“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Your body will react biologically in response to your world-view. Under some conditions animals in perfect condition will play dead, or otherwise immobilize themselves. Their purpose is survival, and the biological mechanisms behind such actions are healthy. When those specific conditions vanish, the animal arises and goes about its way.

The body is amazingly quick to act upon environmental cues of a physical nature, but your world also involves cultural activity and “dangers” that are not immediately biologically perceivable. So while the body is well equipped to heal itself, and to maintain its own equilibrium, it is also highly responsive to other issues that are of a different nature and beyond the realm of its own functions.

The world-view consists of those cultural and private beliefs concerning cultural, economic and social environments. Hunters in primitive groups know how to hunt. Biologically the connections between physical hunger and the prey are instant and intimate in a way that the body understands. The same applies to animals in a wild state.

Give us a moment.... When the world-view enlarges to include more sophisticated cultural environments then, however, the body must rely upon the conscious mind’s interpretation of events. While the animal may encounter danger, it does not feel that its world is not safe. Fear of a biological nature is in itself healthy. It is only when it is prolonged unnaturally that it leads to difficulties. Again, give us a moment.... Imagined fears, projected into the future, put the body in a state of stress unknown to the animal. When you feel that your world is not safe the body may respond in many ways, according to the characteristic temperament and beliefs. Ruburt has been playing dead. His ideas convinced the body that playing dead was the way to insure overall survival. The body might object, but it still must rely upon the conscious mind’s interpretation of events, that it realizes are beyond its realm.

Spontaneous biological motion is an animal’s best insurance of survival, except under those conditions where the animal spontaneously plays dead.

Some people play dead mentally or emotionally. Some play dead in a very specific manner, deadening certain organs. In all cases a misinterpretation is being made on the part of the conscious mind, that then triggers bodily responses. It is not safe to eat, or it is not safe to stop eating, or it is not safe to run. Whatever the issue might be, the conscious world-view is bringing about biological activity. Now there are countering body impulses, and a constant set of checks and balances where the mind is meant to take another look, or where the body says that the biological integrity is in jeopardy. There are periods of new adjustment, and ideally the mind would take a new assessment of events.