No such thing as disease

This is another Seth quote that we know is right intellectually, but is really hard to live given the steady barrage of Big Pharma ads!

“It may also strike you, my readers, as quite shocking when I tell you that there is no such thing, basically, as disease.  There are instead only processes.  What you think of as disease is instead the result of an exaggeration or overextension of perfectly normal body processes.  You are not attacked by viruses, for instance, for all kinds of viruses exist normally in the body.  There are no killer viruses, then, but viruses that go beyond their usual bounds.  We will have more to say about such issues later on in the book – for I hope to show you how certain feelings and beliefs do indeed promote health, while others promote an unfortunate extension or exaggeration of perfectly normal bodily processes, or viral activity.

“This means, of course, that you do not fall victim to a disease, or catch a virus, but that for one reason or another your own feelings, thoughts, and beliefs lead you to seek bouts of illness.”

(The Way Toward Health,Session January 28, 1984)

Inborn predispositions to life

“When you are born, you possess a group of attitudes toward yourself and toward life.  These allow you to grow with the greatest possible impetus into childhood.  They are also important in every period of your life.  You can see the results in life all about you, though in animals or plants these are experienced as a matter of feelings rather than, say, as thoughts or attitudes. …

“Even as infants, then, you are predisposed naturally toward certain feelings, thoughts and attitudes that are meant to insure your healthy survival and emergence into adulthood.  These are actually composed of inbred psychological information as necessary and vital to your life as the data transmitted by your genes and chromosomes. Indeed, these inbred, inner psychological predispositions are all-important if the information carried by your genes and chromosomes is to be faithfully followed.

“It is difficult to translate such biological and psychological material into the words of any language, even though these inbred psychological prerequisites form kind of language of their own.  It is a language that promotes growth, exuberance and fulfillment, and stimulates the entire organism of the body – signalling the proper responses that are required for health and growth.

“1. I am an excellent creature, a valuable part of the universe in which I exist.

“2. My existence enriches all other portions of life, even as my own being is enhanced by the rest of creation.

“3. It is good, natural, and safe for me to grow and develop and use my abilities, and by so doing I also enrich all other portions of life.

“4. Next: I am eternally couched and supported by the universe of which I am a part, and I exist whether or not that existence is physically expressed.

“5. Next: By nature, I am a good deserving creature, and all of life’s elements and parts are also of good intent.

“6. And next: All of my imperfections, and all of the imperfections of other creatures, are redeemed in the greater scheme of the universe in which I have my being.

“Those attitudes are inbred in the smallest microscopic portions of the body – a part of each atom and cell and organ, and they serve to trigger all of the body’s responses that promote growth and fulfillment.  Infants are not born with an inbred fear of their environment, or of other creatures.  They are instead immersed in feelings of well-being, vitality, and exuberance.  They take it for granted that their needs will be met, and that the universe is well-disposed toward them.  They feel a part of their environment.

“The inborn leanings and attitudes that we have been discussing should ideally remain with you for the rest of your life, leading you to express your abilities, and finding fulfillment as your knowledge expands through experience.  The same feelings and beliefs should also ideally help you die with a sense of safety, support and assurance.  While these inbred psychological supports never leave you entirely, they are often diminished by beliefs encountered later in life, that serve to undermine the individual’s sense of safety and well-being.”

(The Way Toward Health,Session January 26, 1984)

Cause of close-up vision loss

“It’s your version of worrying that desired effects may not be brought into the present – that is, will not come into your close vision.  When you feel that way, close your eyes, if only for a moment, reassure yourself that you can trust your vision – mental and physical – and that indeed your goals will be brought into clear focus.”

(The Way Toward Health,Session January 17, 1984)

Healthy Attitude - Exuberance

“If any of you, my readers, are in poor health, or generally unhappy, no one is asking you to pretend that those conditions do not exist.  I hope to show you that even those unfortunate situations were created out of a misdirected good intent.  In this book, we will keep reminding you, however, that exuberance and high spirits are a natural part of your heritage.

“We also hope to allow you to recapture those feelings, if you have lost them, and to give other ways of keeping those emotions fresh and intact. Readers will benefit in various fashions, according to their own conditions and intents, but every reader will benefit to some degree or another – and each reader will become acquainted with those inner springs of vitality and well-being that are so important in human experience.”

(The Way Toward Health,Session January 17, 1984)

Rhythms of Consciousness

We humans are "clocked" at about 50 or so perceptions per second. That means that we manifest our complete body and its perceived reality out of pure conscious energy into physical matter, moment by moment, and make it look like it's happening a 50th of a second between moments.

Imagine an electron ... doing the same thing as us but every femtosecond.  Then try to imagine Gaia's rhythms of consciousness.

“As you know, everything alive is consciousness – and even so-called dead matter possesses its own variety of self-awareness.

“In your terms, the rhythm of some kinds of consciousness would seem exceedingly slow, so that a century might pass between one perception and the next. Other variations might seem amazingly quick – the perceptions following each other so swiftly that they would indeed escape your perception entirely; yet in the wondrous marvels of inner nature, all of these rhythms are connected one to the others, and in a matter of speaking – excuse the pun – they each balance each other.

“It is not so much the actual rhythms that are manifested that make the differences in perception, but the absence of certain other rhythms, upon which perceptions ride.”

(The Way Toward Health,Session January 17, 1984)

Example of Dementia

My mother died about 14 years go after years of dementia.  It really took off in the late 1999 timeframe when my older sister died … of course, it was up to me to break the news.  Within a year of that, she was in palliative care eventually being unable to speak or move.  The last words she spoke to me were difficult to hear so I asked the Transcendors (channelled by Rik Thurston) what she said.  They said it couldn’t really be translated because she spoke to me in Atlantean … we had lives together in Atlantis and that’s who she saw and where her focus was.

I’ve always understood dementia as being similar to jumping into a swimming pool.  There are those who cannon-ball in and those who sneak in inch by inch.  I got the impression that people with dementia are keeping one foot in this reality and testing the waters before moving on.  That’s pretty much what Seth describes here!.  

“Karina (another patient at the hospital) has that same kind of orientation. At this point in her life, she has actually refused to concentrate upon languages, which would tend to tie her more tightly to the details of the world.  She does “return to the past”, remaking it more to her liking.  Her latest-present is beginning to show signs of a deterioration.  She wants a turning-off point from which to construct other realities, so it is not so much that the latest-present is deteriorating as much as the fact that she is purposely letting her attention wander, and allowing the latest-presents to diminish in strength and vitality.  She will of course construct a new form from which to operate.”

(The Way Toward Health,Session January 13, 1984)

Time "Speaks" Worlds not Words

The fact that Jane Roberts was a poet resulted in some of the most poetic descriptions of manifestation, creation and the psyche that I’ve seen … and every word is carefully chosen and has meaning.  As a physicist a bit preoccupied with time, etc. this quote is something I need to put on a wall somewhere.

“When you change the past from each point of the latest-present, you are also changing events at the most microscopic levels.  Your intent has also an electronic reality, therefore.  It is almost as if your thoughts punched the keys of some massive computer, for your thoughts do indeed have a force.  Even as sentences are composed of words, there is no end to the number of sentences that can be spoken – so “time” is composed of an endless variety of electronic languages that can “speak” a million worlds instead of words.”

(The Way Toward Health,Session January 13, 1984)