“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

A belief in health can help you utilize a “poor” diet to an amazing degree. If you are convinced that a specific food will give you a particular disease, it will indeed do so. It appears that certain vitamins will prevent certain diseases. The belief itself works while you are operating within that framework, of course. A Western doctor may give vitamin shots or pills to a native child in another culture. The child need not know what particular vitamin is being given, or the name for his disease, but if he believes in the physician and Western medicine he will indeed improve, and he will need the vitamins from then on. So will all the other children.

Again, I am not saying, “Do not give vitamins to children,” for within your framework this becomes nearly mandatory. You will find more vitamins to treat more diseases. As long as the system works it will be accepted — but the trouble is that it is not working very well.

If you are feeling poorly and happen to read an advertisement for vitamins, or a book about them, and are impressed, you will indeed benefit — at least for a while. Your belief will make them work for you, but if your insistence upon poor health persists, then the counter suggestion represented by the vitamins will not be effective for long.

[...] Afterward she tried the brand of liquid vitamins I’d bought on the way home last night; she said they tasted better than the hospital’s brand — but I didn’t see vitamin C or E listed on the label. [...]

[...] At 4:09 Jane was given her next dosage of vitamin C — Jeff had changed the hours for some reason.

(At this point I am more than reasonably sure that Jane began to show certain marked improvements after I initiated the vitamin, peanut-oil, cod-liver-oil daily routine: Her hands first began to show definite reductions in swelling within a very few days, and this was followed by an excellent increase in her knee movement a few days later. Certain B-vitamins in the regimen were each supposed to help these specific areas, and evidently did so. [...] My personal opinion is that the combination of all three elements—vitamins, peanut oil, and cod liver oil, have helped a great deal in achieving these improvements, and that each time we pass up the “treatment,” which is absurdly simple, we do miss out on something helpful. [...]

(As for the food and vitamin material, I’ve become less and less insistent that Jane adhere to any kind of regular program, since I think she continues to show that she’s not really sold on such therapy. [...] I don’t believe any medication or vitamins—or anything else, for that matter—are going to do a person any good without a change in belief. [...]

I will on a practical level shortly have a few things to say concerning foods and vitamins that I hope will be of benefit. [...]

[...] The vitamins overall are helpful. [...] This gives the idea to the body that these vitamins and minerals are sometimes to be provided by itself. [...]

[...] We haven’t used the vitamins, or cod liver oil, for several days now, and as usual I feel a sense of frustration over this, coupled with an unsureness as to whether any such routine should be too rigidly adhered to. [...]

The vitamin C is particularly helpful. [...]

[...] He took her off the antibiotic, and wants her to take extra vitamin C to get her urine even more on the acid side. [...]

[...] Shannon brought Jane some vitamin C in ice cream. [...]

[...] “It looks like those pills—the vitamins—are really beginning to help you,” I said yesterday, after one such session of leg movement. [...] I replied that all I knew was that she couldn’t move like that before taking the vitamins, the peanut oil massages, and the cod liver oil, etc., but I added that I was more than happy to credit sessions, beliefs, and/or anything else that gave us results. [...]

[...] I told her I’d bought her a different brand name of liquid multiple vitamins. [...]

[...] Then Diana brought in the extra vitamin C Jane is getting four times a day.

[...] A few moments later we heard her begin to pound away as she pulverized a vitamin C tablet in its packet. “I didn’t know you could hear vitamin C,” Jane said. [...]

[...] The vitamins are a help, but not when they are taken constantly. [...] For now, 2 vitamin C’s are sufficient. [...]

(Today we resumed the vitamin and cod-liver-oil therapies, which we’d let go last week, in the face of what I had taken to be Jane’s resistance. [...]

[...] Jane’s hands and knees have, I think, showed considerable improvement since we began the vitamin therapy, even with all the interruptions that treatment has had. [...]

[...] I think the vitamin therapy is helping considerably here, and seems to be following the results listed in Dr. Van Fleet’s book. [...] My idea is that if Jane will continue the vitamin therapy—a term I don’t particularly like—that in a couple of months she might achieve some good results, for as I explained to her, I think the key to curing the decubiti lies in increased mobility, especially in the knees. [...]

[...] It is okay for Jane to take Rexall Plenamins [vitamins].)

[...] Tension caused the condition, and the gums were weakened The vitamins are of a help.

[...] The vitamin E does help, and Ruburt’s idea of his own self-image is involved, also.

One note to Ruburt on vitamins: They are most effectively used for periods of two or three weeks, where they act as stimuli and reminders to the body. [...] Any steady use of vitamins is not to your overall benefit, for you give the body what it needs too easily, and its ability to produce such material on its own becomes sluggish. [...]

[...] I definitely do recommend both the daily vitamin E plus an overall vitamin and mineral supplement.

The vitamins mentioned apply to you also, though not the extra one—just the complete capsule.

The body can stand two more of the small vitamin C’s a day now.

[...] The vitamin C makes up for that. [...]

[...] I also suggest an addition of vitamins, and have him make out a list of foods he particularly likes.

Thank you… There is a vitamin D deficiency here with our Bernard. Therefore a rather large dose of vitamin D is recommended daily, in any acceptable form.

[...] She’d been interrupted right after the start of the session by a nurse bringing her vitamin C. Recording the session, I’d been quite amazed that a certain frightened portion of Jane’s self could exert such power over the rest of her mental and physical personality. [...]

[...] [It’s supposed to be kept refrigerated.] I also found out the name of a green pill Jane is given each morning to help her assimilate vitamin D, which promotes absorption and nourishment: Oscal. [...]