“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Long pause at 3:13.) Those beliefs, if taught early enough, would form the most effective system of preventative medicine ever known.

[...] Jane took a break when we heard someone pushing what we thought was the medicine cart out in the hall toward our room. [...]

[...] Unfortunately, a system of medicine that largely deals with symptoms only encourages a patient to project such beliefs on new organs, for instance, after already sacrificing others in operations.

(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. [...]

[...] On their own they do not need preventative medicine. [...]

Your current ideas of preventative medicine, therefore, generate the very kind of fear that causes disease. [...]

[...] The second is that Jane and I are perfectly aware of all the good things that medical science has contributed to our worldwide civilization; given our species’ present collective beliefs about the vulnerability of the individual to outside forces, medicine as it’s now practiced is a vital component of that civilization. [...]

[...] Medicine men, through certain ceremonies, would try to rid the body of the demons — and those methods worked also. [...]

[...] He just wanted to watch television and forget it all, and hidden in that crankiness is a good point: The sessions are an expression of your private and joint curiosity, a high and excellent curiosity about the nature of reality, a result of your desire to know; to know whether or not the knowledge can be held in your hands like a fruit, whether or not the knowledge can be dosed out to an ailing world as medicine.

If you believe, however, that such a fever is very detrimental, and you are afraid of it, believing furthermore that only an aspirin or other drug will help relieve you, then it becomes necessary to take advantage of such a medicine—because you do not believe enough in the body’s own defense system. [...]

Medicine and Therapy as Used to Perpetuate Illness

[...] Suppose—just suppose—Seth held a session and suggested treatments or medicine that made Sally worse? [...]

“If the instructions concerning a beneficial change in her mental environment are not taken, then no other advice or medicine will be of help. [...]

[...] In this, Jon subconsciously acquiesced, to learn patience and forbearing—to take what he considered his medicine all in one dose, so to speak.”

[...] You would have your finger on the economic pulse-beat of the area, and you could diagnose business ills before they occurred —banking preventative medicine, you see, and you could have the preventive medicine at your fingertips and be ready to apply it.

[...] The totem pole, for example, is a remnant from an era where there was much greater communication between man and the animals — when, in fact, men went to the animals to learn, and from them first acquired knowledge of herbs and corrective medicinal behavior.³

[...] It is the best medicine. [...]

The old medicine men often dealt far more directly with the patient himself, and understood the nature of beliefs and the prime importance of suggestion. [...]

[...] But their reactions are entirely different, and Philip’s past life experiences prepared him for the nature of his present occupation, where he is dealing with medicinal matters.

(Seth dealt with one of John’s past lives and his connection with medicine in an amusing way during the 21st session, of February 3,1964. [...]

The medicinal possibilities take up his interest. [...]

[...] The level is one where every bit of preventative protection is needed in a world where people constantly need insurance, preventative medicine, and so forth – again, all issues dealt with in the book. [...]

(Long pause.) Actually, in several places in previous books, I did indeed describe negative suggestion and its utilization by the medical authorities under the name of preventative medicine. [...]

If these instructions concerning a beneficial change in mental environment are not taken, then indeed no other advice or medicine will be of help. [...]

[...] In this John acquiesced, to learn patience and forbearing, to take what he considered his medicine in one dose, so to speak.

[...] In very ancient times, medicine men had to perform such acts as part of their initiation ceremonies. [...]