“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Pause.) Now, by itself, ostriches. A connection here. A particular chest that has been in the family for some generations, or that is highly treasured. Among other things containing ribboned letters from a foreign land. (Pause.) It may be a handwrought chest.

The impression of an extra back room, not used for daily living—for storage perhaps or mementos, and so forth. Perhaps it has some old rather elaborate furniture in it, stored, that had been used before by the family. Some fairly valuable objects.

A pearl. Either a pearl, or Pearl, a woman’s name. A connection with a woman distant, that is, a half relative. For example, a half sister or a half aunt. In the family history…

Give us a moment. The mother feels the family lined up against her. The same sort of a situation existed basically in her own family, though in a somewhat different manner. But the pattern was there.

For all of this, a basic fierce loyalty to the family. She has particular disturbances in April and November. These following the patterns set early in her psychological heritage. Iron would be helpful in her diet. (Long pause.)

There is some resentment here, a smoldering one. She would have preferred to have been born a male. This is her first existence as a woman. An episode occurring when she was approximately in a sixth grade (pause) added to an already existing sense of insecurity. (Pause.) There are also other-life connections that enter in here. The family also uses the mother as a way of testing its own strength and unity, and as a method of channeling aggression. Often she picks up the aggression of the family, and then reacts for you all. You can then blame her without facing the fact of the underlying aggression.

She is one pole of the family, and you are the other (to Pete). You have the loyalty and unswerving support of the others, partially simply because their aggressions are channeled in an opposite direction and toward another family member. (Long pause.)

All of this exists within the gestalt of the family. The mother has set up patterns of behavior that allow her to use aggressions in this way, and to dissipate the aggressions of others to a large degree. Within your family, no others save perhaps Stephen, could handle aggressions in this manner—that is, dissipate them. Although his way would be different from the mother’s.

There is a balance within the family. Love is expressed to you on occasions when it could not be expressed to other members of the family; but still stays within the family, you see. The family, therefore, has its strengths and its safety valves. Australia serves as a uniting theme of common background, for all save your mother. It also serves as a uniting promise for the future, and gives you common dreams.