“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Sometimes such cases are handled within another framework, in which Augustus would be considered possessed by an independent “evil” entity whenever Augustus Two took over. Now again, if Augustus somehow changed his beliefs it is possible that even within that framework some kind of cure would be effected. But at the same time the dangers and difficulties would make such a cure relatively impossible.

An analyst might consider Augustus as schizophrenic and label him neatly, but such terms are basically meaningless. If the analyst, over a period of time, should convince Augustus that his condition in the present resulted from some specific inhibited event in the past, and if the analyst was an intuitive and understanding man, then Augustus might change his beliefs enough so that some kind of “cure” was worked. He would then conveniently remember such an event and display the expected emotions as he re-experienced it. Unfortunately in his present state, powerless as it were without Augustus Two, he might also simply call on his “alter ego” to show the good doctor that he was no one to trifle with.

Dictation: Luckily the human mind and body are far more flexible, durable and creative than ever given credit for. Many cases like Augustus’s never come to light. The individuals involved cure themselves. Sometimes this is done when such a person chooses to undergo a traumatic experience — often one part of the personality will plan this quite deliberately while the other portion closes its eyes. These events can seem to be disasters or near disasters, and yet they can sufficiently mobilize the entire personality for survival’s sake. In a moment of high critical tension the personality may put itself together again.

There are various kinds and stages in such cases. Each individual is unique. Sometimes the framework includes another method of cure, in which portions of each conflicting side of the personality break off to form a clearer psychological structure which can communicate with the other two, act as a referee, and reconcile the opposing beliefs held by each.

[...] A cure of any kind will never depend upon any given treatment. It will in all cases depend upon the belief on the part of the sufferer that he can be cured. It will depend upon his desire to be cured. [...] It will depend upon, in the last analysis, the individual’s own ability to mobilize his own energies, for only these will effect a cure.

The ulcer simply can be cured, but this will involve on the part of the personality a disciplined program of self-understanding. [...] Instead what is advisable is a gradual but definite program that will result in a legitimate and a long-lasting cure.

[...] If he can see that he is indeed responsible for the condition of his physical body in the most practical manner possible, then it will be much easier for him to picture his own cure.

[...] That means that Ruburt must be so exceptional as to cure himself, when the fact is that people cure themselves every day without fanfare. [...]

The cured person becomes a convert to a new way of life. When there are no cures, or patients do not respond, or they slide back into old ways, the doctor-author simply says they are not ready to take the steps necessary, or they have taken them half-heartedly. And many who are cured, of course, come down with other conditions if they have not succeeded in identifying their own fears sufficiently with the author’s.

[...] It was advertised in the National Enquirer: “A Doctor’s Proven New Home Cure for Arthritis,” by Giraud W. Campbell, Doctor of Osteopathy.Jane began to read through it at once, out of curiosity if nothing else, and discovered that it called for a very rigid diet. [...]

[...] Those who are cured are at a certain state when they approach the author, as mentioned earlier, feeling helpless after medical treatments that did not work—feeling that there is something wrong with them. [...]

[...] It made me wonder just how many ills are treated in this way, with the “cure” being given to the patient through conventional treatment, where if the patient understood what mechanisms were operating within, the cure could be attained without medical intervention. [...]

[...] It seemed to be just like one of the many so-called cures that raised hopes only to dash them. [...]

While you believe that only doctors can cure you, you had better go to them, because in the framework of your beliefs they are the only people who can help you. But the framework itself is limiting; and again, while you may be cured of one difficulty, you will only replace it with another as long as your beliefs cause you to have physical problems.

[...] If through the concentrated use of psychic energy your body is cured by such a healer, you will also simply trade those symptoms for others unless you change your initial beliefs. [...]

[...] Lately the body has again made attempts to cure itself, as left alone all bodies will. [...] You must each believe—Ruburt more than you, obviously—that a complete cure is possible. [...]

[...] The body’s ability now to cure itself is the important point, however.

[...] Additional energy is usually available to him during spring season, and it must be used to facilitate a complete cure.

[...] He must fully expect a complete cure and release from symptoms. [...]

[...] Therefore, imagined healings were utilized, in which a physical illness was imaginatively cured — and in those days the cures worked.

[...] The natural healing that often occurs in the dream state is undone in the waking state, in which any such cure is seen as “miraculous” and against “the rules.”

On occasion, definite physical cures happen in the dream state, even though you may think that you are intellectual and knowing when you are awake, and ignorant or half-insane in your dreams. [...]

Now: you read an article about a child suddenly cured of arthritis by a healer, and you wondered about it. [...]

[...] Now that knowledge is a part of that child’s experience, and the cure will be the great event of his life, in that it will always be in the back of his mind as he grows. [...]

This is why many so-called spiritual cures ricochet.

[...] In still another existence the individual might decide to be a doctor, to seek a cause and a cure for the same disease.

[...] You can cure yourself of an “incurable” disease if you realize that your point of power is in the present.

If a doctor tells you you have a particular disease and names it, then tells you he has something to cure it, your belief may cure it. [...]

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

[...] Usually, now, your entire medical systems literally generate as much disease as is cured — for you are everywhere hounded by the symptoms of various diseases, and filled with the fear of disease, overwhelmed by what seems to be the body’s propensity toward illness — and nowhere is the body’s vitality or natural defense system stressed.”

[...] These scientists are on record as stating that such X-raying may cause more breast cancer than it cures. [...]

They may have been “cured” whether or not they had treatment, and gone on to lead productive lives. [...]

[...] You may be cured of a particular disease, but unless you learn more about the dynamics of your being, you will simply “fall prey” to another. [...]

(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. [...]

Rest or sleep cures — very extended sleep periods — have been helpful for therapy in some cases, not because extended sleep is in itself beneficial, but because so many toxins had built up that such extended periods were required. [...]