“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane was blue and uncomfortable this morning: “What a way to live,” she said. She’d thought of death, but didn’t want to do that to me. She’s looking for a sign of something better — some improvement that will lift her spirits. She felt better after I read her the session for March 19, and a great Sumari poem I used to close out the essays for Dreams with.

(We talked about differing opinions regarding Prentice-Hall. These are to be expected, but all seem trivial now, given our present situation.

(I kept trying to get at events — before and at the time the sessions began — and Jane’s symptoms. “I can’t even go home for an hour, without it costing two hundred dollars,” Jane said, and started to cry. “But I’m not ready to reconcile myself to the spot I’m in.” But she said she was often careful about what she said to me, so that she wasn’t always dumping on me when I came to the hospital. But if not me, I said, who could she talk to? Besides, I knew her moods and feelings much better, evidently, than she realized. She surprised me when she said, “I realized that I used to really dislike women.” There was more.)

When civilized children are medically inoculated against such diseases, however, they usually do not show the same symptoms, and to an important extent the natural protective processes are impeded. Such children may not come down with the disease against which they are medically protected, then — but they may indeed therefore become “prey” to other diseases later in life that would not otherwise have occurred.

There are many other conditions to be taken into consideration, for such diseases certainly do have strong social connections. They occur in social species. This does not mean that they are necessarily contagious at all, but that they do bear an overall relationship to the give-and-take between individuals and their social and natural frameworks.

(3:27.) A city might be overrun by rats, for example — a fine situation for the rats if not the populace — but the entire picture would include unrest in the populace at large, a severe dissatisfaction with social conditions, feelings of dejection, and all of those conditions together would contribute to the problem. Rat poison may indeed add its own dangers, killing other small birds or rodents, and contaminating animal food supplies. Nor are insects invulnerable to such conditions, in such an hypothesized picture (long pause). Actually, all forms of life in that certain environment would be seeking for a balanced return to a more advantageous condition.

You may wonder why so many forms of life would be involved in what might seem to be self-destructive behavior, often leading to death — but remember that no consciousness considers death an end or a disaster, but views it instead as a means to the continuation of corporeal and noncorporeal existence.

I may or may not return this afternoon, but in any case I have activated those coordinates that so encourage self-healing, faith, and well-being.

(3:35 p.m. Jane had been interrupted once for nursing care. “I don’t know when, but sometime earlier — quite a bit earlier — I felt that that would be the subject today,” she said. “It’s more on your own questions, too.” Then she added, “I know he’s going into at least two other things in this chapter, too: that at certain times people mostly died in their 30’s, say, at one period, and usually lived to be very old in another. Also, that we’ve gotten out of touch with our own feelings about death, and are afraid of it. And he isn’t going to tell people not to get vaccinated otherwise they’d end up totally confused.”