“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Ruburt has, for many reasons, as I have said before, hypnotized himself into the physical condition that is presently his. The condition is, of course, always reversible. [...]

I should add that Ruburt’s decision to continue eating in a normal manner was an excellent one, and the condition is being remedied in that regard. [...]

[...] Now when you act, as when at various times you encountered Prentice with definite complaints, or requests, there you were making a positive response to a specific condition, with good results.

[...] Ruburt’s condition is definitely reversible. [...]

We are trying to undermine all of the reasons behind the condition. [...]

[...] In any case, if you follow the latest sessions, and if you both really exerted your creativity and daring in the area of Ruburt’s condition, you would literally be quite astonished at the results.

[...] They often appear to others in the dream condition, and they help dreamers in the manipulation of inner reality. [...]

[...] Much of the most pertinent information, in fact, was memorized by trainees during the dream condition, and passed on in the same manner. [...]

[...] There are points of coincidence where under certain conditions entry may be made from one of these systems to the other. [...]

[...] Such entries can only be made in an out-of-body condition. [...]

[...] This noon she’d made a very revealing remark, to the effect that her being out of condition was of service to me, also. [...]

[...] That is why, for example, you went along as long as you have with Ruburt’s condition. [...]

[...] You both used his condition as an excuse for not doing certain things because you believed an excuse was necessary.

[...] The body beliefs need to be tackled regardless of the attitudes that gave them birth, and your reassurances of his attractiveness are important—for he convinced himself at least to some degree that because of his condition he was not attractive to others.

[...] If you think that men are evil, however, you are often not able to examine that as a belief, but take it as a condition of reality.

Each condition is as real or unreal as the other. [...]

Exterior conditions can always be changed if you understand the principles of which I am speaking. [...]

[...] The cat responds to such conditioning. [...]

A belief in hell fires can cause you to hallucinate Hades’ conditions. A belief in a stereotyped heaven can result in a hallucination of heavenly conditions. [...]

[...] There are teachers to explain the conditions and circumstances. [...]

[...] You can experience the after-death environment beforehand, so to speak, and learn the conditions that will be encountered.

Those of you who had faith in life after death will find it much easier to accustom yourself to the new conditions. [...]

[...] The dream state and dream conditions could also be studied quite legitimately, and to more purpose, using hypnosis. [...] You are not tampering with the mechanics of its operation, and therefore automatically altering the conditions.

[...] The particular experiment may then seem to suggest conditions which are by no means general ones, but which may appear so. In hypnosis the subject is not as much on guard as a subject of an experiment when the subject knows in advance that he will be awakened by the experimenter, when electrodes are attached to the physical organism, when the conditions of the sleep laboratory are substituted for his ordinary nightly environment. [...]

[...] The tampering will then change the conditions. [...]

[...] The acts of the investigators are changing the conditions in such a way it is easy to find that which you are looking for.

[...] Emphasis is laid upon those conditions present in the waking condition, and absent in the dream state.

This will then allow us to proceed into the relationship between the waking and sleeping personality, and discover the many ways in which the personality’s aims and goals are not only reflected but sometimes achieved in and through the dream condition.

Your reactions at such times are not good for yourself, and your reactions are not good at such times for the conditions which bring them about. Such reactions actually worsen the conditions that you would change. [...]

[...] In these cases the suggestion itself could, under some conditions, bring the events about.

[...] I found it a sad experience to read about the race situation, Viet Nam, the conditions of life and crime in New York City, etc., although of course I realized that much of this news meant something was being done about some urgent problems.

Such dire conditions cannot be pretended out of human existence, nor should they be. [...]

[...] Fears, however, have prevented him from fully trusting—or consistently trying—such avenues, not only fears, but the batteries of past beliefs, both on his part and yours, with their unfortunate patterns of behavior and conditioned responses. It is sometimes difficult for me to translate what I know about the situation into terms that you can accept jointly, because of the press of those beliefs and the accompanying habitual behavior and conditioning. [...]

In that kind of period, he is more apt to be dissatisfied, brood about his physical condition, and therefore aggravate his symptoms. [...]

Your feelings presently that Ruburt is on the brink of being bedridden are —mainly now—the results of negative conditioning—they seem very realistic. [...]

[...] In certain areas where the contrasts in the other direction are as startling, you have largely escaped such conditioned behavior. [...]

If you pursue such sorrowful thoughts persistently you are reactivating that body condition. [...]

[...] Comparing them with cells, they are of briefer duration, generally speaking, though under certain conditions this does not apply. [...]

[...] Such repeated remarks, with other childhood conditions, made him afraid of his own mental activity. [...]

[...] As mentioned (in the 628th session in Chapter Six), there was a time before his condition developed when his “good-self thoughts” and his “bad-self thoughts” vied for his attention, and the body tried desperately to react to constant, alternating and often contradictory concepts.

[...] Man could not have existed under the conditions fostered in the moving picture — nor for that matter could any of the animals. [...]

[...] Certain conditions are happening within the body that will very soon now bring about very noticeable actual physical improvements in motion and overall coordination.

[...] I was particularly glad to get Seth’s encouraging words about her own condition, for she’s still impatient for more improvements to take place.

In those areas in which you are dissatisfied, you feel that you are powerless, or that your will is paralyzed, or that conditions continue despite what you think of as your intent. [...] I am hypnotizing myself into my overweight condition (or my loneliness, or my poor health).” [...]

[...] The same processes occur in normal life, however; areas of primary concentration then regulate your experience both biologically and mentally, and generate similar conditions.

[...] He will be able to try to improve his condition without knocking himself down at the same time.

If you do this faithfully, within a month you will find the new conditions materializing in your experience. [...]

These will only indicate correlations however, and not basic conditions. They will be correlations between basic conditions, and there is quite a difference here. [...]

When the tests are given regularly we will automatically hit those evenings when conditions are excellent for reception. We shall of course also hit evenings when conditions are not so good, but these will not annoy you when you have successes under your belt.

The physical circumstances which you may discover should never be interpreted as conditions in themselves, under which we operate with varying degrees of efficiency, again, but merely as interconnecting correlations between two sets of intangibles. [...]

He is learning presently, and very well, to control this sometime condition; and it dwindles, to appear only occasionally in times of stress. Daily use of those particular back exercises, with their mental discipline, will further aid in his development, until he will find indeed that he can not only relax at will, but even when he does not have time to will relaxation, that is, relaxation will be the built-in conditioned reflex that panic used to be.

[...] His old thyroid condition has cleared up. [...]

The child emotionally was almost paralyzed with terror, hence the thyroid condition, hence also the child’s quick motions, fast, frightened responses that were desperate defense mechanisms. [...]

[...] The fact that Ruburt considers the man an ass, helped, because Ruburt could then justify his own conditioned reflex toward authority; and keep in mind other material I have given you concerning Ruburt and the gallery.

[...] Ruburt’s assessment of your dream and its conditions is another case in point. The inner organizations immediately trigger all the necessary actions required, from Framework 2. This applies to any issue – but again, your creative abilities, used on behalf of Ruburt’s physical condition will give him a normally cooperating body.

[...] It may seem that the retribution of law holds societies together and keeps, for example, criminal elements down, so that you have operating processes that insure more or less stable living conditions. [...]

[...] There, it makes no difference if you have had an undesirable physical condition for a day or a lifetime. [...]

What you have seen lately are just beginning sentences in Ruburt’s condition. [...]

(Jane and I have been very upset over the holidays about her eye condition, and my chest disturbances. [...] Our original understanding was that the eye condition would pass rather quickly once Jane began to loosen up—but now it appears to be another fixed state in the general scheme of our lives. [...]

[...] You know how often, Joseph, you think about Ruburt’s condition, and it is not yours. [...]

[...] Your friend Bill Gallagher is highly sensitive about eyes because of his own condition. [...]

[...] A true idealization involves loving thoughts of the development and fulfillment of your abilities to the best possible condition.

In nearly all matters of poor health, or unfortunate living conditions or mental or physical stress, there exists a strong tinge of denial, fear, and repression.

[...] That is a quite natural reaction to the conditions of life. [...]

[...] There are certain conditions, however, that promote suicidal activity, and the termination of one’s own life has been held in great disrepute by many religions and societies, though not in all.

To some extent tonight’s relatively brief session should remove senses of urgency on your parts, or of self-criticism, that make you question when or how can you “learn to make” the magical approach work in any specific way—that is, why can you not learn to make the approach work in, say, helping Ruburt’s condition in a faster, more effective fashion? [...]

(9:24.) You should understand that the approach is the best one to use in life, generally speaking, but it will improve all conditions, even if you still have difficulties in certain areas (pause), and that its use cannot help but promote the overall quality of your lives. [...]

[...] In a manner of speaking Ruburt’s physical condition represents the bruises, the wounds inflicted upon any individual in his or her long journey (long pause) toward a greater comprehension of life’s experience. [...]

(Long pause at 4:19.) In most cases, even the most severe illnesses or complicated living conditions and relationships are caused by an attempt to grow, develop or expand in the face of difficulties that appear to be unsurmountable to one degree or another.

[...] You are not healthy, for example, no matter how robust your physical condition, if your relationships are unhealthy, unsatisfying, frustrating, or hard to achieve. [...]