“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(An excellent session, deleted from the record. Read the whole thing often. On Jane’s childhood, fear of aggression; religion; my role, etc. Ego and health and illness. Illness not natural, etc. Psychic abilities and fear of ridicule.)

Now. No personality chooses a life situation of illness. It chooses the best method it can to aid in overall development.

It uses illness as a teaching method, and discards the method when the lesson is learned. In entire life situations—I am speaking in terms of a lifelong illness now—the illness is not predetermined by the personality to last the length of the life. Many severe illnesses disappear miraculously, it would seem, though an individual has been plagued since birth.

Here the lesson has been learned and the illness as a method discarded.

The ego’s desire for health and the organism’s impetus toward health, are constant balances, and are always present. The illness is not to be regarded as a natural (underlined) event, but the reason for it sought. The reason is often a lack of a quality. The realization of the lack and the mental, emotional and psychic acquisition of the quality, brings the illness to a close.

(“Yes. But what about the cases where the personality does die from its illness; the illness never clearing up....”)

Death is not nearly as disagreeable, you see, as you think it is. Illness is far more disagreeable in many cases.