“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.

(11:13.) Your suggestions of late have definitely helped. The body begins to rouse. Your part is highly important. You each share some general beliefs that the rest of the world is a threat. You differed only in that Ruburt chose what seems to be more drastic methods in meeting those threats. The suggestions serve as reminders that action is possible, and that spontaneity, not repression, is still the best way of countering the situation as it appears to be. The body is responding. When an animal is playing dead it knows when the immediate danger is over. When Ruburt has some improvements he is elated. Then, however, he stops to make sure that the danger is past, and to make certain it is safe to go ahead. Functionally, as the muscles release, balance in the legs must still be maintained. Certain muscles must be cleared before others. This is being taken care of. Then he stops, sensing the environment like an animal sensing the air. Your part in the suggestions aids in a kind of creature understanding, as one animal might nuzzle another.

The suggestions however also help you as you give them to Ruburt—highly important as far as your joint realities are concerned. Frank has been an important help. Give us a moment.... There is nothing wrong with Ruburt’s body. He realizes that now. Frank’s physical knowledge helped there. At least twice a week Ruburt must write down his feelings, so that he does not inhibit them—highly important as he is recovering.

Now: in a way the game is up—for Ruburt finally realizes that there is nothing organically wrong with the body. For some time he convinced himself that there was. The love implied in the fact that you help him with suggestions is highly important, because that love implies safety. In the past you have reinforced each other’s beliefs in an unsafe universe. These beliefs have become a part of your private and joint realities, affecting you (me) invisibly as they affect Ruburt visibly.

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.

(11:52.) Give us a moment.... The body is freeing itself, but greater freedom must be allowed as far as impulses are concerned, so that Ruburt can realize that his impulses are not threatening. A new balance is then set up between impulse and action, that will enrich his work as .well as accelerate the body’s flexibility. I want him to again become aware of his impulses, therefore, for physical action of any kind—whether he is at his table or not. His impulses will wisely provide creative inspiration and physical actualization, so that one adds to the other.

Let him take a certain part of the day to type his manuscript, another part in which his creative time is free. His body, mind, spirit, will all exercise themselves together. Is he becomes confused, then let him talk to you about it, rather than hide the issue.

(12:08.) Mainly I want him to follow his impulses—which will naturally fall into the lines I have suggested. He is not to feel threatened if while at his desk he feels like physical activity, for all in all his own rhythms will assert themselves. The body is ready to assert itself, and is doing so.