“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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

[...] My mother’s family is here also. [...] My mother and her sister are in there, talking. [...] My mother begins to cry. [...]

Nor is it any accident that those certain people come to the sessions, the ones who did come, just as it is no accident that Philip's mother is also a bed-ridden arthritic, just as Ruburt’s mother is.

[...] He is and has been terrified of making decisions where you are involved, because he feels you so resented your mother’s treatment of your father.

Your mother’s home would not have served your purposes, yours or Ruburt’s. I tell you that so that you realize you did not make a mistake.

[...] (The new threats being the death of my mother; our freedom to travel, now that we have finished Personal Reality; the absence from home and the interruption of routine, etc., as we talked about tonight.) Reading our book however kept some improvements alive, and it was but a matter of time before he would read again the sessions of work that I gave him (as Jane did today). [...]

[...] You equate emotionalism with your mother. [...]

[...] It implied instead caution against the possibility of conflict with your friend’s mother, and this could easily have occurred, to no good result in the long run.

[...] It is almost necessary that he realize the way his mother is dominating him, and understand his own dependence. [...]

A mother who says to her child, “I gave up my life for you,” is speaking nonsense. In basic terms such a mother believes, no matter what she says, that she did not have that much to give up, and the “giving up” gave her a life that she wanted.

[...] You can begin of course by free associating with any appropriate subject — his mother, his father, your relationship, your individual or joint sexual feelings, his ideas about his psychic material, his writing, or whatever — and I will also provide guidelines.

[...] Previous sister is now his mother. [...]

For example: Many of you believe in the basis of Freudian psychology — that the son naturally wants to displace the father in his mother’s attentions, and that beneath the son’s love for his father, there rages the murderous intent to kill. [...]

(Strange as it may seem—or perhaps not so strangely after all—I remember my mother giving me this negative suggestion quite clearly. [...] When we happened to mention to my parents that we had taken it, my mother was rather emphatic in emphasizing the dangers in taking “such things; you might get polio,” etc.

A negative suggestion given you by your mother allowed you to activate it. [...]

[...] I also thought the data was mixed up with the planned visit of my parents to the apartment for Easter Sunday, April 10, and a very short reminder my mother had written in connection with this.

[...] While giving the data Jane had the idea of my mother as being connected with the color red, but did not give voice to this because she believed it was incorrect. [...]

[...] Three females and two males did the attending: My mother; David’s mother Ida; Ann Crosby; David’s father Dick; and my father.

Now: Ruburt should remind himself that he has good blood—thus negating his mother’s statement that his father had poor blood—

[...] In the dream also were an Oriental-looking mother, not too old, with a nice-looking daughter who had beautiful slanting eyes and a very quiet demeanor. [...]

[...] She’d had it for perhaps six weeks—since, I thought, we had visited my mother and brother in Rochester, NY. [...]

[...] The mother left them early, the father a few years later. [...]

(In the dream she was in a bathtub, without water, talking to her mother whom she could not see. [...]

(Long pause.) He grew up of course with many responsibilities in connection with the care of his mother. [...]

[...] Seth had discussed her father’s laxness, and her mother’s drive toward purpose, power, and control, and how Jane had felt that she must make a choice between the two modes of behavior. [...]