“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The possibility of creative change must always be present to insure the species’ resiliency, and that resiliency can show in many ways—in conditions that you consider deformities, disabilities from birth, or in any physical variation from a hypothetical physical norm. [...] Such differences or variations are very noticeable at a certain level, if you have more fingers than you are supposed to, or less, or two thumbs to a hand, or any other condition that is considered an abnormality.

[...] Again, you have free will in the conditions of your life, given the characteristics that are your own. [...]

(9:52.) There are mental conditions also: the so-called retarded people who do not use their reasoning minds as others do. [...]

[...] As certain conditions were met, however, before our sessions began, so certain conditions must be met before your experiments in other directions bear fruit. [...]

[...] You realize now that psychological conditions have their existence within electrical reality, and so certain frames of mind will then be duplicated within the electrical field.

[...] But many conditions are necessary for this transformation.

[...] Again, conditions must be met. [...]

You can, if the conditions warrant, physically rest by lying down or making whatever adjustments seem appropriate. [...] To tell yourself over and over that you are tired, however, reinforces the condition.

[...] The miraculous constant translation of spirit into flesh is carried on with inexhaustible energy by these inner portions of being, but in all cases the inner self looks to the conscious mind for its assessment of the body’s condition and reality, and forms the image in line with the conscious mind’s beliefs.

[...] But except for some conditions which will be mentioned later, you can become healthy if you are ill, slim if you are overweight, gain weight if you prefer, or alter your physical image in profound fashion through the use of your ideas and beliefs.

[...] The glasses can impede any such self-correction by providing a crutch that further weakens eye muscles, for example, and instead fixes the condition. [...]

“There is a condition of consciousness that is more awake than any you have ever known—a condition in which you are aware of your own waking and dreaming selves simultaneously. [...]

[...] This state can occur whether you are normally awake, “awake” in the sleep condition, or in a trance. [...]

[...] It is a healthy condition of almost complete relaxation, signifying the release of his physical system from the mental hold of fear that has made it comparatively rigid up until now.

[...] The body is now conditioning itself as it returns to normal—normal health and function. [...]

[...] There are many cycles that are involved—some connected with the two of you, with myself, or with other conditions quite apart.

Some of those conditions could be called the result of psychological atmospheres that surround the earth, say. [...]

[...] At Ruburt’s last visit to your dentist, both of you decided that his position was embarrassing, that it put you both in a bad light, that his condition spoke of invisible defects. [...]

[...] You did not particularly want to be seen with Ruburt in his condition. [...]

The belief is that if you frighten yourself badly enough through imagined projections and imagination, you will be frightened enough to change—but the nation or the individual following that method does not change for the better, but compounds the original condition, concentrates upon it until it looms larger than before. [...]

[...] You were too proud to show your defects, because in your eyes such defects are so horrendous, and Ruburt’s condition becomes the symbol for all of man’s physical distress, in your eyes.

[...] The night before he worries, and often consciously, that he will not be in good condition, and imaginatively then as a result, sees himself in poor condition. [...] Then he compares your health and vitality to his condition, and imagines you are impatient with him, since he quite literally drags his feet.

One of the gravest errors he makes is in thinking “How far from health I am,” when he compares what he wants to present physical conditions. [...]

He drags his feet because he does not want to go, because he is afraid that he will be in the poor condition that his imagination has gotten him into. [...]

[...] The overall condition is looser. [...]

Give us a moment … Some inventors, writers, scientists, artists, who are used to dealing with creative material directly, are quite aware of the fact that many of their productive ideas came from the dream condition. [...] Few understand, however, that private reality is like a finished product, rising out of the immense productivity that occurs in the dreaming condition. [...]

[...] Give us a moment … In those conditions the atoms pursue their own probable activities, and indeed make astounding calculations, bringing into your actuality the necessary probable actions to insure official life forms. [...] Your conscious intent is unconsciously brought into the dreaming condition, and that intent helps you sort the data. [...]

[...] However, the dreaming condition is consequently experienced in distorted form. [...]

[...] You are used to examining your dream state from the viewpoint of your “waking” condition, but some time in the dream state try to examine your normal waking reality. [...]

[...] Just not worrying about it immediately began to give you some financial gain, for in Framework 2 conditions were reversed, and the imagined impediments were not projected into the future. [...]

[...] So in certain terms everyone exists in Framework 2. Many people, however, live out their lives, practically speaking, in Framework 1. Ruburt’s physical condition has been most troublesome to you both, for in that area you have stressed impediments and felt a lack of control. [...]

Generally speaking, however, in handling Ruburt’s condition over the years, until lately you have concentrated your working efforts in Framework 1, while in all other areas you at least had a good foothold in Framework 2.

[...] In Framework 2, then, the same kind of extraordinary help is available in terms of physical condition. [...]

[...] Let me try again to explain a few points, mainly concerning Ruburt’s condition.

[...] As the ligaments and muscles in the legs activate, they are learning to work together under entirely different conditions.

[...] It is highly important that you continue thinking creatively in terms of his condition, of not being afraid to believe that he can indeed walk normally.

[...] At the same time, however, you must not be ever-checking Ruburt’s condition for the evidence.

[...] You apply these as rules or conditions whenever you examine any other kind of life. [...] It may not reflect upon its own condition. [...]

[...] When you learn to free yourselves from those dimensions to some extent, you are not simply duplicating or “returning” to some vaster condition, but adding a new element to that condition. [...]

[...] You would of course destroy life as you know it, and in your terms bring to an end, if the conditions were right (or wrong), life forms with which you are familiar. [...]

[...] Your emotional intent and your belief will direct the functioning of your cells and (emphatically) bring out in them those properties and inherent abilities that will ensure such a condition. [...]

[...] Suggestions I give are always couched to his condition at the time given, in your terms. [...]

[...] For both of your benefits, it is important that you realize he has improved since that picture was taken that you saw tonight, and that you understand that the physical condition can be remedied. [...]

Your conscious mind is meant to give your body an assessment of what I will call cultural conditions, for there are sophistications and specifications that in your terms consciousness alone can assess. If, under conditions naturally safe in the terms of primary experience, you become overwhelmed by unsafe signals from secondary experience — that is, from your reading or whatever — you show a lack of discrimination. [...]

[...] Not only did they have no wrong intent, but the overall condition corrected the earth’s balance.

[...] Each animal knows that under certain conditions the other may fight or posture aggressively, or defend its nest. [...]

[...] But the body depends on the conscious mind to give it a clear assessment of precise conditions of the space and time it occupies. [...]

[...] I’ve found myself waking up early in the morning, stewing about her condition; usually I get up and eat breakfast alone, then call Jane by ten AM. [...]

[...] I said I needed reinforcement myself over my fears about her condition, and she answered that she might have to initiate a program of walking with the table, soon, if she didn’t spontaneously start doing more walking.

[...] So it seems to him that he does not see people because he is ashamed of his physical condition.

[...] The fact is of course that the feelings existed before the physical condition.

[...] There were many questions he asked himself about his mother’s condition in particular (Marie is a bedridden arthritic), and about such situations in general, and he did indeed allow himself to go along on one level to provide an extraordinary impetus that he felt would be needed to conquer such extraordinary conditions.

[...] Earlier this afternoon I’d repeated my own grim assertion that putting oneself in Jane’s condition because of a fear of others, or the world at large, was untenable, and that I’d never stand for it. [...]

(I’m quite aware that many of my own questions in this vein spring from insights gained through Jane’s condition — just as Seth referred to such goals on Jane’s part. [...]

[...] Now they have been directed toward Ruburt’s condition. The condition will vanish automatically if these ends are met. [...]

[...] Unfortunately there were side effects from my methods, that make Ruburt’s condition an impediment to the very plans I want.

(Pause at 9:40.) These themselves led you to concentrate on his condition here. [...]

[...] Now I state my purposes and conditions plainly. [...]

Before we get to your questions: if you want any more sessions from me on this matter, then each of you are to keep a list of any improvements you notice in Ruburt’s condition. [...]

In trying to show him his realistic condition in the face of such ideas you end up by making him believe also that they are unrealistic, stupid, and that he should not need challenges but only the simple joy of walking across the floor.

[...] He has gone ahead despite, in this case, your negative interpretation, and seen himself under certain conditions traveling in a trailer, writing, granted, but in front of strangers in a bathing suit or shorts, and he does not want to look like a bony witch. [...]

[...] That was the summer of which we have spoken, and the conditions did not continue for the reasons given.

It is easy to see how people at the hospital, for example, speak constantly of the power of infection, the need to take steps against it before it develops, and so forth, and the little stress laid on the body’s natural ability to ward off such conditions. (Long pause.) There are times when circumstances make some conditions more palatable than others, times when a trip to an emergency room is quite necessary. [...]

By all means, as much as possible forget the name, conditions and expectations given to Ruburt’s group of symptoms. [...]

[...] Certain alternate muscular cooperations were set up that served to keep overall muscular functions going, and kept the body walking under impaired conditions. [...]

This will allow the body to dismiss some of the alternate muscular cooperation set up, that served to support the body under poor conditions. [...]

[...] Ruburt is aware of many of these sensations, so that he consciously will have some knowledge of how his own body works, and will be able from now on to have a greater conscious knowledge of its condition. [...]

[...] The body’s condition followed precisely as I said it would when last I discussed it. [...]