“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] On the day it was held, January 10, Seth said there wouldn’t be any more great trouble for Jane through the tooth symptoms. [...] The tooth symptoms have hung on, perhaps not as severely; they frighten Jane a good deal. [...] Eliminating the symptoms though is like trying to pick up mercury at this writing. [...]

(I asked if Seth would discuss Tam’s dream of January 1, 1973; her cold symptoms dating from last October; and the letter Seth has promised to dictate for correspondents. [...]

[...] He was ready to face the problem, to bring it out into the open, and the whole issue was finally brought out into the open through those symptoms. [...]

[...] The cold will also now be vanishing, as I tell you that following it will be the other symptoms. [...]

In his own way Ruburt has used symptoms as what he considered a safe framework in which to explore those areas he wanted to explore. While he experienced you, as given much earlier in the sessions, as cautionary and repressive, then he did not need the symptoms. [...]

The symptoms then have operated as controls, a framework in which spontaneity was allowed—but allowed only so far. [...]

The symptoms are a result of blockage of energy. [...]

When he does not use the pendulum it is obviously a symptom that there is something he does not want to face, and that for the time he will accept the symptoms. But that attitude, again, is a symptom of what still remains of inner confusion. [...]

[...] Pace slower.) I am trying to give you some information concerning the back symptom, and will have to deepen Ruburt’s trance, because of what you might call the underground noises. [...]

[...] I did not because Seth was making an effort to give information on Jane’s back symptom, and thought this more important.

This was also the reason for various other symptoms of which he did not tell you this week. [...]

The symptoms therefore will be released as that energy or concentration is placed back where it belongs, into creative and practical action. You felt as if you could not move also, and before Ruburt’s symptoms began. [...]

A point, if you do not want a break now: Concentration must not be on Ruburt’s symptoms. [...]

[...] Improvements in Ruburt’s condition were ignored (underlined) largely by both of you, and instead concentration was upon the symptoms that still remained.

After the first bad bouts for example, when he improved enough to go up and down stairs without even limping, when he was agile enough at least to climb some rocks at the Glen (Enfield, near Ithaca, NY), to swim after being largely incapacitated, you both acted as if the improvements meant nothing, discounted them largely, and concentrated upon those symptoms that did indeed still remain.

[...] In a way the symptoms were almost a method of presentation that in another fashion completely paralleled your own notes (an excellent point). [...] The symptoms have fluctuated, serving sometimes one purpose more than the other—but what you have overall is a belief in a kind of braking power with which to handle spontaneous activity. [...]

[...] She now amazed me by saying that she now thought she understood that if she turned her focus away from her symptoms toward Prentice, say, or any other “outside” entity or situation, that she could improve physically by giving her body the freedom to do so. [...]

(Long pause.) In that regard his symptoms developed more along the lines of exerting caution rather than, say, seeking protection. [...]

[...] (Pause.) His symptoms served other purposes as well, though, as has been given often. [...]

[...] According to the chronology of events that Jane made up from her old notebooks last year, the symptoms began before the psychic manifestation of her abilities. At the time this knowledge was a surprise to us, since we’d fallen into the habit of thinking the symptoms were an outgrowth of the psychic abilities.

(In a recent deleted session, Seth told us that Jane’s symptoms deepened after she held a session for a friend of Venice McCullough’s a few years ago. [...] My question simply wanted to explore the relationship between the onset of symptoms before the psychic work, and the fact that a psychic “failure” had the ability to deepen them. [...]

[...] She often went into detail concerning the suspected session, without saying anything about the fact that a psychic experience could make worse symptoms that had begun before the psychic work, per se, had become conscious knowledge to us.

[...] The concentration must be on projects, and the more concentration is placed upon projects, the less will feed the symptoms. [...]

[...] Once again Jane gained insights into the problems behind her symptoms, and we planned a course of action as a result; the course merely concerns a way to think about her psychic abilities, with some suggestions given to this end in a specific way.

[...] Both of us felt we were on strong solid ground here, and that our insights this evening probably concerned the last problems to be dealt with in the banishment of symptoms.

[...] Large portions of the self were won over, and the symptoms began to lessen, and the energy to return. [...]

[...] There is little need to go into various symptoms however, for as he begins to feel at one with himself again they recede and will vanish.

[...] An intuitive grasp may come suddenly with an equally fast disappearance of blocks of symptoms. [...]

(“What outstanding clairvoyant and telepathic data is at work involving his symptoms?”)

[...] This is excellent therapy incidentally, for the release of the emotions automatically releases the symptoms. [...]

(Question at break: “Does my entity have anything to do with Jane’s symptoms?"

[...] While it is easy then to understand the nature of exterior actions of repetitive quality, it is far more difficult to see many physical symptoms in the same light — but here also whole groups of recurring reactions to certain stimuli are involved. [...] In their own way symptoms frequently operate, actually, as repetitive neurological ritual, meant to protect the sufferer from something else that he fears even more.

In either case, if the therapy is effective you may give up your symptoms, if both you and the hypnotist implicitly believe in the situation and framework of those convictions.

But behind that there is far more; for if you do not believe in your own worth as a human being, then you will simply get other symptoms that have to be removed in the same manner, using other “past” events as the excuse for the condition — if you are lucky. [...]

[...] The literature and announcements act as strong negative suggestions, following the nature of natural hypnosis — as a conditioning process, you see, where you are looking for specific symptoms, and examining your body under the impetus of fear.

The symptoms are really minimal. To some extent however they represent the weight of your own beliefs that Ruburt added to his own symptoms. [...]

[...] But I also wanted some material on myself, since my “distress” of a couple of weeks ago had returned; symptoms in the stomach, back, etc.—various shooting pains.

Ruburt’s methods of dealing with such a situation were highly apparent, in his physical symptoms. [...]

(To me:) Your symptoms have been reassuring to the portion of you that habitually followed the old line of thinking. [...]

Now I realize that you obviously are mainly concerned with the annoying physical symptoms. [...]

A simple and weak salt solution will help clear up the physical symptoms, applied twice daily.

[...] The symptoms would vary at times. [...]

[...] This was a more direct, less involved, less frightening symptom, a localization in other words. [...]

(It will be recalled that I had my excellent pendulum session last Sunday, November 5, pinpointing the part I played in Jane’s symptoms. [...]

[...] (Pause.) The part of the self who considered the symptoms necessary, you see, has realized they are no longer necessary, but still some habit persists.

[...] It now no longer exists, but they still resent the breaking up; and Ruburt’s yells, quite involuntary, represented in fact the death throes of the symptoms, and the part of the self who had accepted them as an attempt to solve problems.

[...] I then wondered aloud at the apparent suddenness of the breakup of symptoms, just three days after my pendulum session of last Sunday, and two days after the session with Seth on Monday, November 6. This brought Seth back at once.)

As Seth makes clear in other sessions, the symptoms in such cases are themselves part of the healing process. What we are supposed to do, then, is change our mental attitude, search ourselves for the inner problem represented by the symptoms, and measure our progress as the symptoms subside.

“In cases where the symptom itself is interior, as in ulcers, this is a sign that the personality is not yet willing to face the problem, and the symptom itself is shielded from physical sight—quite rightly, symbolically speaking. The relative observability of a symptom is, therefore, a clue to the personality’s attitude toward its problem.

[...] “If I bury it, it can hurt me and emerge as physical symptoms of some kind. [...]

Later he made a very good point: “If desire for health leads instead to an emphasis upon symptoms to be overcome, you would be better off to avoid all thoughts of health or illness and concentrate in other directions, such as work. [...]

[...] But all of the symptoms now represent aspects of your lives that you have not faced in a normal above-the-board fashion. [...]

[...] This, with the information given in the last session, if followed, can help you greatly, and clear Ruburt’s symptoms; but not if the advice is not followed.

The sexual aspect is but a symptom of this. [...]

Your symptoms lay in a different area, and I am sure you know where. [...]

When these symptoms show themselves, then he should look out for health difficulties. [...] The symptoms are these: Poor memory, or none, of his dreams; no poetry; a consistent lower-than-usual level of exuberance. [...]

[...] For if they endure for this time they will almost certainly give rise to physical symptoms. [...] These will take care of the physical symptoms.

[...] The energies and focus must be directed away from the physical symptoms. [...] The creative energy, properly used, will drain away the energy that is now forming the symptoms.

Were the symptoms serious, physical therapy would be necessary, but they are not serious. [...] But the symptoms could have occurred when a high cycle was not approaching, in which case further difficulties could have arisen.

[...] This is one of the reasons, say, for the development of secondary symptoms of a medical nature, when one portion of the body is treated, and then other portions seem to develop symptoms. [...]

[...] I named several beliefs that could be operating, ranging all the way from a fear of failure to our not wanting to see the symptoms go. [...]

[...] The knee symptoms were a later development in this present series of symptoms, his way of punishing himself for his previous lack of understanding. This knowledge should greatly relieve the symptoms.

The situations had changed but the ego framework had grown rigid, rigid enough so that it could in a large degree dominate certain normally subconscious processes, bringing forth the physical symptoms. [...]

[...] The morning symptoms incidentally have to do with this life however, bringing back earlier fears of facing the day, you see.

[...] (Pause.) To some extent the symptoms did represent caution. [...]

The symptoms of such a semitrance state include the sleepiness and drugged feeling with which he was afflicted; though these were only mildly disagreeable, they should be taken as signs that orientation is inefficient. The lightness of the hands is another such symptom. That is, these symptoms, noticed when the individual is supposed to be going about his normal physically-oriented day, can then be taken as a sign that the personality does not have all of his energies properly directed for the case at hand.

[...] All the more so since the obvious, more noticeable symptoms of the trance state itself are absent; and therefore the state could pass unnoticed for some time.

It was important that Ruburt state his position, for example, by saying clearly that the symptoms threatened him, and that they threatened him more than any scorn, and important also that he state that the symptoms inhibited his writing. [...]

[...] I told Jane before the session that all day I’d been thinking that there was still a cause or causes for the symptoms that we didn’t know, or hadn’t uncovered yet. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) If on page 2, say, the pendulum says that it feels the symptoms are no longer necessary, then in following questions for that day take that answer as given, and do not ask questions that would undermine the given answer, as if you do not trust it. [...]

[...] The first question Seth referred to was the one about why the subconscious didn’t realize it was going to far, when it imposed or brought about symptoms, as in Jane’s case, that were proving to be too damaging to the body, compared to what they were supposed to protect the body against.

[...] The physical symptoms represented the conflict as the overly disciplined self again tried to take over the reins. It has gradually let itself fit in now, let itself integrate, and in so doing the body has been relived of symptoms.

Now Joseph (pause), neither of you should overlook the fact that in one way or another, and regardless of the psychic development, such a crisis point (Jane’s symptoms) would have appeared in Ruburt’s life as a result of personal characteristics, present-life background, and past-life characteristics.

[...] He did not trust you when you told him to free his intuitive self, now, when the symptoms were bad last year, because he felt you did not trust yourself to be spontaneous in your dealings with him. [...]

[...] He should, as he realizes, avoid dwelling on the symptoms consciously. [...]