“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] If instead the consciousness has been kept alive despite its own intents through medical procedures, it will terminate its own physical life in one way or another.

Children who are labeled mentally deficient or even called idiots, can often grow and develop far beyond medical science’s suppositions — particularly if they are aided by loving parents who constantly provide stimulation and interest.

[...] In medical procedures, say, the body’s feelings are often masked. This is one of the reasons, say, for the development of secondary symptoms of a medical nature, when one portion of the body is treated, and then other portions seem to develop symptoms. [...]

The presence of a medical man however can stand us in good stead. You are quite lucky in knowing several medical men to begin with. [...]

[...] We know several doctors on a social basis, but for various reasons hesitate to ask one of them to perform these duties; we would also like to repeat these studies regularly, and could hardly expect a medical man to be available in this respect.

[...] Such medical examinations as you have in mind would be excellent from several standpoints, and we shall have further suggestions on all these lines.

(For what it’s worth: Jane told me that Teresa [“help me, help me, help me,”] was much better now because someone had figured out that she was being given too much medication. [...]

[...] The medical schools propagate such ideas, unfortunately. [...]

[...] In 330 later, I left Jane to visit Medical Records again, but got nowhere because I missed seeing Janet Troutt, who’s getting Jane’s records for both ourselves and Blue Cross. [...]

[...] During break I made my call to medical records. [...]

[...] They are more divorced from ordinary medical thought, and would indeed be considered sheer quackery in the majority of medical circles.

[...] Jane began to speak for Seth, in trance, after we had discussed the 364th session with J. Bradley, who is a medical salesman for Searle Drug.

(Neither Jane or I, or John Bradley, who is well informed in matters medical, knew anything about any such extract. [...]

(6. The next step will be to seek medical help—namely, going to a hospital for tests, therapy, diagnosis, medication, whatever. [...] Interesting, to speculate about why I’ve concurred in Jane’s dogged avoidance in seeking establishment medical help.

[...] Among them is Jane’s fear of the controversial nature of Seth’s medical material, which led to Prentice-Hall’s installation of the hated disclaimer.

[...] The last time I’d suggested that she consider getting medical help had been at Christmas time, when I asked her to think it over and let me know. [...]

[...] One of Seth’s points was that we’d “taken a crash course” in medical beliefs, or words to that effect, I believe. [...]

[...] Those visitations, however, show you in quite clear light that the medical profession’s idea of preventive medicine can often lead precisely to the conditions they seemingly wish to avoid. [...]

[...] How ironic it may turn out to be—that a course we avoided for many years—the medical one—may turn out to be the final push we needed in order to put our beliefs in order.)

[...] A few years ago he did some medical artwork and was amazed at his proficiency at it, and with the medical procedures and terminology, which were quite unfamiliar to him when he began. [...] This is why Rob took to the medical drawings so easily! [...]

[...] He is an older man in his system of reality than Rob is in ours, and while he is engrossed in his painting, this interest is subordinated to his medical work.

[...] The people in Pietra’s system have hypothesized the existence of other probable universes, and Pietra is one of the first explorers, mostly because of his excellent medical background.

Many medical procedures cut short healing processes. In your society there are obviously certain conditions that require medical help, for you simply have not learned to deal with them on any other basis.

Many people, not all, do “not see the world as others see it,” and so there are social and medical explanations. [...]

[...] The people involved first of all had been told by doctors—medical doctors—that they themselves had no control over their own disease, that the symptoms could be lessened somewhat—perhaps—but that there was no hope for recovery.

[...] Those who are cured are at a certain state when they approach the author, as mentioned earlier, feeling helpless after medical treatments that did not work—feeling that there is something wrong with them. [...]

[...] Oftentimes the previously withheld normal aggression now can be legitimately expressed—against the food companies, the technological environment, the medical profession, and so forth.

[...] Jane is still very much against drugs and surgery, though—even while she’s well aware of the contradictions in her beliefs as she continues to take daily the synthetic thyroid hormone and the liquid salicylate medication prescribed by Dr. Mandali. [...] Overall, the body is exploring the best rhythm of metabolism, and fitting itself in with the medication.”

[...] In spite of her horror at the medical practices and suggestions she’s encountered, and in spite of her dismay at the physical damage the arthritis has caused in her temporal body, Jane will give up nothing until she—and/or her whole self—get out of the entire illness syndrome exactly what she wants to get. [...]

[...] Yet there was unwelcome news, too—for the test also showed that the level of liquid salicylate medication (the aspirin substitute) in Jane’s blood is too low. [...]

[...] It’s very unsettling for us to learn that the prescribed medication isn’t doing its job after all. [...]

(As we got ready for lunch I told Jane that this morning I’d awakened stewing again—about Jane, but mostly about the long delays involved in getting the Blue Cross—major medical insurance benefits straightened out. [...] I told Jane that we may never hear from Blue Cross, since they’ve already turned down the claim once because the hospital was late in sending them her medical records. [...]

There is another consideration involving medicine; though as I mentioned earlier (in the 624th session from Chapter Five), if you accept Western medical beliefs I am not suggesting that you suddenly forsake all doctors. [...]

[...] On the other hand, if you have faith in medical help, this alone will bring therapeutic benefit.

[...] If medication of that sort improves the immediate situation, the inner problem of beliefs must still be worked out. [...]

[...] I do not know the name of the medication.

[...] Incredibly, we owe money on taxes this year — $26,000 in medical expenses notwithstanding. [...]

If earlier, however, Ruburt had the erroneous idea that he was going too fast—or would or could—and had to restrain himself and exert caution, now he received the medical prognosis, the “physical proof” that such was not the case, and in fact that the opposite was true: He was too slow. If our words could not convince him, or his own understanding grasp the truth, then you had the “truth” uttered with all of the medical profession’s authority. And if once a doctor had told him years ago how excellent was his hearing, the medical profession now told him that his slowness (his thyroid deficiency) had helped impair his hearing to an alarming degree.

(9:18.) The arthritis situation is as I gave it (in a number of private sessions), 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, was the only one the medical profession could offer, given its insights and viewpoints—but after all those years would she be able “to set it aside”? [...]

Moreover, here is the medication necessary—the thyroid supplement—that will right that balance. [...]

I am not telling you not to get treated medically when you believe that you need it. I am telling you that often you use medical treatment as a further punishment of the body. Often you use medical treatment as a reassurance. You are not quite certain, yet, that you form your own reality, and you want to make certain, in the meantime, that the medical profession can help you out!

[...] And without understanding, you can medically rid yourself of one condition, only to make ready certain that you have another one planned to take over! [...]

[...] You have been punishing yourself quite often in the way in which you approach the medical experience. [...]

[...] The patient’s confidence in the doctor will then reinforce the entire medical procedure, and he may then be filled with faith in his recovery. [...]

[...] No one who decides upon death is saved from it by the medical profession, however. [...]

Yet here the medical profession often takes care to see that every technological advance is brought to bear to force the self to remain within its flesh, when naturally soul and flesh would part. [...]

Certain kinds of medications can indeed help, but those given in your hospitals simply drug the consciousness out of its own understanding, and inhibit the body mechanisms that make for an easy transition. [...]

[...] The star in the medical theater is the absent one, and that applied to his personal situation. (Pause.) The connection he did not get had to do with the television commercials on the Carson show; the pressure applied by the medical profession, telling you not to trust the body, and the man, Doc [Severinsen], who is the master of ceremonies in a big show—signifying nothing as per your joint overall interpretation of the show in particular. [...]