“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The story unfolds when the mother uncovers evidence of a mixup in the baby complex at the hospital: She had been given only one of her children, or some such affair; either that, or she had managed to adopt a baby from there. Either way, she finds out through much detective work that a whole series of mixups had occurred in the hospital that day — that in the Elmira area there are several sets of parents who have been raising the wrong children all these years. [...] I thought it would make a great novel as all of the entangled threads were unwound, and considering the emotional tangles that had been built up over the years as parents raised children they thought were theirs.

[...] Children want to “be good.” [...]

[...] (Pause.) Children and adults also need self-respect. [...]

Three of the children will attain some prominence, for which the psychological loss of the mother under the given conditions will be responsible. [...]

(Jane did not meet the woman or children; she did meet the husband last year while job hunting.)

You must all remember questions you had when children, and you must never stop asking questions. [...]

[...] Children draw, play with images, with language, with the sounds of their voices creatively and artistically. [...] In a fashion it makes no difference how many other children have drawn circles or triangles with great curious glee, quite astonished at their own power to do so. [...]

[...] The book sessions should indeed be fun, even as children have fun with their creativity. [...]

Your visitor believes that these children who can also move objects (and who work with AP) are unique, and a new breed—but any children of past generations who realized that such feats were possible, and desirable, could do the same thing. [...]

[...] As you know, this can apply for example to children being given eyeglasses. [...]

[...] as a children’s game,” is quite interesting to us, and we believe a good example of the way associative memory can work while also being accurate. [...] Jane is very attached to playground accoutrements; she has especially fond memories of children’s seesaws and swings. [...]

[...] That is, not here (Jane held the envelope up, shaking it, her eyes still closed) but connected with what is here; as a children’s game. [...]

[...] You also picked your father so you could watch a family situation under those terms, because you knew you weren’t going to have any children in this life. And your father wasn’t nearly as anxious to have children as you might have thought, either, this time....”

[...] There are adults who quail when one of their children says, “I hate you.” Often children quickly learn not to be so honest. [...]

[...] (I, Robert Butts, was one of the believers.) The lie did not become truth but it became more nearly so, for despite their failures the ex-servicemen managed to bring up children who would not go to war willingly, who would question its premise.

[...] Majurak—last name—ended up in what is now Warsaw—a trader, a merchant—4 children —a French wife—earlier in 1242—a Dutch existence. [...]

[...] Marriage and children for his own nature. [...]

[...] I have not spoken to her—I am not good at speaking to children. [...]

[...] Jane said the unpleasant event was the fact that earlier two neighborhood children had been quite noisy and active running about our yard; she had wanted to go sun herself after lunch, but put off the expedition until the children had gone, by 3:00 PM. [...] Also, the same two children had been romping through Jane’s freshly spaded garden out back, which did not cheer her up. [...]

[...] The “missed” here refers to Jane putting off her sunbathing until the neighborhood children had gone. [...]

The characteristics of creativity appear most clearly in children. [...]

[...] Children often frighten themselves on purpose through games, knowing the game’s framework all the time. [...]

[...] Particularly on the part of children, it allows them to express forms and shapes that they see mentally first of all. When they draw circles or squares, they are trying to reproduce those inner shapes, transposing those images outward into the environment—a creative act, highly significant, for it gives children experience in translating inner perceived events of a personal nature into a shared physical reality apparent to all.

When children draw objects they are successfully, then, turning the shapes of the exterior world into their personal mental experiences—possessing them mentally, so to speak, through physically rendering the forms. [...]

[...] The man will have a connection with two children.

[...] Three children and a fourth who is somehow different. [...]

Why do some children die young—particularly gifted children with devoted parents? I don’t believe that there can be any single answer or blanket explanation, but we have had two readings involving such children, and I can give you the explanations offered in these specific instances.

[...] And what about children who die young, or servicemen killed in war? [...]

[...] A widowed man with no children came from a nearby village to help out on the farm. [...]

[...] once I think the title of the—(Jane left this blank)—or the children’s tale appeared in the air in large block letters. [...]

[...] Marriage and children for his own nature. [...]

[...] Children were a necessary part of the family, for a family was a band of people who belonged together, cooperating in the search for food and shelter.

[...] If children feel that identity is dependent upon such performance, then they will begin to perform as quickly as possible. [...]