“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now. He is working with beliefs, juggling them. The cold symptoms began some time ago, and have been kept while he makes up his mind to dispense with the more familiar ones. The cold does not involve physical slow motion.

When he began clamping down on physical spontaneity, tensing of the head, neck and jaw areas was involved, leading to a sinus condition. The cold is meant to lead him backward mentally and physically through the group of beliefs that initially cause the entire condition.

The fact is of course that he doesn’t need any of the symptoms, but in the interrelationship of his beliefs the cold results as a method of understanding, and of bringing about certain necessary physical changes.

All, then, a lesson in the nature of beliefs as he applies them to his own body and behavior. A test case. “I will give myself this, and get rid of it, and then apply what I have learned to this other situation that has been bothering me.”

It represents then alterations of beliefs toward a more beneficial condition. At one other time such a situation was set up. The cold’s duration was far briefer, through very intense, but his overall condition was better then.

Then the cold did serve to drastically improve his health. Because he did not understand the nature of his beliefs however the improvement, while lasting for some time, deteriorated. This time the body’s overall condition, using the method adopted, required a longer period of such stress-transformation, and so the cold condition has been of longer duration.

There is quite a bit I can say involving both of your attitudes toward those poor people not as level-headed as yourselves (louder)—your beliefs about them, but that can wait until after dictation at our next session.

Now before I leave you then for the night I will make a recommendation. The telephone situation as it occurred on two occasions lately brings up in both of you a beautiful case of beliefs, conflicting beliefs, on both of your parts. Whenever such charged situations happen they are always the result of beliefs not consciously examined. These have to do on both of your parts with ideas of spontaneity and communication. I refer to the Cec Lord event and the man calling the other evening.

Behind the events therefore are highly charged beliefs about (underlined) reality, that you have not examined, either of you, and about your relationship with each other, your stance in regard to the outside world, as well as ideas about freedom, spontaneity and responsibility.

I want you then to make a list of your beliefs concerning those events. If you consider them as beliefs that you hold, both of you, then you should be able to discuss them calmly, and understand what happens. You have not understood your own beliefs, much less communicated them to the other, and your joint behavior in such cases has largely resulted because you each hold conflicting ideas yourselves.

Your penis position is also involved in some of the beliefs hidden and unrecognized, and will appear in such an examination.