“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 …?

Several of the brightest young rheumatologists and orthopedic surgeons had my future all mapped out for me, or so it appeared, as they discussed my case. When they spoke to Rob and me I tried to listen, but my hearing was still so poor that it was nearly impossible to make out one full sentence at a time. All the doctors seemed to agree that I had a kind of burned-out case of rheumatoid arthritis, with little active inflammation. But one doctor soberly told me that I’d never walk again, or even put my weight upon my feet again, unless I underwent a series of joint-replacement operations—if, he cautioned, I proved to be a “proper candidate.”

Being a proper candidate meant that I would turn my life over to medical science in the hospital for at least a year: a year spent in therapy, surgical procedures, and more therapy, until I ended up having at least four separate operations. My knee joints and hip joints could thus be replaced.

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.

[...] When you find yourself facing such negative images in your mind and projecting them into the future, you should at once mentally wipe out that image and replace it with a constructive image, seeing yourself, for example, sitting in command of a well-ordered room.

[...] If you think that tomorrow Johnny F will misbehave in study hall, you should, in your mind, replace this with the image of Johnny F behaving very well. [...]

When you replace this with a constructive thought, you are sending that constructive suggestion to which he will also react. [...]

[...] If however, you find yourself harboring a negative suggestion, then instantly counter it by replacing it with a constructive one.

You are mainly concerned with overall patterns of thought, replacing those that you already have, replacing negative ideas as you are aware of them. [...]

Realize that each time you replace a negative thought or feeling by a positive one, this is like making a correction in a painting. [...]

[...] You must therefore replace negative patterns with positive ones. [...]

To replace it with a new construction, it is a good idea to suggest that the old construction has indeed vanished, and in its place a new more acceptable one is being built. [...]

[...] The symbolism will help activate those forces that are necessary in any replacement of ideas. [...]

[...] If this is the case then the exercise should be continued until you imagine you yourself deciding upon and bringing about the destruction and replacement. [...]

[...] This will automatically help replace some of the negative beliefs concerning unworthiness, and is an effective way of avoiding pitfalls.

[...] You must immediately erase a negative thought or picture by replacing it with its opposite.

If you think, “I have a headache,” and if you do not replace this suggestion by a positive one, then you are automatically suggesting that the body set up those conditions that will result in the continuation of the malady. [...]

I wanted to make this point, since matter is created by the subconscious, and since it exists simultaneously and instantaneously, and since its creation or arrival, and its departure or replacement, are instantaneous. [...]

[...] The illusion of rigidity is the result of your own outer senses, a perception which is too slow to catch the constant pulsations, as bits of energy that compose material constantly disappear entirely and are replaced.

When it is possible, the shoes should be replaced, pair by pair. [...]

[...] The soap dish in the shower should be replaced. [...]

[...] He will replace an idea of illness with one of health. [...]

[...] But the framework itself is limiting; and again, while you may be cured of one difficulty, you will only replace it with another as long as your beliefs cause you to have physical problems.

[...] Within it, as within the connective tissues of the human body, there is a certain elasticity, a certain amount of regeneration and a constant replacement of the atoms and molecules that compose it. While the whole retains its shape, the material itself is being constantly born and replaced.

Physical time is the apparent lapse between the emergence of an idea in the physical universe (as a construction) and its replacement by another.

The future is the apparent lapse between the disappearance of one idea construction and its replacement by another in physical reality.

When Ruburt replaces the bedsheets, I suggest colored ones. [...]

[...] He has, you see, a negative picture of himself walking that must be replaced by a positive one.

[...] As a rule, even the images that are recognizable will quickly be replaced by others in a kaleidoscope of constantly changing forms.

[...] It may be replaced by a street urchin, obviously poor and from another century. [...]

[...] I told Jane that tomorrow I’d replace the oil portrait of mine that’s been there on the bulletin board. [...]

[...] The procedures immediately call for new growth on the part of the self, to replace what is being taken away, and to replace it in a more constructive fashion.

[...] You must learn to erase a negative thought or picture by replacing it with its opposite.

“If you think, ‘I have a headache,’ and if you do not replace this suggestion by a positive one, then you are automatically suggesting that the body set up those conditions that will result in the continuation of the malady. [...]

[...] In other sessions Seth makes it clear that these should be recognized and faced and then replaced.

[...] Then have him imagine plucking out the resentment by the roots and replacing it with a positive feeling. [...]

[...] The car may disappear before your eyes, to be replaced by an animal, or the whole street may suddenly turn into a field. [...]

[...] A man may suddenly disappear, and to be replaced by a small girl, a nonsensical development to the logical mind. [...]

[...] Now, though you no longer do so, the new habit has largely replaced the old, though in times of nervousness he might forget.

[...] When LuAnn was in she replaced the new nose patch that Georgia had put on to replace the one Phyllis had put on yesterday—the first one had been too big, the second too small, the third one was just right.

[...] Psychologically speaking, and in these terms only, on certain levels the son desires to replace the father. [...]

If this is not done then the desire to replace the father is a strong inner problem. [...]

[...] Your job now is simply to remove them, and as you remove each one, easily, to drop in a seed of positive thought to replace it.

Instead, you should see the pen you want in your mind, know that you will have a steady supply of them, recognize the statement you just made as leading away from your desire, and replacing it with a statement like the one you just made. [...]