“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

(As we talked Jane impressed upon me that she’d definitely picked up that a household pet would help our neighbor Joe Bumbalo a great deal — she wants me to be sure to impress upon Margaret Bumbalo that this is the case; she felt it strongly, it wasn’t just a generalized idea, Jane said.)

[...] If the person is mourning the death of a spouse or close family member, then it would be most beneficial for the individual or the family to purchase, or otherwise provide, a new small pet. The patient should be encouraged to play with the pet as much as possible, and to nourish it, to caress and fondle it.

[...] Animals enjoy being petted, stroked, loved. [...]

If you treated your body as well as you treated your animals—your pets —there would be little difficulty, relatively speaking. [...]

You can learn much about your own body consciousness, and therefore to some extent about the natural man, by observing the behavior of your pets or other animals, and you can to some extent learn from their behavior, and therefore to some extent counteract any susceptibility to negative beliefs. [...]

[...] They are cajoled, petted, treated like amusing pets sometimes, diverted with technology’s offerings but not allowed to use their energy. [...]

[...] Perhaps he had a pet goose. I would not want a pet goose. [...]

[...] We were puzzled by this, since according to Seth the owners of a pet contribute much to the pet’s health through use of their own psychic energy. [...]

[...] Animals enjoy being petted, stroked, and loved. [...]

[...] Jane, as Seth, petted him. [...]

(Amused:) You can say that I petted the pussy.

[...] Pet animals are inoculated against diseases, however. [...]

Still, Jane and I do have our cats inoculated against feline distemper and respiratory viruses; pets acquired at humane societies (as ours often are) have already shared an infected environment. [...]

[...] To some degree, household pets are dependent upon your psychic strength. [...]

The interior universe had its influence even as far as pets were concerned! [...]

The pet also sensed Ruburt’s own upset when he was, when Ruburt was, worried, and this also contributed. [...]

[...] Many sessions ago, as many as a hundred or more, Seth told us that animal pets would reflect the psychic health and concerns of their owners.

(Willy kept bugging me as I tried to make notes for this session—sitting as he does close to me on the couch, wanting to stare at me and be petted at the same time, while I try to accomplish something. [...]

[...] She was afraid that if we didn’t, she, at least, would never have another pet — so we found “Willy Two” at an area humane society. [...]

[...] At rest, Peg said that the above ideas fit into a pet theory of her own. [...]

[...] To some degree, lesser, dependent lives such as household pets are dependent upon your psychic strength. [...]

[...] Animals, as any pet owner knows, have their own personalities and characteristics, and individual ways of perceiving the reality available to them. [...]

[...] It will lead you into the use of the inner senses, away from the confining nature of pet phrases and familiar language that is already loaded with its own connotations.

You do not understand the communications between your selves and pets, for example, where in their own way they interpret and react to your beliefs.¹ They mirror your ideas, then, and so become vulnerable as they would not be in their natural circumstances. [...]

[...] You may, for example, take the form of an individual’s dearly beloved dead pet.

[...] Children may have been sent to camp, neighbors assigned to care for pets, and every logical situation cared for.