“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(3:12. After a cigarette and watching In Search Of Jane began reading yesterday’s session. Slow at the start, but she did better as she went along, amid pauses. Seth had talked about her blueness and crying last night. When Jane got to the end of the session, and read my own notes about my own crying spells, she began to cry while reading aloud—but she kept going, and finished in good style. I felt tears, listening to her.

(Long pause.) They end up actually threatening their children, though usually they do not of course understand what they are doing. A mother might say, “Don’t run, or you will fall down,” or “Don’t talk so much, or people will not like you.” In any case, often children grow up with the idea that proper behavior consists mainly in avoiding danger. The emphasis is not upon pleasure, but on the avoidance of pain. Children are taught to repress their emotions rather than to express them.

It is important that adults (pause) uncover such instances from their own childhood. As adults they can form a kind of understanding parent in their own mind, until they learn how to be sympathetic to their own behavior, and until they realize that life itself is an expression—not a repression.

Children’s play is extremely important to a child’s development—and when they play children use those exquisite powers of imagination, confidence, and expectation that provide the wellspring for growth and fulfillment. (Pause.) People who are exuberant are healthy. They appreciate the richness and variety of life. Many children, however, are unfortunately taught by their parents to be suspicious of exuberance and high spirits. And ordered instead to be quiet, well-mannered and obedient.

(Long pause at 4:40.) Comments for Ruburt: today’s additional motion further shows his improvements as body and mind both throw off old shackles of repression.