“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I’d finally decided that the ache wasn’t because I’d been lifting her physically—all 82 pounds of her—but because of the medical bills we’d received today. [...]

[...] Decubitus ulcers: one of the first terms we’d added to our rapidly growing medical vocabulary—and one of the more stubborn afflictions for a human being to get rid of once they’ve become established. [...]

[...] Dr. Mandali has prescribed drops to keep Jane’s eyes lubricated, and a liquid salicylate medication (as a substitute for aspirin) to control joint pain and inflammation. [...]

[...] A few days later I wound up in the emergency room of one of our local hospitals—and there, all too quickly I became familiar with the medical profession’s battery of testing paraphernalia. [...]

(9:28.) As mentioned earlier, Ruburt had little experience with the medical situation. [...] At the same time, when he returned home he was afraid he could not handle events, and might fall toward a constant medical surveillance. It he could not “do it” in the medical manner, and if he could not “do it” on his own, then where was he? [...]

(10:36.) Your medical technology may help you “conquer” one disease after another — some in fact caused by that same technology — and you will feel very efficient as you do heart transplants, as you fight one virus after another. [...] A person ready to die will, despite any medication. [...]

[...] But a true medical profession would be, literally, a health profession. [...]

[...] There’s much discussion now of the additional stresses and frustrations encountered by those in the medical disciplines, aside from personality traits or conflicts that can lead an individual to take his or her own life; the suicide of a doctor, for instance, may be triggered by his inability to fulfill the role society expects of him.

[...] Chapters 16 and 17 in particular contain material on what Seth calls natural hypnosis, and on Western medicine, physicians, the suggestions associated with medical insurance and “health” literature, diet, childbirth, hospitals, natural death, good and evil, and so forth.

Not only this, but the medical profession often provides blueprints for diseases, and the patient too often tries them on for size. This is not to say that the medical profession often is not of great aid and benefit, but within the value system in which it operates much of its positive influence is negated.

[...] Physicians began to think of men as carriers of disease and diseases — which, in certain terms, they [the physicians] did themselves create through some new medical procedures.

The present medical profession is sadly hampered because of its own beliefs. [...]

(Indeed, I’ve been worrying a lot lately—at times—about whether we’d even be considered by Blue Cross for the major medical payments—so I’ve also been worrying about what we’d do if this worst scenario came to pass. [...] My fears have been aggravated by the delay in getting our medical records to the insurance company, the length of time it seems to take to get anything resolved—the whole bit. [...]

[...] I knew at once that these papers represented three payments of money from the Major Medical division of Blue Cross. [...]

[...] If the medical profession had had anything to do with casting that medical spell, then apparently it could be quite effective in removing it.

[...] Then as we went to bed she brought up two additional subjects to discuss, for those who would wonder: why we hadn’t more actively sought medical help in the past for her physical condition; and the many private, or deleted, sessions Seth himself has given for her over the years.

Since the later 1960s, when my own troubles began, I stubbornly resisted medical assistance. [...]

Ruburt provided himself with a background in which a parent was steadily, chronically ill, and in which the medical profession with its beliefs was in constant sight. His mother was not medically neglected. His background included far more than illness, however, and the medical profession, but Ruburt knew that the conventional medical framework was not the answer to human ills.

(Pause at 9:58.) I am not suggesting that you not visit doctors or not take drugs of that nature, as long as you believe in the structure of medical discipline that the Western world has evolved. Your bodies have been conditioned to it through the use of such medications since birth. [...]

[...] Viruses themselves undergo transformations completely unsuspected by medical men. [...]

[...] While it is true that medical technology has many serious defects, it is also true that many people believe in the medical profession to such a degree that it would be nearly impossible for them to survive in good health without it.

Later on in this book we will also discuss the ways in which you can use your own beliefs about the medical profession to reinforce your overall sense of health, rather than to undermine it.

[...] The lock is a stable opening in a vein for medication: Jane was to go on antibiotics. [...]

The body is indeed clearing itself out, stoking its furnaces — an idea quite foreign to the medical establishment.

[...] She agreed that some people are allergic to the medication — “there are always side effects.”

[...] I was eager to get Jane started on a program of self-therapy through the Seth material in order to help her counter—or at least supplement—the standard rigid medical framework we’ve been encountering for the last month, or since she went into the hospital on February 26, 1982. [...]

[...] Therefore, actually producing the physical work for the publisher was going to be up to me, and I was anxious to begin work on this once we’ve established some sort of viable daily routine revolving around Jane’s nursing care, sleeping schedule, medication, etc.

[...] The arthritis situation is as I gave it, but you are still faced with the medical interpretation of that situation, so that it is up to Ruburt to set it aside. [...]

[...] The arthritis diagnosis, Jane said, would be the only one the medical profession could offer, with its very limited insights and viewpoint—whereas Seth has insisted all along that she didn’t have arthritis per se. [...]

When civilized children are medically inoculated against such diseases, however, they usually do not show the same symptoms, and to an important extent the natural protective processes are impeded. Such children may not come down with the disease against which they are medically protected, then — but they may indeed therefore become “prey” to other diseases later in life that would not otherwise have occurred.

[...] Such a discovery could lead to revisions in medical treatment, though I’m not sure what or how. [...]

You have your own medical systems, however. [...] Yet, throughout your history no man or woman has died who did not want to die, regardless of the state of medical technology. [...]

(Pause at 10:42.) Give us a moment… In your society scientific medical beliefs operate, and a kind of preventative medicine, mentioned earlier, in which procedures [of inoculation] are taken, bringing about in healthy individuals a minute disease condition that then gives immunity against a more massive visitation. [...]

Such medical technology is highly specific, however. [...]

[...] It may be some time before private beliefs are strong enough to sustain us, without the use of those medical “crutches.” [...]

[...] Overall, the body is exploring the best rhythm of metabolism, and fitting itself in with the medication. [...]

[...] I did not suggest that you go to the medical profession, or suggest you stay away from it specifically, knowing that your own beliefs would lead toward the proper decision whichever way it fell. [...]

[...] It also fit in with some of my own recent ideas—that eventually the reviving thyroid gland would lead to the dispensation of medication while also rejuvenating the physical body in many ways—including the “arthritis.” [...]

(Long pause.) I cannot stress the fact of Ruburt’s attitude toward the medical profession during and immediately following his hospital stay. [...] (Long pause.) To some extent Peggy (the nurse) stands for the medical establishment, of course. [...]

(A note by R.F.B.: Seth was often pretty outspoken in Mass Events when he discussed our medical beliefs and practices, and the unfortunate results they sometimes bring about. [...]

[...] A girl from Andrew Fife’s office called to tell me that Andrew had called one of the supervisors at Syracuse—Blue Cross—about our major medical claim. [...]

[...] Her doctor tried one medication, then dropped it to try another, and that didn’t work....” [...]

[...] The door to the medical arts building was locked, so I couldn’t use that as shelter on my way to the car, which was parked farther away from my usual spot than it usually is. [...]

[...] I think I made clear our current ideas about insurance, our work, the need for privacy, our opinions of various doctors and the medical establishment versus the lack of psychology they often display, and so forth. [...]

[...] But she knows from family experience, she said, about troubles with medical expenses, insurance, and so forth. [...]

[...] After she finished the session, Jane said she’d been thinking lately about dropping taking the antidepressant medication each night. [...]

Again, the choice was of a condition that could be overcome and that did not involve the medical profession. [...] Someone working for their own purposes at an entirely different level might choose a physical condition that necessitated the medical profession, and might result in an important medical discovery.

[...] It was a condition that for example would not involve destruction of organs, or reliance upon the medical profession. [...]

While taking advantage of the good points of the medical profession in whatever ways you can, by all means do not allow that to become the framework of your lives, either. [...]

(Long pause at 8:43.) Ruburt is using the thyroid aid well—the medication. [...]