“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Now I tell you this because there is a connection in your mind and illness becomes to you the symbol of something far different and far more profound. It becomes in your mind the symbol of evil which attacks you in your mind in small ways to small illnesses. [...]

[...] You are responsible for your health as well as for your illnesses. [...]

[...] Therefore, the point I am trying to make is that you form your own illnesses and your own physical defects but you also form your entire physical being, and the good points of your physical image are also your own work. [...]

You can get rid of all the illness when you realize that you have the habit of creating and drawing it to you out of fear. [...]

(Actually, I have been painting for the last two weeks, following my final recovery from my illness of late March and early April. [...]

[...] At your present stage of development with the pendulum you get a reaction that could be compared to a closed circuit, where the energy is directed into the past, into the personal subconscious too abruptly, and too intensified, and is not yet allowed the release of discovering full causes, which would then release not only that energy, but the energy that has in the past gone into the formation of various physical ills.

[...] Even in your desire to discover such original causes of physical ills, a part of you sets up resistances, new ones, which take additional energy.

These incidents in the past, that appear as the original initiation of an illness, they represent points, or kinks, where energy is not smoothly used, but tends to bunch up because of a resistance. [...]

[...] It is also true, however, that such people may enjoy excellent health for years, not counting perhaps an assortment of broken bones and bruises — only to fall suddenly prone to some illness if they try to give up their activities.

If people become ill, it is quite fashionable to say that the immunity system (Seth’s pronunciation) has temporarily failed — yet the body itself knows that certain “dis-eases” are healthy reactions. [...]

[...] You cannot compel a body to be ideally healthy—meaning never indisposed in any way, shape or manner, freed from the slightest ill.

In a way, illnesses are definitely a part of health, for life itself consists of a fine alignment, of imbalances. [...]

[...] But I am trying to show that all ills are not necessarily physical ones. [...]

[...] It was not generally known that he was ill, or the circumstances of his illness.

[...] I had a session for him at his wife’s request when he was ill, and in Ruburt’s files his answering letter attests to the correctness of my interpretations and impressions.

[...] Jane and I wondered what role Billy’s illness might play in our affair with David—surely a way of thinking that would have been quite alien to us before the advent of the Seth material.

“Why, for example, did David fall ill? [...]

[...] Stuff about illness is still pretty charged for me.” [...]

(10:42.) I am trying to put this simply — but without some illnesses, the body could not endure. [...] At biological levels the body often produces its own “preventative medicine,” or “inoculations,” by seeking out, for example, new or foreign substances in its environment [that are] due to nature, science or technology; it assimilates such properties in small doses, coming down with an “illness” which, left alone, would soon vanish as the body utilized what it could [of it], or socialized “a seeming invader.”

[...] Biologically, illness therefore represents the overall body defense system at work.

[...] 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.

(Pause at 11:56.) The illnesses generally attributed to all different ages are involved. [...]

[...] People’s thoughts and emotions always give clear clues whenever illness is involved, yet most people ignore such information. [...]

[...] The [epidemics] serve as accepted states of illness, in which people are given an excuse for the rest or quiet self-examination they desperately need but do not feel entitled to otherwise.

[...] If you do not trust your nature, then any illness or indisposition will be interpreted as an onslaught against health. [...]

[...] Ideally even illnesses are a part of the body’s health, representing needed adjustments, and also following the needs of the subjective person at any given time. [...]

(11:04.) Again, if you are ill you may say, “I did not want to be sick,” or if you are poor, “I did not want to be poor,” or if you are unloved, “I did not want to be lonely.” Yet for your own reasons you began to believe in illness more than health, in poverty more than abundance, in loneliness rather than affection.

The same idea really applies to physical illness as well. [...]

I am speaking of a deeper relationship to the environment, however, and of the environment’s symbolic as well as practical aspects in relationship to health and illness. [...]

Now, Ruth: a rather early illness, of years, I believe.

[...] Ruth had tuberculosis and was very ill.)

Now, Rachel: A rather early illness, of years, I believe. [...]

[...] Ruth had TB and was very ill.)

When you became ill then the repressive state reasserted itself. You follow me there: because of the mother situation it was not safe to speak of illness at all. [...]

[...] Your illness frightened him more than anything else since his life with his mother, because he could not allow you of all people to be ill because of him, as explained.

[...] The situation of your illness brought it back, and from there it gained hold again.

[...] He felt therefore that he caused your illness, that in a way you were punishing him for the frivolousness that made him suggest you leave a conventional background and your parents, and go with his father in Florida.

[...] You have passed the period where in the past illness was most probable. The afternoon at your parents’ home could have initiated an illness, but did not because of your more rational reactions.

(As stated I fell ill with the virus in March 1965. [...] I do not remember having any thoughts, at any time, connecting my illnesses to the polio vaccines.)

[...] Seth also saw a possible future illness for Jimmy.

March 21st, you see, meant spring to you, and because of your peculiar makeup the illness would only be permitted to attack during winter, or your conception of winter.

A chronically ill existence, for example, might also be a measure of discipline, enabling you to use deeper abilities that you ignored in a life of good health. [...]

[...] I am not saying, in other words, that suffering necessarily leads to spiritual fulfillment, nor that all illness is accepted or chosen for such a purpose, for this is not the case.

(9:35.) Illness is often the result of ignorance and lazy mental habits. [...]

[...] Now her pace began to pick up.) Some people who have been ill for years suddenly recover, and then throw themselves into some great beneficial social endeavor in which their own problems are lost, and a new stability is maintained. [...]

[...] “…no illness or other condition is allowed to impinge upon this…. [...]

[...] I dreamed he was taken very ill with heart trouble — that all he wanted to do was lay on his back in bed — I think in a trailer environment. [...]

(Joe, John said, has been taken very ill — pains throughout his body, in the bones, but also in the heart area. [...]

[...] Church—at a very creative level—or the feeling, use the creative ability to bring about punishment, illness or whatever. [...]

[...] But those in position within healing professions have great authority, and any suggestions that they may make for good or ill are granted almost mystical validity by those individuals who visit them.

[...] Again, subconsciously, the patient would wish to give his illness literally away, shove it from himself, so that often a healer responds subconsciously to what he considers a legitimate threat.

Nevertheless, because the patient is in a condition where he is most susceptible to suggestions, a great responsibility lies upon the shoulders of those who would treat illness. [...]

This does not mean that the individual will necessarily fall ill to many of them, but it does mean that the physical structure has weak points that reflect, or are a result of, an inability along the lines of physical construction, that in turn result from an imperfection in manipulation.

[...] The headlines speak of problems between nations, mass and private crime, illness. [...]

This is not done with any ill intent. [...]

[...] She then must take steps of course to protect herself against illness, and she is in fear of robbers for the same reason.

[...] She watches news for stories of illnesses and robbers.