“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

How can you stay healthy? How can you get rid of any illnesses you might have? Exactly what is the connection between your state of mind and your health? Seth’s ideas on this subject have been of great value to Rob and me, and to everyone who has come in contact with them. We have put his concepts to work in our own lives, and sometimes both of us wonder how we managed daily life before we understood the close relationship between thoughts, emotions, and health.

She was in her early thirties, with a good job, but she looked down on all of the other employees. Her marriage had ended in divorce before she moved here, and while she was always talking about getting married again, she had a great distrust of men. I think she really hated them. She didn’t think much better of women, yet at times she could be very warmhearted. She took a liking to Rob and myself, and often we would sit, she and I at this same table where I’m writing this book, and chat.

Rob laughed; she sounded so put upon, so determined to place the blame elsewhere.

“If I direct an aggressive thought toward someone, then it can hurt them.” I said to Rob. “If I bury it, it can hurt me and emerge as physical symptoms of some kind. So will you please ask Seth in our next session what he suggests?” In this one session Seth explained the difference between repression and the correct approach.

“This is the difference between repression and positive action. In repression the resentment is shoved beneath and ignored. With our method it is recognized, imaginatively plucked out as being undesirable, and replaced by the thought of peace and constructive energy.” (Seth has frequently cautioned me against repressing aggressions out of fear of them. Rob says that it is quite funny—to him!—when Seth, speaking through me, takes me to task in this way. His suggestions have always been excellent, however.)

Rob’s father has developed hardening of the arteries and is in a nursing home. He doesn’t recognize any of us. When we visit him, we’re surrounded by elderly people, more or less in the same condition. Accordingly, we were concerned about the problems of advanced age.

Seth sessions are held in full light in the Butts’ living room. Jane’s husband, Rob, using his own shorthand system, takes down Seth’s words verbatim. Above, as Jane goes into trance, she—as Seth—removes her glasses and has thrown them onto the couch. (Rich Conz)

Another of Rob’s “vision” portraits, this one is of Bega, a personality who communicates through one of Jane’s students via automatic writing. (Robert Butts)

In this painting, according to Seth, Rob depicts himself in a previous incarnation, when he was a woman and mother of five. (Robert Butts)

Rob’s painting of the fourteenth-century artist from whom Seth gleans advice on painting techniques. (Robert Butts)

Above, Rob’s double portrait of Ruburt and Joseph. This represents Jane’s and Rob’s Whole Selves, the sum of their reincarnational personalities. (Robert Butts) Below, Jane and Rob in the same pose for comparison. (Rich Conz)