“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Once again Jane ate very little for lunch, although Georgia had said she did okay for breakfast. She’s still starving, essentially. Jane and Georgia talked and smoked while I was down to billing. Jane said she’d have a session later, then changed her mind as I got ready to do mail. Her voice was very shaky, not very distinct, rather high-pitched and with little inflection. Eyes open and closed.)

(It’s events like this that make me despair, for once again I see Jane going along in the same old way, and wonder what, if anything, has been learned out of all of this. How can one say much has been learned, I wondered, if my wife is at death’s door, and is currently starving herself? Each challenge we have to meet and surmount is at a lower level, and simply to break it or surmount it leaves one only back at the next level from which the fall took place. There’s never a surge up a few rungs on the ladder, from which we can look back in triumph.

[...] By turn you overstuff and then starve the tissues. [...] Along these lines, for example, you do literally starve your bodies at night, and add to the aging of your bodies by denying them food throughout those long hours. [...]

You were gifted enough so that you would not starve in the marketplace (humorously)—and yet your gifts were also those that would fit in with your overall purposes of obtaining knowledge of the inner workings of nature, and the psyche. [...]

[...] For your planet will not be able to support it and spiritual growth cannot be achieved through starving bodies nor through the agonies of mothers who must watch their children starve. [...]

[...] But many men and women are indeed starving. [...]

[...] The energy instead had fed the nervous symptoms, to such an extent that the body was starved, comparatively speaking. [...]

Behind many such attitudes is the idea that the body itself is unworthy, and that starving it somehow cuts down on the appetites of the flesh. [...]

[...] If you believe that the body is somehow evil, you may punish it by nearly starving to death, even though your diet might be considered normal by usual standards. [...]

[...] I decided — again — that I was through worrying about whether she’d live or die, or whether she was starving herself to death, or whatever.

[...] After watching her behavior as the month passed, I could see that she was indeed starving herself, and would die if she kept it up. [...]

[...] With your habits the body is literally starved for long periods at night, then often overfed during the day. [...]

[...] We could starve for all most people care. [...]

[...] Why does the body not protest if men have nearly starved, or become the scorn of their fellows, or whatever? [...]

Animals also dream, for example, and whole herds of starving animals will be led by their dreams to find better feeding grounds. In the same way, the dreams of starving people point toward the solution of the problem. [...]

[...] If you are poor enough, of course, you will starve, or freeze to death in the wintertime. [...]

[...] They did not speak of the human beings who had to know what migrations of animals would roam through their land — and when and where, and at what phase of the moon — lest they starve….

[...] It may, however, be starved of very needed nourishment. [...]

[...] They will instinctively starve an offspring while its consciousness is still unfocused, rather than send it loose under adverse conditions.

[...] It is not to any religion’s benefit that people starve. [...]

[...] Now I’m starved.”

[...] I’m starved….”