“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(This was very interesting, and a surprise to me. Recently I have been using suggestion rather successfully on hay fever, following Seth’s ideas. Friday was a good day. We had company Friday evening—Marilyn and Don Wilbur, Don’s brother and a girl named Pat, whom we do not know.

(Later that evening hay fever seemed to get the best of me and I had a poor weekend. I was mystified as to the cause. The pendulum told me I reacted to the group Friday evening. However I had never reacted to the Wilburs before, so I was still puzzled.

Now such associations have an electrical reality, you see, built within your system. Realization of these causes creates an opposing force that can neutralize the original. The words—“Father, I refuse to accept your hay fever for myself; though I once took it, I now throw it free from us both”—these words will help.

Your father used hay fever as a symptom of helplessness, and as a demand for the attention that he did not get, even then, from your mother. The pattern was set earlier in his childhood. He discarded the symptoms because they did not get him what he wanted. Your mother could not be bothered.

All of this information will be immeasurably helpful to you. Your father’s hay fever was a defense also against farm work, you see.

Hay fever was for your father also a defense against the world, for it allowed him some isolation. You can have the necessary privacy without using this symptom to get it. The ink has a symbolic association for you personally, a healing one you see, and its presence, according to my recommendation, has the effect of a mood tonic.

(It is Wednesday evening as I type this. Since the session Monday night, I have not taken any of the usual pills for the hay fever, and have been, overall, in much better condition than I might have expected. The relief is great.

(Jane said she did not know I had taken cod liver oil as a child. I remember doing this, and disliking it intensely. My parents have told me often that I displayed hay fever symptoms by the age of 3 or so, so evidently the first cod liver oil episode was earlier than this, and before my conscious memory. Jane insisted I hadn’t mentioned cod liver oil to her, though I had discussed castor oil.

His appearance then reminded you of his appearance in hay fever season, and reinforced your own symptoms until they became a symbol of virility, since they were your father’s, and also a symbol of how a man could cry. You do not need such symptoms now.