“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Don Wilbur’s parents are against his changing jobs. [...]

[...] Both religion and science, parents and schools, stress that idea, and it is one of the most important causes of mental alienation, spiritual and physical distress.

Ruburt also of course knew this, as he knew about your curly-headed friend the other night (at the Hurricane bar, amused), and he reacted vehemently, particularly against your parents. [...]

[...] Children’s imaginations prevent them from being too limited by their parents’ world. [...]

[...] Do not drink milk in your parents’ home, particularly at this time. [...]

The words “Let thy will be done,” represented excellent psychological understanding, for according to Christ’s teachings as originally given, God the father represented the source or parent of the self, who was by nature free from the self’s ignorance or lack of understanding at any given time, and who would know better than the known self those experiences that would fulfill the self’s hopes, dreams, and potentials.

[...] You felt it imperative to verbally express dissatisfaction or disapproval, generally, now—that is how words were used by your parents.

[...] They try to pass on the ideas to parents or children, and to interpret them through home life, and through areas of work and community. [...]

[...] Jane had allowed Seth to talk about the whole situation in a more personal way than she usually does; the result is that we already have more data on Stella Butts than on the earlier deaths of Jane’s own parents [in 1971 and 1972], for instance.⁴ We knew that Seth wouldn’t continue describing my mother and her present reality indefinitely; such a study could easily grow into a book by itself. [...]

[...] The “natural earth parents” [the Borledim] and the Sumari, for instance, are very close, and yet have great difficulty in merging, because one considers the family itself as art, and the other subordinates the family for a different kind of art. [...]

[...] For as a child you feared you would be swept away by the raw emotions of your parents, and you feel insecure at such demonstrations. [...]

[...] Parents often promote such ideas by teaching children that they live in an unsafe world, filled with enemies. [...]

[...] As you mentioned following your parents’ deaths, there was a sense of aloneness. [...]

[...] Often you will be able to trace them to early childhood beliefs quite easily — some instilled by a well-meaning parent to protect you, or out of an adult’s ignorance. [...]

(The above passage refers to my parents. [...]

You both grew up under certain authorities—the personal authority of the parents, and the greater authority—or Ruburt at least—of the church and state. [...]

(Jane later told me she felt the street was south of my parents’ home in Sayre—and where I had lived while going to high school. [...]

“I notice we’ve been using the insights about my parents and relating to them better than we ever did before,” Rob said.

“Her parents weren’t there, and Sarah didn’t live there either!”

[...] In case you wondered Ruburt’s weekend fling with the furniture was a result of various things—an inner, unrecognized knowledge that her publisher would put off the book for now, and a burst of doubt over these sessions coupled with worries concerning your parents.

(“I’m quite sure she recognized the part about my parents. [...]

[...] You do not pretend to love a parent who did little to earn your respect or love. [...]