“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

This will lead you to say, “Supposing I feel like killing my boss, then, or putting poison in my husband’s tea; or worse, hanging my five children on the clothesline instead of the towels? [...]

(Pause at 11:23.) Quite deliberately you use your conscious mind playfully, creating a game as children do, in which for a time you completely ignore what seems to be in physical terms and “pretend” that what you really want is real.

[...] “You are children of the universe.” [...]

[...] and she’s either got two young brothers and sisters, or two very young children.” [...]

First of all, children seek enjoyment. [...]

[...] You have no children. [...]

[...] Maude has a daughter, Ruth Dudley, a little older than Jane, we think, and she in turn has children. [...]

[...] Many of us leave fragment personalities as you leave children. [...]

[...] You laugh if you think of children or natives in such activities. [...]

[...] You project yourselves into time like children through freely imagining your growth. [...]

[...] Four people in this photograph, parents and two children.

[...] Through the years I have heard Jane wonder aloud, many times, about the fact that Marie decided to have children, rather than place her emphasis on writing, as Jane chose to.

[...] The story sprang out of the hilarious way she’s taken to addressing Mitzi in regard to that cat’s gifts from heaven; I’ve been telling her that the affair would make a great children’s book.³ In the several pages she wrote this evening Jane presented her material quite humorously, in a manner reminiscent of, yet different from, her second Seven novel, The Further Education of Oversoul Seven, and her Emir.⁴

Two things in the dream held him back: a gigantic nostalgia for the writings in the sand that had remained for so long, the jottings of children—and for a moment he did not want to be part of anything that would wipe them out. [...]

[...] You do not help your children by keeping them chained to you, but you do not help your aged parents either by encouraging their sense of helplessness. [...]

Emir is Jane’s children’s book—or the one for “readers of all ages,” as she puts it. [...]

[...] Some even refuse to bring children into a world they believe their elders have created for them [in those terms]. [...]

(John’s wife’s sister is named Evelyn, and so would be the aunt of John’s children. [...]

[...] You may put this in the record or not, you will not have children, for reasons that I have explained. [...]

(Bill’s mother, who was also an arthritic cripple like Jane’s mother, was a very aggressive personality, a masculine one, who developed arthritis in order to lose her mobility and thus avoid harming Bill’s father and the children. [...]

Your television repairman has 3 children, a kind heart, and something wrong with his left foot. [...]