“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You chose your environments, your interests, your families, friends, and associates forming bit by bit the details that would become the pictures of your lives.

[...] To mix your purposes with the conventional family life would have been most difficult, so you chose situations that left you free until you met—that is, of property, children, or important ties.

[...] Both of you decided that you would have no children, not only because this fit in with the first goal, but because the energy connected with family life would go into your creative productions, would be saved and available when you began to embark upon the psychic work for which you had also planned.

The magnetism is both from past life experiences, and set up ahead of time in this life, so that the both of you would be drawn together and held together, despite the fact of no personal family, no children as a common interest.

[...] But he also chose to divest himself of any distracting family references in later life, as far as his own parents were concerned.

You have however unknowingly an unconscious supportive relationship simply as a result of the identity of your family. [...]

On the other hand, Joe B may find himself in the middle of a family picnic, or other gathering — events that bore and displease him — or worse, he may not even remember his family at all. [...]

On topside Joe A may go to church frequently, be kind and considerate to his family, and, say, come home from work every night for supper. [...]

[...] This underestimation of your own worth leads you to place an overemphasis upon your financial worth to your family. [...] This is a high simplification, but you feel that your value as a person and as a man in the family situation is determined not only by your ability to provide, but increases in proportion to your financial status.

The family all knew, subconsciously again, that the dog had to go. [...]

Each member of the family picked this up. [...]

[...] You feared,and do,that changing your job would deny your family.

[...] Counterparts can be better related to physical families, for you might well have four or five counterparts alive in one century, as you might have four or five family members spanning the same amount of time. [...]

[...] You accept the fact that there are biological connections in terms of family, country, and race, between yourselves and the other individuals on your planet. [...]

[...] So this hypothetical greater identity also chooses to be born in different time periods, historically speaking; and the same pattern appears in which counterparts are born as individuals, each biologically and spiritually connected, but with great intertwinings and variations, as with a physical family tree.

[...] You are closer to some family members than others, and you are closer to some counterparts than others.

Mark’s whole family, in fact, have been in one way or another connected in a rather unusual manner through at least three successive existences, and the family of course has interchanged roles accordingly. [...]

There is also another member of this particular family who is presently a woman, and there is also another member who is presently a man. Neither of these two were intimately connected with Mark’s family for the past two lives, and represent the only exception.

Mark’s present family is composed of a peculiarly vivid meshwork of previous complications. [...]

The complications latent in family relationships are always dynamic and everchanging. [...]

[...] All of this applied to your family situations. The more you each developed your individual abilities, the less you fit the sexual stereotypes to which your family (to me) in particular believed in so firmly. [...]

To be a good male in that family’s eyes, it seemed you had to be the less an artist or the less a thinker. [...]

[...] Ruburt tried in the family to express independence, to show that he was (underlined) a writer, and at the same time he tried to express dependence, to show that he was a good wife, and this applied to many social relationships as well. [...]

Some families come together in a particular life not because of great attraction or love in a past existence, but for the opposite reason. Families may be composed, then, of individuals who disliked each other in the past and come together in a close relationship where they are to work together toward a common goal, learn to understand each other better, and work out problems in a different kind of context.

[...] Some families are literally reincarnations of their ancestors, but this is not the general case by any means. [...]

[...] The telegram may or may not be received by you, but having to do with family, yours or Ruburt’s, I am not sure. Or it will be received by one of your family or Ruburt’s. (Pause.)

[...] There is a bitterness picked up from your family, working here. [...]

[...] In it Seth mentioned developments to come within John’s family, involving his mother particularly. [...] It involved a peculiar heavy sense of premonition of some kind, as of us personally, or our families, but might be related to John’s family. [...]

[...] This family has been involved with travel, and at the moment lives west of us, in Ohio. John said there is a tie-in here with some earlier material given by Seth concerning family travel and Hawaii. [...]

(“A family interaction with this Tom and perhaps your father. [...] the family situation.”

(A few impressions that were particularly apt were September 1943, the Detroit connection, the spikes-for-hair, the lawsuit type of trouble, the family situation similarity, and the profanity. [...]

[...] The person then feels lethargic and out of touch with work or family.

Many men look forward to having sons, while at the same time they revere marriage as a necessary part of respectable family life, and also feel that marriage is somehow degrading — particularly to a male — and that the sex act itself is only justified if it brings him an heir.

[...] Miranda Charbeau, from a French side of the family, who married into an English branch, into the Franklin Bacon family of Boston. [...]

[...] The family name, the town and the cathedral name are the same. [...]

[...] It might also be of interest to note that the younger man—with wife, whom none of us met—knew in Mansfield of the Jupenlasz family. [...] In vivid memory is a picture of her attempting to get out of the family car in front of 704 N. Wilbur Avenue, in Sayre, after Fred had driven the family over to see my parents for a visit—probably on a Sunday.

[...] Then she said excitedly, “Seth said that a Miranda Charbeau from the French side of my family in that past life married into the Franklin Bacon family of Boston. Again, it’s crazy, it really is, because my family this time is connected with the Roger Bacon family from Boston.”

[...] The family name, the town, and the name of the cathedral are the same.”

[...] No one in my family ever died of diphtheria.”

[...] He gave Frank’s name in a past life as Achman incidentally, and much later Doris learned that his present family has an Achman branch.

[...] It dealt only with personal material regarding Marian and her family, with some reincarnational data added.

[...] There has been much complicated switching of roles and sex among the family members. [...]

2. Sumari is a “family of consciousness” that Jane first contacted in ESP class for November 23, 1971. [...] (And, I can write later, Seth expands his family-of-consciousness material considerably in Session 732, Section 6, Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality.)

[...] During break Jane said she believed it referred to a brother of Maxine’s. The brother is the same approximate age as Jane, and lived in upstate New York near Saratoga; hence Jane got to know the members of Maxine’s family fairly well even though she seldom saw Maxine herself. Jane said she liked the brother quite well; he is the member of Maxine’s family who made an impression on her.

A family situation also. [...]

The boy referred to the only member of the woman’s family that made an impression on Ruburt. [...]

[...] There was the Laverne family, and De Nauge, and the Breims. [...] Families that could had a cow. [...]

[...] They usually had 4 horses on the stage, sometimes 6. And sometimes they used only 2. Just families traveled on the stage. [...]

[...] Sometimes a family would have a son go away to learn to write. [...]

(The new family is large. [...]

(The men in the family are dark-complected, handsome men, olive skin. [...]