“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(We thought her desire has been triggered by a book a reader had mailed so that we received it yesterday—Magical Child, by Joseph Chilton Pierce, copyright 1977. [...] Jane said she thought Magical Child contained ideas reminiscent of her own and Seth’s ideas, and was also remindful of a book idea she’s considering at the moment, on the magical self. [...]

First of all, some of the ideas in the Magical Child book are excellent, and though he has not read the book thoroughly by any means, some new understandings have been reached through the use of those ideas and his own recent experiences by Ruburt.

[...] A firm bonding with the parent ideally implies however that the child will not be abandoned, despite for example parental anger at any given time. [...]

An understanding of the issues as I just explained them automatically alters the nature of what is left of those old bondings, thereby releasing the natural, magical properties of the child or natural person within, who possesses its own built-in matrix of safety and trust.

[...] The same kind of activity occurs in the child’s dream state as it learns to handle events before they are physically encountered. [...] Some dream events are more real to the child than some waking events are — not because the child does not understand the nature of experience, but because he or she is still so close to the emotional basis behind events. [...]

[...] In the dream state, however, a rose can be an orange, a song, a grave, or a child as well, and be each equally.

[...] They represent the intent to discover once again the true transparent delight that you once felt in the manipulation of your own consciousness, as you looped and unlooped it like a child’s jumping rope.

[...] The idea was that my belief in an extraordinary or supernatural force, working through nature, sustained me as a child. [...] But I no longer felt as I did as a child, that the universe was well-intended or cared for me particularly; and looking about the world saw personal threats. [...]

I am hardly a child substitute, you see. Conversely, if you had a child it would have been much more difficult for you to make communication with me, because of the direction of your own energy and focus. [...]

As to my being your child (amused), I am somewhat reluctant to say ma-ma or da-da. [...]

The desire to father or mother a child is a materialization of the desire for fulfillment—one of many that happens to be predominant within physical reality. [...]

[...] To be a child of God was to trust in your own worth. [...] The child of God would automatically find salvation, and everyone was a child of God. [...]

[...] Hence he stressed time and time again that each person was a child of God.

[...] In religious terms, you would realize you were saved, or a child of God. [...]

[...] The child or infant is highly suggestible to parental belief systems, so that it can early be provided with a conceptual framework that is complementary to its surroundings, to the group or environment. [...]

The child at such a time for one thing is not in the situation to do conflict with belief systems—it is too young and dependent. [...]

[...] The Sinful Self identification is a particularly unfortunate one, for to “be good” means that the child must consider itself bad or sinful. [...]

Right there, the child is presented with a quandary, of course. [...]

[...] Generally speaking, for the purposes of this discussion, there are two kinds of education — one focused toward teaching the child to deal with the natural world, and one focused toward teaching the child how to deal with the cultural world. [...]

[...] It became more important, then, for the child to conform to the culture rather than to follow its own individual natural leanings. Its own characteristic ways of dealing with nature were frowned upon, so that education does not work with the child’s abilities, but against them. [...]

The fact remains that the child did try to scream. [...] Unused to being alone, the child reacted in the first place vehemently to the unaccustomed isolation. [...]

[...] The stuttering did not, as is believed, begin continuously to show itself, but from then on it began to show itself more and more as the child experienced those necessary and trivial wounds that every child must indeed endure.

[...] The panic reaction, which is true, the fear of seeing reality as it was when he was a child; but this indeed is only a symptom of a symptom, and not an origin.

[...] A portion of a stove had been left on; and though there was no danger of fire, the child was afraid of fire. [...]

[...] The mother knows where the child is, even though she is not conscious of this. The mother may even go out after the child in a projection and bring it home.

She felt that it was her responsibility to have a child, and so she did. At the same time, because of the child’s defect, she managed to produce a child who was relatively free of those pressures against which she reacted. She produced in other words an idiot, who was in his own way supremely invulnerable to the realization of misfortune, a child who would not grow mentally into an adult, and a child who would remain secure in a relatively eternal childhood.

The child was extremely gentle in his way, and in his way he is still a gentle child. [...]

[...] Her energies were not directed in a manner that would permit her to give birth to a normal child. [...]

Briefly—as mentioned—the child has a great sense of curiosity and wonder. [...] (Pause.) Although Ruburt did not mention this in his paper, reincarnation does have a part to play, for child’s curiosity must somehow be fitted into a new social structure, generally speaking, from other reincarnational ones. [...]

[...] The bonding is not meant to be permanent, however, and after a while the child begins to question its affiliations, the ways and means vary according to cultures. [...]

[...] This provides the necessary sense of safety and the sense of definition in which the child can safely use its explorative abilities. [...]

When the person is a child no longer that need no longer exists in the same fashion. [...]

[...] She had an illegitimate child, a female, which she deposited at the nunnery for the nuns to care for. The child was brought up there and served in her younger years as a housekeeper doing kitchen chores and later took her vows. [...]

The mother was the woman who had the illegitimate child. This one (Yvette) was the child. [...]

([Jason:] “Was Yvette or her mother this particular child?”)

The child’s antagonism is based upon a firm understanding of its love. [...] Punishment simply adds to the child’s problem. If a parent shows fear, then the child is effectively taught to be afraid of this anger and hatred before which the powerful parent shrinks. [...]

[...] This is a peculiar kind of vision shared by those involved — whether it be wife and husband, or parent and child. [...]

[...] What the child is really saying is, “I love you so. [...]

A fantasy of beating a parent or a child, even to death, will if followed through lead to tears of love and understanding.

[...] Each child should be told that his body, or her body, is a precious private possession, however, so that it is easy to build up a desirable feeling of bodily privacy, without any hint of shame or guilt.

[...] Each child should be educated as early as possible by their parents, so that the youngsters are repeatedly reminded of the body’s natural resources and healing abilities.

(Briefly: Earlier this afternoon Jane had told me that “someone” was going to speak to and for her as though she were “a child.” [...]

The child is a part of the loving universe, its name forever written there, where all personalities have their sweet freedom. [...]

(Mark is Seth’s entity name for Bill Macdonnel.) A child was present, hence the Nina connection again. [...]

[...] Now a child connected here also, whether with Bill Macdonnel or Tam Mossman I am not sure.

[...] Illness for a child, a croup. [...]

(We do not know about a croup illness for a child.

[...] When the child, particularly the young child, is sleeping, for example, the personality often simply vacates the body. [...]

[...] If there is a strong relationship between the parents and the child-to-be, then the personality may enter at the point of conception if he is extremely anxious to rejoin them. [...]

In these circumstances, when the personality attaches itself at conception, there is almost without exception strong past-life connections between parents and child, or there is an unceasing and almost obsessional desire to return to the earthly situation — either for a specific purpose, or because the reincarnating personality is presently obsessed with earthly existence. [...]

On occasion, long before conception takes place, the personality who will end up as the future child will visit that environment of both parents-to-be, drawn again. [...]

If Ruburt’s mother had it to do over, she would not have had the child; and the child hidden within the adult still feels that the mother actually has the power, even now, to force the child back into the womb, and refuse to deliver it.

[...] You talk to it as you would comfort a child. [...] When Ruburt feels that kind of panic it is indeed the small child’s fear of abandonment for being bad (emphatically), and feelings of powerlessness because of the child’s relative lack of power in reference to the adult world. [...]

[...] In that way, Ruburt’s own current experience can reach back to comfort the child in the present. [...]

[...] A child knows something will go away if you pretend it does not exist. To the adult this seems like the sheerest of nonsense; yet the child’s connections with the heroic dimension still remind him of that truth.

[...] (On his visit Dick told us he has embarked upon the practice of transcendental meditation recently.) You saw also an Oriental version because his daughter (Teresa), who was also connected to him in an Oriental existence, was about to bear a male child.

[...] Nor did we know she was about to have a child. [...]