“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

(“I have often wondered: why do such childhood experiences have such lasting effects through an adult life, that may be many years longer?”)

You have told him that life is far more generous, that there are built-in mechanisms of defense. He magnifies the terrors. He imagines, with the stray cats, you see, for the same reason.

You can help lead him to an understanding of the fact that life is far more vigorous than he realizes. It will also help to point out that he has positively used many of these elements creatively. He must not project an exaggerated idea of the power of aggression. At some time or another almost every child wishes that his parent or parents were dead, and the parents manage to survive quite well, until they are quite ready to leave your sphere of activity.