“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane didn’t think the sessions could hurt her, though she often felt she didn’t get enough information through for herself. We talked about other similar situations and things, and she was near tears at times — so there definitely is emotion there. I don’t actually think we said anything brand new, but it was good to review it all. I explained my position that she didn’t need to make bargains with herself, as she used to tell me she did — that it was perfectly okay to be healthy and talented at the same time, using one’s abilities as one chose. The world wasn’t going to pass any sort of judgment if she didn’t choose to deal with the sick.

Before we discuss the human situation more specifically in relationship to health and “dis-ease” — let us consider the so-called states of health and disease as they apply in planetary terms, and as they operate in all species. This will give us a far vaster framework in which to understand the ways in which each individual person fits into the entire picture.

Basically speaking, there are only life forms. Through their cooperation your entire world sustains its reality, substance, life, and form. If there were no diseases as you think of them, there would be no life forms at all. Your reality demands a steady fluctuation of physical and nonphysical experience. Most of you, my readers, understand that if you did not sleep you would die. The conscious withdrawal of mental life during life makes normally conscious experience possible. In the same way there must, of course, be a rhythm of physical death, so that the experience of normal physical life is possible. It goes without saying that without death and disease — for the two go hand in hand — then normal corporeal existence would be impossible.

(4:30.) For all of man’s fear of disease, however, the species has never been destroyed by it, and life has continued to function with an overall stability, despite what certainly seems to be the constant harassment and threat of illness and disease. The same is true, generally speaking, of all species. Plants and insects fit into this larger picture, as do all fish and fowl.

I have said elsewhere that no species is ever really eradicated — and in those terms no disease, or virus, or germ, ever vanishes completely from the face of the earth. In the first place, viruses change their form, appearing in your terms sometimes as harmless and sometimes as lethal. So-called states of health and disease are also changing constantly — and in those vaster terms disease in itself is a kind of health, for it makes life and health itself possible (all quite intently).

(4:50 p.m. “I’m glad I had it,” Jane said, “even though it’s late, ‘cause it’s got information you wanted. I did all right. I was able to clear my mind enough to give it.” She seemed to feel good, and I told her she’d done well. And the session had gone into the question I’d noted yesterday at the end of the session, about the roles of health and disease in our world. I was tired.