“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(9:53.) Again, in our material on suffering (see the 895th session, for instance), I mentioned that illness serves purposes—that it has a face-saving quality in your society—so here I am speaking of the body’s own abilities. [...]

[...] I used the front page of the newspaper as an analogy, saying that it exhibited far worse behavior and beliefs than any we were responsible for, yet the news and world events seemed to be made by individuals who behaved much more badly than we did, and that further the people involved seemed not to suffer any consequences of note, beyond say losing a job or an election, etc. [...]

[...] He may leave so completely that the body goes into coma, if the body consciousness has also suffered shock. [...]

[...] I believe he received some bad news this week, and suffered some indisposition. [...]

[...] Identity would suffer if it were forced to perceive more impressions than it could effectively handle. [...]

[...] There are truths which the intellect cannot perceive, but the intellect knows the ego, and represents a firm and reliable pathway between the inner self and the ego; and psychic experience—I repeat, psychic experience—will not suffer from such scrutiny.

Are your suffering fingers tired?

“I’d say that both the creation and evolution models suffer from logical and emotional sloppiness, and that neither one presents a reasonable view of man’s origins. [...]

[...] This is one of the main reasons that he suffers from strong feelings of disloyalty whenever he allows himself to wish that you were more successful in your work, artistically or financially.

[...] He suffered from the attacks of “magicians” who were stealing his energy: “Plates” of energy were being stripped away from his chest in layers, until he feared his inner self would be exposed. [...]

In other positions it is the ego and intellect that suffer most, and since our purpose is to enlighten them as much as possible, this is not to our advantage.

Miss Callahan, on the 14th of August, merely suffered a very light stroke. [...]

[...] Why should another part suffer? [...]

Without any acceptance of painful stimuli the structure could never maintain itself, for the atoms and molecules within the structure constantly accept painful stimuli, and suffer even joyfully, their own destruction; being aware of their own separateness within action, and aware of their reality within all action, and not having complicated “I” structures to maintain, there is no reason for them to fear destruction.

[...] Last year while visiting in France Blanche suffered a rather severe stroke, but seems to have emerged without permanent paralysis. [...]

[...] Obviously because of your schedule you cannot at this time embark upon any rigorous experimentations in this respect, for your sleep would sadly suffer.

[...] In their own way symptoms frequently operate, actually, as repetitive neurological ritual, meant to protect the sufferer from something else that he fears even more.

[...] At the same time he was learning that expression denied at one level means expression denied to some extent at all levels (louder)—so that of course his creative work also suffered to some degree. [...]

(“Has he suffered any physical damage from the symptoms?”)

[...] I do not want this ever to be interpreted to mean, a priori, and in conventional terms, that “suffering is good for the soul.” [...]