“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You may have accepted some of these ideas from your parents. [...]

[...] You have done this with your art; and began, in your terms, as a child of your parents with the teachings of that culture. [...]

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

In your terms, beliefs are accepted initially from the parents — this, as mentioned earlier, having to do with mammalian experience. (See the 619th session in Chapter Four.) The hypnotist then acts as a parent substitute. [...]

(David has told his parents of his yearnings toward this person, he said, and his father responded by telling him it was “all in his head.” [...]

[...] I’d immediately suspected that he called us because he needed help that he wasn’t getting from his parents, but didn’t say this to him. [...]

[...] You chose parental circumstances therefore that would presuppose you toward those directions that you had already decided upon.

[...] But he also chose to divest himself of any distracting family references in later life, as far as his own parents were concerned.

[...] Before I close a note: in your combined backgrounds you nicely chose situations in which parents did not have ordinary sexual relationships. [...]

(Jane and I visited my parents at their home in Sayre, PA, last Sunday, March 20,1966. [...] Following Seth’s recent suggestions, usually given in unscheduled sessions, I have been making conscious efforts concerning my reactions to my parents. [...]

[...] The afternoon at your parents’ home could have initiated an illness, but did not because of your more rational reactions.

[...] 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.

[...] Fragments of this type have all the potentialities of the parent, inner energy. You understand that: the parent, not apparent, energy?

He thought that he was such a bad person that he drove his parents apart, perhaps caused his mother’s illness, perhaps his grandmother’s death—for which his mother did indeed several times blame him—and that the classical idea of the Sinful Self was individually interpreted in that manner in Ruburt’s personal early life. [...]

[...] I was glad I’d asked the second question in particular—at first I’d found it hard to believe that Jane thought of herself as evil for any reason, parents or whatever. [...]

A child is quite aware of its parents’ beliefs, and quite aware of the parents’ and the doctor’s authority. [...]

Yet the physical matter of the born infant contains none of the same physical matter which was received initially from the parents. [...]

The parents, therefore, give definite parts of their own physical matter to initiate the infant’s construction, and yet it is not this particular matter which grows.

Call the particular matter given by the parents x and y. When the child is born, it does not contain anywhere within it these particular portions of matter called x and y. It would appear that the matter had changed. [...]

[...] I was of course amazed, since the parents weren’t due back from Florida ‘till May.

[...] Were the energy and emotional impetus materialized instead for example in parent-child relationships, with you as parents, in your particular cases it would be lessened in your work.

[...] He cannot resent the environment nor his parent, since he chose both. [...]

There is also much yet to be said concerning why you and Ruburt chose your particular parents and early environments. [...]

[...] According to Seth two of the Spaziani children are psychically older than their parents. [...]

[...] Some distant connection with the man and Milan, and a parent with an unusual occupation.

We will say that it is a letter, and we will say that it is from one of Ruburt’s parents. [...]

(“We will say that it is a letter, and we will say that it is from one of Ruburt’s parents.”

[...] Your parents were in the act of making love. [...]

[...] There is something here particularly with him… an intense loyalty from a past life having to do with his parents. [...]

[...] He feels beholden to his parents. [...]

[...] In this life, then, the parents do not mean to hold him. [...]

The child of the man and the woman has existed as a personality four times before, which makes him older than his parents, in a manner of speaking. [...]

He worked on tablets of stone, and was given social position because of this ability, though he did not come from well-to-do parents.

Your own behavior with your parents, with Ruburt, your attitudes toward your painting and outside jobs, Ruburt’s attitudes toward children, his work and you—all of these were so influenced. [...] This would give you parental acceptance.

They are saying to you: “Once I made you leave your home town and your parents out of my erraticism. [...]

[...] Pressure from your parents could have precipitated such an arrangement. [...]