“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(10:22.) Your side bothers you when you want to be on the right side of yourself, as in the old term, getting up on the right side of the bed. In other words, you are perturbed over what is the proper direction for you to take—not trusting yourself to make the proper decision automatically, but wanting to force a quick conscious decision so that you will know what to do, and have it over with.

(I’d asked Jane today if Seth could discuss briefly two subjects in the session this evening: My recent hassles with the discomfort in my side and groin, and Jane’s right hand. I hardly thought it a coincidence that my side began bothering me—as it had years ago—just when we’d finished our work on the page proofs for Volume 2 of “Unknown” and Psyche, and I was free of that work load for the first time in a long while. I’d obtained what I thought was some good pendulum material on the problem, and wanted to see if Seth confirmed it. As usual, his material added more insights.

(Pause.) Your dog dream (of March 31, 1979) also somewhat symbolizes that dilemma: do you go with your head, forcing a conscious decision, or do you go with your instincts, symbolized by the dog’s form? The question itself causes the dilemma of the dream—that is, the separation of the two in your mind, instinct and reason, causes the uneasy confrontation. There is no separation, of course, only a seeming one, for again, the mind’s conscious processes are spontaneous, and the body’s instincts are highly disciplined, so there is no need to vacillate between one side of the question or the other.

(“It’s the left side that bothers.” I reminded Seth.)

(There are many numerals 2 on both sides of the object. [...] On the page 11 side of the object is the line in heavier type: Prime quality 2-skin natural male mink, etc. On the page 12 side of the object is the word twin.

[...] There are references involving two on both sides of the object, and the sheet from which it was torn. For instance on the page 11 side of the object: 2-skin natural male mink; on the page 12 side: Twin size, etc.

[...] Blue is referred to both on the object itself on the page 11 side in the line: Norwegian natural blue fox… etc.; and is torn through on the page 12 side in the line referring to a sale of thermal blankets: White, green, pink, blue, gold. [...]

[...] On the page 11 side of the object there is a sequence of numbers: 189.95 at the bottom of the illustration, and one: 18, 14 ½ to 22, at the bottom of a box to the left of this on the same side.

[...] Right ankle and whole side of left foot itch—as do knees, to lesser extent. The group of ligaments on right side of neck seem to be releasing steadily—with improved head motions—though the process isn’t yet completed. [...]

Forgot: during night my stomach muscles right side lower suddenly relaxed & felt fantastic—I didn’t realize they weren’t relaxed before—then left side of my groin itched & all the flesh went soft & relaxed (and sort of flabby).

[...] Then a faster side-to-side motion, twisting back and forth. [...]

[...] More head and shoulder action, good side-to-side movements, talking to herself, left foot going good. [...]

[...] Left arm rotating, head and shoulder side to side again, then the right arm rotating. [...]

[...] Jane didn’t particularly want to be turned on her side, but the time was approaching. [...]

[...] She began lifting her head and upper torso, moving it from side to side, with new motion and considerable success. [...]

[...] Groaning and grunting and trying even harder and more loudly, Jane once again began lifting her head and torso and moving them from side to side. [...]

[...] Once again she began noisily moving her head and torso from side to side—her best effort yet—the motion having repercussions in her belly and hips, legs and feet. [...]

(“If I could just sit up on the side of the bed,” Jane said. [...]

From Tuesday AM through Friday late afternoon—it seems that more or less constant softening and loosening of all moveable parts went on, particularly the gradual releasing of heavy ligament group in neck, right side. On two nights in bed, definite softening of very important muscles and ligaments from hips down back of legs, under knees; and also stomach muscles right side. [...]

[...] I went out because I thought I should; anyhow later, the parts stopped being sore; and walking there was another difference as if I were trying to swing some from side to side the way you should; felt some ambitious, cleaned bathroom a bit....

[...] She made some motions with her head and shoulders off the bed, side to side, with noises and harder breathing. [...]

(Now from 4:21 to 4:30 Jane went through several more sequences of exercising with her head and shoulders, side to side, accompanied by grunts and groans, and with her left foot moving in a rather gentle rhythm also. [...]

[...] Last night they’d fallen out as she lay on her side, she said. [...]

[...] Head and chest side to side. [...]

[...] Side to side with the head, arms. [...]

[...] Strong side-to-side motions of head and shoulders, panting. [...]

[...] She did well when I turned her on her left side, then massaged Oil of Olay into her feet, legs, arms and hands and neck. [...]

[...] Torso side to side. [...]

[...] The right foot moved and she began thrashing her body from side to side. [...]

[...] Left leg up, torso side to side—almost violent motions for my wife—excellent signs. [...]

(Jane was okay on her side. [...]

(11:19.) On Ruburt: the right side, generally speaking, has released itself enough, and become practically dependable enough in new positions, now, to allow the first important releases of large muscle areas on the left side. [...]

[...] The results of the dream that I told you would occur, have, in the awakening, so to speak, of the left side of the body relatively—that is, that side was more reluctant before.

[...] At 3:30 she began to have a lot of new motions in her neck, rotating her head much more freely from side to side than she’s been able to do so far. [...]

[...] She could feel them shifting from side to side as she lay on her back in bed. [...]

[...] The turn onto her left side went easily. [...] She said she felt motions in her body as she lay on her side, watching TV while I took a nap from 5:05 to 5:35. [...]

What is perfectly clear to one portion of that world brain may not be perceived at all by the other side, and vice versa. [...] In either case, you end up with the need for negotiators, who attempt to bring the two sides into at least some alignment, or to correct the vision and perception of each side until the situation of the other side is at least perceived with some clarity. [...]

Many of the methods used to find solutions actually involve the setup of negotiations on the part of nations—the third party or parties—who in the beginning can communicate with each side, explaining one side’s viewpoint to the other. [...]

One side will be unable to see or understand the behavior of the other side. [...]

[...] Many of her head and torso motions involved pretty good side-to-side movements also. [...]

[...] She moved her head and shoulder very well from side to side, with many grunts and groans and deep breathings. [...]

[...] After we’d checked the lineage of the poetry, Jane did a few movements, although she knew it was getting to be time to turn on her left side. [...]

[...] Rather strong motions of her head and shoulders, side to side and up and down. [...]

[...] Pretty strong movements of the torso, side to side. [...]

[...] I turned Jane on her left side, then massaged her with Oil of Olay as usual. [...]

[...] She began a generalized motion of her whole body, lifting her head and upper torso off the bed and moving them from side to side. [...]

[...] Then I searched for a second spot on the top of her head—and when I found it with my middle finger Jane’s head suddenly began to jerk very rapidly from side to side. [...]

[...] I turned her on her side and massaged her parts with Oil of Olay. [...]

[...] I’d planned to go shopping at the Acme on the south side, but said I could pick up a few things at SuperDuper instead, on the way home. [...]

[...] She began to read yesterday’s session while I did mail, and once again she started out holding the papers on the left side with her left hand. Then shortly afterward she also began using her right hand on the right side. [...]

[...] She also showed me how she could much more easily turn her head from side to side, and around, than she has been able to. [...]

[...] Then Jane said something very important—that when the guardrail on the bed in down on the left side, and the TV is pushed back out of the way, she gets the impulse to sit up in bed and swing her legs down over the side. [...]

Ruburt now feels the impulse to sit up on the side of his bed—an excellent development, for action follows impulse. [...]

(I turned Jane over on her left side, pillow between her knees, at 4:10. [...] She was quite uncomfortable on her side, as I tried to help her relax. [...]

[...] Finally she decided to have a cigarette as she lay there on her side. [...] It would be her first session on her side, her second in the hospital. [...]

[...] Jane did okay for a first session on her side, I told her as I lit a cigarette for her. [...]

[...] When I awakened, something had suddenly cleared connected with the entire right side of my head and neck, involving the right ear, eye, jaw also. [...] These areas whatever they are, go through the right side of the body, downward; so that behind my right knee, for example, there is a sense of that mobility or easiness; and particularly in the right toe, though the entire right foot shares. (The entire right side isn’t so affected though—just these particular.... [...]

[...] In this portrait the man looks off to one side—yet those eyes too were on the point of moving. [...]

[...] Jane lay nude on her left side with the pillow between her legs. [...]

[...] It was getting late in the afternoon and I told her she should turn over on her side soon, to get off her back for an hour before supper. [...]

[...] It’s a great little session, I told Jane as I got ready to turn her on her side. [...]

[...] But her head started moving, and she started in on some stronger motions, head going from side to side, breathing much noisier, grunts and groans. [...]

[...] After resting in between some pretty good motions, Jane then began her best efforts of the day, with her head and shoulders going side-to-side. [...]

[...] I turned Jane on her left side, and the move went well; she’s been doing the turning a good deal better. [...]