“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

All of this was worked out through the symptoms. [...]

The final stages are unfolding, and now both the conscious and intuitional selves are joining forces, and will bring about the body’s release from symptoms entirely.

[...] Edgar hypnotizes Maria and she, by scanning lights which she sees in the patient’s chest, can read the symptoms. [...]

[...] You must try to avoid an overconcentration now upon the negative simply because you are looking for symptoms with the people who come to you. [...]

[...] To recover thoroughly without taking on new symptoms, you must discover the reason. [...] While you are convinced that the course is necessary you will keep the symptoms.

[...] While conscious beliefs have a part to play in such cases, on an individual basis the “inner work” is done just as unconsciously as the body produces physical symptoms. The symptoms often seem to be inflicted upon the body, just as a natural disaster seems to be visited upon the body of the earth. [...]

(Pause at 10:19.) As racial problems may be worked out on many levels, through a riot or a natural disaster, or a combination of both, according to the intensity of the situation on a psychological level; and as physical symptoms can be pleas for help and recognition, so can natural misfortunes be utilized by members of one portion of the country, or one part of the world, to obtain aid from other portions.

[...] And your reasons (for the symptoms of the last two months or so) will be given this evening.

The symptoms were obviously a result of inner attitudes, and also besides that a physical way of asking for physical action, attention, and emotional action and attention. [...]

As he discovered today when he looked into a mirror, he was comparing his image now to what it had been several years ago literally—not only in terms of symptoms, you see. [...]

Ruburt’s symptoms are not his challenge this time, as you asked (in question 13), but the philosophical connotations behind his difficulties certainly do involve his challenges this time.

[...] So to some extent or another, Ruburt’s own adherence to past beliefs of a “negative” nature were also used in his life itself, appearing as symptoms that only the more pointed out the necessity for light, and the need for the greater understandings toward which he was searching.

[...] There were many details given—but overall the woman felt that she herself had made a bargain with God, offering her own life instead of her mother’s. The mother recovered under the most unexpected circumstances, and a short time later the daughter came down with the same symptoms. [...]

One small note: the same kind of statements can now be used to advantage as far as you are concerned, involving any particular symptom at any given time. [...]

[...] He has not utilized suggestion, however, to any significant degree as an aid in controlling his symptoms.

The breakdown will be emotional but it will show a physical nature affecting circulatory (hesitated on word) symptoms and the heart, but this will be secondary.

(After tonight’s session, and echoing my own ideas of how adamant Jane was becoming about the medical scene, I said that it would be ironic indeed if her encounters with the medical establishment furnished the final great impetus she needed to divest herself of the symptoms and inflate recovery; anything to get away from the massively negative pronouncement of the doctors, to dump old ideas, to set the body free to heal itself. [...]

[...] What was not said was as important as what was said as far as the interview itself was concerned, for implied there was always the authoritative picture of the progress of certain symptoms, ending in the most dire pictures. [...]

[...] The people involved first of all had been told by doctors—medical doctors—that they themselves had no control over their own disease, that the symptoms could be lessened somewhat—perhaps—but that there was no hope for recovery.

[...] The discomfort there will gradually pass, as indeed other symptoms have since he began his walking. [...]

(A few notes: Jane continues to free herself of her symptoms, if too slowly for her taste. [...]

2. Material on Jane’s symptoms.

[...] He found, in time, that the symptoms however were far more limiting than he had counted upon, and as his experience grew he found he needed less so-called “safeguards.”

[...] Your remarks about his telephone behavior often reinforce his feelings that he could not say “no” without the symptoms to back him up.

The kindnesses of others became especially helpful in all of those years that we went through the phases of Jane’s physical “symptoms,” as we called them—from our growing emotional questions and torment about them to success and relief and then through torment again and again. [...]

Jane’s symptoms consisted of a pervasive loss of flexibility—hardly noticeable at first, quite innocuous—that slowly over the years became more and more physically debilitating. [...]

[...] He also owned a well-known dine-and-dance establishment in Elmira, Lib’s Supper Club, which my wife and I frequented before the onset of her symptoms. [...]

[...] Strangely, the traveling aspect of the symptoms bothered us the least: we were too immersed in our daily lives with either full-time or part-time jobs (in the beginning), but always with writing, painting, the Seth material, ESP class, seeing friends, and so forth. [...]

[...] The symptoms are the result of the strain between the still-lingering beliefs from childhood, clashing with the unrealistic goals of being a kind of superself, for in the light of that kind of superself image so much is expected that almost any achievement is taken for granted. [...]

The symptoms were the result of strain placed upon the personality by the conflicting pulls of various beliefs—beliefs that did not fit the basic natural makeup of his personality or temperament. [...]

[...] The symptoms crept up on Ruburt, so to speak, now. [...]

In that way of thinking, the symptoms gave him the opportunity to stay home and produce, and yet also served to keep you in a line of importance, for it would be obvious that his success was also dependent upon your help—and other nefarious connections that all fit in.

(We’ve learned a good deal about Jane’s symptoms, working with the pendulum since Monday’s session. [...]

[...] To save Ruburt from such possible assassination, the symptoms were not considered too strong a measure. [...]

[...] You can see this quite clearly when Ruburt displays his side of the same picture, concentrating on symptoms.

[...] You can no longer use it as an excuse any more than Ruburt can use his symptoms as an excuse any more. [...]

There was no doubt about it, though: As if they had a collective life of their own, Jane’s symptoms continued to clamp down after the publication of Mass Events and God of Jane. [...] Again and again we scrutinized all of those elements that we thought were bound up in her symptoms: choice, fear of abandonment and the need for self-protection, penance, and the controversial nature of her gifts. [...]

I took those associations to mean that no matter what her evolving focuses in her present life, Jane should be as much aware of my reactions to her situation as she is of her own—that even though I’d worked out religious questions in a previous life, still this time around I had chosen to share with her a probable reality within which her physical symptoms, bound up as they are with the subject of religion, could occur. [...] It’s not that she perversely refuses to get well, even with all of the help Seth and I have tried to give her—and that she has even asked for—but that the deepest portions of her being in this physical life have other goals, toward which her nonphysical self and her physical symptoms are traveling together. [...]

[...] Not that all of our friends hadn’t known of Jane’s physical symptoms for some time, but that Jane, with her innocence and determination—and yes, her mystical view of temporal reality²—had for the most part refused to put herself on display, as she termed it: She felt that she should offer something better to herself and to others, even with all of the intensely creative work she’d done for herself and for others over the last 17 years.

[...] His information on the sinful self opened up a very important development in Jane’s [and my own] search for an understanding of her symptoms, and I’m presenting excerpts from that session in Note 9. [Before long, I realized that I could use notes to carry portions of several more sessions on the sinful self.]

(After supper this evening both Jane and I did a lot of griping and complaining about her symptoms, and our inability to solve the problems involved. [...]

[...] When we sat for the session around 9 PM, Jane said her pendulum told her that the symptoms were caused by the house we lived in, and, specifically, by the original owner. [...]

[...] The symptoms began to show when it seemed to Ruburt changes should be made.

[...] It is as you suggested (in my notes for yesterday’s session) also advantageous that we discuss other matters beside Ruburt’s symptoms in our sessions. [...]