“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(We were preparing to have a suggestion session this afternoon at naptime, when I became upset as a result of our conversation. We didn’t carry through, but slept instead. As we waited for tonight’s session Jane said she “got sort of down” because of this, yet added that there was no doubt her right leg was doing good things about straightening more. She also had more freedom in that she could swing her arms up and down, further out from her ribs.

Specific inoculations are given under various conditions. They are bound to affect the biological system. The people who take such inoculations within your own culture, now, usually do so because they do not want the disease specified, and they believe that the inoculation will prevent it. It is impossible to tell ahead of time how many of those individuals would come down with the disease otherwise, yet diseases do come and go whether or not inoculations are given. The mechanisms operate in such a fashion that by now overall belief has come to such a point that the same results would almost be effected if an inoculation of no particular value were given instead. The mind is as effective against viruses as anything else—and in such hypothetical cases immune reactions would be set up biologically, through the mind’s beliefs.

You cannot afford that kind of method now, because you do not believe that the mind itself can help protect the body against disease caused by bacteria or virus. In many cases, whenever your culture and so-called primitive ones have met, inoculations worked, whether or not the natives believed in a particular inoculation, because they do believe in the “white man’s superior power,” and were as hypnotized by the white doctor’s mystique as they were by their medicine men.

The same applies in your treatment of animals. Animals respond to your feeling, your intent. You do not assign beliefs to animals. It seems inconceivable to grant to them anything approaching opinion or belief. It seems they are innocent of both. Animals in fact suffer greatly, for they often become so terrified of modern methods of medicine that an inoculation against one disease promptly brings about the occurrence of another.

I will not quibble with either of you, and I am not by any means justifying any of Ruburt’s methods, in the unfortunate restraint he has placed upon his body. I would like to make one remark: you do have many lives. Each person knows this on an unconscious basis. Some know it consciously. Any decisions made are made with that in mind.

Try to do your mutual suggestions when you feel you have a good rapport with Framework 2. You were wise not to do so today. Ruburt did try self-hypnosis then, but he was so overly concerned whether or not he would meet with results that for a while he simply exhausted himself with worry and concern. He held the session regardless, however, and allowed himself breathing space.

It is an error to worry in anticipation. When you are doing well, it is when you are keeping Framework 2 in mind, and when you make an effort to reinforce each other’s faith. That is the only effort you need make.

Your own late dreams gave you the message. The creature that disappeared or wilted when you attacked it was doubt. You triumphed when you refused to be at the mercy of your doubts. There is a passage Ruburt read somewhere: “Do not take counsel from your fears”—an excellent piece of advice.

When you have moments of faith, run and tell the other, no matter what you are doing.