“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The given environment of your childhood for example was chosen by you and determined by you. [...]

As individual reliance upon the outer senses develops, the personality to a large degree relies upon them, and gradually loses the habit of relying upon the more familiar inner senses utilized mainly in infancy and childhood. [...]

[...] In childhood you do this automatically. [...]

Biologically there is a period very rarely experienced, as jokingly suggested in the “sick jokes” about senility and second childhood. [...]

[...] Sportslike abilities are encouraged from early childhood, particularly as far as the males are concerned. [...]

[...] These elements are quite characteristic of Christianity also, of course, but they may appear more palatable, exotic, or reasonable coming from a source foreign to your childhood education. [...]

[...] The symptoms are the result of the strain between the still-lingering beliefs from childhood, clashing with the unrealistic goals of being a kind of superself, for in the light of that kind of superself image so much is expected that almost any achievement is taken for granted. [...]

[...] Such encounters provide an emotional support that cements feelings with your fellow beings, and that in a fashion helps minimize in the present some of the defects of Ruburt’s childhood relationship with his mother. [...]

[...] In a fashion the material returns him, however, to a natural yet mystical inner knowledge of his childhood before (underlined) he cloaked it in the church’s robes, and it would be good for him to remember that and perhaps try to recapture some of those very early feelings that he has consciously forgotten. [...]

The secrecy of childhood is connected because of Welfare, and your own statements to him often, years ago, not to tell people anything. [...]

[...] They may be expressed as vividly and beautifully at the age of 80 as at the age of 8. For whole segments of the population, however, it seems as if joy and health are fleeting attributes expressed briefly in childhood, and then lost forever.

[...] In childhood, before you so leashed your imaginations, however, you each had your own dreams—dreams that awakened you to other portions of your own identities. [...]

No one in his childhood, in his 20’s, or in your early relationship, ever warned him that he could become too conservative. [...]

[...] Ruburt is at the tail end of these inner problems that have been there in this life since childhood.

[...] In a way, under certain conditions, some schizophrenic situations can give you righter glimpses of inner psychological mobility, a mobility that was focused and directed as you grew through childhood. [...]

“In childhood we have little past time to remember. [...]

“Ruburt’s state of mind was in (telepathic) correspondence with your own state of mind, even as you are in some kind of correspondence with your old (childhood) environment, so in these cases you have a free flow of information at other levels.

[...] The connections between it and childhood are often made in a derogatory fashion, but the personality is in just as creative a state. [...]

You both chafed against the belief of your times, that man was a natural aggressor, tainted from birth, that he was damned by his very nature, condemned by his early childhood background, by original sin, or by his genes. [...]

[...] People often throw off their childhood beliefs then and begin to look for their own view of reality, once again. [...]

[...] You resent unused paraphernalia, however neatly arranged, because it reminds you of your childhood home.

[...] The social and cultural aspects, and even the religious ones, automatically inhibit such experiences from childhood on. [...]