“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now: If you examine your feelings about parenthood in general, you will see that they bear an astonishing similarity to your feelings about your painting and our work. Only the focus is different. You are indeed both parents of an amazing body of work, and the psychic parents of innumerable people of all ages. You have set aside, however, the conventional idea of a family, as symbolized by your (car) dream of the other evening. You are actually exchanging one kind of a family for another, vaster concept, that also involves parenthood, however — but a psychic rather than a physical parenthood. The letters you receive are often like letters children write to their parents.

(4:35. “Will you say something about the feelings I’ve had about parenthood lately?”)

(Jane had ginger ale and a few puffs. “If you hadn’t asked, he was going to say something about your parenthood thing,” she said. We talked about how strange it was that no one had been in yet to take her blood pressure and pulse — not that it would have mattered if they weren’t taken. Resume at 4:40.)

[...] I wouldn’t mind Seth commenting on my own evolving views of parenthood sometime.

[...] A Planned Parenthood clinic is to be opened soon in Elmira; neither Jane nor I knew this. [...]

[...] Then she reminded me that several times during the past week she’d felt that Borledim, the next family of consciousness on Seth’s list, is strongly concerned with parenthood and related roles.)

The next family (Borledim) deals primarily with parenthood. [...]

[...] I said I’d forgotten to ask Seth to comment on my feelings about parenthood these days, especially as I’d felt them yesterday when looking at the photos of the aide Sue’s children. [...]

[...] It’s true that I had no urge for parenthood, but I didn’t think of betrayal, or bargains. [...]

[...] You felt that you must to some extent allow your love for each other to nourish those abilities, and yet not jeopardize them lest it lead you into parenthood.

[...] There will always be people who naturally seek the experience of parenthood. [...]

[...] Bisexuality implies parenthood as much as it implies lesbian or homosexual relationships. [...]

If responsible means, “I must be a parent twenty-four hours a day to the exclusion of everything else,” then you may be in difficulty, for that core belief might prevent you from using other abilities that exist quite apart from your parenthood.

[...] Certain scientific treatises often make you believe that the attainment of your adulthood has little purpose, except to insure the further existence of the species through parenthood — when nature is then quite willing to dispense with your services. [...]

[...] What then about planned parenthood? [...]

[...] I repeat: In all your past lives you dealt with the problems of both parenthood and childhood well, in relation to your own parents. [...]

[...] And although Seth hasn’t said so yet (that I remember), I also think that within the spontaneous plan of probable realities each of us—anyone, that is—explores all aspects of sexuality and parenthood at the same time.