“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Seth’s information and my own notes detail the interdependent, yet spontaneous, psychic and physical relationships within which each of us elects to move; they reveal how a conscious understanding of such factors, some of which may reach back into one’s childhood, can help greatly in practical daily living. [...]

[...] The word “high” is important, for art, his art—writing, poetry—was his version of, say, the high mass of his childhood, where he and not the priest was in connection with the universe. [...]

[...] His rather long letter dealt with Dr. Childers’ nightshade diet for arthritis; the writer claimed he had a close friend who had recovered completely from rheumatoid arthritis that had plagued him since childhood, by following this diet—no potatoes, paprika [peppers], tomatoes, and a few other common foods of the nightshade family. [...]

The thoughts and beliefs that we want to rearouse are those that were often predominant in childhood, as mentioned earlier in this book. [...]

[...] That even though we may die in childhood, and at successive later ages, each of us lives to old age somewhere. [...]

[...] The belief was generated in his childhood, but it was always the underside of the opposite belief in his abilities. [...]

[...] And at the other end of the scale, older parents are treated by their grown children as if they themselves were falling into a grotesque version of a second childhood. [...]

[...] These allow you to grow with the greatest possible impetus into childhood. [...]

[...] The entire idea involves a process in which you try and not try at the same time, in which you do not strain to achieve results, but instead gently begin to allow yourself to follow the contours of your own subjective feelings, to uncover those spiritual and biologically valid beliefs of early childhood, and to bring to them the very best wisdom that you have acquired throughout your life so far.

In infancy and childhood the will singleheartedly directs the body to go full steam ahead, sweeping aside obstacles in the great impetus toward growth and development. [...]

It is the adult’s version of childhood knowledge, the human version of the animal’s knowledge, the conscious version of “unconscious” comprehension. [...]

[...] An interesting sideline here: his stinginess in small matters is not so much the result of greed as an emotional attempt to maintain the psychic warmth of childhood, a childhood which was marked by poverty.

[...] There is no reason, though, for an individual to be bound by childhood beliefs or experience. [...]

[...] By thirty, hopefully, you have dismissed such a belief, though it fit in very well and was necessary to you in your childhood. [...]

[...] When we start looking for such beginnings in ordinary terms, we usually end up reaching back into the subject’s childhood. [...]

(I asked her about her childhood feelings, in line with Seth’s description of her mystical nature in the 679th session. [...]

[...] Her childhood was difficult.

[...] Along the way they have forgotten the cooperative, playful ventures of childhood, and the expression of love itself becomes most difficult.

[...] Listing them as I’ve done here is also apt to artificially set them aside from the flow of insights within the poetry Jane has written since childhood; actually, of course, all are related.

(Jane’s childhood friend, Eddie, died of diabetes in his early thirties.)

(She said that although she had a good idea of the reasons for her upset this afternoon, she didn’t make conscious connections with her childhood friend, Eddie Briscoe.

The feeling-tone, somewhat generated in childhood as I told you, was momentarily changed for the better when your relationship with him began. [...]

[...] His childhood situation filled him with terror, yet there was the impetus of growing up to set him free. [...]

It also seems that each fetus must naturally desire to grow, emerge whole from its mother’s womb, and develop into a natural childhood and adulthood. [...]