“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] He thought ahead of time that the size of the large window would more than compensate, but he carries some of his grandfather’s old ideas that the wind should be able to blow through a room so he has been uncomfortable there. [...]

(As we talked, something triggered Jane’s memory of a time in her teens when she’d hiked all the way out to the garage where her grandfather had worked in Saratoga Springs — “way across town.” [...]

[...] Do remind him affectionately and often that for many years he loved his mother deeply, and that his own existence made his grandfather experience a love that was a light in his later years.

Jane felt psychically connected to her “Little Daddy” — Joseph Burdo, her maternal grandfather. [...]

(“Jane has been very curious to learn something about her grandfather. [...]

[...] Jane sensed her grandfather’s feeling of identification with the rest of nature however, and since she had not yet developed a strong ego personality as a young child she felt no sense of rejection as did, for example, the other members of the family. [...]

[...] She now displays in some instances her grandfather’s closed attitude toward people. [...]

[...] She said as far as she knew her grandfather and grandmother and others were buried in Saratoga, though we aren’t sure about her mother. [...]

[...] This also has a therapeutic symbolism for him in connection with his grandfather, that is the feeling that cleansing nature rids the air of impurities. [...]

[...] This has a connection with his grandfather that I will mention later.

[...] She could have made a pact ahead of time to “borrow” certain strong mystical qualities from her maternal grandfather, who was part French Canadian and part Canadian Indian (specific tribe unknown by us), and with whom she strongly identified as a child. [...]

[...] But it’s even possible that all together Marie, Jane, her grandfather, and I set up the original situation before the physical births of any of us—and in some probable reality (if not in this one) we did do just that! [...]

The grandfather was as rigid in his way as the grandmother. [...]

[...] Including one she wrote today involving her grandfather.

“The dream representing his grandfather symbolically allowed him to go back to the past in this life, to a time of severe shock—his grandfather’s death—which occurred when (Ruburt, at age 19) was beginning to substitute scientific belief for religious belief, wondering if his grandfather’s consciousness then fell back into a mindless state of being, into chaos, as science would certainly seem to suggest. In the dream his grandfather survives. His grandfather survived in a suit that was too large, which means that there was still room for him to grow. [...]

[...] The second dream concerned her strong reaction to the death of her maternal grandfather, Joseph Burdo: “Little Daddy,” as Jane had affectionately called him, died in 1948 in the family’s hometown of Saratoga Springs, New York.

[...] In that session Seth used her nightmare as the basis for a discussion of her life as a nun, mentioned her grandfather, and began the “sinful-self” material I referred to at the beginning of the notes for this 931st session. [...]

[...] The same applies to Ruburt’s background, mainly with his grandfather. [...]

[...] And if I do not sound like a nightingale, it may be said that I speak in tones not quite as bad as a grandfather frog.

[...] She realized today, while talking, that her grandfather had no love for women either. [...]

[...] The physical resemblance between my father and grandfather is striking. [...]

[...] And it seemed in the beginning that science delivered, for the world was changed from candlelight to electric light to neon in the flicker of an eye, and a man could travel in hours distances that to his father or grandfather took days on end.

“There was a fountain with an apple on it—do you remember?” (Long pause.) Something about a missal or prayer book, with dates, black, and a connection with a grandfather.

Eventually Jane’s grandfather, Joseph Burdo, with whom she shared a deep mystical identification, was unable to support two extra people, and the family had to rely upon public assistance. [...] The next year, her grandfather moved out of the house. [...]

[...] After a while we substituted for the ring a Spanish-American military insignia, of brass, that Jane’s grandfather had secured from his brother. [...]