“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Many dogs enjoy being family protectors. [...] The animals on a farm are emotionally aware of the overall psychological content of the farmer’s life and [that of each member of] his family….

[...] The rhythmic, almost harsh sounds of the insects were strongly reminiscent of the long camping seasons my father had treated his family to many years ago. [...]

(Pause.) It is somewhat fashionable to see man as always nature’s despoiler, as the destructive member of nature’s family, or even to consider him apart from nature, who was given nature as his living grounds.

[...] And work out the relationship that exists in your immediate families. [...]

[...] That part of us exists apart from our concerns about careers or business, money, fame, the opinion of family, friends, or the world. [...]

[...] I comment now and then about photographs that belong to the Butts family [including Jane Roberts], yet any reader can look at old photographs and ask the same questions, applying what is said here to private experience. [...]

[...] You saw your family as a small sample of the world’s peoples, and their interrelationships with each other, and with the neighborhood, as representative of most people’s relationship with the world. [...] That part of you existed quite intimately in your thoughts, while at the same time you found it difficult to communicate with the family [members] generally, and you were struck by the great gap of communication that seemingly existed between the most related people.

[...] Five of these people were my brother Dick and his family, including three children, from Rochester, NY. [...]

[...] See the five and gathering data on page 289, concerning my brother Dick and his family. [...]

[...] At the same time, you recognized that John’s job as a waiter also involved him with nourishment—that is, physically and symbolically—and the dream was simply restating the fact that the intuitive faculties, often considered solely female, actually involved those qualities of creativity and emotion that held family units together. [...]

[...] Jane plans to inform him that he and his family are doing much better than they know.

[...] I will say more about this later in the book, but it explains for example why a diet-watcher, suddenly determined to lose weight, may meet with veiled or even open resistance from family or friends; why the person who makes new resolutions may find himself baffled by associates’ ridicule; why the alcoholic trying not to drink finds others tempting him quite openly, or teasing him into indulgence by hidden tactics.

[...] After the husband’s death the second wife went to California to live with her stepson and his family. [...]

[...] The comfort of social discourse represents one of the great building blocks of families and civilizations. [...]

Now I do not mind your chasing the cat (Seth’s voice was suddenly loud; I had taken a swipe at our cat Willy with my notepaper, when he was about to jump up into Jane’s lap), but chasing my foot is another matter… this energy is then picked up by the families of the students, and their lives indirectly benefited.

[...] Seth doubted John would make the move, because of his desire for security for his family, and because of his need for cosmopolitan outlets. [...]

[...] It may seem to you that you are quite justified in protecting yourself and your family from disaster. [...]

[...] You have at the very least a very large extended family, people whose lives you have touched for the better. [...]

[...] First of all you deeply feared that in rearranging her house she was merely playing with surface arrangements, and would not touch the deeper dilemmas of the family.

The old desk in your family, you see (Jane pointed to me), although the spatial relationships there are difficult. [...]

[...] There are also other portraits that you will do involving your family at that time. [...]

[...] People are forced to look beyond their own families, cities, and even countries, to that clearly illuminated arena of the world.

[...] We hadn’t even told our families.) In the middle of that innocuous evening, Rob suddenly had three experiences that were quite startling at the time and rather frightening. [...]

[...] Miss C’s family (nieces and nephews) finally said they would take the patient to the emergency room at the hospital; her doctor told Jane he would be waiting for her there. [...]