“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] They hired detectives to find each other—a clear-cut motive that seemingly had little to do with their own separate personal lives, their jobs, or their families. [...]

Quite hidden, all the habitual rituals of a family have deep psychological connotations. [...]

[...] We did not have cake for dessert at the family gathering on December 12 for instance.

(Jane said “a connection with an animal” is also valid, in that while she went for a walk during our December 12 visit to the family gathering in Sayre, she saw a dog, possibly a stray, that aroused in her a strong desire to own a dog. [...]

(“At the guest house where we stayed on St. Thomas a large dog, a family pet, was around most of the time. [...]

[...] Neither of us are acquainted with the other members of Peggy’s family, however, and at the time the 200th session was held neither Jane or I were consciously aware we had indeed met Peggy’s sister and her fiancé.)

[...] The great miracle, in fact, is that each consciousness, whatever its degree, is itself and no other, even while in the unending fields of interaction it may be a portion of another — as a city is part of a state, or an individual is part of a family.

[...] Behind me in the fireplace we heard once again the mysterious scratching or chucking or chirruping sounds we’ve become aware of lately, as though a family of animals or birds has young hatching our or growing in a nest on the other side of the closed damper. [...]

The church was quite real to Ruburt as a child, through the priests who came [to the house] regularly, through direct contact with the religious [grade] school, and the support offered to the family. [...]

(Sally W.: “How can I change my way of thinking to keep my family well, instead of making them sick?”)

[...] Let your mind, after that, follow through by imagining contacts involving family interactions reaching back through time prior to the taking of the photograph. [...]

Now in close marriages or those of long duration, there is a kind of superimposed family personality, a composite, to which each member contributes, and to which all members respond. [...]

An occasion at Philip’s home at about three o’clock in the afternoon, in connection with his family. [...]

(Nor could John pinpoint any three o’clock occasion in particular at his home, in connection with his family, or with a grievance.

[...] While each of you are egotistically focused within your own reality, the deeper layers of the self are aware of the quote “family” relationship. [...]

[...] Followers had been taught to act against their natural impulses with members of their families. [...]

1. In a simplified account: When I was a youngster my mother took me to see our family optometrist. [...]

In this life Ruburt knew his neighborhood as a child, and his feelings about people were not tempered by television programs showing normal families, or other ways of life. [...]

There was no normal (underlined) give and take in a family with siblings, where equals—children—could more or less safely express themselves between themselves.

[...] This applies not only to you two, but in many family situations.

([Gert:] “In the dream state, these strangers or associates, would we put on them a face that we would be able to relate to, say, a member of our family?”)

[...] Now theoretically, this center could be in the middle of your present living room, in physical space, but the distance between you and the members of your family still living — sitting perhaps, thinking of you or reading a paper — would have nothing to do with space as you know it. [...]

[...] They banded together in large family groups, again in need for protection. [...]

[...] In waking life you have the family that you recognize, or group of friends, or profession, or what have you. [...]