“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The session resulted after the stage had been set earlier in the evening, through Jane’s playing the tape recently received from the Murtough family in Chula Vista, CA; and, afterward, her playing part of the tape made some time ago for Dr. Instream.

The plants awakened before the animals—and there are reasons for these varying degrees of “wakefulness” that have nothing to do basically with the differentiations of specieshood as defined by science from the outside, but have to do with the inner affiliations of consciousness, and with species or families of consciousness. [...]

[...] Frank’s father himself was afraid of showing unseeming love, in his terms, toward his family. [...]

His powerful basic insecurity was caused by a broken home, and a situation where he was also thrown into alien cultures; not only was he unsure of belonging to a family, but also felt he had no cultural or national belongings.

[...] Being a part of no real community as a youngster, being unsure even of family unit, he first sought out various organizational positions, and governmental environments, as a man might wrap a cloak about him to protect himself from the elements.

[...] The road will be in better condition when three families use it than when it is used only by two. [...]

Nevertheless I do here welcome all present, and hope that I am myself welcomed, into what we may call a pleasant family gathering.

[...] Nor do I here, despite Ruburt, apologize for what may be considered a slight invasion of family affairs. [...]

[...] There followed a conversation mainly between Louie, Ida and Bill in which family matters were discussed. [...]

Your father represented what you thought of as the secret, isolated creative self—more or less at odds with the world, unappreciated by it in family or financial terms; the alone, artistic self you thought unable to communicate, inarticulate and dumb, locked away from close communication with others, and indeed barraged by misunderstandings because of its very creativity—emotionally frozen, afraid to show itself.

[...] Your mother realizes how she is opening avenues through which you understand more than you did, and she knows that you follow her on journeys of which other family members are ignorant.

[...] Now, I had a large family, that is, I came from a large family. [...]

[...] He also said that the family had a strong foreign connection, though the name was not particularly foreign, and made some other remarks about the family’s history and members.

The family had come from Australia and hoped to return. [...] Actually she was quite alive, though the family had cut her off emotionally and she did not always live at home.

If you do not buy headache potions, your uncle or your neighbor may be out of business and not able to support his family, and therefore lack the means to buy your wares. [...]

[...] Although Jane’s father, and my own, had died the previous year (in 1971), our mothers were still living: Jane’s in a nursing home in upstate New York, and mine at the Butts family home in Sayre, Pennsylvania, which is only 18 miles from Elmira and just south of the New York State border. [...]

[...] Involved here are recent diagnostic procedures: the study of the “patient’s” family history, the study of the “density” and structure of her breast tissues as determined by mammogram patterns, and the detection of possibly premalignant cellular changes. [...]

In your society, it is generally thought that a person must have a decent livelihood, a family or other close relationships, good health, and a sense of belonging if the individual is to be at all productive, happy, or content.

[...] There was a large family from which this relative came. I believe he was the third born to the family. [...]

[...] You wanted to be alone, amid your family. [...] Long pause.) The family had its severe disadvantages, but you were certain of its framework, which was to some extent at least, supportive.

These concepts have many cousins, so that we actually have an entire family of beliefs that are all in one way or another related.

[...] You do not concentrate upon the exceptions — the children who do not seem to fit the patterns of their families or environments, so of course no attempts are made to view those kinds of unofficial behavior.

[...] You read constantly of people who seem to have been most affected by fictional characters, for example, or by personalities from the past, or by complete strangers, more than they have been affected by their own families. [...]

[...] The family name in the past: Achman. (Pat learned that Dick’s family has an Ackerman branch in June 1968.) The first portion like oxtagon.

[...] I wanted my family to be a happy one. [...]

[...] Your terror as a child gave you an inner idea of reality and family group whereby you saw yourself completely powerless and helpless under the domination of this father figure. [...]

… He is afraid of any contacts that would … It seems here that there is a certain thing that he fears will happen to him if he involves himself in any relationship that would result in a family group. [...]

[...] … The inner core of the self has telepathic and clairvoyant abilities that greatly affect family relationships—and your civilization. [...]

It would be a good idea once or twice for him to remember the Jungle Gym (in Webster, New York where my younger brother Bill and his family live), and the first time he remembered faltering in a physical fashion. [...]

[...] There you performed as a young man household chores but learned the flute from the younger son of the family. [...]

[...] You can learn to concentrate upon what you want and draw that to yourself and you can learn and without too much difficulty, to completely restructure the health habits of your family. [...]

[...] But first of all you must understand that you can draw health to yourself and vitality and strength and that you are not at the mercy of any poor crawling germs or little flying monsters that come to attack you or your family, nor are you at the mercy of any fact. [...]

[...] These included promised material on my “probability dreams” involving family members; Jane’s hang-ups about finishing the two Seven novels she has started; and whether her teeth might have anything to do with her eye condition.

[...] Some of the dreams did involve other probabilities, however, in which members of your family died at different times than in your world, as with the dream involving Loren (my younger brother).

[...] The deleted material on my stomach which I’d received on February 2, 1976 had already helped resolve my hassles about using old family photos in “Unknown” Reality.)

[...] Here you had your feelings that photographs of the family would disclose a practical actuality far less than, for example, your mother’s ideal image of herself. [...]