“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] If the self accepts the symptoms, and in all cases of illness to some extent or another this is true, then paradoxically a portion of the self identifies with the symptoms.

Now in some cases a physical illness is the best solution for various reasons having to do with reincarnational influences, and the inner lack of balance of the personality. [...]

[...] Your illness was a shock to him, and he has been afraid of doing anything that would make you feel insecure.

[...] He was also frightened because of your illness, and literally afraid to make a move. [...]

It may be advantageous, though this is a small point, to change the living room furniture to a position that it has not been in since his illness, you see. [...]

[...] Each person has his own built in defense mechanism against your ill will. And while your ill will, and the ill will of each of you, carries some charge, it is not nearly strong enough to upset the balance of a personality who is determined to accept their own feelings and live their own lives. [...]

An illness, as an impeding action for example, may nevertheless be a constructive action at any given time, in that it may prevent action within the personality from following more destructive actions. When this destructive possibility has passed however, an illness that is still maintained would therefore become a definite impeding action; for any seemingly impeding action cannot be judged alone, but in the context of other action elements of which any given personality is involved.

[...] An illness is the result of an impeding action, generally speaking, but there are exceptions to this case, as others.

Distortions in many ways are simply truths appearing in ill-fitting clothes. [...]

[...] Today by telephone Nancy verified Seth, in that her mother is seriously ill at Mayo Clinic; the mother has been ill for some time, but was not, for instance, the last time Jane talked to Nancy, sometime prior to the 358th Session. [...]

[...] Years ago, when it looked—generally speaking, now: I am simplifying—as if you might be swallowed by Artistic, you rebelled and became ill. [...]

[...] And if that happened, he feared that you might retaliate, either by becoming ill, or by becoming eventually cool to him.

[...] Illness will increase. [...] Of course, his body does not realize that the pessimist’s views are the most intelligent, proper, sane and reasonable, and so it falls ill because the mind tells the body it has nothing to look forward to.

[...] Ruburt thought it was natural for him to become ill because of his background, and to overreact for the same reason. [...]

[...] When you realize that health and abundance are natural, and illness and limitation unnatural, then you are free, free to develop, to use what you have, to give and take.

[...] Now he thinks he punishes his body for being ill by not allowing it pleasure with you in intimate relations. [...]

To some extent illness has been used by you both in a constructive manner. [...] Your illness was then used by Ruburt to bring to the surface of his mind deeply-rooted fears that had been festering beneath. Your illness served this purpose for you also. [...]

[...] An individual may have a serious illness in one life. [...]

[...] Marian Spaziani has some, though slight, trouble with arthritis and it was her daughter who became ill mentally. [...]

[...] The similarities alone made it easy for Ruburt to be sensitized on Muriel’s behalf and to clairvoyantly observe the illness. [...]

[...] Much of this was used in immediate repair, and in a complete reversal of the illness-health cycle; that is, the symptoms were not allowed to worsen. [...]

The morning symptoms here represented in concentrated form the vanishing power of the illness that swept him through, the vanishing force of what was an all-day condition at one time. [...]

[...] A change in the husband’s attitude will affect the attitude of the ill woman.

[...] She does not realize that she has the energy to triumph over this illness. [...]

[...] Our 16-year-old cat, Willy, had first shown signs of illness last summer. [...]

[...] If you knew in precise terminology how you grew physically from a fetus to an adult, if you could consciously follow that process, you would not necessarily be better off, but possibly hindered in your growth; for you would begin to question: “Am I doing this right?” The perfection of the process would make you ill at ease.

[...] Following such ideas, you end up with segregations in which the ill, being powerless, are isolated; the criminals are kept together; and the old are held in institutions or in cultural ghettos with their own kind. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

But the body has its own integrity, and illness is often simply a natural sign of imbalance, a physical message to which you are to listen and make inner adjustments accordingly.

For these thoughts set up charges that oftentimes cannot be used effectively by the physical organism, and when excesses of such charges occur an illness develops. This is not to say however that illness can be treated using electromagnetics though in the future, the distant future, this may be practical.

Illnesses must be treated primarily however by changing the basic mental habits, for unless this is done the trouble will erupt time and time again in different guises. [...]

[...] Ruburt for example feels obligated to tell correspondents with health difficulties to see the established authorities, certainly those with serious illnesses. [...]

[...] He became frightened in particular when he feared that his relationship with Prentice might make you ill.

[...] You may dislike your illness, but it is a course you have decided upon. [...]

(9:40.) We will speak about health and illness more specifically later in the book. [...]

[...] Illness for a child, a croup. [...]

(We do not know about a croup illness for a child.