“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] That is highly important, for concentration upon negative experiences helped make you ill. [...]

[...] The search for answers, and this passionate yearning toward truth, has driven Ruburt’s personality, and he became ill only when he was afraid to continue the search, because it led him into byways that he had not planned upon; or rather, upon which the ego had not planned.

(9:53.) Again, in our material on suffering (see the 895th session, for instance), I mentioned that illness serves purposes—that it has a face-saving quality in your society—so here I am speaking of the body’s own abilities. [...]

(I wasn’t at all sure, but I wondered whether Seth’s second delivery might have been in response to the talk Jane and I had had recently, in which I’d tried to explain my own ideas about the extent to which one could go with personal challenges like illness, say, or work, or whatever. [...]

[...] It is true that one in a period of illness habitually, to one extent or another, becomes susceptible to negative psychic environmentals. [...]

As for you, Joseph, within two weeks you will have completely recovered from the effects of your recent illness.

He thought that he was such a bad person that he drove his parents apart, perhaps caused his mother’s illness, perhaps his grandmother’s death—for which his mother did indeed several times blame him—and that the classical idea of the Sinful Self was individually interpreted in that manner in Ruburt’s personal early life. [...]

[...] Jane ended up physically ill after this session, which saw very strong voice effects. [...]

[...] Jane was much relieved that I could move her, and surprised, but I had my doubts about being able to do that on a longer-term basis: I dared not endanger my own physical condition lest I be unable to take care of her otherwise, regardless of how poorly or with what ill grace I might do that. [...]

[...] Now evil does not exist in those terms, and even illness or fear is not necessarily an enemy, as much as an aid to understanding and the means to a greater end.

[...] The ill woman’s reality does not threaten his own in any way. [...]

[...] It is true that I have been in generally very good health since my own illness in 1963. [...]

[...] It ill behooves me to have to tell you that it takes someone as long dead as I have been to tell you how to become truly alive. [...]

[...] In this line of beliefs he was able to do anything — cure mankind’s ills if he chose, or withhold such knowledge from the world to punish it. [...]

[...] Illnesses and various minor and major physical symptoms are often caused as the subconscious tries to speak out, in an effort to make itself heard by the unheeding conscious mind. [...]

[...] It ill-behooves me to speak.) Nevertheless he who is and knows that he is, is. [...]

[...] He nodded sympathetically when I told him Jane was quite ill and couldn’t see anybody. [...]

[...] In her case, she has been forming memory pictures of her childhood, of days before her physical illness, and entering into them. [...]

[...] This is a sort of spiritual therapy in her case, so that she loses the identification with illness and does not carry it with her.

[...] Seth of course has given specific data on various physical ills for some witnesses, and for Jane and me. [...]

[...] However, at various times the pendulum has given me all kinds of other reasons for my physical ills: taxes, money, Jane’s symptoms, success and failure—the works, one might say. [...]