“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] He is not lying, as the child is accused of doing when he describes something his parents consider outlandish.

[...] A firm bonding with the parent ideally implies, however, that the child will not be abandoned, despite parental anger at any given time.

[...] She’d seldom found that reinforcement while living with a parent who had been divorced and become bedridden by the time Jane was three years old, and who had a host of problems—challenges—of her own to meet.

[...] It is made on the part of the individual and on the parts of the parents as well….”

[...] “Ideally, infants ‘bond’ with their parents, particularly with the mother but with the father also, and they bond with the general ideas of their society. [...]

[...] It does so according to your beliefs, and the mass mold of your beliefs is formed as you learn from parents and teachers what to expect in the nature of events. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) It’s being used in the context it was, in your parent’s home and under those circumstances, was unfortunate.

[...] In a sense you are your own parents as you attempt to bring into physical reality an entirely new body of concepts and beliefs. [...]

[...] It had to pretend to dislike and disown that source in the same way that an adolescent may momentarily turn aside from its parents in order to encourage independence. [...]

[...] I am sure of one thing: I’m in contact with my deceased parents in ways that I certainly didn’t employ while they were physical creatures. [...]

[...] Their realities in no way threaten the identity of the “parent.” [...]

[...] In it my mother discusses the visit Jane and I were due to make to my parents on Sunday, December 5th. [...] My mother then canceled this visit of ours by telephone, and Jane and I then journeyed to visit my parents in Sayre, PA, on the following Sunday, December 12. [...]

[...] The “connection with four other people” works out well, since the letter concerns a situation involving both my parents, my brother Loren and my brother Bill, other than Jane and me.

[...] Jane and I were the two who did know, and my parents were the two others who did not know. [...]

[...] “Something to which no reply is expected,” is also good, in that we were due to see my parents within a few days after my mother wrote to us.

(This afternoon Jane had some very good insights as to why we had taken in the kitten, Parmesan – who, incidentally, is now gone to the parents of friends, etc.)

[...] The time that puberty comes varies, then, and afterwards it is possible to parent a child. [...]

You [Joseph]] were determined to find the kind of relationship you have with Ruburt, the kind of bond your parents never had,¹² and you applied the power of your will in that direction. [...]

12. For some material on the kind of relationship my parents did have (one obviously involving their children in the most intimate ways, of course), see the first two sessions in Volume 1: the 679th from 11:37, with Note 9, and the 680th from 9:44, with notes 1–3.

You saw in your parents the first signs of illness and age as you thought of those things. [...]

[...] This is still being done in modern society, of course, when each child inherits the beliefs of its parents about the nature of reality. [...]

[...] Looking at your parents, you decided early that you would have a certain kind of relationship with a woman—a closeness that your father did not have with your mother—one that involved many facets of your own personality and with its purposes. [...]

Ruburt’s feelings were largely directed against the parent. [...]

The parents who say “Brush your teeth because it is good for you, and I want you to be healthy,” may mean “I love you,” but the child would usually prefer a hug and a kiss. [...]

[...] In normal learning, of course, both parents urge the child to behave in certain fashions. [...]

Children quickly learn from their parents that experience must be structured in a certain conventional pattern. [...]

[...] You merely cooperated with your parents in forming it.

[...] We not only form our environment now, but ahead of time we choose our parents and circumstances. [...]

[...] You had parents and brothers, a family. [...]