“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Any public service announcements, so-called, publicizing symptoms connected with his sensitive area, will immediately alarm him. [...]

Ruburt’s symptoms could be compared to the cumbersome umbrella and raincoat. [...]

[...] I should add that throughout all of this mix-up Jane was quite upset; I could pick up from her attitude the old feelings she’d had at the house, whenever her symptoms got worse. [...]

(11:42.) Now Ruburt has been concentrating upon the symptoms, imagining this or that, often not responding to the moment as it is, but to imagined future events and moments filled with threat or difficulty. [...]

[...] When he becomes overly concerned with his symptoms, however, the same event occurs, the same process, but with negative results.

[...] However, at various times the pendulum has given me all kinds of other reasons for my physical ills: taxes, money, Jane’s symptoms, success and failure—the works, one might say. [...]

(For the past week we’ve been trying a “new” treatment for Jane’s symptoms —one we read about recently, and which involves the application of cold packs to her knees and hands for starters. [...]

[...] Ruburt realizes that he must no longer structure his life through his symptoms. [...]

(10:10.) You are both asking me for help, so I insist upon that list, and I also insist that each of you make an honest effort to stop structuring your present experience according to Ruburt’s symptoms, and as much as possible leave them out of your plans.

The overall psychic and mental problems were concentrated into physical symptoms—

[...] The mental and psychic difficulties were concentrated into physical symptoms, and the system was rid of the difficulty in this manner. [...]

A chronic and longlasting physical symptom therefore represents for example a chronic, fairly enduring inner problem. [...]

[...] Most of the private sessions we have in those 40 loose-leaf notebooks, about her symptoms, are the result of my pushing her for answers, not the other way around.

Now, first, Ruburt is having some success in turning the focus of his attention away from the symptoms, and if he continues and remembers, then his progress will be speedy. [...]

[...] You will have instead symptoms and an overall undifferentiated feeling. [...]

[...] You live in a social world, so the symptoms also served as face-saving devices. [...]

[...] He was saved, so it seemed, from endless explanations; so with a kind of psychological economy that worked far too well for a time the symptoms served to keep him writing at his desk, to regulate the flow of psychic activity, making sure of its direction, and to provide a suitable social reason to refrain from activities that might distract him—from tours or shows, and also even from any onslaught of psychic activity that might follow any unseeming (underlined) spontaneous behavior. [...]

Jane’s main puzzlement, however, is that even with Seth’s and her own sinful-self material her physical symptoms persist to such a degree, in spite of an occasional lessening. [...] Obviously, I’m as deeply involved in her symptoms as she is. [...]

[...] That very infrequency itself is an obvious “symptom” of our psychic and physical challenges.

[...] That is, the problem [of Ruburt’s symptoms] would have popped up in a different fashion regardless of the apparent trigger.

[...] I added that once again we could try searching the creative matrix of the symptoms themselves for the solutions to her challenges, and mine as well, for that is where those solutions will be found.

[...] He also felt he had to discipline himself because he could not trust himself, and his symptoms served, again, to keep him at his work. [...]

The symptoms were based then on beliefs that he accepted—beliefs that are all quite basic in your civilization, invisibly entwined in all of those systems he thought he had dismissed.

[...] For to his subconscious, such a personality pattern represented immobility, and this was reflected in the physical symptoms.

[...] One of them, I thought, probably related to her symptoms if one traced it back. [...]

[...] The system should then realize that there is no need for the symptoms, and release you from them.

[...] I suppose my readiness was at least partially founded upon the idea that it would be a good thing for Jane to speak through Seth about other matters occasionally than her symptoms and related topics. [...]

Now on the question of “mental disorders,” it is highly important that individual integrity be stressed, rather than the blanket definitions that are usually accorded to any group of symptoms. [...]

His head has been congested for a long time—the neck, jaw, sinus, eyes all being affected, and that condition began before any symptoms were noticeable. [...]

[...] Otherwise you have the anxiety of believing that any symptoms have the worst possible connotations, and that the body does not know what it is doing.

[...] The love of sports and that identification always stayed with you; and because it is a strong element, you, with relative ease, now, dismissed the symptoms that you had before the sessions began. [...]

Ruburt used his body as a symbol of the entire situation, and the symptoms as a way of maintaining privacy, and lack of distraction on both of your parts—again, inhibiting sexual freedom, spontaneous outings that threatened both of your ideas. [...]