“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I think the following is beginning of dream: Mrs. Mahaar calls me to go downstairs. In basement I find four or five young men laying on the floor, each with an ill dog beside him, at least the dogs looked sick. One was a Great Dane. Some girls there too. Can’t remember how this worked out, but it was all right, they weren’t as sick as they looked or something.

[...] Jane feared that if she got Marie mad, Marie would get sick and die. Marie used to tell Jane it was her fault the mother was sick, and that it was also her fault that Jane’s grandmother died, and the housekeeper. [...]

[...] Jane basically didn’t want anything to do with sick people — was afraid she could hurt them in sessions.

[...] The world wasn’t going to pass any sort of judgment if she didn’t choose to deal with the sick.

Jane said I’d never told her about getting sick on purpose, although I thought I had. [...] “I know that sometimes I made myself sick to get out of stuff like diagramming sentences and doing multiplication tables, in Catholic grade school. [...]

[...] They are often quite aware of “willing” themselves sick to get out of difficult situations—and of willing themselves well again (with humor).¹

I’ll also endorse Seth’s statement that children “are often quite aware of willing themselves sick to get out of difficult situations.” [...]

Again, the animal approves of himself, whether he is sick or well, slow or swift. The sick animal wants to get well. It does not disapprove of itself, however, or even think of itself as “a sick animal.” In those terms it might think of itself as an animal who was sick—a big difference—and even then no self-disapproval would be indicated.

[...] And now under hypnosis Jane said the second important thing: she told me that if she got sick, I wouldn’t be sick any longer. [...]

(Then, Jane continued, still crying, we had returned to Sayre, then Elmira, where I had worked full time for three years, then became very sick for a year. [...]

(The second point grew out of the above: Jane told me, crying, that if she got sick I’d feel sorry for her and wouldn’t leave her. [...]

[...] My own theory is that the people who work there get sick of it after a while, and then get sick in order to get a rest or a vacation with pay.

If on the other hand you carry the idea too far — that illness can also be a learning process — then you can fall into the other extreme, glorifying sickness or disease as a necessary ennobling experience in which the body is purged so that the soul can be saved.

What sin did the poor person or the sick person commit? [...]

[...] If you believe you are sick then for all intents and purposes you are sick. [...]

[...] Tonight’s material, however, adds to our understanding of subjects like free will and choosing, good and evil, sickness and health, and reflects upon many questions people have asked us over the years.

“Well,” Jane said as we sat for the session, “I’d almost rather feel that you were the victim of blind chance or accident, rather than that you get sick because of your own dumb ignorance or choice….” [...]

[...] A man might be born deformed or sickly because of the sins of his father.

[...] [Sickness] can be a badge of honor or dishonor—but there can be no question, when you look at the human picture, that to a certain extent, but an important one, suffering not only has its purposes and uses, but is actively sought for one reason or another.

[...] I keep asking, ‘Is it good; is it good?’ I’ve got that sickly feeling again.... [...]

[...] There was however simultaneously great resentment: “How sick do I have to get before you will come back to me, and how can I be sure of it?”

[...] She didn’t, but she definitely felt sick. [...]

[...] Perhaps this is related to her getting sick after the session tonight; we plan to ask Seth. [...]

(Shortly after this, while I was in the studio with Marilyn and Ann, I was informed that Jane was being physically sick in the kitchen. [...]

(“Did that book come out before I got sick?”

It came out while you were becoming sick. [...]

[...] You both believe that Ruburt is sick physically in one particular fashion. [...]

(After In Search Of ended on TV at 2:30 Jane read the draft of my note for session 896 for Dreams, in which I wanted to know whether she’d ever willed herself sick [as I had] when a youngster, in order to avoid something I wanted to get out of doing. [...]

[...] But for a long time—months—I lived with tears just beneath the surface, you might say, as I wondered what was going to happen to us, why you were so sick, what we’d done wrong all those years, and so forth. [...]

[...] Yet the doctor didn’t really know why the cat is sick. [...]

“I wouldn’t mind getting something from Seth on why Billy got sick,” I said to Jane after supper. [...]

[...] “That’s the first time that ever happened: I started to feel really sick, as though the material really got to me while he was giving it. [...]

[...] “But I really felt sick there.”

[...] Therefore God was seen to be on the side of those who competed most strenuously, so that to be poor or sick was almost seen as a sign of God’s disfavor. [...]

[...] Willy had been sick rather often during the past weeks. [...] Since we were so fond of Willy, we had thought we were contributing adequately before the sick spell.)

(“Why has our cat Willy been sick so often lately?”)

[...] Once more, you will not be sick if you think you are well — but there may be other ideas that make you believe in the necessity for poor health.

[...] A sick body is performing that function then, in its way, as well as a healthy one. [...]