“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Protective mechanisms because of faulty beliefs are allowed to predominate, as when an overprotective parent manages, with the best of intentions, to smother a child. [...]

(Sue Watkins told us that before Seth began answering my question, her unborn child had been very active—kicking, etc, within her. [...]

[...] There is a give-and-take between all elements of nature, so that such individuals often choose mothers, for example, who perhaps wanted the experience of pregnancy but not of birth — where they choose the experience of the fetus but not necessarily [that] of the child. [...]

[...] At once Jane and I named them Billy Two and Mitzi: Billy Two, obviously, because he was also a tiger cat and bore a strong resemblance to the dead Billy; Mitzi because with her longer, black and white fur she at once reminded me of the Mitzi who’d belonged to the Butts’s next-door neighbors when I was a child. [...]

The blanket incident overshadowed the other data because of the emotional content of the child’s fall. [...]

[...] And as a doctor guides the growth of a child, so you could begin at scratch to guide the growth of new companies, and even you see to consult with them before. [...]

[...] As a child he closed off the expression of emotion from his mother out of fear, and when the fear element becomes strong as it did later for a different reason, with Walt, and much later for a far different reason with you, the pattern was reasserted.

[...] Also, when a small child Bill had overheard a sexual encounter between his parents, in which his mother cried out. [...]

[...] The child would fit physically into the office building, you see. [...]

[...] Frank Watts would be aware of the approaching death of a previous child, for example, though not of the approaching death of Miss Callahan at this time. [...]

Certainly the birth of a child is really basically just as incomprehensible, but this transformation is projected into, rather than out of, your sphere of understanding. [...]

[...] There was something to do with a child in the dream somewhere.

[...] That is why a puny weakling who cannot lift a sack of groceries may suddenly find himself holding up a car so a child can escape.

[...] She had no father at home, growing up as a child, but Father Trainor, a frequent visitor, was Irish.

Some child known to Dr. Instream has measles. [...]

[...] The child will be aware of many of its past existences, and will be able to identify with the old man or woman that in your terms it will become.

[...] If Ruburt’s mother had been unable to bear a child, then Ruburt would have had a different mother and a different background, granting that Ruburt had come alive.

[...] It also developed that Jane had begun to develop her psychic abilities as a child, as a means of protection and escape from a very unhappy family situation. [...]

This analogy is not a very good one however, since the child does eventually leave the parent, but it is a true one because the inner self does indeed leave the physical image with which the ego is so concerned, when it passes beyond the physical field.

[...] As a child forms mud pies from dirt, so you form your civilizations out of thoughts and emotions, and then see what you have created.