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1. In ordinary terms, various kinds of plague, including the bubonic and the infamous “Black Death,” were (and still are) spread to man by fleas carrying a bacterium from infected rats. Other forms of the affliction are carried by other rodents. In Seth’s terms, through the complicated interactions and communications involving all forms of life, man’s deep dissatisfactions would have periodically helped trigger the resurgence of scourges like the plagues: In 3rd-century Rome, for instance, several thousand people were said to have died each day; estimates are that over a 20-year period in the 14th century, three-quarters of the population of Europe and Asia perished; there was the great plague of London in 1665, and so forth.

In some historical periods the plight of the poor was so horrible, so unendurable, that outbreaks of the plague occurred, literally resulting in a complete destruction of large areas of the environment in which such social, political, and economic conditions existed. [Those] plagues took rich and poor alike, however, so the complacent well-to-do could see quite clearly, for example, that to some extent sanitary conditions, privacy, peace of mind, had to be granted to the poor alike, for the results of their dissatisfaction would have quite practical results. Those were deaths of protest.¹

(Long pause at 10:31.) Give us a moment… Even in the days of the great plagues in England there were those smitten who did not die, and there were those untouched by the disease who dealt with the sick and dying. Those survivors, who were actively involved, saw themselves in a completely different light than those who succumbed, however: They were those, untouched by despair, who saw themselves as effective rather than ineffective. Often they roused themselves from lives of previously unheroic situations, and then performed with great bravery. The horror of the conditions overwhelmed them where earlier they were not involved.

[...] I read the material and it plagued me through the day. [...]

[...] You will not be plagued certainly with furniture-moving ideas of this type.

[...] His rather long letter dealt with Dr. Childers’ nightshade diet for arthritis; the writer claimed he had a close friend who had recovered completely from rheumatoid arthritis that had plagued him since childhood, by following this diet—no potatoes, paprika [peppers], tomatoes, and a few other common foods of the nightshade family. [...]

[...] The fact is that religions have been the carriers of some of the best ideas that man has entertained — but it has also held most stubbornly to the most troublesome concepts that have plagued mankind.

[...] Her double vision continues to plague her.

(Seth here speaks of Jane’s intuitive and emotional realization of the basic causes behind the foot and other muscular troubles that have plagued her since early summer. [...]

[...] You were still plagued by remnants of self-disapproval and self-condemnation, however, yet the spontaneous self in each of you managed to push here and there and blaze forth whenever you gave it a chance, with some quite outstanding results.

[...] Many severe illnesses disappear miraculously, it would seem, though an individual has been plagued since birth.

[...] Her people were destroyed in a plague. [...]

[...] They became frightened of disease, particularly in the case of plagues.

[...] When either of you were offered jobs with advancement, you avoided them like the plague—idiotic behavior in Darwinian and Freudian terms.

[...] To back down now would result not only in business failure, but in a personal failure that would plague you for the rest of your life.

[...] He would avoid success like a plague. [...]

[...] In his immediately past life he plagued himself through a useless arm; right arm, you see, so he could not point out again. [...]

[...] I am plagued by fears whenever I consider any particular direction—perhaps even the fear that I will not be able to measure up to my expectations. [...]

[...] It seems quite scientific to believe in inoculations against such dangerous diseases — and certainly, scientifically, inoculations seem to work: People in your time right now are not plagued by smallpox, for example. [...]

Now, Ruburt has largely dispensed with the negative state of mind that has so long plagued him... [...]

[...] The urinary problem still plagued me no end, and tonight the pressure was heavy; hence, I gave in and asked Jane for help. [...]

[...] Speaking to her directly, Seth first mentioned the headache that had been plaguing her all day: