“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(For Seth tonight she had questions about inoculations of humans and animals. If we create our reality, how come an inoculation will work, even if we don’t want it, or don’t believe in it? Why would it work even if it could be given to us without our knowing it? And why would an animal respond to an inoculation when it could know nothing about our belief systems, etc? There are a number of questions growing out of the original question.)

In a way, illnesses are definitely a part of health, for life itself consists of a fine alignment, of imbalances. One disease may actually protect you from a stronger one, or from a detrimental course of action that you might otherwise follow. In the greater realm of activity—I am trying to put this simply—a poor marriage, for example, is on the same level as a chronic but not life-threatening disease. It is not simply that disease is disease, and relationships are relationships, but that the individual generally tries to achieve the best possible conditions for a satisfying spiritual, emotional and physical existence according to beliefs and intents.

There is no separation between body and mind, so that the body has emotional considerations to take into consideration also. It has mental reasons for its actions, then, as the mind has physical ones. A poor marriage, for example, bringing years of loneliness or bitterness is, again, the same thing in its way as, say, chronic kidney stones. Such a person may, however, according to intents and beliefs and focus, be in fairly decent physical health —because health may be a prerogative.