“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

enchanting children who shout,

This does not mean you need children in the house next door. [...] If the sound of children’s voices, or dogs, even in the distance, annoys you, then you are doing a Dr. Levine in your own ways.

[...] You both do need privacy for your work and because of your natures, but if you try to find a home with no dogs or children within miles, then in another way you are doing what Sam Levine is trying to do, only in your own way. [...]

[...] In the summer there would indeed be annoying children’s voices that reminded you that others lived differently. [...]

[...] You can build with them as you can with children’s blocks. [...] There is a difference, however, between a story told to children about forests, and a real child in a real woods. [...]

What we want is an altered approach to life itself, to one that follows the kind of natural approach to living that children unerringly possess, but to one that is also enriched with experience that a child does not possess. [...]

[...] People just before the earthquake even related imaginatively not only to their own ancestors, but to their children’s children after their own deaths, as those children lived their lives in the same locations, in the same land area. [...]

Mothers tell children to forget their troubles. The children, not realizing how dumb their poor mothers really are, often do just that—and discover that their problems do indeed disappear. [...]

(9:42.) Now: I can’t—nor would I want to—turn you into children again, but you have a natural optimism, both of you—a creature optimism, with which all are innately equipped. [...]

Children dream more vividly and more often. [...] In deep periods of sleep children range further away, as far as their dream activities are concerned.

[...] The dreams of children could be investigated in this manner without too much difficulty, and these could be compared, generally speaking, with the dreams of adults. [...]

[...] Therefore children actually have more of this chemical propellant to use in the formation of dreams.

[...] The cobbler and his wife didn’t have any children. [...]

(Albert and Sarah had 4 children. [...]

[...] They had 2 or 3 children. [...]

[...] There were many children around. [...]

A small boy connected with one of your children should be avoided: an unhealthy influence here. [...]

(About the children: Two boys in particular meet at John’s house to go to school with John’s two boys, His son, John, is in the third grade. [...]

[...] They did get a phone call from his wife’s sister who does have a small female child, plus two older children. [...]

The parents have worked to give their children such advantages, and the parents themselves are somewhat confused by their children’s attitudes. [...] But the children wondered: What about those other feelings that stirred in their consciousnesses? [...]

[...] Eventually four children, two of these now known to our friend as other personalities in this life.

[...] One of your children in the life given earlier is now your mother.

[...] Peter Murtough told us that he has an Uncle John in Australia who is about 40, lives in Canberra and has two young children.

(Jane’s impressions to Bette of a past life the class had received the previous week in Alpha: “You had seven children. [...]

[...] There were three children. [...]

[...] You had 7 children in all. [...]

[...] Again, John said the initial V meant nothing in particular to him, but when he returned home he planned to do what he could to ascertain just what did take place three doors from his own place, to a woman with at least two children, or who is connected somehow with children. [...]

(It will be remembered that in the 63rd session, June 17, 1964, Seth stated that he could “also see a sort of trouble in September for a woman neighbor who lives three doors down the street from him” in Williamsport, PA, “the difficulty here somehow involving two children... [...]

(John told us that although he had kept his eyes and ears open for news, he knew of nothing happening to any such neighbor, although as explained through John’s map in the 63rd session, two such women neighbors with children live three doors from him. [...]

[...] The children are strictly raised, and a lack of normal spontaneity is the rule rather than the exception. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

Now because neither of you wanted children, his books were considered part of his wifely duty; substitutes, he felt, that were better than the originals. He felt, then, that he could produce far better books than he could children. [...]

[...] We have fear and rage on the part of the girl, for despite the children she is yet a girl, and a very nice one. [...]

One of the children is suffering to some extent psychologically because of the dilemma, and you are too much the autocrat with this child, a female.

If it were not for these energies you would not have children; if it were not for these energies you would not be alive. [...]

[...] It is responsible for the birth of your children. [...]

([Gert:] “And I think my question is now, if l go back to teach little children the Catholic concepts of mortal sin, hell, etc.”)

If you are speaking in terms of that particular statement—those statements—if you cannot avoid making those particular statements, then you will do the children harm. [...]

He has five children. [...]

He protects his children and dies in so doing, and is born again in France in 1826, Bordeaux, a merchant. [...]

[...] You did not want children. [...]

[...] You chose a woman (beside reincarnational reasons which you will finally be given one day) who would not bear children and who would have as strong a commitment as your own.

In many cases it is the family, rather than the incapacitated member, who questions and does not understand — as in cases of severely mentally retarded children, for example. Yet in all instances not only do children choose their parents ahead of time, but parents choose their children, of course.