“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(10:05.) In one way or another, both of Ruburt’s parents had little use for the world, and did not trust it. None of your parents, in other words, had an easy give-and-take with their fellows in that regard. [...]

[...] Contact between children and parents was at a very high level, and children were acutely uncomfortable if out of the sight of their parents for any amount of time.

[...] Bill is in the process, incidentally, of moving out of his parents’ home and into a studio and apartment in downtown Elmira, where he is going to live and at the same time maintain an art gallery. [...]

These are not physical children at the mercy of time and the elements, but eternal ones, more knowledgeable than the parent; gods springing from the human psyche, half-human, half-divine. And on this level the parent is astonished, delighted at the superior accomplishments of its children, the superiority of the offspring, and yet also jealous to some extent.

[...] If you are a parent, imagine that you are your mate, and in that role imaginatively consider your children.

[...] The child plays at being an adult, and is a child again when his parents call, so the effects of the game are not long-lasting. [...]

[...] Ruburt here thinks, you see, of the Easter date with your parents, and the note written at your parents’ home. [...]

[...] 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.

[...] Those gorgeous children struck home with me for many reasons — partly because of Seth’s material, and partly because I think at my own age [65] I’ve come to appreciate more and more the truly creative act that being a parent is. [...]

[...] Your own parental problem has again suffered an explosion of sorts, and so far you have handled it well.

You then found yourself, in the dream, wearing pajamas, first though deposited in front of your parent’s home, but not entering. This being a symbolic connection again, a transference not yet into this life, that is not into your parents’ home. [...]

You were aware incidentally of your own misinterpretation, and the appearance of your father in both the dreams was opposed by the female vessel symbol, as the opposition between both parents has been an important element in your subconscious life.

[...] My parents were also discussed. [...]

[...] You give constructions their appearance of continuity by continually creating them in line with your expectations, based upon among other things, previous constructions in the apparent past; and these expectations are the result of psychic communication between yourselves and others, particularly from parents, who give the child his first conceptions of the environment which, indeed, his parents have created.

[...] Often when he leaves the problem simply falls back where it belonged originally—upon the shoulders of the parents. It is for this reason often that parents have difficulties when the children leave. [...]

(To Carl:) From your own parents you also have some false premises, having to do with sex. [...]

Being with your parents brought things to a head, because both of your attitudes were aggravated by the environment; you (Sue) relating more as a young girl in the family homestead, and he reacting as the stranger who came in the back door.

(2. A photograph of Jane and her parents, Marie and Delmer. [...] In that session, Seth told us that the 12 year old Jane in the photo under discussion was to become probable to the one I eventually met and married.] Beside whatever Seth could tell us about her parents, I was curious to know whether the Jane who was shown at the age of 3 might be — or was destined to become — another probable Jane.⁶)

These suggestions and others like them are often given to children by their parents with the best of intentions. [...]

[...] Your parents at their death will take the strongest burden of that identity, the family identity, with them. [...]

[...] By the time he is born he has already learned to accept his parents’ idea of what reality is. [...]

[...] You have lost the intent, afraid to have dreams about your parents. [...]

(High, Low and Psycho.) He can trust himself to write to his parents now incidentally. [...]

[...] In this case it was the realization emotionally that life is not given by the parent, but through the parent — by LIFE (in capitals) itself, or All That Is, and “with no strings attached.”

That Robert Butts did not continue his painting with any purpose, trying to be objective and sensible, lacking the understanding of his parents that you have achieved through sessions. [...]

[...] In that reality, you returned from York Beach, gave up your apartment in Elmira, returned to Sayre, lived for some time with your parents, [and] commuted to your Elmira job to save money.

[...] Instead, however, you stayed, supposedly to aid your parents, but this was largely an excuse because you were afraid to take the chance and paint full-time and also afraid to give up the regular money, even though you had no rent to pay.

You felt the money might be needed for your parents, and as you continued you became more bitter at the sacrifice you felt you were making. [...]

[...] Parents sometimes express love by concern, though children seldom understand this. I have mentioned this before: the parent saying “Brush your teeth,” means “Your teeth are beautiful and healthy. [...]

Many parents find it difficult to express love verbally in a positive, open, unabashed manner. [...]