“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] They also have to do with her teeth and jaw symptoms, and fear of eating recently, we’ve learned.)

The more you spoke of prices of food going up, the worse the feelings about eating became (and the tooth and jaw symptoms). [...]

[...] I don’t see her symptoms lessening, so feel that action must be taken.

Both of you concentrate upon the symptoms and Ruburt’s dire circumstances, which reinforces them. If you do this without feeling the symptoms, then at least understand how Ruburt so easily does the same thing.

[...] You have each been structuring your experience largely through Ruburt’s symptoms—both of you, so that when Ruburt might momentarily feel free you would remind him of his limitations, and when you might forget them Ruburt would remind you.

[...] Now I suggest a different approach, also, that may help change the focus from physical symptoms to physical accomplishment. [...]

(Then later: “How about reincarnational material about Ruburt?” In relation to symptoms, etc.)

(Late yesterday afternoon my pendulum told me that Jane’s symptoms stemmed from her feeling that she had failed to become a successful “straight” writer—a novelist, poet, essayist, et al.; that she felt she had failed as the serious writer she had always dreamed of becoming, that the psychic work represented a turning down a wrong path; that actually, basically, the psychic work represented failure to her rather than success. [...]

(At a quick scan I thought the ideas answered all the questions we’d had about the symptoms over the years—explaining, for instance, their onset before the psychic developments, etc. [...]

[...] Before all of this, as the very first symptoms began, before the ESP book, he was already deeply frightened by the novel rejections, the Playboy rejections after they raised his hopes, the poetry book acceptance that fell through with Continental, and what he felt to be your joint deteriorating relationship.

(“Then we’re still to think that all those reasons connected with the symptoms that you gave in the past still apply, along with these present ones given in this session? [...]

[...] There may be a flare-up of mental confusion, accompanying any physical improvement or release of symptoms. [...] As any symptoms subside the problems will be felt by the personality.

A steady, progressive, but paced release from symptoms will allow for a more orderly mental and physical return to health. [...]

The symptoms also cut down distractions to insure that he did work while at home. [...] Unfortunately in some respects certainly he went overboard, so that the symptoms served to cut out anything he felt might be threatening to his work and to your situation.

[...] Choose simply to change that concentration away from Ruburt’s symptoms, each of you, whenever you find yourself concentrating upon them. [...]

(This material had been on her mind for the past few days, to the extent that some physical symptoms of her [Jane’s] own had shown themselves. Questioning on my part, and Jane’s use of the pendulum, told us these symptoms, somewhat annoying and at first puzzling, were related to the above material. [...]

(“Were we correct about his symptoms for the last couple of days?” Jane’s annoying head manifestations, said by her pendulum to be caused by the Pitre session.)

[...] If your own belief in the physician “works” and you are cured of symptoms, you are physically relieved, and yet your own belief in yourself may be further infringed upon. If you are making no effective efforts to handle your own problems, then the symptoms will simply reappear in a new fashion, and the same process will be reinitiated. [...]

[...] Yet many people have physical symptoms or suffer unpleasant situations because they are afraid to utilize their own power of action, and equate power with aggression — meaning violence. [...]

[...] The enforced incarceration of violent men often leads to a riot, and the private closeting of normal aggression often brings psychological rioting and outbursts of physical symptoms.

(3:35.) These beliefs break down the immunity system, and bring about the symptoms so connected with the disease. [...]

Many of the public-health announcements routinely publicize the specific symptoms of various diseases, almost as if laying out maps of diseases for medical consumers to swallow. [...]

To some extent this belief of his is quite shared by you, and if his symptoms seem so self-evident to you, imagine how self-evident they seem to him. [...]

[...] And that you are not as hypnotized by his symptoms as he is.

[...] There is a change in the acid which disturbs your system, and adds to the allergic symptoms.

[...] If you do an excellent job of it, then you would experience no symptoms.

I do not see any too-annoying symptoms in any case. [...]

Ruburt’s symptoms were largely protective in nature, providing a defense he felt he needed to protect himself against an unsafe universe from without, and against a suspicious self within.

[...] The pendulum is still important, because as you, Joseph, were involved in Ruburt’s experience as he developed the symptoms, you are involved now in the healing process, and this means that both of you are changing your allegiance. [...]

[...] Ruburt felt that his symptoms were, in your eyes, the concrete indications of his imperfections. [...] You would not accept him with the symptoms as an imperfect being, and love him anyway. [...]

(“With the symptoms, you mean.”)

[...] For a while, now, the symptoms also represented a holding back because he feared you were jealous of his success, to save you embarrassment, as mentioned in the past.

[...] The overall needs of the body are being better met even while the symptoms are being minimized. [...]

[...] In them Seth briefly explained how Jane had created her symptoms as protection against the spontaneous self going too far: this fear was the real reason for the symptoms—not, as we usually thought, her fear that she would do other things besides work if she had normal mobility. [...] Again, without checking, I think that an examination of our records would show that her symptoms flared up, indeed worsened, as she worked on each Seth book, and that behind her labors on each book there lay this fear that she was going too far with each one she produced. [...]

[...] In each Seth book there have been layoffs, so to speak—long or longish periods in between certain sessions, while, usually, we held personal sessions in the interim; these were usually devoted to trying to get at the root causes of Jane’s symptoms. [...]

[...] In it she tied her eye trouble and other symptoms with her fears about public reactions to her Seth work—her fears of its rejection, etc., and that she might—indeed, has—found herself outside the accepted realms of science, religion, etc., because of her psychic work. [...]

[...] My idea is that both class and mail have had an unfortunate reinforcing effect over the years as far as the symptoms and their attendant fears go. [...]

[...] (I think the idea was that increased symptoms were “preventive” medicine against a greater feared event or condition....)

[...] This alone removed some strongly negative body beliefs that had still remained despite his understanding of the reasons behind the symptoms.

[...] And if you lie to yourselves about your feelings or gloss them over, then you cannot begin to understand the spiritual reality for you will use it instead as an aspirin to cover up the symptoms of disease both mental, spiritual and psychic. [...]

[...] It does you little good to know that physical symptoms or inadequate physical surroundings are symbolic unless you realize that the inner situation can be changed.

[...] Ruburt should not think for example: “I have had these symptoms for such and such a time.” [...]

[...] Ruburt is not simply stuck with a bunch of symptoms, and you are not stuck just with a wife who has problems.

Some of the symptoms then were indeed to insure your joint work integrity. [...]