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[...] All of this is quite aside from the exterior energy crisis. [...] There is not an energy crisis. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) One crisis after another may arise to gain our attention. [...]

[...] And as I was to see, even for all of the pessimistic suggestions of medical science itself, in the very middle of crisis there was a certain indisputable sense of cooperation—a “vulgar” physical optimism, and a kind of humor that I had long forgotten existed.

[...] We’d made the conscious, joint decision during a time of crisis to seek certain kinds of help from skilled practitioners in the medical field, and we were willing to learn from them, even if those people were pretty certain to have belief systems very different from ours. [...]

[...] To numbers of such individuals crisis points come and are conquered. [...]

(Pause at 10:13.) A life crisis is formed. [...] It is an emotionally-charged position, an imminent crisis. [...]

For a while there was a severe crisis, which passed, when he had difficulty writing, even, and we have discussed this, the conflict of images. [...]

“Thus far, however, the old habits have returned, and for all of your joint good intents the idea of bringing things to a crisis point is still far less beneficial than it might appear. [...]

End at 9:25 P.M. The “crisis point” Seth referred to revolved around the continuous efforts Jane and I had been making to help her; see the opening notes for the session. [...]

[...] Unconsciously, therefore, you chose a situation in which a crisis was precipitated, rousing all the greatest elements of heart and soul, so that they must strain to understand, to perceive, to triumph. [...]

[...] They are forcing the issue, and forcing the crisis, for you still have time to change your ways. [...]

The crisis is a kind of therapy, however. [...]

[...] I didn’t think it was a life-or-death crisis, but the result of our conversations lately, and the sessions, the panic attacks, and so forth. [...]

(The class discussed the Cornell University crisis [the armed “take-over”], including some facts which had previously appeared in the various media in distorted form.)

Crisis Points, the Mechanics of Self-Healing, and the Psyche.
False Sympathy
Often the patient doesn’t want to get well, and the doctor knows it.

[...] Seth also told Peg there was some data she would need, that she would request it herself, about the crisis in her own life approximately 6 years from now.

(Seth said his use of the word crisis didn’t necessarily mean that there would be disastrous circumstances, but again he didn’t elaborate. [...]

(Yesterday Jane had what was probably her worst day yet—very uncomfortable indeed; she was in “a crisis situation,” as she put it. [...]

[...] But crisis time was here, and something had to be done. [...]

Bill Macdonnel, coming at this time of year, did remind him of the first sessions and the ESP book and the tooth incident, caused physically by the sinuses, was a message that the time was crucial, a crisis. [...]

Both of us had been wondering about the crisis Seth had mentioned for Miss Cunningham on April 15. [...]

[...] Today or rather late this evening, before 2:00 A.M. in the morning, she will undergo a severe crisis, and rapid deterioration of brain tissue will result. [...]

[...] In periods of great physical stress it draws upon the powers of the body and inner self to perform remarkable feats of heroism — that leave it wondering afterward at the power and energy of the self in crisis.

[...] Consciousness finds itself in a crisis situation; not [because of one coming] from the exterior world, but because it is forced to fight on a battleground for which it was never designed and cannot understand, where basically counted-upon allies of association, memory and organization, and all the powers of the inner self, are suddenly turned into enemies.

That grouping has been disintegrating since the crisis point last winter. [...]

[...] It may then indeed seem to the individual himself or herself that the health crisis is being thrust upon them, unwanted, despite their own wishes or intents. [...]

[...] I was constantly appalled and amazed that she’d let her seemingly hopeless condition and situation drag on day after day, until such a crisis point as we now faced was reached, where we now had little room to maneuver. [...]

Any serious illness possible or probable in Ruburt’s present existence would have occurred in his youth, at the age of 15, when a severe psychic crisis threatened. [...]

[...] In some respects under usual circumstances at least, Ruburt is more proficient than you, but in times of crisis he reverts and runs full steam ahead on limited energy; often quite automatically he transforms available and abundant psychic energy for his own purposes, and later forgets how he has done it.