“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In other words, I said, we’d been approaching the problem backwards: Jane wasn’t sick so much because of her past as she was because of what we were doing every day in present reality—reinforcing and/or perpetuating the symptoms because they served a number of beliefs about present-day reality. [...]

[...] For some time now I’d thought, often, that it could be that she wanted to be sick —that that was the role she’d chosen for this life, that in many ways all of our efforts to get out from under the symptoms were really beside the point. [...]

[...] She was also physically sick to her stomach. [...]

[...] She was not sick now, if also not hilarious, and also looked much better. [...]

[...] I told Jane I supposed it was a good thing that others learned how to handle her; someone could always get sick, or quit, etc., and Jane agreed. [...]

[...] If you were sick of me, or wanted out—anything—I just wanted to know so you’d get better. I know you love me, but maybe you get sick of my running your life or something like that....”

For one thing, she is afraid that the Jesuit will get more severe symptoms of his own, as a result of work pressure, and in a protective way she is trying to say “Bill, do not get sick. See, I will get sick myself instead, for you.”

[...] Don’t be so anxious to throw your individuality back into their faces, saying, ‘I’m sick to death of myself and of my individuality; it burdens me.’ Even one squirrel’s consciousness, suddenly thrown into the body of another of its kind, would feel a sense of loss, encounter a strangeness, and know in the sacredness of its being that something was wrong. [...]

[...] They can accept roles in somewhat the same way that children play at being sick, and in extreme cases some children find the game becomes only too real.

(During break Nadine stated her children were always sick and she has a terrible fear of germs.)

(To Nadine.) It often occurs that those who have strong healing abilities focus upon illness and sickness and are obsessed with it in the same way that many ministers, given to thoughts of good and God, are obsessed with the idea of the devil and evil. [...]

[...] He had a sick feeling in the pit of his stomach. [...]

[...] In a reincarnational sense, the personality for a while takes the role of a sick person, as an actor would, and is completely immersed in it. [...]

[...] They are sick people. [...]

[...] He quite rightly thought—in, now, a certain framework—”How sick do I have to get?”

[...] (In Mass Events, for instance.) If people were not sick they would not need doctors (quietly amused), and since many people are unaware consciously of their own motives, then the doctors and the patients are often in league with each other, helping to maintain the dis-ease. [...]

If you had no sympathy for the sick, you may then be born with a serious disease, again now self-chosen, and find yourself encountering those attitudes that once were your own. [...]

[...] However, I haven’t seen Dave in well over a year, and do not know if he’s been sick. [...]

You did not want Ruburt sick, but you did want brakes applied, and he chose the method. [...]

If you are sick, for example, there is a reason. [...]

The label often helps the individual adopt the position or role of a “sick person”, in quotes, rather than of a well person momentarily indisposed. [...]

[...] The feeling of contempt he had for the sick or crippled has long vanished. [...]

(“Doesn’t he ever get sick of this routine?”)