“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The situations had changed but the ego framework had grown rigid, rigid enough so that it could in a large degree dominate certain normally subconscious processes, bringing forth the physical symptoms. Now there is always an imprinting process within the personality, belonging to past experience. A previous inclination to gluttony had once led him to some slight gout, and in the present case there was a swelling of the feet.

There had been in the past overweight, and in this instance there was in some portions of the body an overextension of tissue about the joints. The morning symptoms incidentally have to do with this life however, bringing back earlier fears of facing the day, you see.

Give us a moment here. (Pause.) To some extent the symptoms did represent caution. He did not want to move until he was sure of his direction once more. It was the stubborn ego in this case that prevented him from seeing clearly the direction which had been given by other portions of the self.

The knees, incidentally, I can help him here: in Saint Vincent’s punishment took the form of having the child kneel straight upward, and doing so Ruburt’s knees often became sore. The knee symptoms were a later development in this present series of symptoms, his way of punishing himself for his previous lack of understanding. This knowledge should greatly relieve the symptoms.

There were many more instances, in terms of physical symptoms, which have now vanished, and so he is progressing.