“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I will suggest a brief break, and with your consent we will speak a while longer on this particular matter.

(I was a little tired, however, from the extensive typing involved from the last session, and reminded Jane that some of her comments regarding this were not good suggestions. She agreed. She had lit a cigarette during break, and now when she resumed speaking she held the cigarette in a hand. I thought this meant she might be getting ready to open her eyes while delivering material. But she resumed with her eyes closed, in the same quiet dry voice, at 9:27.)

Now indeed we will overcome our Ruburt’s poor suggestions.

I will help you and your poor fingers when it seems advisable. You yourself are learning to substitute good suggestions for bad ones, and it will help you further to keep this in mind.

This is the main problem. The reason that these energies are being used against the self must and will be uncovered. I will also have, if I am asked, suggestions for the woman in their relationship, that will be most beneficial. I mentioned that the reason for the difficulty had been built up.

There will also be suggestions given as to needed adjustments on the part of the personality during his business hours. In other words, there are small but important adjustments that can be made within the framework of his present working life. Also perhaps an adjustment here on the woman’s part that will aid him.

I am going into this because the problem has obviously become an organic one. As a beginning I would suggest that your friend read our material concerning the formation of physical matter in general, the formation of the physical image, and the physical organs. If he can see that he is indeed responsible for the condition of his physical body in the most practical manner possible, then it will be much easier for him to picture his own cure.

I will now suggest your own break.

Any physician of any kind can only help a sufferer mobilize these energies and direct them. A sufferer has adopted an illness into his own self-image, through suggestion, which to a large degree he himself has given. He has caused the illness, whether it be organic or otherwise, and only suggestion will rid him of it.

It is indeed quite time for us to discuss the true nature and reality of what is so loosely called suggestion. We have indeed spoken much concerning the focus of energy, and a sufferer is truly entranced with the idea of his illness, and it is only this which basically allows the illness to continue. He focuses upon it both consciously and unconsciously.

The trouble with many health programs for recovery is that they cause the sufferer to focus upon his illness more than ever. The unsolved problem is therefore pushed further away. Our program for your friend will almost immediately include a brief but effective suggestion that should be given before sleep, and at various times during the day.

We ourselves will be concerned for a while with the nature of suggestion in its relationship to action. It should be most beneficial material, practically speaking, and will also add to your knowledge and carry our discussions toward certain directions that I have in mind.

So-called suggestion causes not only sickness but health.

The term itself is a very poor one. We will go much more deeply into this as the whole discussion continues. Needless to say, suggestion operates as strongly and as realistically and as practically within an atom, or a toad, or a leaf, as it does in man.

Our material concerning the construction of the physical universe and of physical matter in general may now, perhaps, give you an idea of how important suggestion is. Also consider our material on expectation, for indeed expectation comes closer, as a term, than does suggestion.