“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

There were others who did not want the man promoted, and these men do not want you promoted. This Stan is against your promotion, except in one particular area where it might serve to his own particular advantage. Otherwise he is against it.

([John:] “The promotion of this man in California is not indicative of a general change of values?”)

(John gave us much interesting background information about his company. He identified the short man who would be out as Jim Brady. John could not identify the S A R reference. John has already refused, he said, to commit himself re a promotion to Rochester. He said it was likely he would remain in this area of the country, that is, the northeast. Freewheeling basis would pertain to John’s interpretation, he said, of the changed mode of operation by which the pharmaceutical industry attempts to sell its products and its image.

Now: you are, of course, taught that any meaningful endeavor takes a great amount of effort of a certain kind—the exertion of the will, the utilization of the time in an organized fashion—and this can promote a tooth-gritting determination in some people.

[...] Western religion and science promote the ideas of competition, effort, the emphasis upon the will, divorced from the imagination, so that to “give up all effort” can be read as an abdication of responsibility, an indication of laziness and sloth; or in fundamental Christian terms, the devil finds work for idle hands.

In a strange fashion desire promotes action seemingly without effort, or the effort seems so natural, so spontaneous and so joyful that it is not recognized as effort in the old fashion. [...]

[...] We will have more to say about such issues later on in the book — for I hope to show you how certain feelings and beliefs do indeed promote health, while others promote an unfortunate extension or exaggeration of perfectly normal bodily processes, or viral activity.

[...] Once you know this, you can begin to take steps that will serve to promote exuberance and vitality instead of fear, doubts, and “disease.”

All of those attitudes provide the strength and mental health that promotes their physical growth and development. [...]

[...] We hope to show how most natural health-promoting beliefs can be applied to all mental, physical, or emotional illnesses or difficulties. [...]

Again, I accelerate those coordinates that lead to peace of mind and body, and promote the healing processes. [...]

The same hidden ability that promotes your body’s health and vitality also fulfills and preserves the world in general. [...]

[...] Instead, of course, your intellectual abilities are supported and promoted by that inner mixture of spontaneity and order that so magically combine to form both your reality and the reality of the world.

[...] Yet such events promote the earth’s great, bountiful food supplies, and serve to redistribute the planet’s resources. [...]

In the same fashion, diseases also, in the overall picture, promote the health and well-being of life in all of its aspects. [...]

Your “medical commercials” are equally disease-promoting. Many, meaning to offer you relief through a product, instead actually promote the condition through suggestion, thereby generating a need for the product itself.

[...] But most of all, they operate to increase the individual sense of alienation from the body, and to promote a sense of powerlessness and duality.

[...] Generations before you managed to subsist on many such foods, and they were in fact promoted as additive to health. [...]

[...] Young people in particular are needed to work for the promotion of peace and nuclear disarmament, to take up the tasks of deregulating and redistributing food sources, and of encouraging nations to join in such a creative venture. [...]

Once again, I activate those coordinates that promote your own peace of body and mind, and quicken the healing processes — and I bid you a fond good early evening.

[...] The reason can promote your good health or actually impede it.

[...] Your ideas about your own health are even more important than those steps you take to promote it.

[...] In the matter of the disease called AIDS, for example, you have groups of homosexuals, many “coming out of the closet” for the first time, taking part in organizations that promote their cause, and suddenly faced by the suspicions and distrust of many other portions of the population.

[...] The idea is to clear the mind as much as possible from beliefs that impede the fine, smooth workings of the life force, and to actively encourage those beliefs and attitudes that promote health and the development of all aspects of healing experience.

The body beliefs, continuing their materialization, kept him discouraged, and promoted dire images of the future and so forth, that were quite in line with the beliefs involved. [...]

[...] You are telling it to change, when all of its instincts, you see, are to maintain stability, and in your country, at least, that stability has been large enough and flexible enough so that you are being financially rewarded, to whatever degree, for promoting ideas that run counter to the deepest beliefs of that system.

[...] The ideas that we are promoting would indeed change your society—and to some extent they are—for they are altering your readers’ ideas about reality, and challenging the concepts of science, religion, and to a lesser degree, of government itself.

[...] Many individuals come into a world for the purpose of changing it for the better, and there is no more efficient way of doing that than by the promotion of ideas—for no exterior altered circumstances can ever be applied from without unless the inner foundations have been laid.

[...] Competition, however, has been promoted as the ideal at all levels of activity. [...]

[...] So I would like to reinforce the fact that life is indeed a cooperative venture, and that all the steps taken toward the ideal must of themselves be life-promoting.

[...] Instead, these are genetic attributes, inspired and promoted by the inseparable unity of spirit in flesh. [...] Any philosophy that promotes the idea that life is meaningless is biologically dangerous. It promotes feelings of despair that directly hamper genetic activity. [...]

Many schools of religion and so-called esoteric knowledge have promoted the idea that sexuality and spirituality were diametrically opposed to each other.

In the past some religious groups have also promoted beliefs that illness is a sign of God’s punishment, or vengeance for sins committed against his “goodness.”

[...] It is actually far more important that we stress the symptoms of health and those methods, beliefs, and healings that promote them.

[...] Once more I activate those coordinates that quicken your own healing potentials, and promote well-being and peace of mind.

[...] They may run to avoid heart disease, for example, while their own fear can help to promote the very eventuality they fear.

Many churches are primarily devoted to the repression of high spirits rather than their promotion, and a fear of an almighty God is generated, so that God becomes the bestower of punishment rather than the giver of love. [...]

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. [...]