“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(My questions had been rearoused because of an article I’d read a few days ago in a scientific journal; in their piece the authors explained that a certain significant percentage of women can develop cervical cancer from contact with a virus carried by the sperm of males who haven’t had vasectomies — or who haven’t been sterilized, in other words. I found the whole premise or situation strange indeed, I told Jane — that the male of our species actually has the potential to pass on cancer to the female. We’ve heard of the theory before, by the way — but transmitting cancer in such a fashion seems to be one of the most deadly results that can follow from the union of a man and a woman. We became intensely curious as to how Seth would explain the whole matter, and he gave us excellent information on it. The chances for ironies abound in our belief systems, I said to Jane. What if researchers next find out that in some as-yet-unsuspected manner, the female can in turn pass on a cancer-causing virus to her mate?

Though scientists might find “cancer cells,” and though it might seem that cancer is caused by a virus, cancer instead involves a relationship, say, between what you might think of as a host and parasite, in those terms — and to some extent the same applies to any disease, including smallpox, though the diseases themselves may appear to have different causes completely. A host cell, say, is not simply attacked. It invites attack, though I am not pleased at all with the connotations of the word “attack.” I am trying to use words familiar to you to start.

Women whose husbands have had vasectomies have themselves often resolved sexual problems that have bothered them. Fear is reduced in that area. (Long pause.) Cervical cancer can involve — can involve — distortions of the growth process itself, because of the complicated distortions of belief on the woman’s part. In a way the very pain of cancer — of some cancers — often acts through its intensity as a reflection of the person’s belief that life is painful, tormenting. At the same time, the pain is a reminder of feeling and sensation.

First of all, if (underlined) a sperm carrying cancer entered a woman’s uterus, and if she had no intentions of getting the disease, her body’s own system would make the cancer completely ineffective. In the second place, however, referring to the article, that is not what happens to begin with — and I am somewhat at a loss to explain, simply because of certain invisible assumptions that it seems to me you must necessarily make.

Even when resorted to, prophylactic mastectomies are not foolproof, for a few women have still developed cancer in the area of the nipple. What Jane and I are very curious about, however, is how many “statistically vulnerable” women submitted to operations they didn’t need — for surely a significant number of them wouldn’t have developed cancer in the first place. [...] If it could be shown that most of the “high risk” women would get cancer, there wouldn’t be arguments about whether such mastectomies are of general value. [...] Large scale studies, including one by the National Cancer Institute, are planned to explore the whole question of prophylactic mastectomies.

Involved in the arguments are the leading cancer investigative organizations in the country. For example: Scientific advisers to the government’s National Cancer Institute, which is conducting elaborate studies of many thousands of women of varying ages, have called for a halt to the routine screening of younger women. These scientists are on record as stating that such X-raying may cause more breast cancer than it cures. [...]

[...] The process isn’t infallible, unfortunately; also, misinterpretations of its results have caused a number of cancer-free women to undergo mastectomies — often radical ones — when they didn’t have to. Moreover, each of these individuals has to live with the belief that they’ve had cancer, and must constantly be on the alert for any signs of its recurrence — signs they do not find. [...] They can also have insurance and employment problems (as can many other cancer patients).

The breast cancer suggestions associated with self-examinations have caused more cancers than any treatments have cured (most emphatically). [...]

It is also vital that these patients are not overly medicated, for oftentimes the side effects of some cancer-eradicating drugs are dangerous in themselves. There has been some success with people who imagine that the cancer is instead some hated enemy or monster or foe, which is then banished through mental mock battles over a period of time. [...] It is much better to imagine, say, the cancer cells being neutralized by some imaginary wand. [...]

Many cancer patients have martyrlike characteristics, often putting up with undesirable situations or conditions for years.

[...] Cancer patients most usually feel an inner impatience as they sense their own need for future expansion and development, only to feel it thwarted.

[...] The overabundance of cancer cells represents nevertheless the need for expression and expansion — the only arena left open — or so it would seem.

I will here mention Ruburt’s dream, in which he spoke reassuringly to two men who were ill with cancer by telling them that this material said that he too had cancer.

[...] He was a woman medium in Boston, dying at 82 or 83 of cancer. [...] Two in particular were men, dreadfully afraid of death, and both dying of cancer.

At the same time the more nearly conscious worries present in everyone were felt by Ruburt in his cancer concern, and the dream said “You have already died of cancer, it will not happen again.” [...]

[...] The material says I have cancer too.” [...]

[...] The program dealt with the atom-bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, and the after-effects, such as cancer. [...] The same with a disease like cancer, I told Jane. [...]

(“It’s just about what we were talking about early today — the consciousness in radiation, that’s so powerful to us — or in cancer —”)

[...] “Well, he’s going to cover those questions in the book,” I told Jane — “about radiation, the consciousness involved with it, and with things like cancer. [...]

(It might be noted here that the 87th session dealt rather extensively with Jane’s death from cancer in a previous life in Boston, and stated that she would not die of the disease again. Jane was a woman medium in Boston a century or so ago, according to Seth, and possessed clairvoyant knowledge of her own death, at 82 or 83, from cancer.

(This afternoon, frightened by a grim tale of lung cancer involving an acquaintance of ours, Jane made an abrupt effort to stop smoking. [...]

[...] After supper tonight the Bumbalos had told us that Howard has been diagnosed as having cancer of the esophagus, and is to be operated on tomorrow morning. [...] Venice and Howard sold their house on the same day the cancer was found. [...]

(Strange, the way things work—today, July 16, 1984, before I reread this session, Joe Bumbalo’s daughter Judy told me that Joe has only 2 or 3 more days to live— bone cancer.)

[...] It is true, however, that many cancers and conditions such as AIDS result because the immunity system has been so tampered with that the body has not been allowed to follow through with its own balancing procedures.

Again, however, no individual dies of cancer or AIDS, or any other condition, until they themselves have set the time.

[...] Could such repeated dosages have anything to do with his having cancer now? [...]

[...] Regarding my visit with Joe Bumbalo this morning: He has cancer. I found myself thinking about the cancer being a new, explosive growth within a body that was aging. That growth was fated to bring about not only the death of its host, but the cancer itself. [...]

One is the cancer drive literature, and television “public service” announcements, in which the seven danger signals of cancer are given. [...]

[...] The suggestion that smoking will give you cancer is far more dangerous than the physical effects of smoking, and can give cancer to who people who might otherwise not be so affected (very intently).

To those already conditioned in such a manner, such procedures can cause cancers that would not otherwise occur.

[...] A test of fluid drawn from the heart area had shown free-floating cancer cells. [...]

[...] On the way home, John said a later report showed that Joe does have cancer throughout his body.)

[...] (Body stuff continues.) [RFB note: Bob McClure died, August 1979, of cancer.] Do two sketches of Bob McClure.

[...] Now, to some extent (underlined) there is a connection between this innate, rarely observed second puberty and the development of cancer, in which growth is specifically apparent in an exaggerated manner.

(Long pause.) Give us a moment… In almost all such cases involving cancer, spiritual and psychic growth is being denied, or the individual feels that he or she can no longer grow properly in personal, psychic, terms. [...]

[...] This can obviously apply to cancers affecting sexual areas, but is often in the background of any such condition. [...]

[...] Remembering well the barrage of negative suggestions that passes for preventative medicine — the public service announcements about cancer — she was filled with foreboding. [...]

(Our friend did not have cancer. [...]

[...] His cancer had reoccurred; he had taken a new series of treatments for it, and was again in a state of in-between, or perhaps remission. [...] Jane on the other hand was surprised at Bob’s lack of insight into the challenge of cancer that he’s taken on. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) One woman wrote Ruburt about the definite healing of her mother from cancer. [...]

[...] The woman who had cancer and was cured gave up the restrictions she had placed about her life. [...]

(Howard McCullough is dying of cancer in St. Petersburg, Florida. [...]

(Just as I turned Jane on her side after the session, our neighbor Joe Bumbalo — who is very ill with cancer — called to invite me to share Chinese food and rhubarb pie with him and his wife, Margaret. [...]

[...] Joe expressed concern about how long he would live with his cancer. [...]

(4:20.) There are those who come down with one serious disease — say heart trouble — are cured through a heart transplant operation or other medical procedure, only to fall prey to another seemingly unrelated disease, such as cancer. [...]