“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] So the families of consciousness operate at adjacent angles, and each family teaches the other family something.

[...] Now Seth diverged to give perhaps a page of data on the family of consciousness that Sue Watkins came up with in 1971 or ‘72. [...]

[...] The families do not exist in isolation.

[...] You did not have a strong drive to have a family. [...] You felt that a family life would automatically plunge you into the kind of living that would not allow you such luxury. [...]

[...] He knew he didn’t want a family. [...]

You considered yourself not impulsive, yet it is you who wrote “Make me a galaxy, Jane,” took up with Ruburt after a very brief acquaintanceship, and brought him home to your startled family.

(I told her about Joe Bumbalo’s obituary notice that I’d found in yesterday’s paper, and that after I left 330 tonight I’d stop at the funeral home to see Joe and the family. [...]

[...] She also felt instances of the panic, though, having to do with her mother and family events, and we talked those out.

[...] To Jane this had seemed like a second divorce in the family. [...]

I told you in our last session that one member of a family could accept the symptoms for the whole family. [...]

[...] Ruburt is acting out your situation as a family and as a unit. [...]

(The session came about because Ron B. and his wife, Grace, members of ESP class, requested help with a problem involving their family. [...] The term “Speaker,” as Seth uses it, was as unknown to Jane and me then as it was to Ron and his family.)

[...] It seems to me that in this life at least, Ron and I encountered each other in quite a strange way: almost of an age, we grew up in the same small town near Elmira many years ago; we knew of each other’s family — and yet we didn’t meet until 1970….

[...] Heterosexual love, as it is understood at least, gives you a family of parents and children — an important unit, about which other groups form. If only stereotyped ideas of female-male relationships operated, however, there would be no bond or stimulus great enough to forge one family to another. [...]

[...] Your beliefs lead you to suppose that a natural bisexuality would result in the death of the family, the destruction of morals, rampant sexual crimes, and the loss of sexual identity. [...]

[...] Heterosexuality, however, rests upon the bisexual basis, and (intently) without man’s bisexual nature, the larger frameworks of the family — the clan, tribe, government, civilization — would be impossible.

[...] The Gallaghers’ questions were of a more general nature usually; and many of them had to do with Bill’s family history. [...]

[...] Seth said this is a common occurrence in illnesses being passed about among a family group. [...]

(Bill’s mother tried to project her illness to other members of the family, as often happens also. [...]

The family was a very cooperative unit. [...] Families grouped together. [...]

[...] The family of the caveman was a far more “democratic” group than you suppose — men and women working side by side, children learning to hunt with both parents, women stopping to nurse a child along the way, the species standing apart from others because it was not ritualized in sexual behavior.

[...] This allowed the male to rest after prolonged hunting activity, and meant that no adult member of a family became over-exhausted. [...]

[...] Bill and Peggy share the cost of a cottage on Seneca Lake with other members of Peggy’s family, and had been taking steps to sell the cottage this fall. [...]

[...] It had to do with a king, and the death of a queen, and belonged to a royal family, though they never missed it.

(“Can you tell us the country of the royal family?”)

Now, dictation: So, therefore, can a family be so divided, and one member always appear as a hero and one the villain or the demon.

[...] In such cases what you usually have is a situation in which one child is acting out unfaced aggressive behavior for the whole family. [...]

[...] You cannot inhibit one without similarly affecting the other, so under such conditions the docile loving child is usually projecting and expressing the restrained love for the family as a whole. [...]

[...] In this particular instance, compare the various portions of the whole self to the various members of a family: The man may work in the city. [...] They are all members of the same family unit and operate out of the same house. [...]

“There is within the family a general realization of the experiences of its members, but these are secondhand except for those events shared by the family as a whole, as a unit. [...]

These probable personalities are further removed from us than our reincarnational selves, more like distant relations who bear a family resemblance. [...]

(I mentioned that it would be interesting to get from Seth sometime information about the counterpart—families of consciousness concepts as pertaining to other than human creatures. [...]

The atom, the molecule, the proton and neutron, the electrons, the quarks and other families of particles represent aspects of consciousness itself, which man then projects into the world of physics.

I have mentioned counterparts in a very gentle fashion, and families of consciousness, as these are related to mankind. [...]

[...] He was from a good family. [...]

(“Can you give us the family name?”)

[...] Part of the family had been from France. [...]

It is highly necessary then that his present course be maintained, expressing his emotions honestly to himself and to you; and examining them, if he prefers, afterward, then taking with you whatever steps are necessary in your family situation.

[...] They will be viewed in the light of the present, brought up because of your family’s dilemma, to the light of day.

[...] He sat on the family porch Sunday to escape the house as he did as a child in Saratoga. [...]

[...] The woman in the back over the garage, the whole family, is also involved. [...] Other members of the family live there some of the time. She wants a smaller place so the family cannot visit overnight. [...]

[...] However, the woman chose the time of her death, with the subconscious knowledge of the whole family.

[...] (Long pause.) The personalities involved in the family relationship have worked out many problems. [...]

[...] The family was due to leave Elmira because of a new job opportunity. [...]

[...] The complicated family situation involving Mother Butts isn’t gone into here, but Jane and I decided to include the more generalized parts of Seth’s information; we think it will help others in their relationships with old people.

Her very actions are serving as learning patterns for the entire family. [...]

(Long pause at 11:25.) Her feelings of independence are reincited, and will at last lead her to want to leave the family in general — not to cling to her “boys” (my two brothers and myself) — and they will also serve as an impetus to growth on her part not realized earlier.

Each person makes his or her own reality, again, but each family member also shares the reality of the others. Often, therefore, instances of unusual genetic differences may also serve to bring out qualities of understanding, sympathy, and empathy on the part of family members — and those qualities also are vital to human development. [...]

[...] They have been trapped by the boundaries of what science has so far accepted into its family: an ethnocentrically perfect “set” of beliefs, with metaphysical mysteries denied, avoided, or written out.

So far, metaphysics has only been entertainment, a step-science of our culture; part of the extended family of science for the purposes of inspiration and ideas, but not given credit as scientific truth. [...]

As I told you, you chose your families. You gave yourselves as adults situations with your families, mainly with yours, in which you had to relate on an entirely different level and in a different kind of role. [...] The family relationship therefore served and serves to give you a kind of contact, an enforced education, as it were, so that you can understand what goes on within such relationships.

[...] These concern your family.

[...] The family compromises began long ago, out of a misguided sense of sympathy, and now to some extent or another will continue. [...]