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When he was in kindergarten his mother was just becoming ill. [...] He is not his mother. [...]

[...] One point I want to mention: Ruburt’s mother tried to escape poverty through the calculated unrelenting use of her beauty, and it did not work. [...] Ruburt’s brains however gave him much more leeway than his mother’s beauty gave her, and his intellect came with a counterpart—an intuitional and psychic counterpart that enriched it and kept it from becoming bitter or even ingrown.

[...] [The postcard used as object for the session showed Mother Goose.] The Ali Baba display was quite impressive, Barbara said; so much so that she took a picture of Gary, her sister’s young son, in one of the large jars or vases belonging to Ali Baba.

He learned restraint in this direction with his mother, and all kinds of automatic muscular tensions were then learned to inhibit the expression of fear of anger. [...]

An example was the Sunday at your mother’s, when he was afraid of the cramp in the leg, which did not come in the way that he feared.

He was afraid not only of his own emotions, but terrified of his mother’s emotions. [...]

(During the session Seth gave an accurate psychological account of Bill Gallagher’s mother, according to Bill. [...] Bill has told us very little about her, other than that she was an arthritic cripple like Jane’s mother is. [...] Seth stated that his mother “was fascinated by numbers,” loved the color blue, and was inordinately fond of flowers. After the session Bill Gallagher told us his mother had been a bookkeeper, was buried wearing a blue dress—blue was her favorite color—and that she was indeed very fond of flowers.)

[...] I attempted to give several definite characteristics that would serve to identify your Jesuit’s mother, and I believe that we succeeded.

[...] I have been a young man, a young girl, a mother, a father, a son. [...]

[...] There was no awareness of this on the part of your mother, but the difficulty in her own condition partially caused it, a low blood count and circulatory difficulty in her own condition. [...]

[...] But when he relates to the world at large, his first unfortunate reaction is a panic that is derived from psychological and emotional heritage, environmental as he picked up his mother’s distrust of the outside.

[...] As you well know, he lived in close supervision with his mother, and until his late, very late adolescence his whole life was literally spent within the confines of fifteen blocks, except for very short excursions.

He was certainly encouraged, and by his mother, to pursue the ways of inward intellectual freedoms, up to a point; but he was early inculcated with the expectation that the outside world meant danger at the least, and tragedy more probably.

[...] The same applies to your feelings, until very lately, concerning your mother and the photographs. Here you had your feelings that photographs of the family would disclose a practical actuality far less than, for example, your mother’s ideal image of herself. [...]

Ruburt’s connections the other evening concerning your mother were correct. [...]

I would suggest also, if you will forgive me perhaps, a completely natural fear of incestuous relationship with your mother. [...]

This expectation of yours, this fear of making money, is a strong element in your psychological makeup, and beside the reasons already given, there is a subconscious need to punish your mother. [...]

[...] This is also quite important, and your mother knows this. [...]

[...] This is a highly ridiculous notion, caused by an infantile interpretation of events in his grandfather’s life, and also by the fear that his mother would steal him blind of anything that he possesses.

(Later, I was watching Jane and my mother. Jane was to my left, Mother to my right. [...] Pointing to the drawing, Mother asked Jane: “Did you do this?” “Yes,” Jane said. Mother then said, “It’s not framed very well. [...]

[...] The new human being is obviously not either the father or the mother, and yet is obviously a construction formed by each from physical matter belonging to each.

[...] They were friends of my mother but strangers to me and I thought that maybe they had read the ESP book.

[...] Miss Price was to some extent a substitute mother image indeed, and a rather dangerous one potentially, in any case, because of the confusion in sex identity. [...]

[...] On the other hand she viewed Ruburt as the daughter she would never have, while Ruburt viewed her as the mother she wished for.

[...] These symptoms, and Blanche, as well as Jane’s mother and other contributing factors, are also discussed thoroughly in the next session.

He will help you and he will also help his mother. On one occasion the mother and the son were brothers, and in friendly rivalry; and that rivalry to some extent still lingered, but it was a rivalry that was built upon love. [...]

[...] He wanted his mother to look inward. [...]

[...] literally he deprived himself of blood so that he could live on his own terms, and so that the mother and father could live in ways that they have forgotten. [...]

In two probable realities, your mother, for example, did not have children. [...]

In some probable systems, you and your mother would both exist, do both exist, but as complete strangers, you see. [...]

(She wasn’t too clear as to what she was panicky about, but as we talked I began to understand that she was re-experiencing the same round of fears that she had many times in the past, and that many of these private sessions have been devoted to over the years: her mother, her need for love, her fears of abandonment, the conflicts involving success and the psychic work, our relationship, and so forth, if anything’s left. [...]

[...] The panic has to do with many issues involving Ruburt’s earlier experience, particularly with his mother and the church when he was a very young person, very determined to survive in life, and trying to learn what kinds of behavior added to or threatened that survival. [...]

Some of this will appear quite clearly later, that is, certainly Ruburt felt (underlined) at times that his mother hated him. [...]

[...] It was the fear of death — not chosen, of course — the fear that if he did not deliver, work hard, and pay his mother back for a life magically given, grudgingly given, then in a magical equation she, the mother, could take it back. But the mother did not give the life. [...]

[...] “Maybe Seth will talk about our own things instead of giving dictation — your material on your father [which I received this past Sunday evening], or what you got on your mother this afternoon. Or maybe he’ll talk about what I got on your mother the other day, or my strands-of-consciousness stuff for Psychic Politics.”

(11:35.) Give us a moment … Not dictation: All of this should help you understand your own experience involving your father — and the later one with your mother; and, separately, Ruburt’s with your mother, for [Stella Butts] was sending out strands of consciousness in the directions that interest her.

At 11:35 tonight Seth briefly referred to my second recent psychic experience, and to Jane’s. Both involved more “conventional” ideas, and both involved perception of my deceased mother in her own nonphysical state. [...]

[...] This at once led her to feeling that as a child it had been vital that she avoid the disapproval of others — her mother, Marie, especially. [...] Marie used to tell Jane it was her fault the mother was sick, and that it was also her fault that Jane’s grandmother died, and the housekeeper. [...]

[...] You must be a mother and a father. You must have reincarnations in which you are a mother and a father. [...]

[...] Jane Roberts’s husband, Robert Butts, wondered about the death of his mother (on November 19, 1973). In a session (the 679th for February 4, 1974) he brought out some old photographs. [...]

[...] I used the opportunity, then, to explain the great freedom available to Robert Butts’s mother after death — but also to explain those elements of her reality present during life that had been closed to him consciously because of mankind’s concepts about the nature of the psyche. [...]