“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The coming taxes are involved—but only because they serve as a springboard—as your family visit did—the springboard that rearouses feelings of disapproval. [...]

[...] See the deleted session for June 1. Then on August 12, Bill, Loren and families visited us. [...]

[...] It is understandable enough, in your society, that you have certain feelings resulting from society’s insistence that the male in any family must be the main, primary, and clear-cut breadwinner, no matter what the cost. [...]

[...] The fetus, however, will also react to the death of an animal in the family, and will be acquainted with the unconscious psychic relationships within the family long before it reaches the sixth month.

The plants in a house are also quite aware of the growing fetus; the plants will also pick up the fact that a member of the family is ill, often in advance of physical symptoms. [...]

[...] Often there are complicated family relationships that the person does not know how to handle. [...]

[...] It would relieve the minds of families and friends, however, if they understood that the individual involved did not “fall prey” to the disease, and that he or she was not a victim in usual terms.

[...] There is also the overall picture, for each family member plays a certain part in the reality of every other member.

Your family to Ruburt was one of society trying to make you toe the mark, hence his often exaggerated reactions. As you know, spontaneously Ruburt would state your position to your family as a symbolic statement to the world at large for those reasons.

[...] You feared losing status in your family’s eyes by casting yourself completely aside into areas alien to them. [...]

[...] Beside Ruburt’s “natural leaning” (in quotes) characteristic dislike of families then, there was the “outsiders” argument, and you were often put in the middle.

[...] It was obviously one born from your basic creative natures—a challenge rather than a problem, but one that was interwoven with all kinds of social and economic and family connotations.

Either way the ideas of reality are reinforced both consciously and unconsciously, not only within the family but among all those with whom the family comes in contact.

[...] A family can constantly reinforce its joy (louder), gaiety, and spontaneity by concentrating on ideas of vitality, strength and creativity; or it can let half of its energy slip away (deeper) by reinforcing resentments, angers and thoughts of doubt and failure.

[...] A person holding it will not trust a mate, family, friends, colleagues, country, or the world in general.

[...] Instead he or she may emotionally feel that life has no meaning, that individual action is meaningless, that death is annihilation; and connected to this will be a conglomeration of subsidiary beliefs that deeply affect the family involved, and all those with whom such a person comes in contact.

(Long pause.) Animals massage each other, and also use touch healing, and these activities represent the natural characteristics available in the “animal family,” as well as occurring naturally in the family of man. [...]

(Pause at 9:15.) It is quite healthy, particularly at certain stages, for young children to sleep together in the same room or even in the same bed, as long as some opportunity for seclusion is provided to them when they want it—for at night the ancient families did indeed refresh and heal themselves. [...] That is, the suffering person, to whatever degree, already mistrusts or distrusts the nature of his own abilities, but usually can and will accept such a loving attention from another family member, or even from a friend. [...]

[...] Now after everyone had gone—Dick and family stayed until about 8 PM—I felt poorly indeed. [...]

(In fact, I’d been bothered more and more in recent days—ever since, I thought, the family get-together had been suggested by Betts a couple of weeks ago. [...]

(Today as the family members talked and took photographs and watched television and ate. [...]

[...] A land in which things must be judged thus-and-so, a land in which people disappear as much as possible into established family and social roles, where the lines are clearly marked. [...]

There are biological families. There are also all kinds of other groups which are not necessarily family substitutes, but different kinds of families. [...]

[...] The tenants at 458 at one time formed a kind of family, and to some extent that relationship continues, as far as the two of you are concerned, with Ann and Leonard. You remember past tenants together as people recall distant or dead family members. [...]

In Turkey you dealt with an order rather than a family—a tribal order, so to speak, with males predominating. [...]

In this life Ruburt chose poverty as a background, a mother who was not physically fit, a broken family. [...]

[...] All of us went through grade school and high school in Sayre, a railroad town in northeastern Pennsylvania: Our father settled his family there in 1923 when he opened an auto-repair and battery shop. The separations in the family began to happen after Linden and I graduated from high school, left Sayre, and started to work our respective ways through college and an art school. [...]

Seth has discussed the members of the Butts family at times, including some of their reincarnational aspects. [...] There is always a reason, and so each parent will represent to each child an unspeakable symbol, and often the two parents will represent glaring contrasts and different probabilities, so that the child can compare and contrast divergent realities … Your two brothers also chose the family situation. [...]

(The photograph of me, taken and dated by my father [Robert Sr.], has been kept in one of the Butts family albums for 53 years. [...]

[...] He gets from you what feeling of creaturehood acceptance he has, that you received in your way from your family in early years.

[...] This puzzled Jane because she said she had such a positive impression of a woman in some such capacity, connected with John’s family. [...] We have never met any of his family—wife, children, other relatives, etc.

[...] The impression I have is strongly of a woman connected with the family. [...] A longtime family connection, and a message having to do with plans or a change of plan.

[...] She is strongly connected with the family. [...]

The time, simply, was right for the information to come through because two members had lost members of their own—family. They were ready, therefore, to learn of their greater family; and for various reasons, personal reasons, having to do with both class members. [...] There is a family who loves him after all! [...]

[...] They are far closer in your terms because of their natural affinity than they are, for example, sometimes even to other portions of their own entity, as you might be closer to a strong friend than you are to certain members of your own family, though they may be of your own blood. [...] These are true families.

[...] had been going through my head, and I had the idea that it was related to these “families”. “I wonder what some other family names are,” I remarked. [...]

[...] Because of the circumstances, however, and the two family deaths, the information was available, and used to remind all the class members of the different kind of familyship, a different kind of endeavor, and to offer a different kind of assurance and bonds that are not destroyed in your terms by any amount of reincarnation or any amount of time you use them.

(Seth was giving general reincarnational data on my family and on Jane’s as early as the 9th session, while avoiding such things as times of death, etc. [...] Seth began to be more specific on family reincarnational data when he told Jane and me in a very early session that neither of us would be born again on the physical plane; this, he said, accounted for our lack of children and the desire for them. [...]

[...] The test object was a ball-point pen drawing of a dog; my four-year-old nephew made it while my brother Bill’s family and Jane and I visited my parents last Sunday. [...]

Your own attitudes toward the family have changed considerably, and have become more tolerant since our sessions. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Another situation involving a young man and a family connection. [...]

(The connection between the envelope object and the death-in-the-family reference is, simply, that the object was picked off the sidewalk beside the home of my Aunt Mabel, and that Aunt Mabel, Jane and I attended the funeral of the family member. [...]

[...] A distant connection here with a death in the family involved.” The death in the family reference here could mean only Aunt Ella, which led us to Aunt Mabel and her home, near where we obtained the envelope object. [...]

[...] A distant connection here with a death in the family involved.

[...] Thus the most recent time that Jane had a chance to speak at length to Aunt Mabel involved the funeral of a member of the Butts family. [...]

Now in the 14th century in what is now called Spain there was a family unit and this was the father (Lawrence) and this was the wife (Ron) and this was the child (Mark) and they have met, in your terms, after many years. Now I think that you should all celebrate their family reunion. [...]

You left your family group. He left his family group before you. [...]

(The class did a Mu then Sumari came through with another message for the family, then Seth came through again.)

[...] While there was a past family connection, you were not the closest of friends, and there was no need or desire on either of your parts for a family connection of any duration in this life.

[...] You were from a side of the family with French connections and at that time flighty, easily upset, with some ability as a musician in piano, but without the discipline or drive to use the ability,

There is within the family a general realization of the experiences of its members, but these are second-handed, except for those experiences which the family shares as a unit. [...]

[...] In this particular instance, compare the various portions of the self to the various members of a family.

[...] There is no reason why any of the children could not spend his day at the office with the father of the family, basically speaking, but he would not be able to understand or perceive many of the events that occurred there.

[...] There are few of these, but they are extremely vivid, and serve as the family’s joint experiences serve to reinforce the identity of the whole psychological structure.

[...] Children were a necessary part of the family, for a family was a band of people who belonged together, cooperating in the search for food and shelter.

[...] There may be minor interweaving ones, but the nature of personality, religion, politics, the family, and the arts — all of these are considered in the light of the predominating theme.

[...] Family relationships become a mirror of those beliefs, which are then of course taken as statements of fact concerning the human condition. [...]

[...] They and the land seemed one, sharing the present seasons, the daily work—but more than that, their fathers and their forefathers and usually many past generations of given families came from the same area. People lived in houses shared by their elders that had earlier been shared by their elders backward through family lines, so that daily experience and family incident was not nearly as restrained to the present in your terms. [...]

[...] Some of the soldiers themselves had been recruited from such areas, leaving their families behind, and the old men to do the work. [...]

They are recognizable, though as members of a family often emphasize their own individuality rather than family likenesses, so can the Sumari. [...]

[...] You have certain characteristics, in simple terms, as a family might have certain characteristics, or the members of a nation.

[...] A family tyrant, for example, may have no physical symptoms at all, yet be quite obsessed with controlling the family members, stuffing the household with regulations, limiting the family’s freedom, or whatever. [...]