“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

^* Both Jane and I belong to the family of consciousness that Seth calls Sumari. [...]

[...] He tried to keep you from family connections and complications for what he thought was your own good.

The funeral (of my mother on November 19, 1973), family considerations, thoughts of buying a house, brought up difficulties. [...]

In this period just passed Ruburt encountered your family in a crisis situation, opened to influences previously denied in terms of some brief traveling and dining out and spending money, while considering the very large expenditure for the house, and at the same time not working regularly or having my sessions.

[...] If human relationships are highly regulated and supervised, or family members encouraged to spy upon their relatives or friends, then you have the same kind of curtailment of natural expression and communication.

(Long pause at 3:34.) You can also find single families, of course, that operate like cults — or an entire nation — that are given over to repression with its resulting violence.

[...] They are members of a family. Of your family, Joseph.

[...] They are members of a family. Of your family, Joseph.”

[...] (Pause.) The number 17, a date in July which will be significant to him, or his close family—not necessarily to him, you see. [...]

[...] The number 17, a date in July which will be significant to him, or his close family—not necessarily to him, you see.” [...]

He feels an inferior member of a family, but in a superior position as a teacher, and his fear of being anonymous in a group, or swept up by it, when he is not in control of it, results from these family feelings of a group, and fear of being swept along by emotion.

[...] He can also give expression to a very deep concern about his fellow man, safely, since the family relationship is not involved.

[...] A given scientist may act quite differently in his family life and as a scientist. He may love his family dog, for example, while at the same time think nothing of injecting other animals with diseased tissue in his professional capacity.

[...] Loyalty to friends and family was discouraged, and so those in Jonestown had left strong bonds of intimacy behind. [...]

[...] Miranda Charbeau, from a French side of the family, who married into an English branch, into the Franklin Bacon family of Boston.

[...] The family name, the town, and the cathedral name are the same.

(At the same time, I now realize that my father did accomplish much that he and the other members of the family were blind to. All of us certainly were more than happy with some of his contributions—simply those revolving around camping, for example—while misunderstanding or missing out upon many other facets of his life, and our own individual lives as they functioned within the family framework. [...]

(I could see how each move of the burial process had been carefully evolved to help the bereaved family separate from the one who had died. [...]

[...] I don’t know whether the immediate family did or not. [...]

[...] We like him and his family very much.)

(Seth had dealt with Jimmy and his family in other sessions, notably the 100th and 101st. [...]

An uncle of his, on his side of the family, to die in the near future.

[...] The people may be members of his family. [...]

[...] They also often express a strong feeling of alienation from their parents, friends, family and their fellow men in general. [...]

All of the suggestions in this chapter can indeed help break down those habitual thought patterns, however, and if such a person is seeing a therapist, it is an excellent idea if the entire family join in the therapy.

In many situations one individual within a family will serve as the family symptom. [...]

[...] The information I am giving you this evening will be far more helpful to many individuals than any information I could give you this evening concerning your student or his family; for the boy at this point would not put my advice into practice. [...]

[...] You also find yourself in the position where you believe you should be the entire support of your family, and where you know you have both been taking the easy way out, and you hate yourself for it.

You were afraid that you could not make it alone, or support your family if it really came down to it. [...]

Being with your parents brought things to a head, because both of your attitudes were aggravated by the environment; you (Sue) relating more as a young girl in the family homestead, and he reacting as the stranger who came in the back door.

The collection will include our family trees; my father’s journals and photographs; Jane’s and my own grade-school, high-school, college, and family data; our youthful creative efforts in writing and painting; the comic books and other commercial artwork I produced; our early published and unpublished short stories; my original notes for the sessions; session transcripts, whether published or unpublished, “regular,” private, or from ESP class; tapes, including those made in class of Jane speaking for Seth and/or singing in Sumari; our notes, dream records, journals, and manuscripts; our sketches and paintings; Jane’s extensive poetry; our business correspondence; books, contracts, and files; newsletters about the Seth material, published in the United States and abroad (independently of Jane and me); the greater number of letters from readers—in short, a mass of material showing how our separate beginnings flowed together and resulted in the production of a joint lifework.

There is energy within her that is given gladly and is used by the entire physical family. [...] —However, I will say here that large portions of her energy are diverted to provide supportive help physically for all members of the family. [...]

[...] Many large families are representative of this group. [...] Here the family represents an entity who has taken upon itself the nurturing of your civilization. [...]

[...] The church provided a family of sorts, but that family also was dependent upon religious obedience. [...]

[...] She did say that Seth indicated that class helped her to some degree, in that she got approval from it, as in a family situation.)

Your family in this life has always been determined upon longevity, and you pace your energy. [...]

[...] Edward Zeno-Mythlin; or one name is a family name.

[...] He did not use his vitality in his manhood joyfully or fully or explosively, either in work, nor purpose, nor family. [...]

[...] This is why you trust the male qualities in Ruburt; why Richard chose a family in which he married where the males have been dominant, and why Loren chose for a wife a woman with more vitality than he.

[...] Family from Florence. [...] A family name connected with St. Anne. [...]

[...] You have set aside, however, the conventional idea of a family, as symbolized by your (car) dream of the other evening. You are actually exchanging one kind of a family for another, vaster concept, that also involves parenthood, however — but a psychic rather than a physical parenthood. [...]