“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(“Did you expect my father to go back home?” I meant: what did Seth think of my father going back home to live under mother’s care, from the hospital, instead of going to a nursing home, as we had all thought quite possible.)

[...] (Pause.) When he goes to see your father he feels guilty because he is not seeing his mother, who is also in a home. He feels that your mother is gloating, having gotten rid of the father, and he is afraid of your family home for fear it might trap you both. [...]

[...] You were not afraid as much of negative emotions, briefly, because in your family your father found safety in negative emotions. [...]

[...] Part of this had to do with your father’s disappointment in business, and his (underlined) reaction to it.

(Monday’s session, due 6/22, was not held because Jane’s father was visiting us from California. [...] Jane’s father arrived last Saturday, and as early as Sunday morning Jane announced to me that there would be no session Monday night.

I might mention that Ruburt handled the situation with his father’s mistress in a much more intelligent fashion than he would have, if it were not for the insight he has gained as a result of these sessions.

[...] I told her that at lunch time John Bumbalo had called and said that his father wouldn’t be going home for a while: the doctor has found an infection in a lung. [...]

[...] The doctor who tended her was an old family friend, knew both the father and son, both doctors.)

[...] The doctor who tended her was an old family friend, knew both the father and son, both doctors.) Two brothers. [...]

[...] 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 would be no boundary to keep him out while letting the father enter, physically speaking. [...]

[...] Jane feels subjectively sure that here the meeting between us and her father, Del, and his third wife, is referred to. [...]

[...] Two men and two women were involved in the meeting referred to earlier: Jane’s father Del and myself, and Jane and Del’s wife. [...]

[...] In the back of your mind you thought of your mother and father, imprisoned in their house. [...]

[...] You have been somewhat hampered by your father’s overcautiousness and timidity. [...]

[...] Some of his attitudes have to do with his parents, in that he fears he could become like his father—undisciplined and slack, loose and amoral.

[...] He felt therefore that he caused your illness, that in a way you were punishing him for the frivolousness that made him suggest you leave a conventional background and your parents, and go with his father in Florida.

[...] Our cottage here is within a hundred yards of the spot where we camped with Jane’s father in the late 1950’s. I would say now, without checking with Seth, that any thought of nostalgia we might have derived from returning here would have been better ignored. [...]

[...] (Pause.) A father, a very old man, still living in a place that is foreign or far distant from the brothers. [...]

[...] Hidden within the sessions there is the splendid vitality of Father Trenton, his (Jane’s) mother, his neighbors and teachers — but beyond that the sessions connect and unite the annals of existence as he has experienced them, so that in speaking with my voice, and for me (quavering), he expresses the blessed vitality and acknowledgments of the universe, as even through the sessions the sweet universe acknowledges his own presence and being. [...]

In personal terms, he feared that his father abandoned him for that reason, that his mother disliked him for that reason, for each person will interpret the belief in his or her own life according to circumstances. [...]

[...] Are you actually saying that he feels that his mother and father both thought of him as evil—that now he thinks he’s that evil?”)

[...] A father of three children, one of whom later becomes a member of a parliament. [...]

[...] The man, I believe, was your father.

(The first was that her troubles began in Florida; that it was her fault we left Sayre to join her father in Florida, and that I had not wanted to leave my parents. [...] Her father was to help us out financially also, but did not do so.]

[...] Unfortunately, conscience as you think of it is an untrustworthy guide, speaking to you through the mouths of mothers and fathers, teachers and clergy — all perhaps from distant years, and each of whom had their own ideas of what was right and wrong for you and for humanity at large.

(Jane described her feelings and experiences at her father-in-law’s funeral. [...]

[...] You can only offer your father support, that is all you can do for him now and be acquiescent. [...]

[...] You picked up the idea of work but frowned upon certain aspects of creativity as not safe or profitable—as your father’s creative, inventive aspects did not produce financially in your family, and in terms of work did not pay off in social or family terms.

[...] You cannot keep up with me, but the correlations that exist, and the contrasts, between both of your fathers, are significant in how you handle your creativity.

(It might be mentioned here that quite a few sessions ago Seth dealt with a similar vivid experience of Marian’s, in which she received a message from the father of her husband; the father died perhaps a year ago. [...]