“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Yet she also used her “symptoms” to intensify her focus upon those abilities, and to reinforce the strongly secretive aspects of both of our natures. [...]

[...] I was also positive that with their publication, Jane’s symptoms—especially her walking difficulties—became considerably worse. [...]

So in a fashion [Jane’s] physical symptoms became a psychological disclaimer, so that in some court of larger values we could not be “sued” for leading others astray from entrenched beliefs that we were still discarding, while not having any completed structure that would allow easy access or safe passage from one “life raft” to the new one that we were trying to provide….

He felt that the female was not temperamentally equipped to naturally handle such problems, and so adopted the symptoms. [...]

Your love since then has found more direct expression, and I am not obviously saying that that indirectness of expression is responsible for Ruburt’s symptoms—but only to state that your expressed concern in many instances, without the direct expression of love, reinforces the idea of threat or insecurity.

[...] “I wasn’t going to ask this tonight, but earlier today I found myself wondering how much of Jane’s symptoms result from my own attitudes and statements about Prentice. [...]

(I described to Jane my recent use of the pendulum to study my guilt feelings about her having her symptoms and losing her teeth. [...]

[...] Twice today we had rather short discussions about our ideas of why the symptoms linger after all these years: nothing new, I’m afraid, although she said she felt better afterward—before getting blue again. [...]

[...] It is merely a physical symptom that you use to let yourself know that something can happen. [...]

[...] His symptoms and attitudes may be clear to you. [...]

(My symptoms gradually subsided through the balance of the evening.)

[...] As we waited for the session to begin, I read her the first questions I’d noted down from rereading the 367th session—Seth’s first comprehensive session on her symptoms, and one that’s been referred to rather often lately. [...]

When either of you concentrates upon your dissatisfactions with Prentice, or number its particular failings, or picture covers you did not like, or whatever, it is like Ruburt concentrating upon his symptoms. [...]

With your cultural training and background, however, the feeling itself further alarms you, so that you become highly anxious, and it is that anxiety itself that is the real symptom, say; it is the anxiety you should question. [...]

[...] Most of his material is deleted here, but I can write that her situation was tied in to her work with the challenges presented by her physical symptoms [as described in Note 8 for the 679th session, in Section 1]. [...]

Ruburt will shortly feel more and more energetic, and even be provided with greater wealth of creative material, as the energy that has been used to maintain symptoms is automatically freed, transformed into those vital areas of his interest.

[...] A primary one was why Jane’s personality would continue behavior that could bring on the threat of abandonment, as she saw it—the symptoms—if she had such a fear of that possibility. [...]

[...] His symptoms at that point deepened. [...]

[...] This was the result of his own situation, of course—and yet it is also a symptom of the joint situation as each of you set it up, for as he abdicated responsibilities, so you rationalized your fears, and did not encourage that kind of activity to the extent that you might have.

[...] So it is futile to become angry at a symptom, or to deride the body for its condition when it is presenting you with the corporeal replica of your own thought, as it was meant to do.

[...] The earlier resistance against exercise was quite understandable, for it was a symptom of the inner resistance.

Subconsciously his development along this line is of supreme importance to him, and working less at poetry will cause psychosomatic symptoms. [...]

A deep feeling of dissatisfaction will show itself in early symptoms of furniture moving; not on a casual and to-be-expected normal scale, but on a truly monumental scale. [...]

[...] His physical situation—the symptoms—are public to the extent that others know he has difficulties. [...]