“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You both had at that point decided not to concentrate upon family life. [...]

The same sort of situation operates in millions of families, and the rewards that you gave each other for your creative endeavors were excellent, and worked beautifully. [...]

The furnace which you are all purchasing for your family is important here. [...]

[...] You are not but you fear that your family situation, your parent situation, could put you in a like condition.

[...] You are still concerned for Ruburt because you realize that as a matter of survival added funds for your family would have to come from his efforts, since your own painting time is too important to lose. [...]

A death in a family, for example, is a physical occurrence. Various members of the family will react differently, as you know. The psychological experience will be intensely diversified, personal, unpredictable as far as each family member is concerned. [...]

[...] I certainly will not be the family whipping boy. [...]

[...] of a family nature that has not yet developed, but that will develop shortly.

The situation however in the family does involve your own parents. [...]

The family situation is not immediate, this week for example, but it is developing.

[...] John said this could be the family situation that is developing, and that Seth referred to.

(To me:) Your mother did not simply choose to believe, in her old age, in a different past than the one that was accepted by the family—she effectively changed probabilities. [...]

[...] All of the members of the Butts family observed the pronounced changes in Stella’s thinking about her husband, although Jane and I were the only ones who ascribed those changes to her moving into another probable reality.

[...] If you want to call any one dream event a private event, then I would have to tell you that that private event actually was your personal contribution to a larger multisided dream event, many-layered, so that one level might deal with the interests of a group to which you belong—say your family, [or] your political or religious organization—reaching “outward” to the realm of national government and world affairs. (Pause.) As your private conscious life is lived in a community setting of one kind or another as a rule, so do your dreams take place in the same context, so that as you dream for yourself, to some extent you also dream for your own family, for your community, and for the world.

[...] They also involve you in the most productive of enterprises as you begin to play with versions of events that are being considered for physical actualization, as on a personal level you “view” the probable events which your family, tribe, organization, community and country will actualize.

(Very long pause.) Good health is closely related, of course, to a family’s beliefs about the body. [...]

This kind of syndrome can affect individuals, families, and to some extent entire nations. [...]

[...] Yet, although Seth has said very little to date about ghosts, hauntings, and possession [we link them together], it doesn’t seem that Jane’s early family experiences have led her to set up any blocks against such topics. [...]

1. For material on Jane’s family background, see the 679th session, including notes 4 and 8, as well as Appendix 1 for the same session.

[...] Vito is one of the sons in the D’Andreano family and was married a couple of years ago. Thus Jane returned here to the wedding idea through the D’Andreano family.

[...] At break she said this data was an attempt by Seth to get her away from the D’Andreano family, the members of whom we know relatively well, back to Barbara, the newcomer to our apartment house, who is a relative stranger to us.

[...] Another connection to the D’Andreano family. [...]

And you have received some legitimate information in regard to your family. [...] Now, whether or not it is couched in reincarnational terms, it offers clear, precise and excellent insights as to how those within your family operate and what stimuli is important to them. [...]

[...] So you have not been using your abilities in your family relationships. [...]

[...] His ancestors had originally spelled the family name “Bordeaux.” [...]

[...] In his solitary nature he came close to being a mystic, but he was unable to relate his personality as Joseph Burdo with the social world at large, or even to other members of the family. [...]

[...] Jane sensed her grandfather’s feeling of identification with the rest of nature, however, and since as a young child she had not yet developed a strong ego personality, she felt no sense of rejection as did, for example, the other members of the family. [...]

[...] For the purposes of this particular chapter, we will discuss illnesses or situations that have arisen since childhood, so we are not including birth defects or very early life-endangering childhood accidents, or most unfortunate childhood family situations. [...]

For various reasons, the men in his family, his grandfather on his father’s side, whom he did not know, his maternal grandfather and his father, were highly independent, insisting upon working for themselves. [...]

[...] There was, in the family history, always a struggle to work for oneself, this being a matter of class pride and independence.

(I’d raked leaves this morning—it’s been a beautiful day—while waiting for family to show up. [...]

(After family left we sat at the card table, and to my surprise Jane told me to get the notebook. [...]

One strand of your mother’s consciousness — that one involved with you — is intertwined with your reality because of her interest in homes.⁵ Another strand of hers is involved because of her interest in families — and hence with the children of your two brothers, Linden and Richard.

[...] But in certain terms she was the masculine center of the family, emotions or not, the aggressive one; and speaking conventionally now, your father (Robert Sr.) accepted the more passive creative role. [...]

I’d like to add that Seth’s material tonight on the Butts family situation is, if brief, very acute.

Another tragedy due, either closely connected with the present situation, with those involved in this present situation, or with another member of the Kennedy family.

The eldest brother in the Kennedy family initially intended to take President Kennedy’s role. [...]

[...] There were several other issues I would have touched upon, and there is information concerning the entire family that you would find interesting.

[...] There are habitual patterns of behavior that operate, as you more or less stabilize your picture of yourself in relationship with families and friends. [...]

[...] New sentence: When attempts are made to change that reality, then the reality of family and friends is also changed to some extent. [...]

[...] Jane and I are to spend Christmas in Rochester with brother Dick and family, and bring mother back with us, etc. [...]

[...] Both of you enjoy a sense of moral superiority in the presence of your brothers’ families, that they eat so heartily while you refrain. [...]

[...] It was the most vital area of his life, so quite on his own he decided that he would forgo motherhood and a conventional family life.

[...] Most people, as I mentioned, experience their contacts with the world through many prepared structures—that of church, community, clubs, professional organizations, family affiliations, academic affiliations—and these frameworks serve automatically to cushion such contact, and in a way, while permitting contact with the world, also blunting it to some extent. [...]