“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The fears largely have to do with the medical establishment’s prognosis. [...]

[...] These kinds of dilemmas are what bother us about the medical establishment: We don’t know whether to completely ignore such advice, or to heed it and thus accept medicine’s prognosis. [...]

[...] That is, you have the medical beliefs themselves, with their appropriate props immediately available, so that suggestion becomes remarkably effective.”

[...] In it she described how she’d been approached by a subscriber who wanted to start a fund to help Jane and me with medical expenses. [...]

[...] Lorrie came in to apologize for forgetting to give Jane her medications last night. [...]

[...] She told me that Blue Cross has turned down the major medical claim for Jane, to their surprise. [...]

[...] The insurance company told him, I believe, that according to her medical records, Jane didn’t need to be hospitalized—a strange attitude, and one neither of us could believe. [...]

[...] His attitudes toward the medical profession (pause) are indeed changing—not that he sees medical practices in any more favorable and overall light, but that he recognizes that absolutism is no answer either. [...]

There were also reasons why the same thing happened in the medical line, with the offices. Many of the men involved were imagining how happy they would be in a medical building, and subconsciously hoping for an excuse to move into one. [...]

[...] The passages are on death and suicide — natural death, no less, and how we continually interfere medically with people’s chosen time of death. [...]

[...] She could keep some medications down, but was very careful about food. [...]

[...] Now Jane must have such a test before each increase in her thyroid medication.

I even think there’s good medical evidence these days for my view of Jane’s “symptoms,” as we’ve called them for many years. [...]

[...] Until a very few years ago it was medical dogma that the immune system was entirely independent of any “outside” influence. [...]

(I believe that current medical thinking about the immune system and arthritis will be much enlarged upon by the time this book is published, though I haven’t given that much thought to just what new information may be acquired. [...]

Then today we read how scientists at a company that markets animals for medical research have bred a strain of hairless laboratory mice without thymus glands. [...]

1. Jane and I are both aware of and frustrated by the obvious ambiguities in our own feelings about the use of animals in medical research. [...]

[...] We think that every reader of this book has benefited, and still does, from animal experimentation, some of it most cruel, in ways that he or she can hardly suspect, let alone specify: even benefiting from the use of animals in the study of medical and chemical, beauty and recreational products that can be found in practically every home in the country. [...]

[...] Medical technology alone, however expert, cannot really heal a broken heart, of course. [...]

[...] They have been taught that medical science knows more about bodies than any private individual knows about their own bodies and their ways and workings.

[...] I outlined the thoughts Jane and I had about the fund she suggested for our medical expenses. [...]

The medical profession unwittingly promotes the idea of illness above health, and in its devotion to uncovering disease it often completely forgets the entire concept of the body’s natural defenses and vitality. [...]

[...] Some moral philosophers, medical geneticists, physicians, lawyers, and religious leaders believe that those who carry genes for serious genetic diseases do not have the right to reproduce. [...] Questions abound involving amniocentesis (examination of the fluid in the womb to detect genetic defects in the fetus); therapeutic abortion; artificial insemination; reproduction by in vitro fertilization; embryo transfer (surrogate motherhood); the responsibilities of the legal, medical and religious communities; whether mentally retarded, genetically defective people should receive life-prolonging medical treatment, and so forth. [...]

[...] We told Jim we haven’t made any firm decision about seeking medical help, but will when the glasses situation is taken care of. [...]

[...] Jim said he couldn’t comment on Jane’s situation from a medical standpoint, except to say her eyes per se are okay. [...]

Now, there’s very recent discussion in medical circles that many cases of senility are caused by a “slow virus infection,” rather than just heredity or the traditional aging and oxygen starvation of the brain. The hope, and the unproven speculation, are that eventually such an infection might be treatable medically. [...]

[...] 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.

[...] Thinking of medical drawings you have done may be of benefit.

[...] “Well, I don’t want to use negative suggestion, or ask this the wrong way; but I was wondering what Jane’s symptoms would be called medically.”)

Through medical techniques some of your old people are kept alive long enough so that this process begins, appearing in distorted form, sometimes psychologically apparent but biologically frustrated. [...]

[...] Kept alive through medical techniques, the physical mechanism continues its struggles to revitalize the body and bring about this second puberty — that naturally would only come about under different conditions, with the mind far more alert and the will unimpaired. [...]

[...] (Pause.) The switch of course, again, can never become total, but science—and medical science in particular—almost managed to divorce man from his natural feeling of trust in his own capacities, so that it seems for example that medical science per se knows more about any given individual’s body than the individual does himself. [...]

[...] Partially, these are also victims of beliefs, for you believe that the natural body is the natural prey of viruses and diseases over which you have no personal control, except as it is medically provided. In the medical profession, the overall suggestion that operates is one that emphasizes and exaggerates the body’s vulnerability, and plays down its natural healing abilities. [...]

[...] All evening however, since writing the letter used as object, I had pictured a certain medical building in our neighborhood as probably the site of Dr. Lodico’s office. [...]

[...] Since I had the medical building with the flat roof strongly in mind during the evening, Seth could have picked this up telepathically from me and used it for data. [...]

(Both of us are very familiar with the medical building with the flat roof, since it is of distinctive design, whereas Dr. Lodico’s office across the street is housed in a conventional building we haven’t paid any particular attention to. [...]

[...] Also, checking out the building data described on the last page, we saw that flowers were used as decoration for both the Lodico office, and the medical office building with the flat roof, across the street. [...]

[...] Perhaps the session made me feel even more discouraged—this has happened before—or the evident errors in living on our parts that seemingly have been responsible for the whole situation over the years, certainly seemed beyond the reach of any medical treatment. [...]

[...] You also wanted Ruburt to be aware of your concern, hoping that the concern would serve to accelerate his own determination and ability, and to trigger his resources so that a medical visit would not indeed be necessary.