“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Before health problems show up there is almost always a loss of self-respect or expression. This loss may occur in the environment itself, in changing social conditions. In the matter of the disease called AIDS, for example, you have groups of homosexuals, many “coming out of the closet” for the first time, taking part in organizations that promote their cause, and suddenly faced by the suspicions and distrust of many other portions of the population.

Whatever physical changes occur, happen because the will to live is weakened. AIDS is a kind of biological protest, as if symbolically the homosexuals are saying: “You may as well kill us. We might be better off than the way you treat us now,” or as if it were a kind of suicidal drama in which the messages read: “See to what ends your actions have led us!”

Luckily, the disease will run its course as sociological conditions change, and as man’s inhumanity to man becomes clear even to the most prejudiced.

We have been dealing with quite drastic diseases, but the same concepts are true in other areas also. There are people who undergo a series of highly unsatisfactory relationships, for example, while another person might experience a series of recurrent diseases instead. In spite of all problems, the life force operates continually in each person’s life, and can bring about at any time the most profound, beneficial changes. The idea is to clear the mind as much as possible from beliefs that impede the fine, smooth workings of the life force, and to actively encourage those beliefs and attitudes that promote health and the development of all aspects of healing experience.

(4:26 p.m. No one had shown up to do Jane’s vitals — which meant that the staff was behind schedule. In fact, no one appeared to do the vitals for the rest of the time I was there — until 7:10. For a change we didn’t say the prayer together. Lately she’s wanted to do it after lunch. “I get too blue when you’re getting ready to leave,” she said, “to want to do it then any more.”