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(9:05.) One person’s dreams, therefore, while his or her own, will still fit into an important notch in the dreams of a given family. One person might, because of his or her own interests, seek largely from dreams warnings of difficulty or trouble, and therefore be the family’s dream watchguard—the one who has, say, the nightmares for everyone else. That person will also serve a somewhat similar role in the waking state, as a member of a family. [...]
If small families kept track of their own family dreams, for example, they could discover unsuspected correlations and sense the interplay of subjective and objective drama with which they are always psychologically involved. [...]
[...] Families in your society are often broken up, parents and children living quite apart in other portions of the country or in different countries entirely, so dreams that connect you with such relatives have risen to the fore, so to speak. [...]
[...] Those involved, such as family, will have acquiesced to the situation “earlier.” Often, particularly in the case of mental or physical birth defects, the incapacitated person will be accepting that role not only because of personal reasons; he or she will also be choosing that part for the family as a whole.
Many ordinary illnesses also involve the family group to some degree. [...] The group situation will encompass an acquiescence on the part of other family members.
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. [...]
[...] The family was not rich by any means. The maid was a relative of Throckmorton’s. In the beginning she worked for the family to save a decent dowry. [...]
[...] The relative who is now your mother’s niece contributed to some degree to the unrest in the previous family as it existed in England. The young relative was very jealous of the older daughter for her position in the family, and for the dowry which was hers.
Her clothes were hand-me-downs from the daughter of the family, and since the maid was quite a few years younger than the daughter the clothes fit her poorly. [...] This time the present personality of the maid tries to make up for the jealousy, and for many quarrels that she initiated secretly between Throckmorton and his daughter, by malicious tattling and playing one member of the family against the other. [...]
(That concentration upon places to live reminded us of families, of course — “regular” families as well as Seth’s families of consciousness. [...] She laughed, then added: “As families of people have their genealogies, so do families of events.”4
The psyche as you know it, then, is composed of a mixture of these families of consciousness. [...] (Pause.) A book would be needed to explain the dimensions of the psyche in relation to the different families of consciousness. [...] I am alert to the fact that I am using many terms, and that it may seem difficult to understand the differences between probable and reincarnational selves, counterparts and families of consciousness. [...]
[...] To one extent or another, each family of consciousness carries within it the characteristics inherent in all of the families. [...]
[...] His family was large and scattered. [...] But they were very free in their own way, and your father’s family never forgave them for this freedom.
When we have a suitable period of time it would be most beneficial for us to discuss the various members of your present family, Joseph, in connection with their past experiences.
The house the Butts family had occupied at that time is situated just around the corner, a block away — almost visible from the front porch of the Markle place. (Later I found several old photographs of it in one of our family albums, and was reminded that in those days the streets had no curbs.) Even today I can recall most of the families, and their children, who’d lived in the immediate area. [...]
[...] The driveway is shared with a very wealthy family next door, in which the same size house is a home to one family. [...]
[...] My family lived in the neighborhood Seth describes from 1922 (when I was 3 years old) to 1931 (when I was 12), then moved to the opposite end of town. [...] They bought the “new” house, however, and it remained in the family until 1972 — a year after my father’s death, a year before my mother was to die.
A house in town reminds you each of family living, and you of your neighborhood. [...] They remind you of the noises in your family home, conflicting and yet comforting. [...]
[...] You have always seen family life yourself as a threat to artistic production, and the first thing you would do if you had a house would be to build a studio outside of it. [...]
[...] We soon became acquainted with him and his family on a very casual basis, since the back of his property abuts the west yard of the apartment house. [...] The family still lives there.
The hill house neighborhood is composed of a rather beneficial balance: No particular family of consciousness predominates. [...]
[...] The mixture of families of consciousness allows you also to take a close look at the ways in which these tendencies merge to form communities. [...]
(“It is the name of your family. It has always been the name of your family, and there are many families. I am telling you your family name, and you are learning of your heritage. [...]
(We have no idea to whom Seth might refer when he tells us that another member of the family from the west coast might soon join Del, Mattie and Dorothy. [...] out there whom we haven’t met, so there is still evidently quite a family group extant.
Dorothy is also there, and another member of the family from the west coast (California) will shortly join them. [...]
Oftentimes members of various groups — military groups, church groups, hunting groups, will in another life form family relationships in which they will then work out old problems in new ways. Families must be considered as gestalts of psychic activity; they have a subjective identity, of which no particular member of the group may be aware.
Families have subconscious purposes, though the individual members of the family may pursue these goals without conscious awareness. [...]
The inner self is always aware of the hidden mechanisms of these family gestalts. [...] New relationships are always encouraged however, for you can have ingrown reincarnational “families.” [...]
[...] Episode in 6th grade very important… very important year… See 5 years or number 5…I do not understand… A complete change of opinion in family group that did not work to your advantage… Perhaps 1947 or 1943…a disturbance…a connection with another child…initial F & perhaps M…something on an occasion beneath pine trees…& water… CM (?) the M. in Greenwich…1937 or 1938, another child, a male….
(She did want to keep it—but pressure by family—agencies—she gave it for adoption February.
(Although a friend of family died there—
[...] In his own family he made sure that the male domain, the study, was separate from the family rooms, not to be shared. [...]
[...] Ruburt is working with the nature of impulses, and old ideas about impulses, spontaneity and discipline rose to mind, for the family situation of your brother and his wife almost typifies the kind of situation that Ruburt was determined to avoid. [...]
You did not want families, so your emotional ties with your mates were to be strong. In families several members at various times serve to objectify the whole family’s particular attitudes in a given area.
As mentioned today, he felt they served you, helped you save face in your family, and in society at large. [...]
[...] In the family to which he has always been sensitive he believed his success put you down, particularly with your mother and Loren. [...]
[...] Some youngsters are so overly provided for by their families that it seems that there is no way for them to achieve any more than they have.
[...] On the other hand, some upper-middle-class families stress competition to such a degree that it seems to the children that they are only valued for their achievements, rather than being loved for simply being the people they are.
Would-be suicides, for all their secrecy, usually do mention the subject to a friend, relative, or close family member. [...]
[...] When I returned I saw that a family of five people — parents and three young children — were in the car, and ready to drive away. The obnoxious dealer told me that he’d sold the car to the family, and had set aside an identical green car for me.
[...] A circle of reaction has formed about the family therefore, that so far is self-perpetuating. [...] It is simply that the family has become weary, but the circle of reaction must be broken.
The two books that Ruburt usually suggests are definitely recommended, and should be seriously followed as far as the family is concerned. [...]