“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(This is the last part of the 627th session. Seth called for a break for Jane at 10:30 because she had been coughing rather steadily for some time. This was an interruption of the material on Chapter Six of Seth’s book, but as long as a break had occurred I suggested Seth say something about Jane’s cold. She’d had it for perhaps six weeks—since, I thought, we had visited my mother and brother in Rochester, NY. I was puzzled that it was lingering so long.)

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.

(Eleanor’s letter about this is dated October 4, 1972. We were in Rochester October 6—8, 1972.) In Ruburt’s past a cold was the one quite acceptable symptom in childhood of escape, for example.

He quite understands how in childhood he adopted colds and discarded them, and is to see then the other symptoms in the same light. For these reasons the cold was adopted. He needed to see how he himself in a relatively harmless (underlined) incident in miniature, so to speak, could create such conditions as the cold, and in growing out of it see how he can grow out of the other symptoms.

The public, or the people, have also been involved in this test case. He needed to know that people saw and recognized the symptoms of a cold so that when he was rid of it he could see for himself that they no longer perceived those symptoms in him.

He was earlier afraid, you see, that his symptoms otherwise had become so real to others that they would continue to perceive them. In other words for a test case he produced a miniature symbolic situation physically materialized. Solving it is meant to give him the confidence that it can be done in this other area.

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.