“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Just before 9:45 Jane told me I could have material from Seth on the glasses idea, or on his book. Both channels were open. I chose this book, of course. “It’s funny,” Jane said, “but I know that the next [fifth] chapter is there. It’s about health and sound, inside sound and outside sound.” She proved to be correct, but at the moment she was unable to elaborate.

2. Seth here referred to the Frenchman Emile Coué’s famous autosuggestion. Coué was a pioneer in the study of suggestion, and wrote a book on the subject in the 1920’s. His ideas were well received in Europe at the time, but weren’t in this country to any large degree. In fact, his lecture tour of the United States turned out to be a failure because of the hostile press reaction.

You each have a body and you each have a consciousness. You can practice with these ideas by applying them to your body. For now we are taking into consideration the fact that, generally speaking, you are not going to make yourself five physical feet taller if you are a grown adult already, because there are certain physical laws with which you must contend. We will discuss those more fully later.

In that context you can even appear taller, and affect others as if you were — which would usually be what you wanted in any case under the circumstances. But except for some conditions which will be mentioned later, you can become healthy if you are ill, slim if you are overweight, gain weight if you prefer, or alter your physical image in profound fashion through the use of your ideas and beliefs.