“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] But what you have is a learned pattern of face-saving self-deception and nefarious (with amusement) techniques, taught by parents to children; so often you pretend to want one thing, and you may say that you “will it” to happen—perhaps because what you really want is unacceptable, or so you have been taught: it is demeaning, or evil, or whatever. [...]

[...] Later, in a free period, she showed me her first-grade classroom, specifically pointing out the closet and mentioning the difficulty involved in helping the children hang up their clothes.

[...] In the dream the women hang out clothes in the yard … and Anna showed me the children’s closet at school, commenting on clothes. [...]

(In addition, Miss Callahan is the only person we have located who taught Frank Watts’ children in grade and high school; Frank Watts was the first personality Jane contacted in these sessions and was soon replaced by Seth. [...] Miss Callahan however, cannot remember Frank Watts; only that she taught some “Watts children”. [...]

[...] He decided early to have no children—but more, to fight any evidence of femininity that might taint his work, or jumble up his dedication to it. [...]

[...] We would like to eventually tell our side of the story, and resent being treated like children in the interim. [...]

[...] However, there is an imbalance, a lack of balance and of coordination, in the family, in the family relationship and with the children. [...]

There, you can meet with relatives long dead, or with children not yet born. [...]

What is imaginary is not true: You are taught this as children. [...]

[...] He decided early to have no children — but more, to fight any evidence of femininity that might taint his work, or jumble up his dedication to it. [...]

Though Ruburt was a good-looking young woman, with much vitality, he had no children, and indeed had been determined not to, for writing was the overwhelming interest in his life. [...]

[...] But this time of emotional turmoil takes their minds off the fact that their children are grown, and adds a new challenge—one that convinces them that life is still exciting, that you must be on your toes. [...]

A man who makes shoes may see his customers, but he will not know what roads his customers walk in his shoes—and you cannot know the mental and psychic changes for the better that the books are making in parents and their children. [...]

Then, however, perhaps with no warning, he may suddenly refuse to make love with his wife, become hostile with his children, stop off for a few drinks after work, before supper, or even begin seeing a prostitute, or begin an affair — often with a woman he considers beneath his own station.

[...] As children do, she cried and made a fuss. [...]

[...] Jane and I do not consciously remember the name of the funeral director, and at the time of the services did not see any children about. [...]

[...] The explosion reference is amusing, and quite possibly refers to the blast of sound coming from 18 children under the age of five. Jane said the children are very noisy. [...]

[...] The meaning of the dream is as follows: In the beginning you and he are about to lecture or address small children, which means that you were both invoking the spontaneous, creative portions of yourselves, which in the truest sense are childlike. [...]

[...] Families in your society are often broken up, parents and children living quite apart in other portions of the country or in different countries entirely, so dreams that connect you with such relatives have risen to the fore, so to speak. [...]

(One of the questions concerned Seth’s material on page 218 of the last session, when he referred to the feeling that Jane and I have, that we had “an even more unfair advantage” without children—this, as he’d stated earlier, on top of our already being set apart from others because of our creative gifts. [...]

Children possess this high expectancy, this promise of future growth and development, and whenever those expectations are discouraged, then to that extent the quality of life itself is diminished. [...]

[...] Great expectations are built upon a faith in the nature of reality, a faith in nature itself, a faith in the life you are given, whatever its degree—and all children, for example, are born with those expectations. [...]