“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

He tried to loosen the hampering bedding, and could not, but a doctor —a young man—came to his aid, loosened the bedding. The doctor represents newer beliefs, and the spontaneous nature of the self, which can act so much more effectively with those new beliefs.

[...] You may lose faith in your doctor while still retaining confidence in doctors as a whole, and run from one to another.

[...] In some other civilizations, and particularly in the past as you think of it, witch doctors operated within a context of nature accepted by all. The witch doctor, while initiating natural forces on behalf of his patient, who seemed momentarily unable to do so, was then returning the patient to the source of himself and reviving his own buried sense of power. [...]

[...] The doctors accept this mandate since they share the same framework of belief, so the medical profession obviously needs patients as badly as the ill need the hospitals. [...]

The voodoo and the healer, the witch doctor and the priest, are all held in honor, yet are also looked upon with a certain terror because of the power and knowledge involved. [...]

[...] The same as she reported for the middle finger, by the way, though the doctors here paid no attention to what she said. [...]

LETTER TO DOCTOR HENRY N. WILLIAMS

[...] (That had been my somewhat amused speculation to begin with.) We’ve gotten a flurry—a small blizzard—of bills from doctors during the last few days.

[...] “If the infection in that ulcer on your coccyx reaches the bone, it means at least a six-week stay in the hospital,” exclaimed Jane’s principal doctor, Rita Mandali (not her real name). [...]

[...] Jane’s thyroid gland, Dr. Mandali finally told her, has simply ceased functioning, so the doctor has begun a program of cautiously rejuvenating my wife’s endocrine system, and thus all of her bodily processes, with a synthetic thyroid hormone in pill form (a low 50 micrograms to start). [...]

[...] She might have added that she also laughed because neither did she have a brain tumor, cancer, vasculitis [an inflammation of the blood vessels], or any of several other diseases the doctors thought might be present. [...]

…An excitement of the heart… Dr. Instream will die of an excitement of the heart… 5 2 7 levels… Doctor Brownallen… Brownaline… Allen Brown, the doctor. [...]

[...] I am not saying here that many doctors and nurses do not try their best to promote healing, and certainly healings occur — but they do so despite the system and not because of it. In many cases the belief of a doctor in a person who is ill revives him and rearouses his own belief in himself. The patient’s confidence in the doctor will then reinforce the entire medical procedure, and he may then be filled with faith in his recovery. [...]

[...] The sick and their doctors both work on that principle.

The individual is made to feel powerless, at the mercy of doctors or nurses who often do not have the time or energy to be personable, or to explain his [or her] condition in terms that he can understand. [...]

The old witch doctors operated within the surroundings of nature, utilizing its great healing ability, directing its practical and symbolic qualities in a creative fashion.

Your doctor friend is still about, due to an extended rest period (Dr. Pietra); once again and for the last time until autumn conditions are good this time, particularly for an apparition. [...]

[...] The impetus of seeing your doctor friend can be enough however to bypass the lack of training in this instance. [...]

[...] In that probable reality however your doctor friend did not meet a probable Jane.

[...] It did not involve your doctor.

[...] The doctors had always acted doubtful, and professed pity, and the child recognized their feelings of hopelessness. [...]

The child becomes a teacher for the parents, for the doctors who treated him, for the people who read the Enquirer, and for all the people who will meet the child as he matures. [...]

[...] That mental vitality led him to trust his body once again, and to act in direct contradiction to those previous beliefs of the doctors, family, friends, and society that had so bound him.

[...] [Jane calls the good doctor Instream in The Seth Material, C1970.]

I would like to give my greetings to Doctor Instream.

[...] For these are not, dear Doctor, these are not sudden unnatural occurrences.

[...] Then the sort of evidence with which you are concerned, Doctor, can be obtained. [...]

“Generally speaking, for example, if you are seriously worried about a physical condition, go to a doctor, because your own beliefs may overfrighten you otherwise. [...]

[...] If I had broken a leg I would have gone to a doctor to get it set. [...]

(9:25.) I still must have needed the doctors to tell me so. [...]

Doctors had terrified me as a child, when my mother was already bedridden with arthritis, and when I was diagnosed as having an overactive thyroid gland—an affliction that could lead, so my mother told me, to insanity and death. [...]

First of all—this is not the object—I pick up the impression of a merge of some kind, in which our Doctor is involved.

[...] The events having to do with a doctor of some sort.

I pick up the initial D, but do not know unfortunately whether the D applies to doctor, or if the D is a name initial. [...]

Before the shoe data, with the material having to do with a doctor I think of, rather oddly, of a connection to a flamingo, which seems rather bizarre.

[...] I told her that at lunch time John Bumbalo had called and said that his father wouldn’t be going home for a while: the doctor has found an infection in a lung. [...]

[...] They may become professional patients, favorites of their doctors because of their wit and repartee in the face of their affliction. [...]

Now: The young man, an assistant to a famous doctor, wrote and requested a session (on November 13, 1972). [...]

[...] He left the guru to follow the doctor. [...]

[...] The doctor offered greater freedom and the hope that perhaps chemically the doors to truth, within his own soul at least, could be opened. [...]

[...] The doctor suggested that he face himself by taking another massive dose, and though he did not want to, he acquiesced.

You would have made an excellent doctor, for example. [...]

The doctor, you see, that you might have been and are not in this system, once dreamed of a probable universe in which he would be an artist. [...]

[...] The doctor obviously has his own ego, though not within your system.

[...] She saw her doctor briefly in hydro.

[...] Jane and I soon noticed the negative suggestions her doctor had given her, as she talked with us. [...]

Seth told us that Rob’s doctor probable self was a Doctor Pietra. [...] He has no conscious knowledge of wanting to be a doctor as a child, but in painting he always emphasized body structure and form.

[...] Projections can also occur from these — that is, you may, for example, project into the life of the doctor. (I am using you and the doctor as an example. [...]

[...] You would have made an excellent doctor, for example. [...]

[...] The doctor you might have been once dreamed of a probable universe in which he would be an artist. [...]

[...] She said she’d even thought of asking her doctor for help — “except that I stay away from doctors as much as possible,” she said with a half laugh.

[...] At best the public service announcements introduce the doctor as mediator: You are supposed to take your body to a doctor as you take your car to a garage, to have its parts serviced. [...]

The doctor is like a biological mechanic, who knows your body far better than you. [...] Many dedicated doctors use medical technology with spiritual understanding, and they are themselves the victims of the beliefs they hold.

At this time many more doctors disagree than agree with the need for prophylactic mastectomies. [...]

(After tonight’s session, and echoing my own ideas of how adamant Jane was becoming about the medical scene, I said that it would be ironic indeed if her encounters with the medical establishment furnished the final great impetus she needed to divest herself of the symptoms and inflate recovery; anything to get away from the massively negative pronouncement of the doctors, to dump old ideas, to set the body free to heal itself. [...]

[...] He feared that his own strong disinclination was simply the result of negative conditioning, and because he was interested in the doctor’s opinions, since this would be the first specialist in that field of arthritis—that he would have a chance to talk to, with all tests completed, and so forth. [...]

That was, of course, no coincidence, and helped provide you at least with a feeling of extra support, by reminding you that there are doctors who were not blindfolded completely, but were quite open to new beliefs. [...]