“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In many instances, therefore, modern physicians are inadequate witch doctors who have forgotten their craft — hypnotists who no longer believe in the power of healing, and whose suggestions bring about other diseases which are diagnosed in advance.

[...] Their concentration is upon disease, not health.

[...] When disease is seen as an invader, forced upon the integrity of the self for no reason, then the individual seems powerless and the conscious mind an adjunct. [...]

To a medical man all of this will seem like the sheerest heresy, because disease will always be seen as an objective thing in the body, to be objectively treated and removed. [...]

[...] This may mean the incidence of a disease, but the disease may save a person’s sanity. [...]

[...] All of the equipment is there, and there are no disease elements. [...]

In between excellent health and death through disease, in between wealth and perhaps gluttony, and poverty and starvation, in between a glittering social existence, the comfort of a family, and the utter loneliness of isolation, there are literally infinite variations and gradations of behavior, according to individual differences and prerogatives. [...]

[...] Had the same number of people been found dead (pause) of a vicious disease — smallpox or whatever — the virus involved would have been the villain. [...]

[...] Basically (underlined), when you have an immunity to a disease you have a mental immunity.

[...] But the body’s chemistry is also confused, for it “knows” it is reacting to a disease that is not “a true disease,” but a biologically counterfeit intrusion.

[...] It may at the same time produce antibodies also, for example, to other “similar” diseases, and so overextend its defenses that the individual later comes down with another disease.

(Emphatically:) Many people who would not get the disease in any case are then religiously inoculated with it. The body is exerted to use its immune system to the utmost, and sometimes, according to the inoculation, overextended [under such] conditions.⁴ Those individuals who have psychologically decided upon death will die in any case, of that disease or another, or of the side effects of the inoculation.

When you consider epidemics to be the result of viruses, and emphasize their biological stances, then it seems that the solutions are very obvious: You learn the nature of each virus and develop an inoculation, giving [each member of] the populace a small dose of the disease so that a man’s own body will combat it, and he will become immune.

Write notes up tomorrow on the gal with Hodgkin’s disease. [...]

If on the other hand you carry the idea too far — that illness can also be a learning process — then you can fall into the other extreme, glorifying sickness or disease as a necessary ennobling experience in which the body is purged so that the soul can be saved.

[...] The poor, then, following these beliefs, are looked down upon as are the diseased.

[...] This meant, I told her, that she didn’t have to think of herself as having “an incurable disease.” [...] I can already see how her healing is going to influence future books, or notes I may write—for I’ll have to explain how the diagnosis of arthritis came about in the medical profession, how erroneous it was, and why we went along with it for so long, while all the time knowing, or at least feeling, that it wasn’t so, that there was more involved than Jane having “an incurable disease.” [...]

[...] Certain “diseases” are protections against other diseases, and the body on its own is its own excellent regulator.

[...] The body’s systems know what diseases are in the air, so to speak, and will often set up countermeasures ahead of time, giving you what you experience as an indisposition of one kind or another—but an indisposition that is actually a statement of prevention against another condition.

These impressions also included some statements concerning the origin of the disease that killed Peter. [...] But the characteristic symptoms of the disease I gave also described Peter’s condition accurately. [...] Since this information was correct, there is no reason to suppose that the impressions concerning the disease’s causes were wrong, though they are unknown. [...]

But what about serious diseases—and where does reincarnation fit into the picture? [...]

“The disease cannot be reversed physically. [...]

[...] This itself will give her a breathing spell, when the disease will cease its progression. [...]

[...] He adopted the same symptoms if not the disease itself.

He did not adopt the disease itself.

(10:36.) Your medical technology may help you “conquer” one disease after another — some in fact caused by that same technology — and you will feel very efficient as you do heart transplants, as you fight one virus after another. But all of this will do nothing except to allow people to die, perhaps, of other diseases still “unconquered.” [...]

[...] It would seek out people who were healthy and learn from them how to promote health, and not how to diagram disease.

[...] Anyway a group of us were to be given a pill or some such that was actually a vaccine against some disease—perhaps polio. [...]

[...] And if you lie to yourselves about your feelings or gloss them over, then you cannot begin to understand the spiritual reality for you will use it instead as an aspirin to cover up the symptoms of disease both mental, spiritual and psychic. [...]

Those same unfortunate beliefs, feelings, and attitudes are also present to a lesser degree, and in different mixtures, in the cases of life-endangering diseases. [...]

These attitudes are often present in certain cases of cancer, severe heart problems, or other diseases that actually threaten life itself.

Since Ruburt’s mother had often spoken most vehemently of Ruburt’s birth being a source of disease, that is her arthritis, and pain, subconsciously Ruburt feared on a basic level that his mother wished to punish him for causing her such pain.

[...] Quite simply arthritis, despite its being in his family, is not one of the diseases which will ever bother him.

[...] Last week he’d said himself that Jane’s eyes were good, that she had no eye disease, or glaucoma, etc. [...]

[...] In that no eye disease as such was responsible. [...]

The physical condition itself, on that level (pause), is caused (long pause) by “improper” relationships—that is, things not working together well, though the parts themselves are not diseased, per se—and that is the result of stress, habitually applied, of bodily habits. [...]

[...] He had severe heart disease. [...]

[...] In actuality, however, most of you believe — and experience — a far different picture, in which the body must be protected at all costs from a natural leaning toward disease and poor health. [...]

[...] When such seeming miracles occur, it is because you have transcended your usual official beliefs about your body and its health, and disease, and so allowed nature to take its course. [...]

The child would not be run over by a car, for example, or pick up diseases from other children in school when he grew. [...]

The disease showed itself early. [...]

A disease of course is not brought about at any particular point in time, but is latent, and merely becomes perceivable enough to cause danger at what approximates a particular point in time. Psychologically there exists within a given individual the latent leaning toward a multitudinous variety of so-called diseases, these tendencies being picked up through early conditioning and environment.

He would be convinced so of the diagnosis, that a disease that he might have escaped would be brought to physical manifestation. [...]