“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(9:50. Jane’s excellent relaxation period continued during break. She didn’t know if she could get to her feet. “I’m really out,” she kept repeating. She said that she knew Seth had a “whole bunch of stuff there about parents.” She was so relaxed that we decided to resume the session, lest she find herself unable to if she waited too long. She said she was determined to get the material. Resume at 9:55.)

Now: each person chooses his parents, accepting in terms of environment and heredity a bank of various characteristics, attitudes and abilities from which he draws in physical life.

There is always a reason, and so each parent will represent to each child an unspeakable symbol, and often the two parents will represent glaring contrasts and different probabilities, so that the child can compare and contrast divergent realities.

His parents represented two extremes. His mother represented will untempered by spontaneity or relaxation, quite frankly a will for power over others. She made other people supply her wants, and was a despot. She was filled with energy however, and purpose.

Ruburt’s father represented the other extreme, with no firm purpose, seemingly driven willy-nilly, and accomplishing nothing. Both parents could be highly destructive, however—Ruburt’s father when he was drunk, and Ruburt’s mother generally.

Ruburt chose the parents to see the contrast and learn the best way for him in which purpose could be combined with spontaneity, the will with the spirit. He had to see what both extremes were extremes—not practical or idealistic. All of this applied to his mental, psychic, spiritual, and physical life, and his overall purpose.

The Christian-Science background with the father was also important, for it was this inner belief of the father that did sustain him, and that inclination of the father and his mother (Mattie) that Ruburt chose in his background to temper his own mother’s beliefs and lead him in our direction. The daughter triumphs for the parent, then. The same applies in its own way to each individual, where the conditions and challenges and solutions as well are given in the chosen background. So the way applies in its own way to you.

He was also afraid of spontaneity not related to creativity because of his feeling that his father went willy-nilly and produced nothing. In solving his dilemma, which was the creative one, the both of you triumph for yourselves and for your parents.

Only by self-examination can you see how these issues merge in all areas of your living, and then project the ideas outward for others. Ruburt going out walking goes for both of you. You, relating far better than you even did with others, go out for both of your parents. Your mother knows that.

Loren and Dick also chose the situation. Each parent also represented opposites to them—but different ones, and so they saw your parents differently. Do not lose contact with Dick. He is more like a son to you and Ruburt than a brother or brother-in-law.... I want you to see that all of this makes more sense in many areas than you may have realized. Ruburt’s physical state is assured. Forget the day-by-day patterns. He will be free of them so that nothing is noticed at the worst. At the best he will establish a condition of extraordinary flexibility—which is still up to him. But the beliefs have changed enough so that the improvements will come and the walking will be remedied.