“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You are indeed both parents of an amazing body of work, and the psychic parents of innumerable people of all ages. [...] The letters you receive are often like letters children write to their parents.

[...] He has always thought that you were used, mainly by your mother, but he was afraid that his statements would be misinterpreted because of his own relationship with his parents.

You would not have left your parents so far behind at that time, he felt, except on his behalf. [...]

[...] You have a deep distrust of moving, because of your parents’ stationary background, and because of your father’s distrust and fear of the outside world.

[...] The voice that I can use on occasion could shatter the small image through which I speak and the spirit that belongs to your parents could not be contained in one bodily form or two. The spirit of your parents is, of course, free. [...] The spirits of your parents are free. [...]

(After break, to Sharon.) Now, your parents do not want you to grieve, they have been trying to tell you that they are as alive as you are. [...]

[...] I wish you all, therefore, a hearty good evening, and remember that the dead have a vitality that would put you to shame and allow your own parents to smile when they visit you. [...]

[...] In a physical sense this board is a projection of wood or a tree, but in this case the board has less properties than the parent tree. [...] A personality fragment on the other hand never has less properties than its parent. [...] A personality fragment has all the properties of its parents inherent, though it may not know how to use them. [...]

[...] Pacing back and forth, she began to dictate:) that a tree cannot, personality fragments form other fragments having all the properties of the parent fragment—emotional life and so forth.

[...] You are lucky that the images themselves did not rise up and fight back, since the image fragments have all the powers of their parents, though they may be latent.

Ruburt sensed the growing explosion with your parents, sensed the frigid growth of your ego, and impulsively had to do something. Had you not left at all circumstances would have been far worse in any case, and your parents might have suffered another, but this time fatal, accident. [...]

[...] Jane wanted to stay there and I liked the idea, but since I had only thirty dollars I was afraid to chance a strange city with so little, and we headed north to my parents’ home in Pennsylvania. [...]

[...] Your parents would have visited you last year, and be strongly tempted to settle in a small town northeast of Miami, where your father would be amazed at the opportunities in his own business. [...]

[...] In pity and against his own intuition, he would have tried to move in with your parents. [...]

But a child born to two parents is also an offspring of the earth, its tissues as surely a part of earth as any tree or flower, or burst of ocean spray. A human child, true; but an offspring in which the entire history of the earth is involved — a new creation arising not just from two parents, but from the entire gestalt of nature, from which the parents themselves once emerged; a private yet public affair in which the physical elements of earth become individualized; in which psyche and earth cooperate in a birth that is human, and in other terms, divine.

[...] The family of the caveman was a far more “democratic” group than you suppose — men and women working side by side, children learning to hunt with both parents, women stopping to nurse a child along the way, the species standing apart from others because it was not ritualized in sexual behavior.

[...] Yet in all instances not only do children choose their parents ahead of time, but parents choose their children, of course.

In such a situation, there are fulfillments to be gained from the parents’ standpoints. [...]

Highly intelligent parents, therefore, may find themselves with a retarded child. [...]

(This afternoon Jane and I took my parents to the hospital in Sayre; mother for an ear examination, father to be admitted to the psychiatric ward. Tonight Jane assumed I would want Seth to talk about my parents, but I told her Seth could discuss anything he wanted to. [...]

[...] The three sons, incidentally, agreed as to their parents, and with full inner knowledge of the circumstances that would be involved. [...]

[...] He is finding himself more capable than he had believed also in dealing with your parents’ situation. [...]

[...] More than this however, both of your parents still feel that a car is a symbol of social status, and you grew up with this. [...] But an old car brings back the old struggles between your parents, and it is precisely here that subconsciously you and Ruburt do not agree. [...]

(I was three years old when my parents made the month-long drive to California, and my brother Loren was two. [...] I grew up listening to my parents talk about the trip. [...]

[...] With your parents for example you can use this knowledge, so that their actions will not upset you unduly. [...]

[...] Some of your most basic feelings toward the automobile grew as a result of the early trip to California, when for days on end as a child you heard your parents bickering. [...]

In your terms and in your probability, your parents’ lives are over, completed, and when in your reality you paint a picture it is finished, completed; and yet even in that context it outlives your completion of it, and endures. [...]

It is easy for you to say that your parents did not appreciate what they had, that they looked at the “bad” side of things all the time, but not quite so easy to see those same attitudes in yourselves.

Breezeway PM: Response right knee new, left forefinger healing all over—talked to parent of my being. [...]

[...] However the relationship between her own parents has been destructive. [...] I am speaking now, you understand, of the parents of Philip’s wife.

[...] During break John gave us some information; briefly, it has to do with his restlessness in his job, his wife’s reactions, his wife’s parents, his own strong need to assert his independence, etc. [...]

(John Bradley said that as far as he knew Seth was correct in his analysis of his wife’s parents, and correct concerning the relationship between John and his wife.

[...] She feels like a child when a parent says “Now, we must discuss this seriously.” [...]

[...] I suggest you examine your beliefs therefore concerning teeth, age, and in connection with your parents. [...]

[...] I hadn’t asked the pendulum questions about my attitudes toward teeth and my parents, though I had suspicions as to my beliefs in those areas. [...]

(3. The material on my parents reaches back to the first two sessions, 679–80, in [added later] Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality.

Your mother and father are alive, as are Ruburt’s parents,⁴ but their realities are not pinpointed to any given island, and they are forming alliances, but always from the standpoints of their own unique identities. [...]

[...] This has meaning in terms of your [unpublished] information⁸ involving the masculine and feminine aspects that united and separated your parents. [...]

4. Earlier in this decade of our camouflage reality, all four of our parents died within a period of less than three years. [...]

[...] The young generation sits by, apparently helpless while the parents rule the world. But the young helpless ones mature, and they grow and they become parents. [...]

[...] The world in which your parents live is a world which they created. [...]

[...] How many of your parents are ill? [...]

[...] You were aware of your parents in Framework 2 (in my dream of Oct 19, 1977) with the hall as your symbol. Basically speaking, these were your parents as you knew them. [...]

[...] It sounded very much like another instance of the workings of Framework 2; 2. Some comments on my recent dream involving my meeting my parents in the great marble hall, as I called it. [...]

To you the hall was a neutral-enough meeting place, but not one of intimacy, and to some extent at least it symbolized the relationship—at least as far as you were concerned—in that while you were a child of your parents you felt to some degree a stranger, and the hall lacked intimacy. [...]

[...] If there is a strong relationship between the parents and the child-to-be, then the personality may enter at the point of conception if he is extremely anxious to rejoin them. [...]

In these circumstances, when the personality attaches itself at conception, there is almost without exception strong past-life connections between parents and child, or there is an unceasing and almost obsessional desire to return to the earthly situation — either for a specific purpose, or because the reincarnating personality is presently obsessed with earthly existence. [...]

On occasion, long before conception takes place, the personality who will end up as the future child will visit that environment of both parents-to-be, drawn again. [...]

[...] Although in your terms your new parents may be infants now, or in your scale of time not even born, the arrangements may still be made.

If he wants to, have him imagine this inner intelligence as a beloved parent. This will also dull the edges of any resentments he may have regarding his own parents.

[...] The answers given symbolically are to your parents as well as his, and to all those who need help. [...]

These food ideas are important, since they are passed on from parents to children, and parents often use food as a way of rewarding a child’s good behavior, thus starting the youngster out toward conditions of overweight.