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(4:28.) Now give us a moment.... Your diets are adequate. You could stand more green vegetables. Fresh potatoes are good. You do fairly well, however, with a moderate diet. Ruburt does not take to citrus fruits. That is simply characteristic of his body.

(In the mail today Jane received a book I’d sent for at her request a few days ago; then we’d both forgotten about it. It was advertised in the National Enquirer: “A Doctor’s Proven New Home Cure for Arthritis,” by Giraud W. Campbell, Doctor of Osteopathy.Jane began to read through it at once, out of curiosity if nothing else, and discovered that it called for a very rigid diet. Were she to follow it, practically all we eat would be forbidden. It contained nothing about beliefs—and yet had evidently helped many. We discussed it to some extent. Later this afternoon, Jane said that she’d been getting feedback on the book from Seth and that she could have a session....

(Intently, and with humor:) I am somewhat familiar with food before canning and refrigeration, and there were maggots everywhere, and feces and dirt, and sanitation was largely unknown. So in certain terms God’s fruits and vegetables are not entirely pure in spiritual terms, as many food faddists imply.

[...] I will have some little more to say concerning diet. [...] I am mainly suggesting a change in the way food is prepared, and whenever possible a reliance upon fresh vegetables and fruits. [...]

[...] Jane began speaking while sitting down as usual, with her eyes closed. [...] She began rather slowly, but soon picked up her pace considerably.)

[...] Fresh fruits and vegetables are excellent. [...]

First of all, diet-wise, your idea of a normal diet is quite adequate. The other diets you have been discussing are indeed restrictive (as I had said earlier), particularly for general purposes. Special diets, at particular times, restricted ones, can be of benefit in certain specialized areas of development, but there is always the danger of going overboard.

[...] The session began at 9:43. [...]

In Ruburt’s case more normal food is sufficient as far as diet itself is concerned. [...]

[...] Vegetable matter is a main diet, though often supplemented by insects, which are considered a delicacy.

[...] I wanted to know what part beliefs played in such diets, that worked, and I wanted to know about the wide variance in human responses. In short, I wanted something from Seth about whether it was worth it, or even necessary, that Jane try this diet—which, after all, would be the latest in the series of schemes I’ve come across in efforts to help her. [The last one was the anti-amoebic medication regime.] And what does it all mean, I asked, if she’s getting better now without any special diet or foods? [...]

[...] His rather long letter dealt with Dr. Childers’ nightshade diet for arthritis; the writer claimed he had a close friend who had recovered completely from rheumatoid arthritis that had plagued him since childhood, by following this diet—no potatoes, paprika [peppers], tomatoes, and a few other common foods of the nightshade family. [...]

[...] While I worked with mail, Jane began reading yesterday’s session. [...]

As to the balanced diet, I will say this: you are not eating evenly. [...] It is not good for you to lose so much weight, and many of your symptoms are directly connected with various deficiencies brought about through your diet. [...]

A balanced daily consumption of protein and carbohydrates, of meats and vegetables. [...]

[...] When she began her voice was quite weak and distant at the beginning. [...]

Large masses of people became so convinced of God’s eventual vengeance and retribution that they began to plan for it.

[...] You usually end up with a flurry of different kinds of diets.

(“Diets do serve momentarily as outer signs that you are in control, and can seize the initiative; and as such they can be important. Usually, however, a pattern of unsuccessful diets occurs, operating then as a series of negative suggestions. [...]

[...] Now her pace began to pick up.) Some people who have been ill for years suddenly recover, and then throw themselves into some great beneficial social endeavor in which their own problems are lost, and a new stability is maintained. [...]

[...] Jane began speaking for Seth, in trance, in a quiet voice broken by many long pauses, and with her eyes closed. [...]

[...] An addition of iron to the diet.

(Jane’s pace was faster now, and her eyes began to open and close as she remained in trance.)

[...] It seems highly impractical in that system of belief to tell an individual that he or she knows the best patterns of behavior to follow, to suggest that each person knows how much sleep he or she needs, or that left alone you will pick a correct diet—a diet geared to you. Instead it seems that there must be an overall diet suited for human beings in general, or a sleep pattern best for the race at large.

[...] As a result certain key joints began to release.

(Jane began speaking in trance while sitting down. [...]

[...] For the present, the following substitutes or changes of diet are recommended for him.

[...] More fresh fruits and vegetables. [...]

[...] Interestingly, John began to ask us questions about the Indian teacher, Baba, who was discussed by Seth and Gene Bernard in the 303rd session. [...]

(Jane sat rather tensely in her chair as she began speaking for Seth. [...]

[...] The diet is very deficient (pause) generally speaking, and is robbing the tissues.

(Jane has really made an effort to recognize, study, and follow her impulses since Seth began emphasizing them two sessions ago in Mass Events. [...]

(For example, she spent Monday and Tuesday reading poetry she’d written before the sessions began [in 1963], wondering why she didn’t have the impulse to work on Heroics instead. [...]

[...] Until our sessions began, he followed the official line of consciousness, and though he railed against those precepts he could find no other solution. [...]

(Jane began speaking for Seth in trance, in a fairly strong voice, rather rapidly, and with her eyes opening often.)

[...] (Pause.) Raisin bread should be added to the diet, and rye. [...]

[...] It began to move almost at once, and by tapping out the alphabet told me, in somewhat garbled fashion, that an O B, a family relative, was making contact. [...]

(She began dictation on time, again without her glasses. [...] Her delivery in the beginning was rather slow and interspersed with pauses, but after a page or so it began to pick up speed, until she had me writing at a pretty good rate. [...]

[...] Last week he began and finished an excellent short story, and finished an outline, as well as holding our sessions, and beginning once more his psychological time experiments.

You spoke about this plane, mentioning I believe the possibility that the plane had some specified but unknown end, after which the cycle began anew, with of course new personalities participating.

(Jane began speaking at a much faster pace. Her eyes opened as soon as she began, widely, and remained so for some little time. [...]

(Remember that this episode took place just before, or just as, these sessions began. [...] We received Type II in November 1963, the month in which we began experimenting with matters psychic. [...]

[...] Jane began speaking while sitting down and with her eyes closed. [...]

(Today Jane has had a steady barrage of bodily sensations of incipient release and change—her most active and encouraging one so far, since we began our program on April 3, 1978. Today was also one of her most uncomfortable, however, due to the muscular soreness involved as little-used muscles in her trunk began to act. [...]

[...] I am more concerned that you each to some degree have inhibited your subjective freedoms, and not allowed yourselves the opportunity for an even richer diet of dreams and psychic experience. [...]

[...] When she began the sessions over 11 years ago, we requested advice and help from a few people,¹ but as we slowly began to understand the very personal nature of her gifts we realized that she’d have to find her own answers as she went along, with whatever help I could learn to offer.

[...] For other contrasting examples, in Volume 1 see the notes closing out sessions 688 and 703, as well as related material in Appendix 4, wherein I wrote about the translation challenges she’s often faced since beginning “Unknown” Reality: “— hence her talk before many of these sessions … about attaining that ‘certain clear focus,’ or ‘the one clearest place in consciousness,’ before she began speaking for Seth.”

[...] His literal mind led him to … a rich diet of creativity and psychic experience, and to a situation in which Joseph and he could finally be financially free [to some extent], and not in that way threatened.

(As the session began Jane’s voice was at once loud and quite a bit deeper than usual. [...]

[...] She was also smoking, and her eyes, exceptionally dark, began to open after a few paragraphs. [...]

I am obviously not suggesting a whole diet composed of eggs and asparagus. [...]

[...] When the condition was arighted he began miraculously springing back to normal.

[...] Your diet has been geared with that in mind. [...]