“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You are in excellent health. You are free of physicians, yet in the area concerning your teeth, you still believe that you must go to dentists. You use that area to give you, in your own fashion, a feeling of security: there you are relating in old ways, not only getting your checkups as you should, but seeing the dentist as more than that. That represents the one physical area concerning health in which you are not fully relying upon yourself, or new beliefs. That is, these have not yet taken hold.

In that area you believe yourself vulnerable. The dentist visits set up their own framework of suggestion, in which both of you heartily believe. While you are in that framework, you can gradually wean yourself from it. In the meantime you experience various difficulties.

(After the session I told Jane that my pendulum had told me that my tooth was bothering me because I was worried about her teeth these weeks. I hadn’t asked the pendulum questions about my attitudes toward teeth and my parents, though I had suspicions as to my beliefs in those areas. Seth was quite accurate here. He was also correct about my going to the dentist for security reasons, etc. Yet overall I hadn’t been able to break the tooth-worry habit, while knowing I should.

(I also told Jane that in a batch of fan mail that had been temporarily lost, I found a note from my dentist’s secretary and nurse, Babs, changing the date of my appointment from Feb. [...] I wrote the dentist a note and left it on his desk.

(I do have a thing going with dentists. [...]

[...] This experience follows, of course, the one I had for my last appointment, and which is on record — when I chipped a tooth and went to my dentist’s office the same day to see if he could fix it — and discovered that I had an appointment I’d forgotten about for that very same time on that same day. [...]

(Within the last few days Jane has lost several teeth, necessitating help from our dentist, Paul O’Neill. [...]

[...] I did, however, have a few comments about the dentist affair.

[...] It should be added that I’d said that I thought it strange Jane was seemingly more concerned about making it to the dentist’s office than she was about why she had to be there to begin with.)

[...] Jane said she thought this referred to an episode when she should have visited the dentist, Dr. Colucci, but did not. [...] At this time, not having practiced self-hypnosis consciously, Jane had a great fear of dentists. Instead of seeing a dentist she visited our doctor next door; he put her on a series of antibiotics that lasted for four days, on into the month of June 1964. [...]

(For the envelope test tonight I used my appointment card for my visit to the dentist earlier this month. [...]

[...] He feared most strongly that he would have to visit Colucci, and went to the doctor rather than see the dentist—although Colucci was out in the yard, and Ruburt saw him, as he will now remember.

[...] I reminded her that I had to go to the dentist at 4:15. [...]

[...] Jane seemed more concerned about when I’d leave for the dentist than anything else. [...]

[...] I thought of this in the dentist’s chair. [...]

People have difficulties with their teeth in modern times, particularly, for many reasons—but mainly because it is one accepted area for the difficulty to show itself, and because the dentist’s cosmetics can indeed repair the appearance. [...]

(Seth talked about teeth tonight because of my visit to the dentist today, in an effort—apparently successful—to save a front capped tooth which had suddenly begun to act up. [...]

[...] Doctors, dentists, and psychologists attended. [...]

(My dentist wasn’t there even though I had an appointment for today that had been given me three or four months ago. [...]

[...] When he does find himself worried, he should feel free to speak to you, however, as your conversation about the dentist was illuminating to him. [...]

[...] Ironically enough, the first episodes are built around a dentist, and these stemmed from her own recent experiences with extractions, as given in the just-previous deleted sessions. [...]

(For the envelope test object I used the appointment card for Jane’s visit to the dentist last May 5,1965. [...]

[...] Older than yourselves”, referred to the parents of Marie Colucci, the dentist’s wife. [...]

The older people represented the dentist’s in-laws, and the distortion occurred here, for Ruburt picked up correctly the idea of parents, but thought they were your own.

(Her dentist was so puzzled by her exceptionally good reactions that in the middle of the session Jane had to explain her apparent insensitivity to pain; usually it takes two trips for her to achieve the same results, with the use of Novocain. Today she had no anesthetic of any kind, and in addition her dentist reported he was able to do a much more thorough job.

[...] Putting herself into a light trance state, she used appropriate suggestions before she went to the dentist to have her teeth cleaned. [...]

[...] I told her that I’d be leaving early to go to the dentist. [...]

[...] Your talk about the dentist did trigger such recognition.

[...] This morning I wrote to my dentist, Paul O’Neill, asking for an appointment.

[...] At Ruburt’s last visit to your dentist, both of you decided that his position was embarrassing, that it put you both in a bad light, that his condition spoke of invisible defects. [...]

[...] If he walked all-right-enough in the house, however, then the time would come for another dentist visit or whatever. [...]

(“This is what the dentist noticed?”)

(“Should Jane go back to the dentist?”)

(Jane ate a quicker lunch than usual because I had to leave at 1:45 to go to the dentist. [...]

[...] Ruburt was there working—just as the doctors and insurance men and dentists were. [...]

(Pause at 11:58.) He did well at the dentist’s. Your attitude was of help. [...]

[...] The fear of dentists has to do with an episode when he was in college, and the dentist came to visit his mother. [...]