“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] When you became ill, he realized that no other human being could be used in such a way.

He also felt, as mentioned earlier, that emotionalism on his part brought you ill fortune in Florida. [...]

[...] A remark that I’d made, to the effect that her illness has probably cost us at least half a dozen books over the years, elicited a response from her; she brought it up today, in fact. [...]

When you were ill and did not have sexual relations often, he feared that his desires then could even lead him to physical unfaithfulness, and so on all counts the habit of repression and of physical repression also built up. [...]

[...] I reminded her of the stories one hears about the chronically ill, who run from doctor to doctor with no intention of getting well, because their illness serves purposes in the present. [...]

Ruburt’s illness at our unscheduled session was simply caused by a sudden inner panic, brought about because of his realization that the session was more complete than usual.

[...] Bill has been ill recently and has not maintained his advertised schedule, which has resulted in some confusion.

[...] He is driven to violent action only as a last resort — and illness often is that last resort.

[...] Usually, now, your entire medical systems literally generate as much disease as is cured — for you are everywhere hounded by the symptoms of various diseases, and filled with the fear of disease, overwhelmed by what seems to be the body’s propensity toward illness — and nowhere is the body’s vitality or natural defense system stressed.”

(Due to illness, the witnesses scheduled for this session did not appear.

(4:30.) For all of man’s fear of disease, however, the species has never been destroyed by it, and life has continued to function with an overall stability, despite what certainly seems to be the constant harassment and threat of illness and disease. [...]

[...] We talked about Jane’s illness, our insurance challenges, money in general and the medical profession in particular. [...]

[...] Dissatisfactions and illnesses then often result as the personality tries to go in two directions at once, and to please both the private and the public parts of its experience. [...]

When someone who has been ill starts on the road to recovery through changing his beliefs, he may be quite surprised to find even his dearest allies suddenly upset, reminding him of the “reality” of his dire state for the same reasons.

You can literally choose between health and illness; between a concentration upon the mental more than the physical, or upon the physical more than the mental. [...]

If you imagine dire circumstances, ill health or desperate loneliness, these will be automatically materialized, for these thoughts themselves bring forth the conditions that will give them reality in physical terms. [...]

My wife, Jane Roberts, dictated The Magical Approach for Seth, the “energy personality essence” she spoke for in a trance state, in 1980—but the pressures of Jane’s illness, and of our producing other books, kept us from publishing it quickly. [...]

[...] His illness made performance more difficult, and yet in periods of rest he would start out again expecting to make the same leaps, and so often he did.

(During last week Jane told me she’d picked up that my troubles had been set off by the death of Bill Crowder on October 2. Betts didn’t write us about the death until we received her letter of the 25th on the 26th—which date being the day before I became ill. [...]

There was no ill intent on the part of the Dutch publisher, or the German. [...]

[...] With the best intentions, her account reflected all the negative beliefs about illness that Jane and I had come to expect in the hospital setting. [...]

[...] Miss Callahan and her illness, and her connection with Frank Watts, who purportedly was the first psychic contact Jane actually achieved, have been dealt with at length in various sessions. [...]

[...] There is no one to whom he wishes ill. [...]

The body’s natural healing processes each day rid people of diseases, repair emotional or bodily illnesses — and such instances go largely unrecorded. [...]