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They quickly learn to forget their parts in such episodes, so that later, when as adults they find themselves ill they not only forget that they caused the illness to begin with, but unfortunately they forget how to will themselves well again.

(10:43.) Give us a moment… Most people interpret the realities of their lives, their triumphs and failures, their health or illness, their fortune or misfortune, then, in the light of a mythical reality that is not understood as such. [...]

[...] You must either look for reasons outside of yourselves to explain what seems to be nature’s ill intent at such times, or its utter lack of concern.

[...] More ill-defined perhaps.” [...] Something ill-defined, not formalized, etc., applies here.

[...] More ill-defined, perhaps.

The pieces to the puzzle are at mankind’s fingertips, but he has put together an awkward, ill-fitting miniature model universe of a puzzle with which he is afraid to part. [...]

In all instances of ill health, the psychic inner forces are being misdirected. [...]

[...] Since her illness then, Seth has dealt with her to varying degrees on February 17, as well as in the 29th, 31st, 33rd, 44th, 46th, 54th, and 56th sessions, among others. [...]

[...] She has been quite weak since the onset of her illness, and lately has looked weaker since doing everything for herself. [...]

[...] He became ill, generally speaking, for the same reason.

If a desire for health leads to an emphasis upon symptoms to be overcome, you would be better off to avoid all thoughts of health or illness, and concentrate in another direction such as work. [...]

“In the cats’ deaths, both cats inherited the peculiar illness, which was a virus, that killed them. [...]

“Your dog’s illness was incipient. [...]

[...] If you chose illness, again there is a probable reality ready for initiation in which you choose health. [...]

(“Connection with a fall, or something falling,” Both Jane and I felt at once that this referred to my falling ill with the virus, on March 24,1965. [...] I literally fell ill, falling in a faint upon arising one morning. In addition, Jane had a vivid dream in which I fell ill in the same manner, perhaps a week before the event. [...]

[...] They could also be ill-used, and so the energy should then be directed outward, as indeed it is since the supper hour so shortly follows.

The ideal may be specific, then, or ill-defined, and man’s idea of “the good” varies considerably. [...]

[...] Seth’s reference to the poor and nationalized health care referred to material Jane had picked up from him during the day; The poor were actually better off as they are now, without such a national health-care plan, for as it is they’re isolated from and immune to a number of ills they would start falling prey to if they could afford to pay for such treatment—that is, if the costs were paid for them. [...]

There is a belief in illness as being morally wrong, and a countering belief in it as being ennobling, uplifting and spiritually good. These value judgments are extremely important, for they will be reflected in your own experience with any illness or disease.

Here, when you became ill, he saw you were not omnipotent. [...]

We will then end the session, and at our earliest convenience take up the other matter before us: the ill woman and her husband. [...]

[...] During the session Seth discussed Billy’s illness to some extent, while also giving the first “installment” of an answer to a longstanding question of mine: I was curious about the relationship between the host — whether human, animal, or plant — and a disease it might contract, one that was “caused,” say, by a virus. [...]

[...] Some cultures have believed that illnesses were caused by demons. [...]

1. We were shocked because Billy’s unexpected — and serious — illness reminded us of the almost universally accepted view that life is terribly vulnerable. [...]

So if Jane undergoes illness in this reality, in another she does not—but in between those extremes she also explores all stages of her illness in a series of probable universes, flashing among them in “no time at all,” basically…. [...] In others I am the one who becomes ill! [...]

[...] Forty-one days have now passed since Jane left the hospital, and this passage of “time” alone has given us more perspective on the whole affair of her illness, and on our beliefs, intents, and desires.

However, Jane and I don’t particularly think that in our present lives we’ve been that greatly influenced by any successes, failures, or illnesses chosen from other lives except in the broadest of terms: general bodily and personality characteristics and abilities, say. [...]

[...] For us, the learning processes were there for the changing anytime we decided that a physical illness was “wrong.” [...]

(A number of events, foremost among them the death of Jane’s mother after an illness of many years, caused us to lay these sessions aside after Seth finished his preface on April 10. [...]

Your body does not just happen to be thin or fat, tall or short, healthy or ill. [...]

[...] In his material after 11:23 especially, Seth discusses the doctor-patient relationship, and the feelings of powerlessness that can beset the individual during times of illness.

[...] It follows, then, that a number of the sessions in that book either deal with health and illness, or with subjects that approach those topics in various ways. [...]

[...] They are ill, unhappy, dissatisfied, and without your feelings of achievement or inner accomplishment. [...]

[...] But except for some conditions which will be mentioned later, you can become healthy if you are ill, slim if you are overweight, gain weight if you prefer, or alter your physical image in profound fashion through the use of your ideas and beliefs.

Now: Dictation: You constantly give yourself suggestions about your body, your health or ill health. [...]

Some of my descriptive passages in Dreams as I deal with Jane’s personal challenges are harrowing; they strike at the very heart of our fears of illness and disability, and even death, leading us to consciously face those possibilities while at the same time they perfectly mirror our equally profound inner needs and drives. [...]

[...] He did not cause his mother’s illness by his birth. [...]