“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

It seems that it is a fact that certain diseases are so transmitted. It seems the sheerest nonsense, on the other hand, to believe that illnesses are caused by spirits or demons. In each system of belief, the evidence however is overwhelming, and in the vast nature of reality both notions are equally beside the point, and one is no truer or more false than the other—a hard pill to swallow for modern man.

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.

(10:25.) Give us a moment.... I am going carefully, because much of this could be misunderstood. In a way, modern medicine has brought about many of the complications that now assail it. When women had too many children in the past, many did not live to adulthood. In the larger scheme of reality, this provided a framework for individuals to taste infancy or childhood without growing to maturity. It seems like the most heartless lack of compassion to say that such a situation was the most natural, and in the long run for all, the most advantageous. And yet that can be said, for the framework worked, individually, and fit in with the goals of the species. The quality of life is all-important. There were fewer suicides, for those who survived, survived because of their own intent, their own desire, and the young died when it seemed natural to them. They died naturally, that is, and wholeheartedly, and were not torn between life and death.