“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Maybe something to do with a man, woman and a child. There is something to do with a child somehow involved.

(No water scene appears specifically on any stamp, or a child. [...]

[...] (To me:) “Your” desire to live straddled the death of the child in an operation. The child’s desire to die chose that event. [...] Give us a moment … In no way could you predict what would happen to the child in that photograph of yourself.⁶ In no way now can you “predict” what will happen to you now. [...]

[...] Nor was any harsh reality forced upon the mother by the dying child, for that portion of your mother was the part that regretted having had the child.

In dreams you are acquainted with probable events, from which you then choose; (to me:) so before you died as a child, you knew that you could pick or choose that death. [...]

There was one child. However, the child had playthings that belonged to another child, and any toys should be discarded. [...]

The child who lived in the house until recently was somewhat disturbed, and had he lived there longer the house would not have remained psychically beneficial, but it is psychically beneficial now. [...]

(“Was there more than one child?”)

(To me again:) Your birth (in 1919) coincided with the birth of your mother’s child in that other reality, hence her stronger feelings toward you. [...] In this world, she could and would have another child.

Linden was the one “natural” child of this marriage. Watch how you interpret that, but he was the child least affected by other realities. [...]

2. I think that as a child I often sensed my parents’ feelings of strangeness about this reality, although I was quite unable to express myself in those terms. [...]

[...] When you are a child however adults seem godlike. [...] As a child it was quite necessary that you accept beliefs from others before your conscious mind could form its own.

What we want is an altered approach to life itself, to one that follows the kind of natural approach to living that children unerringly possess, but to one that is also enriched with experience that a child does not possess. [...]

[...] Treat it in a way like a frightened child who can be comforted, and who can understand. [...]

[...] Again, the feelings of panic will naturally subside, but they are important for they are in their way the signs of the child crying—and earlier, Ruburt as the adult would not listen. [...]

(Seth reassured Marian that should a child enter the room unexpectedly Ruburt would instantly “be himself,” and nothing would be noticed by the child. [...]

[...] Using the analogy of adulthood again, it is as if the child within you is a part of your own memory and experience, and yet in another way has left you, gone apart from you as if you are only one adult that the child “turned into.” [...]

In the gestalt of my personality, as in your terms I lived later richer lives, that woman was alive again in me — as, for example, the child is alive in the adult, and filled with gratitude comparing later circumstances to the earlier existences. [...]

[...] In other terms the past was altered, in that Ruburt now experienced the yearned-for mother love that was warm in its animal female understanding, supportive and strong enough to easily bear a child’s small ragings and hatreds.

He also identified with his grandfather as a child, seeking protection from his mother in someone who seemed to love him more. [...]

[...] The actualization had to occur in the past, so he became a child again.

Because of the beliefs of religion, the child expected God to show his power through some disastrous act by which sinners would be punished. That child’s life already carries the marks of her beliefs about religion, God, power, and mainly in the belief that nature is a tool in the God’s hands—to be used against man at any time.

[...] After a short time an earthquake occurred (in Romania), and the child was afraid that she had caused it. [...]

Pretend for a moment that you are a child, and I am trying to undertake the particular chore of explaining to you what your most developed, adult self will be like — and in my explanation, I say that this adult self is to some extent already a part of you, an outgrowth or projection of what you are. And the child says, “But what will happen to me? [...]

I am in somewhat the same position when I try to explain to you the nature of this inner self, for while you can become aware of it in dreams, you cannot truly appreciate its maturity or abilities; yet they are yours in the same way that the man’s abilities belonged to the child. [...]

[...] As you do, keep the idea of child’s play in mind, however. [...]

The child plays at being an adult long before he is one, and so you can play with more desirable beliefs while you are still growing into that more beneficial picture.

(“What was the name of my oldest child, Frank Watts?”)

(“And the last child?”)

[...] Take the child home with as little delay as possible, for then will the banners (pause) fly in new formation—freer, easier, and closer to nature’s ways. [...]

And a very distant connection with a child’s hair ribbon. A wide band sort; this applies to the child’s ribbon.

(We probably will never check on the data referring to a child’s hair ribbon, the child’s age, etc.

I pick up the number seven, and this could refer to the age, that is, of the child who wore the ribbon.

It will now or later and the child who will be born, will be born. If an individual is meant, in his terms, to be born to you as a child, if he has decided to do so and if you have decided to have him as a child, if your past relationships for example have set up this situation, then the situation will take place. [...]

[...] I remember the forms through which I have spoken and you do not, but look at it this way: The child that you were in this life has a far different form than the person you are now, and yet you spoke through that form. [...]

[...] There is no whole truth to be given you like a package that you can open like a child on your birthday. [...]

[...] That there is meaning, therefore, in your child’s life and existence and even in your attitudes toward the child; and that in your terms, regardless of what happens, the child has a future, and that all endings are new beginnings. [...]

[...] You (Valerie) can to some extent get relief from your own feelings of isolation not by reacting to others, but by opening up to nature on an emotional level, not an intellectual one; and also by relating to this one’s child. There will be great rapport there for you, if you learn how to take advantage of it, for the child also takes support from your feelings for it. [...]

[...] Jane sensed her grandfather’s feeling of identification with the rest of nature, however, and since as a young child she had not yet developed a strong ego personality, she felt no sense of rejection as did, for example, the other members of the family. When he spoke of the wind, she felt like the wind, as any child will unselfconsciously identify with the elements.

[...] Concurrently as a child, she would take long walks at night and pray, especially when she’d “been bad.”

(“Why was Jane so attached to him when she was a child?”)

[...] You identified as a child whose presence betrayed its father, your father being forced to support you, particularly in the Depression. [...]

[...] But Ruburt was the female: you would not bear any child, so the effort had to be strong on his part. [...]