats and in the incident in his bedroom an immediate identification was set up, under emotional stress and because of past feelings.

Because of the temporary mother identification, he was open to the suggestion he had concerning his publisher, as the father of his book, you see. He also, because of this identification, feared he would become crippled and that you would leave him. Hence he was supersensitive when he thought you had lost interest in his writing and when he interpreted some of your actions as general neglect or lack of real affection.

Many early morning symptoms of a few months ago were direct mimicry of the mother in this identification, but these particular ones have vanished.

Your parties were helpful. The moderate drinking helped reunite the conscious and subconscious as a total self, knocking out the unwholesome identification with the mother. The swearing bears a direct relationship to the mother’s language.