Seth: Illness Is A Form Of Avoidance

Seth, The Early Sessions, Book 4, Session 159

A cure of any kind will never depend upon any given treatment. It will in all cases depend upon the belief on the part of the sufferer that he can be cured. It will depend upon his desire to be cured. It will depend upon the strength of the purpose than an illness serves. It will depend upon, in the last analysis, the individual's own ability to mobilize his energies, for only these will effect a cure.

An illness is a failure to solve a mental or psychological problem in the correct manner. The energy that would be used to solve the problem instead is spent maintaining the illness. It is therefore necessary that an attempt be made as soon as possible to solve the problem, which of course must first be discovered by the ego, which has avoided it.

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Seth on the Double Entendre Economic Catch-22

Seth from The Deleted Sessions: 

When I say economy, however, I am not simply speaking of economics in financial terms--rather in the larger meaning of economy in sparing down, cuffing out non-essentials, fearing to waste not simply money, but energy or time.

All of these ideas are based upon the fear that an individual possesses only so much energy that must be hoarded, directed--not easily, but with fantastic force. The clothes dryer in the basement represents energy that you are afraid to use. You realize you have the money to run the machine or to buy the washer. It seems somehow sinful, however, wasteful and wrong.

(9:30 p.m.) Give us a moment...it, the machine, rebukes you by its presence, because it represents a dilemma. All of this is quite aside from the exterior energy crisis.

The grasping, licentious attitudes connected with world energy are the results of the same attitudes.

There is not an energy crisis.

While you believe, however, that energy is limited then you are gluttonous for using it at the expense of poorer nations--who will then, sharing the same beliefs, retaliate.

Energy must be used. It creates more of itself. It cannot be hoarded.

Seth: the Economy Is Also A Reflection

You will benefit by the economy's misfortune--but because your ideas are what people need in order to change the conditions that caused the economy's lack of comfort. The economy itself is a reflection of people's concepts, their way of life, and it is not working. Your ideas offer hope and literal promise. The people have brought this upon themselves in their beliefs, and so it is indeed a creative venture.

Those who looked entirely to money and position are forced, and will be, to question their beliefs. The troubles with the economy can be the answers to the problems of Western civilization. There are always psychic checks and balances. When people feel they have gone too far in one process, they disrupt it, stop it, look at it.

Seth 12/18/74