“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Even while it carries a great resemblance to any other physical body, still a body’s own individualistic characteristics are such that for all the likenesses to other bodies, few generalizations can be safely made. [...]

[...] She did a few small exercises, moving her left foot and her upper body, almost deliberately, to see if she could do them; we’d talked about her retaining so far all the improvements she’s made since October 9, when we had the first of the “new” sessions. [...]

In these, and all situations, it should be remembered that the body is always trying to heal itself, and that even the most complicated relationships are trying to untangle.

The body’s own healing processes are forever active, however — which is why I so strongly advise that they be relied upon along with whatever medical help seems appropriate. [...]

(4:14.) The main issue is always the vital importance of the individual’s belief systems, however, and the sense of worth he or she places on body and mind.

Once more, I activate those coordinates that encourage your own peace of mind and body, and quicken your own healing processes.

There was a greater and greater body of knowledge to be transmitted as physical existence continued, for they did not transmit private knowledge only, but the entire body of knowledge that belonged to the group or tribe as a whole.

[...] These are important points in the body that accentuate energy, but can also absorb stress. [...] Such events also release other portions of the body as the effect reverberates, so to speak.

The body learned to maintain its stability, its strength and agility, to achieve a state of balance in complementary response to the weather and elements, to dream computations that the conscious mind alone could not hold. The body learned to heal itself in sleep in its dreams—and at certain levels in that state even now each portion of consciousness contributes to the health and stability of all other portions. [...] That is given—the gift of life brings along with it the actualization of that cooperation, for the body’s parts exist as a unit because of inner relationships of a cooperative nature; and those exist at your birth (most emphatically), when you are innocent of any cultural beliefs that may be to the contrary.

[...] They slept long hours, as did the animals—awakening, so to speak, to exercise their bodies, obtain sustenance, and, later, to mate. [...]

(8:58.) During this period, incidentally, mental activity of the highest, most original variety was the strongest dream characteristic, and the knowledge [man] gained was imprinted upon the physical brain: what is now completely unconscious activity involving the functions of the body, its relationship with the environment, its balance and temperature, its constant inner alterations. [...]

[...] Above all, it appears to be vital that we have faith and confidence that the body knows what it’s doing, and that Jane’s healing processes continue. [...]

[...] But the body was overall stimulated, enjoyed the activity, and felt accomplishment. [...]

Ruburt’s body can perform better. [...]

[...] The pillow pounding was simply meant to allow physical expression that would vary on different days, and would open the body to the idea of the normal exertion of such energy. [...]

They exist without me, of course, and yet I am able to add additional energy, and to arouse the body’s impetus. [...] I am here to assure you that he is progressing well, and that, again, the body is preparing itself to move more naturally. [...]

[...] Truly, the body remembers. [...]

(11:44.) I am not speaking here of the desire for suicide, which involves a definite killing of the body by self-deliberate means — often of a violent nature. Ideally this desire for death, however, would simply involve the slowing of the body’s processes, the gradual disentanglement of psyche from flesh; or in other instances, according to individual characteristics, a sudden, natural stopping of the body’s processes.

Left alone, the self and the body are so entwined that the separation would be smooth. The body would automatically follow the wishes of the inner self. In the case of suicide, for example, the self is to some extent acting out of context with the body, which still has its own will to live.

[...] In the second place, there is a difference between a virus produced in the laboratory and that inhabiting the body — a difference recognized by the body but not by your laboratory instruments.

Give us a moment… In a way the body produces antibodies, and sets up natural immunization as a result of, say, inoculation. But the body’s chemistry is also confused, for it “knows” it is reacting to a disease that is not “a true disease,” but a biologically counterfeit intrusion.

[...] When you say it correctly the breath is slowed and leaves your body: hush-sh-sh-sh the sounds finally seem to disappear.

The body’s feeling, the sound of the words, convey(s) the message. [...]

Such feeling-tone “words” (in quotes), with pantomime or the expressive body, can therefore come closer often than structured language to convey various levels of emotion, to explain levels of subjective feeling that are often distorted in recognizable words.

More than this, they act directly on the body. [...]

[...] Then I came down and there was this big body there. [...] It was naked; like a transparent body because I could see the veins and nerves in it....”

[...] “I followed the body... [...]

[...] I rushed down my own spinal cord, into my body. [...]

[...] “And now these little men’ve got little things like trowels, and they’re taking scoops of white stuff out of my body and throwing it away. [...]

[...] Your bodies are probable-constructs (hyphenate that if you want to), in that they exist only because of the atoms’ appearance at certain points of probability. At other levels the atoms do not exist at those same points, and your bodies there (Jane leaned forward for emphasis) are not the same physical constructs. [...]

[...] While the body’s integrity must lie in a constant reiteration in one probability, and maintain within that probable system a certain “constant,” and while physically perception is largely directed there, the basic integrity of the body system and consciousness comes from outside the system into it. [...]

[...] Since you perceive physically through the body, which is atomically structured, then of course your sense perceptions lead you to block out recognition of other probable stimuli or reactions. [...]

[...] The body, behaving in time, uses a time structure and acts in it naturally as its “constant” structure endures in time. [...]

There are bodies of events, then, that in a certain fashion you will materialize almost in the same way that you will materialize your own adult body from the structure of the fetus. In those terms the body works with physical properties — though again these properties, as discussed often, have their own consciousnesses and realities.

[...] Children do already possess character at birth, and the entire probable intent of their lives exists then as surely as does the probable plan for the adult body they will later possess.

Your mental life deals with psychological events, obviously, but beneath so-called normal awareness the child grows toward the mental body of events that will compose his or her life. [...]

2. Chromosomes are rod-like bodies within the cell nucleus, and carry the genes that govern hereditary characteristics. [...]

[...] It didn’t occur to me then that I was having an out-of-body experience. For one thing, Seth had only mentioned them briefly; and for another, everything was so real that I took it for granted that I was in my body and as physical as anything else was.

“Well, I know I was out of my body. [...] “In that ‘Idea Construction’ thing I didn’t seem to have a body — I seemed to just be my consciousness. [...]

So Do I
An Out-of-Body Experience

[...] “I mean, that Miss Cunningham just leaves this old body of hers behind and appears someplace else as a young girl.”

(At my suggestion Jane has started a notebook in which to record experiences with her “beam of energy,” a concept I personally find most interesting, and with out-of-body trips, and other such adventures. [...]

Regardless of these differences, the overall picture is largely the same: you cannot trust yourself, your body, the natural world. [...]

She does not trust her body nor her fellow men. [...]

[...] The world is seen as a patient, sick in body, insane of mind, a thing that needs treatment, a Freudian and Darwinian monster. [...]

[...] It may also have a part to play in some mediumistic activities on the part of the surviving personality who wishes to communicate, and it may be used in out-of-body experiences that involve other than physical reality.

[...] You can become fully awake while the body sleeps. [...]

[...] You can leave your body safely sleeping, for a projection of consciousness. [...]

[...] Each person has an entire body of beliefs and suggestions — and these are quite literally reflected in the physical body itself.

[...] Many people believe fervently that with approaching age they will meet a steady, disastrous deterioration in which the senses and the mind will be dull, and the body, stricken with disease, will lose all of its vigor and agility. [...]

If you recall the dream it may seem to you that you were in your physical body. Your physical root assumptions in this case would be so strong that you could not imagine yourself, even in a dream, without a physical body. [...]

The physical body as an object is, among other things, a symbolic representation of your own emotional reality. [...] Symbols may be individualistic to some small extent, but physical bodies are your main symbols. [...]

[...] They also represent direct experience, as the inner self once more reenters the physical body. [...]

[...] The body wants to get up and move—either that, or a brief massage–but mainly the realization of the body’s positive activity will help bring the discomfort to a halt.

[...] You can help when you are feeling confident enough, by reminding Ruburt when you see that he is bothered, that his body is healing itself. All of this, in which left alone it seems natural that the body will always take the worst rather than the better course, and that any problems are to be solved by stressing them.

He does need to put his full weight on his feet more, though last week was a good compromise for now—but overall the body has been more exercised. [...]

[...] What body would not be panicked by some of your worries and thoughts? [...] The foolish body, not realizing that such a philosophy is a food for idiots, replenishes itself for good activities, and in an animal fashion anticipates comfort and exuberance.

[...] Of course, his body does not realize that the pessimist’s views are the most intelligent, proper, sane and reasonable, and so it falls ill because the mind tells the body it has nothing to look forward to.

[...] Imagining a trip to Florida, for example, or anyplace he wants, planning for it, is a far more effective method of therapy than any worry, for such plans activate body and mind. [...]

Beside at least walking around the house, Ruburt is to do five minutes of exercise a day, of his choice; but devote it to the idea of expressing freedom for his body—not absolute freedom, but to experience that feeling. [...]

[...] He is barely, again, beginning to sense that feeling of freedom, and the body is always ready to respond. [...]

(11:47.) Ruburt’s body is responding well, and strongly.

[...] Left alone, the body will heal itself, encountering itself in its own reality. [...]