“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I noticed this and suggested she not read it, having in mind my recent experience with illness and my poring over the daily New York City newspapers. [...]

[...] You feel unsafe and ill-at-ease. [...]

[...] If you become ill, say, you may wonder why, and yet once illness has happened it becomes part of the body’s reality, and seems almost like an inevitable part of its experience.

(Jane has also recently received a phone call from a young husband in Franklin, LA, asking Seth’s help for his wife, who is very ill. [...]

[...] The drugs allowed him to permit himself a luxury that he could ill afford. [...]

(10:19.) Now, no person becomes ill unless that illness serves a psychic or psychological reason, so many people escape such complications. [...]

[...] At 10:14 in the 697th session for that work, he made this statement: “I will have more to say concerning illnesses, epidemics, and mass disorders in this book.”

To some degree, epidemics and recognized illnesses serve the sociological purpose of providing an acceptable reason for death — a face-saving device for those who have already decided to die. [...]

[...] No epidemic or illness or natural disaster — or stray bullet from a murderer’s gun — will kill a person who does not want to die.

He therefore drastically overemphasized your attitudes and moods during your illness. [...]

[...] He was terrified of doing anything that might make you ill, and determined to bear any worries or problems alone.

On some occasions long-term illnesses, for instance, are resolved suddenly through a dream. However, in most cases dreams prevent such chronic illnesses, providing through small therapeutics a constant series of minor but important personal revelations.

[...] If you happen to live in an area where the coordinate environment is strong, one of those areas I have spoken of as unusually conducive, then it will seem that you are deluged by illnesses or disasters, if these are the nature of your thoughts, because all thought is so fertile in this environment. [...]

(Just as I turned Jane on her side after the session, our neighbor Joe Bumbalo — who is very ill with cancer — called to invite me to share Chinese food and rhubarb pie with him and his wife, Margaret. [...]

[...] People respond with illnesses of one kind or another, or through exaggerated behavior.

We will be treating this same topic in our own sessions...imagine the ill plant as being able to use sunlight more effectively during the day and continuing to make use at night of that energy which has been absorbed. [...]

The plants in a house are also quite aware of the growing fetus; the plants will also pick up the fact that a member of the family is ill, often in advance of physical symptoms. [...]

Often, seriously ill people quite clearly recognize such feelings, but they have been taught not to speak of them. [...]

[...] This same process follows in many areas of all illnesses. [...]

(I felt somewhat better this evening, although I still haven’t recovered fully from the “illness” I began experiencing on October 27. [...]

[...] After your bout (of illness) I therefore suggested you go back to painting—which is important to you, and it is quite true that when you do not paint for a while you feel uneasy, and psychically out of balance. [...]

[...] In her case, she has been forming memory pictures of her childhood, and entering into them, and of days before the physical illness, and she has had help in these endeavors. [...] This is also a sort of spiritual therapy in her case, so that she loses the identification with illness, and does not carry it with her.

[...] You can have faith that you will be ill. [...]

[...] It was ill-formed, not certain, cluttered by questions like “If I am well, should I go on tour or shouldn’t I?” Or “Will I lose working time?” or whatever. [...]

[...] Over and over Marie told Jane that she was no good, that the daughter’s birth had caused the mother’s illness. [...]

[...] That mutual illness obviously became a deeply charged subject for both of them. [...]

[...] We hope that eventually our “fan mail” will serve as the foundation for a study concerning the ways in which society reacts to new ideas, through the viewpoints, say, of science, philosophy and psychology, religion, the “occult,” skepticism, generalized deep curiosity, and mental illness. [...]

I have said that in almost every case of severe dissatisfaction or illness the underlying reasons will not so much be found in the discovery or expression of buried hate or aggression—though these may be present—but in the search for valued expression of value fulfillment that is for one reason or another being denied. [...]

[...] He was not responsible for her marriage, its breakup, for his mother’s illness, again, or for the entire “tragedy” that he sees as his mother’s life. [...]

[...] Disinfectants and the symbolic chase after germs—these simply serve as a symbolic but helpful aid in ridding the atmosphere of the idea of illness.

[...] Only in his last ill year did he work for others. [...]