“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Subconsciously you are also bitter because you could have nearly purchased a place of your own with the money that you used to help your father purchase your family home.

There is also in your subconscious the feeling of a land or farm in connection with the one owned by your father’s family.

[...] The experience seemed to last all night gradually deepening in intensity, without overt dramatic story line — there was material on the Mafia in its relationship to family and particularly in connection with women—this seemed to be the focus point. [...]

[...] Let it bring families closer together as it has in your case (Janice). [...]

[...] They don’t think he has a family. [...]

(Virginia and Tom verified Seth’s data concerning the family relationship, tensions, two women, etc. In fact, with the exception of the 6-month prediction, they tied all of the data together quite easily around one family situation; they explained the situation to Jane and me, but it will be but briefly summarized here. [...]

[...] Yet a relationship that has a family connotation certainly; an overexertion on your part that can lead to tensions. [...]

[...] The data refers to a long-standing family relationship involving older relatives, a farm, furniture, a sale of land, etc. [...]

In your family life in this reality, your parents acted opaquely to each other. [...]

[...] They came together precisely to give birth to the family, and for no other main reason as far as their joint reality was concerned. [...]

[...] In those days the Buttses didn’t think in such terms, for one thing; for another, I was absent from the family home in Sayre for much of that time. [...]

The Butts family albums contain numerous photographs of my father as a young man, many of them self-taken with the aid of a timer; he poses with a variety of automobiles and motorcycles through the years before his marriage to my mother in 1917, and afterward, too. [...]

(My mother lives with my brother and his family in a small community in upstate New York, near Rochester, and Jane and I had spent the weekend visiting one and all. [...]

[...] While there was a past family connection, you were not the closest of friends, and there was no need or desire on either of your parts for a family connection of any duration in this life.

[...] You were from a side of the family with French connections, and at that time flighty, easily upset, with some ability as a musician in piano, but without the discipline or drive to use the ability.

[...] Each dot and x represents a house, the x’s representing families with children in the neighborhood. Note that two families with children live three doors from John; the Snyder family especially came to John’s mind as Seth gave the material on pages 159-160.

[...] On this map he indicated the location of each house, and it developed that there were two families with two children who lived three doors from him. Of these two families John said that the name of one of them, Snyder, immediately popped into his mind as Seth gave the pertinent material. [...]

(However, the three of us did meet with our parents last Sunday, October 4, 1964, to handle some family business. [...] And I must admit that such was the involvement in the problem at hand when the family did convene on October 4, that I completely forgot the dreams at the time, never realizing that I had dreamed of a family get-together 10 days before it took place. [...]

(I will include a copy of the very long, vivid and involved dream I had involving Jane, Bill Macdonnel, three friends of a family from Sayre, and my father, before whatever session Seth uses to discuss it. [...]

[...] I might as well add here, as well as in the session, that the three boys do not get together very often—on the average less than once a year I would say—because we all live in different communities, Loren and Dick have families, and of course each person is always busy with his or her own life.

[...] She knows of Pete Harpending through a family connection, and I told her to feel free to call him. [...]

[...] But she knows from family experience, she said, about troubles with medical expenses, insurance, and so forth. [...]

[...] This may not sound like a very grand product, and yet families on the farms outside of Rome found these highly useful. Each had a special sound, and a family could tell by the sound of the bell their own donkey from innumerable similar ones.

(“Now: I had a large family — that is, I came from a large family, and I was ambitious, as all intelligent young men of that time were. [...]

So the psychic families, or the families of consciousness, can be thought of as natives of inner countries of the mind, sharing heritages, purposes, and intents that may have little to do with the physical countries in which you live your surface lives. [...] In the same way, all the members of any given psychic family are spread across the earth, following inner patterns that may or may not relate to other issues as they are currently understood.

Certain families have a liking for certain months of birth,⁴ but no specific rules apply. [...]

[...] In the fall Frank Corio was given the job of selling the place, and soon did so — to a family, the Millers, who were moving to Elmira from a distant state. [...]

[...] You picked up the idea of work but frowned upon certain aspects of creativity as not safe or profitable—as your father’s creative, inventive aspects did not produce financially in your family, and in terms of work did not pay off in social or family terms.

[...] He had seen your family’s reaction to you as an artist. [...]

[...] This evening he showed Jane and I a family photograph taken when he was about J.J.’s age, and of course the physical similarity was even then unmistakable. This old family photograph, incidentally, included Jimmy’s father, whom Jane and I had not met, and who is referred to in the following session material.)

[...] There are some rather unusual circumstances here, in family and past family situations.

[...] Jane and my parents were not in it, nor were any members of the Brenner family.

“Years ago, after my brothers and I had left 704 to follow our own life paths, the Brenner family had built a house next door to our parents’ place. [...]

[...] When my next-youngest brother and I were in grade school, our family had lived a few houses down Harrison from the Maynards. [...]

On July 23, 1980 — 13 days after I had my dream — the writer of a story in the Elmira Star-Gazette described how the Brenner family won an out-of-court settlement of over $10,000 from the Borough of Sayre and a large store owned by a well-known supermarket chain. [...]

[...] Royalties, prime-time TV series, movies, TV specials—there was no area in which the family wasn’t making incredible amounts of money. [...]

This is because those expressions were natural in your family. [...]

[...] A man protects his family because he loves it—but in his love he can see threats all around.

[...] Here were the two of you, doing what in the world’s eyes he felt was in direct opposition to its standards—the brawny, outdoorsy, hearty, family oriented males involved.

[...] I foresee some family difficulty in your younger brother’s situation. Not in his immediate family but in his wife’s family. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) A Gaylor family was connected with the church. [...]

None of the doctors we talked to would say outright that rheumatoid arthritis is inherited—only that “it seems to run in families,” and that more women than men develop it. [...] Yet except for her mother’s case there’s no history of arthritis in Jane’s family, outside of a “routine” trace of rheumatism in a couple of grandparents. [...]

In all of this I’ve barely hinted at the complicated relationships involving other family members from the past, present, and future. [...] Or that of members of my own family? [...]

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