“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] During the session Seth discussed Billy’s illness to some extent, while also giving the first “installment” of an answer to a longstanding question of mine: I was curious about the relationship between the host — whether human, animal, or plant — and a disease it might contract, one that was “caused,” say, by a virus. [...]

[...] Their effects become deadly only under certain conditions. [...]

[...] Some cultures have believed that illnesses were caused by demons. [...]

[...] I am saying that in wintertime there are definite health-value effects to be felt when you sit in front of an open fire. Two evenings a week would be quite effective.

[...] The effect of the light plus the warmth on the skin is extremely healing. [...]

The proximity of so many trees also has considerable health value, and to those doing psychic or other creative work the effects are particularly conducive to a peaceful state of mind. [...]

The earlier group of symptoms resulted from several causes. [...] (The two deleted sessions of November 30 & December 2.) The cold effectively kept you from physical contact.

[...] My pendulum also told me that communication problems involving Jane, other than the TV show question, caused the “cold,” etc.

[...] Your “condition” effectively kept Ruburt from making any demands, or from putting any verbal pressure upon you, for he rushed of course to your support.

This situation can be serious in varying degrees, according to the impetus and intensity of the original propelling cause behind the impeding action. [...]

[...] Any heightened sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, has a stimulating effect upon a consciousness to some degree. [...]

[...] The very effectiveness and nature of the personality, and health of the personality, is dependent upon the manner in which it handles its ability to choose between various kinds of action.

[...] Has the body’s effective speed suddenly quickened? [...] I merely want to show the effect of beliefs upon physical performance. [...]

Do the exercises in my book, The Nature of Personal Reality, to discover what conditions of a mental nature, or of psychological origin, are causing you distress. [...]

[...] This may involve a lengthy journey for some of you, with your belief systems, for many of your impulses now are the result of the pressure caused by perfectly normal unacknowledged ones in the past. [...]

[...] Instead you should examine your conscious beliefs, for they are so strong that they are causing you not only to focus upon calamity in the physical world, but to use your inner abilities to the same end.

[...] When you are in the process of changing beliefs — when you are beginning to realize that your thoughts and feelings cause illness — then for a while you may not know what to do.

In the larger context you realize that the doctor can at best give you temporary relief, yet you may not be completely convinced as yet of your own ability to change your thoughts; or you may be so cowed by their effectiveness that you are frightened. [...]

[...] No particular episodes alone, though they may seem to do so, ever cause a particular condition, say, of illness, though such episodes may be used as catalysts. [...]

[...] Therefore to some extent he has not been able to use the ideas on his own behalf nearly as effectively as he might.

[...] The pendulum method is simply a technique that is effective because of your beliefs, and brings to light your own quite conscious ideas—those that you might not approve of, and so conveniently appear to forget.

[...] To some extent then language operates as a screening device, enabling you to communicate certain data while effectively blocking out other kinds.

[...] The “sparks” generated by each instant of its existence cause additional experiences, perceptions, that will not fit in the known moment of the present — for by then in your terms that present has already vanished into the past.

Here, events are connected one to the other in a psychic webwork that is far more effective than your physical technological system of communication. [...]

[...] The connections between us, now, are far more logical than any simple cause and effect.

[...] Jane wasn’t aware of anyone being present at first, but at 9:15 she got a slight impression of the cone effect, described in the last two sessions. [...]

[...] She said she didn’t get the cone or pyramid effect after the one time noted before the session began.

This interrelationship is not in terms of cause and effect, as this law is a distortive misinterpretation of actuality. [...]

[...] I was careful not to confuse this with any cramping effect from holding a pen for so long. [...] Usually such effects begin to wane as soon as a session ends, but in this instance the sensation was stronger than ever five minutes later. [...]

[...] See the 47th and 55th sessions [in Volume 2} for more pronounced effects of this kind, including measurements.

There is a constant give and take between psychic and chemical components which actually cause your daily weather, your weather cycles, seasons, droughts and storms. [...] The force that causes your weather can be thought of as self-generating.

[...] The discovery however comes about, or is coming about, as a result of studies made concerning the effect of physical weather upon the individual, in chemical terms. [...]

Now I have told you that dreams are caused in part—underline in part—by chemical excesses built up within the human system. [...]

Television interacts with your lives, but it does not cause your lives. It does not cause the events that it depicts. With your great belief in technology, it often seems to many people that television causes violence, for example, or that it causes a love of overmaterialism, or that it causes “loose morals.” [...]

[...] That “spacious present” holds all events side by side, ready to be interpreted in cause-and-effect fashion by the organizational abilities of our more limited physical senses. [...]

[...] Those areas are awakening, and the new unaccustomed motions are the cause of the discomfort—a discomfort which will vanish in no time as the body continues its improvements. [...]

[...] or used words to that effect.

[...] The small but vivid “dream” is an example of a mental spontaneous exercise that in its fashion is every bit as effective as a physical exercise—and such spontaneous normal motion points the way toward the body’s further physical activity. [...]

[...] With some variation these drugs are actually sometimes given to overactive children, where their effects can be very unpredictable, and result in moods that encourage suicidal tendencies, even in those so young.

[...] I am not saying that drugs alone will cause suicide, but that the psychology of drugs already includes an attitude that promotes a Russian-roulette kind of mentality, that can only add to the problem.

Such realizations have their own biological effects, stimulating all of the healing properties of the body — and also easily propelling the mind toward “higher” organizations, in which all of life’s seeming inadequacies are understood to be redeemed.

[...] There was no awareness of this on the part of your mother, but the difficulty in her own condition partially caused it, a low blood count and circulatory difficulty in her own condition. She did not realize this had any effect on the child…a difficulty, minor enough, in the lumbar region and fourth vertebra. [...]

(A question from Dick to the effect that he was not born in 1938; he was born in 1939.)

[...] In fact, she was still feeling the effects of a relaxation as this session began. [...]

The vitamins do serve to help in the extra work being done by the body, of repair, although without the change in beliefs they would not be effective. [...]

[...] Before he was hampered by the initial beliefs, now nearly dissolved, that caused the disbelief in the body. [...]

—master events, then, involve “work” or action whose main thrust exists outside of time, yet whose effects are felt within time.

Such effects may (underlined) appear suddenly within time’s context, rather than slowly emerge, say, into that framework. [...]

[...] The heavy, specialized use of so-called rational thought has often caused him to narrow even his neurological recognition of other kinds of experience that might enlarge his view. [...]

It was indeed intuitive and psychic connections that brought me here, and it will be intuitive and psychic connections that finally cause Ruburt to accept me wholeheartedly.

[...] He may or may not have been present, but he was the cause of the argument.

[...] (Long pause.) The remark made by Blanche had to do with death—something to the effect, quote: when I’m dead you’ll be sorry. [...]

[...] Traffic noise was a bother at times — and that effect reminded me of how often such racket had been a problem when we held sessions at 458 W. Water Street.)

(Long pause at 4:16.) All creatures are basically of good intent; even when they commit the most dubious of acts, these are usually caused by a misdirected good intent. [...]

Now, you see what you are willing to see, and it is stupidity to consider suggestion as the result or the cause of what you see. It is stupidity in class to worry that suggestion would cause a given result—for suggestion causes whatever you see. [...]

(Notes by Rob: Some of Seth’s voice effects were very loud. [...]

(The session is included in the regular series [Session 494] because of the voice effects; the fact that both Seth and his entity spoke; some new ideas from both entities; and because no regular session was held the next day, Wednesday, July 16. [...]