“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] As much as possible, then, think in terms of Ruburt not so much as having certain symptoms, but as being simply out of condition and trying to reestablish certain physical skills. [...]

Try not to use the word “symptoms” in your pendulum work from now on. [...]

It is imperative, however, that you make an effort not to think in terms of “the symptoms” any longer, but instead to think of ways that Ruburt can condition his body, realizing that he need not be at the mercy of old fears.

In a way the child allowed itself to be hypnotized into the condition, the symptoms becoming potent physical “posthypnotic” suggestions. [...]

Ruburt is doing very well, removing the suggestions that have resulted in the symptoms, and finally beginning to trust the body, as the spring lamb trusted its body and its being. [...]

[...] Then however you felt a cleavage on Ruburt’s part, and continued the symptom. [...]

You must take that into consideration, but the constant concentration upon the symptoms, and disapproval of self because of them, must cease. [...]

You do not have to wonder at the small physical symptoms which have bothered both of you lately. [...] It is only when adverse symptoms arise that you pay it any attention.

[...] Such symptoms as you have had have been mere annoyances, everything considered. [...]

He has great energy, and was able to withstand this self-assault for some time before actual physical symptoms showed. [...]

The symptoms built up as he clamped down on his feelings. [...]

The symptoms slowed down all of these eventualities. [...]

(At the supper table Jane expressed a fear that, although both of us are well aware of it, she seldom mentions: that she won’t be able to recover, that the symptoms have gone too far, have been around too long for full recovery, etc. [...]

A concentration upon his work, and not upon the symptoms. [...]

[...] People with such beliefs often have severe problems with constipation, and have retention symptoms — retaining water, for example, or salt or whatever.

It’s taken us some years to understand that behind Jane’s symptoms lay her efforts to understand and express the very strong creative energy she’s sensed within herself since childhood. [...] From Seth and ourselves we’ve accumulated much unpublished material about Jane’s symptoms and attendant matters. [...]

[...] The symptoms kept him at his job, at home, and allowed him to concentrate without outside distractions; kept him writing, with mystical experience dutifully translated into art.

The symptoms also served to focus that fantastic energy, while he figured out how it should be used. [...]

He could not accept a new framework, and he dared not let the old one go, so the symptoms became the physical materialization of these conflicts, and served many purposes. [...]

[...] Ruburt has indeed done well this week, the symptom storms becoming less and less frequent, and much briefer in duration as well as weaker in overall intensity. [...]

[...] This simply brings up associations, of course, with the nursery school, serving as another connection with his mother’s symptoms.

Many early morning symptoms of a few months ago were direct mimicry of the mother in this identification, but these particular ones have vanished.

[...] With the best of intent most public health announcements shout the symptoms of critical diseases to the skies, so that the smallest of indispositions becomes the trigger for personal fear on the part of millions. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s satisfaction with his book, and your reinforcement of its value, put the symptoms in the background.

[...] Before, the symptoms predominated in such an encounter, as with Monroe, because of your attitudes. [...]

[...] Verbal humiliation was easiest to bear, but his mother would immediately show all kinds of extremely serious symptoms, for which Ruburt would be adamantly blamed.

[...] Thoughts—after the 3 sessions here in Marathon, of February 16, 19, and 21, it finally dawns on me—I finally put the material in the sessions together—and realize that a more basic quality behind Jane’s symptoms is repression. [...]

[...] If all parts of her being are allowed expression, I said, there would be no extreme reactions, as in the symptoms. [...]

[...] The symptoms resulted. [...]

Now Ruburt strongly reacted this time positively, when you massaged his leg, because he interprets your feelings toward his symptoms in this manner: you will not comfort his body physically because you do not like it. [...]

In a strange fashion the symptoms also served to stress what he felt you were both trying to deny—his femininity, in that he felt at a very unconscious level that they made him helpless and in need of someone to lean upon—a mute call for support to you, and at that level he was outraged that instead of giving him your hand you would offer mental suggestions.

[...] This would automatically cause all kinds of symptoms, needless to say.

Now when he felt that physical divorce you made various attempts to come closer, and you have made strides since obviously the symptoms have lessened. [...]

[...] Imagine emotionally, instead, your feeling that the symptoms have already disappeared. Emotionally, imagine how fine you feel that now the symptoms are gone. [...] In a moment, see yourself freed from the symptoms and then forget the episode. [...]

([Gert:] “How often do you need to go about giving suggestion that physical symptoms go away?”)

Last night’s poor sleep and symptoms were simply a reaction to the information given (in last night’s session), and represented a momentary (underlined) stiffening of position by both sides of the personality. [...]

(“Has the spontaneous self ever been responsible for any of the symptoms?”)

[...] He also told us that amateur mediumship could produce mental symptoms under certain conditions.

[...] Seth devoted several long sessions to an analysis of Rob’s condition and explained the reasons for the symptoms. [...]

We quickly learned that Seth regarded physical symptoms as the outward materialization of inner dis-ease. [...]

[...] The symptoms have therefore been an attempt to equalize an inner situation. [...]

[...] The symptoms have in part been meant to reassure you that you need not be afraid that he would be driven by his impulses. [...]

[...] Strains and tensions developed, but in grappling with these and with the physical symptoms, new insights were reached.

[...] He is not concentrating upon the symptoms—but he is trying to watch his progress with too heavy a hand, if he will forgive the murky analogy.

[...] His physical symptoms were the result of methods or habits of dealing with himself and the world, and of attitudes that both of you shared for the greater part of your lives.

[...] Instead, of course, he felt in such a position before the symptoms showed—as each of you felt, and were convinced in black-and-white fashion, that creative people were misunderstood, held in inferior position in the world, and were generally considered oddballs.

(“—so I’m wondering if our doing this will collide with what we’re trying to do about the symptoms. [...]