“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Actually, I came to realize, Jane was so terrified by the thought of those operations that mentally she shunted aside all such prospects. Only when she was home did she begin to fathom the possible depths of the physical reality she’d created for herself, with my help. To coin a phrase, she was “truly, deeply shocked.” The doctors wanted to literally cut the major joints out of her body! To replace them with metal and plastic joints inserted into the bone ends and cemented in place. Jane cried. Her voice shook. “But in spite of everything, over all those years I never felt sick until I went into the hospital,” she wailed. The glowing reports we heard and read about successful joint-replacement operations meant little to her. “Sure, for one joint, or two, maybe,” I said, then shut up, not wanting to add my own fears to her fears. But four of those operations? And why stop there? If they fixed her knees and hips, what about her shoulders? She couldn’t raise her arms level with them. “Oh, they’d operate on the shoulders, too,” a doctor told me in front of Jane, without inflection, as though we were discussing an inanimate mechanism that needed rebuilding. Six operations, then. But what about my wife’s elbows, and her fingers? Somebody at the hospital —I forget who—told us that joint replacements for the fingers and/or knuckles usually weren’t all that successful: The bones in the hands were pretty small and delicate. But it could well be argued that Jane needed to be able to write with a pen or pencil, to express her basic creativity in that particular elementary fashion, even more than she needed to walk. (It would be great if she could at least use a typewriter!) So there could be eight operations, or ten, or …?

What might happen to the body, I wondered, even if its psychic tenant were willing to endure any or all of those “surgical procedures”? I answered my own question by remembering accounts I had on file, explaining how people of various ages had withstood numerous, incredible operations, sometimes over a period of years. But I was horrified to think that my dear wife might become involved in a similar reality, with or without my unwitting compliance. I knew that she was far from making any decisions about surgery, but I recoiled from pushing any such suggestions upon her, no matter how fine it would be to see her on her feet. Joint-replacement operations were irreversible procedures, and I also had on file material about how they sometimes failed.

As I wrote in the first essay, “the trouble with having something diagnosed as rheumatoid arthritis is that not only do you have it when you go into the hospital, but when you leave it.” Even if Jane had all of those operations—even if she ended up able to walk after a fashion—she’d still have arthritis. She was suffused with it. Our beliefs said so. So did her body, as everyone could see. “Your joints are destroyed,” Dr. Mandali told Jane, after getting the opinion of the young out-of-town rheumatologist she’d asked to examine my wife. “Do you want to spend the rest of your life inside, in a wheelchair? That’s a pretty limited existence you’re talking about there….” And Jane, trying to protect herself from the negative suggestions that had been administered to her like psychic hammerblows, ever since she’d entered the hospital, could only weakly demur on the subject of operations.

With many people having such difficulties, the addition of love in the environment may work far better than any heart operation. A new pet given to a bereaved individual has saved more people from needing heart operations than any physician. In other words, “a love transplant” in the environment may work far better overall than a heart-transplant operation, or a bypass, or whatever; in such ways the heart is allowed to heal itself.

(“I was also getting,” she said, “that he wasn’t saying that people didn’t need those operations sometimes, but that when they did, they needed those other things in order to make the operations work.”

All of the automobile’s parts, however, are alone responsible for its operation as long as it has a responsible driver. [...]

CU’s can also operate as “particles” or as “waves.” Whichever way they operate, they are aware of their own existences. When CU’s operate as particles, in your terms, they build up a continuity in time. [...]

When CU’s operate as waves, however, they do not set up any boundaries about their own self-awareness—and when operating as waves CU’s can indeed be in more than one place at one time.

These CU’s can operate as separate entities, as identities, or they can flow together in a vast, harmonious wave of activity, as a force. [...] Actually, units of consciousness operate in both ways all of the time. [...]

[...] Last evening, however, he became involved in a round of such projections, which operate, of course, as negative suggestions. [...]

[...] Your remark therefore operated as an excellent suggestion, that he desist from such activity.

For example, you can see this operate in terms of creativity: money comes to you now without new work involved, in terms, say, of paperback sales. [...]

[...] Telepathy does not operate at the level of the ego, although its actions may protrude into the domain of the ego. Telepathy operates within the inner self, within various levels, different levels of the subconscious, where the ideas of separation and limitations of self are not nearly so limiting.

[...] The mind, having its existence within the scope of the physical field but independent of it, is a much more fruitful subject for study; and not of course study through means of physical instruments or of operations performed. [...]

[...] Even when such nerve structures and physical complications are evolved telepathy operates, still a necessity as a communications system within the physical structure, and still handling data which cannot be carried through any physical medium, simply because it is untranslatable by its nature into physical materialization.

[...] Still, there are psychological balances that always operate when the overall personality gestalt is operating effectively, as it is in both of your cases.

My dear Joseph, there are indeed balances that operate. [...]

[...] This inner ego can also operate within the dream state, and in certain awake-seeming dreams it is the portion that realizes that the personality is not in its normal waking condition. [...]

Each person or act has his or its “proper stance,” or platform of intention from which to operate. [...]

Beyond that platform (which is not your own native one) is another that operates as “high art,” in which activity is for its own sake, for the joy and discovery of the performance or execution, a high play that sets the needs of the world at least momentarily aside, rises up above specifics into those vaster realms from which specifics emerge. [...]

You’ve been largely operating from a base that isn’t naturally yours but was taken on as a result of your sympathy for the world and for the problems of others. [...]

[...] Marian is 50, and in June must undergo an operation to remove an ovarian tumor which has been diagnosed as benign. She has been worrying about the operation, and later Jane and I learned that this made her more receptive to a session than she had been previously.

[...] Marian’s concern over her approaching operation entered in here, and Seth used this concern to make his main points of the evening. [...]

(Seth said he did not know whether Marian could learn rapidly enough how to do this; but if she could get herself on the right track soon, he said, she would not need the operation in June; a medical examination then would show that the tumor was shrinking, and would continue to shrink. [...]

[...] The strongest sensitive is like a field operator. He or she consumes energy quickly, but that energy is like a receiving center for the energy of the survival personality operating.

[...] They operate in several different ways. [...]

[...] In this method detailed above, there is cooperation between a survival personality and the person who is the operating sensitive. [...]

[...] To one extent or another, these three systems of consciousness operate in one way or another in all of the species, and in all particles, in the physical universe. In your terms, this means that the proportions of the three systems might vary, but they are always in operation, whether we are speaking of a man or a woman, a rock or a fly, a star or an atom. [...]

What was needed was a highly focused, precisely tuned physical self that could operate efficiently in a space and time scheme that was being formed along with physical creatures—a self, however, that in one way or another must be supported by realms of information and knowledge of a kind that was basically independent of time and space. [...]

[Each] cell, then, as I have often said, operates so well in time because it is, in those terms, precognitive. [...]

[...] It contains a long article about a Philippine psychic surgeon who is being brought to this country next fall, when he is to operate on patients with surgeons and others as witnesses. The article goes into detail about the scientists who have watched the psychic surgeon operate at his home in the Philippines, and about the surgeon’s home and “operating room,” which is but a shack containing a crude wooden-slatted table. [...]

[...] We stood before a crude wooden table we were going to use as an operating table. I was going to operate, or somehow bring my friend back to full size. [...]

[...] This involved the operating episode.

Here posthypnotic suggestion operates as well as constant daily “conditioning.” [...]

[...] In their own way symptoms frequently operate, actually, as repetitive neurological ritual, meant to protect the sufferer from something else that he fears even more.

The same sort of situation operates in hay fever, for instance, and for that matter in most other dis-eases (with the hyphen).

Now each personality has set up conditions for itself, under which it can operate at its best. [...] In Ruburt’s case the conditions mentioned earlier, in our last sessions, operate to his best advantage. [...]

[...] For various reasons having to do with past-life experiences, writing has become a structure within which the personality best operates. [...] As long as he faithfully and consistently follows these lines he will operate at maximum levels. [...]

These portions operate almost like a secondary personality, sometimes in actual conflict with the dominant one. [...]

As a unit you operate in certain ways. As individuals you operate in certain ways. [...]

[...] Now as a unit your separate realities obviously form a larger combined unit in which you operate. Two of you working together can do seven times more than one operating alone. [...]

[...] Telepathy operates.

If you do not do this, you will not improve even if you have the operation. Now, I am not saying that the operation may not temporarily help. [...]

([Mary:] “Then you...then I take it you would not suggest an operation?)

[...] If you do this, you can improve without an operation.

Communications exist between all portions of the self, and all parts of the personality; or parts of the whole self, rather, operate as what you may call a supraself. [...] This is the identity, the whole identity, of the various portions of the self that operate within various systems. [...]

It operates for your benefit almost automatically in any case, for your benefit is its benefit, you see, and its energies are always at your disposal. [...]

It operates within you and for you in any case. [...]

(Jane paused, eyes closed, often seeming to grope for words while in trance.) This is, again, difficult to explain, but free will operates in all units of consciousness, regardless of their degree—but (whispering) it operates within the framework of that degree. Man possesses free will, but that free will operates only within man’s degree—that is, his free will is somewhat contained by the frameworks of time and space.

[...] That time reference, however, gives (underlined) his free will meaning and a context in which to operate. [...]

[...] Operationally, however, this is not the case—and Ruburt would not trust such an overnight change.

[...] And again, the muscles, once loosened, need to stabilize and regain operational strength. [...]

[...] The conscious intellectual faculties had to realize what was operating in order that they themselves be fulfilled. [...]

[...] The same qualities and spirit that you bring to your work should be extended to your life pattern, for they are correct for you both, and you operate at prime efficiency then.

[...] This does not mean he should ignore discomfort particularly, but he should take his conscious mind away from his physical body and let it operate alone.

[...] I strongly suggested a vacation, and it is because prior conditions were still operating that the two of you did not overcome your obstacles and leave.

You had also been operating on inner cues which would have been broken, and in these lapses buried intuitions would have leaped up, bringing these truths in their wake. [...]

This would have operated as a self-punishment for the symptoms inflicted upon Ruburt, had they continued throughout any period of years. [...]